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Cheshire Fire Brigade HQ (property)
Company objective & values
To provide county wide cover in terms of fire safety, prevention and action
Company role
  • Responsible for 24 fire stations, 1 Headquarters and 1 museum
  • The portfolio of property is valued at over £30m and covers 21,000 sq metres of floor area
Key skills & competences
  • Property maintenance and management
  • Legislation relating to change of use, new builds, and existing property modifications
Links with national curriculum
Strong Science Property maintenance methods and techniques
Strong Design

Responsible for the design and effectiveness of the buildings
Strong History The history of the fire brigade buildings and their development
Useful ICT The use of CAD and project management programmes
Areas that could be used in lessons
  • Background to present day requirements of the buildings for the fire service
  • Project management from start to completion of work
  • Legal processes, contractors, finance and hand over
How could it be made interesting and appropriate?
  • The drawing and planning process with examples of CAD layouts
  • The fire and local authority processes
  • Visual aids or work and sites and studies of the skills involved
Background information
  • Prefer have a group of max 10 children visit headquarters
  • The are no restrictions on schools
  • Health & Safety officers are always on hand
  • Could be combined with other areas of the Cheshire Fire Brigade to cover a larger number of curriculum subjects
© Neil Christiansen 31st January 2005