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Thornwood Primary School

A full heating pipework strip-out and renewal at Thornwood Primary School — delivered entirely within the summer holiday shutdown and recommissioned ready for term return.

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The brief

Thornwood Primary School needed its ageing heating distribution pipework replaced — but the building could only be handed over for a matter of weeks. The whole strip-out and renewal had to happen inside the summer holiday shutdown, with heating proven and back in service before pupils and staff returned for the new term.

There is no room to overrun on a programme like this. A missed date does not mean a snag list — it means a school with no heating on day one.

What we delivered

Stein Group's mechanical team took the plant offline in a phased, controlled isolation, stripped out the redundant distribution pipework and installed the replacement runs. The system was then flushed, refilled and fully recommissioned so it was ready to fire the moment the building reopened.

Working to the immovable deadline of the school calendar, the team sequenced the works to compress the whole replacement into the shutdown window — self-delivered, so the programme stayed under one team's control from isolation to recommissioning.

Disciplines self-delivered

Mechanical / heating Pipework strip-out Distribution renewal Flush & refill Recommissioning

The outcome

New heating distribution pipework installed, flushed, refilled and recommissioned inside the summer shutdown — the system proven and back in service for term return, safe and certified, and handed to Stein's own maintenance to keep running.

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