Integral Build, the Bristol-based specialist construction, refurbishment and fit out firm, is working with Red Maids’ School, the country’s oldest girls’ school, to create new facilities for students, teachers and visitors.
The £1.5m refurbishment project at the mainly Edwardian school in Westbury-on-Trym, will modernise its library over two floors and create a split-level learning resource centre. 
The dining hall – a temporary hospital for injured soldiers during the First World War – will also be extensively remodelled along with the servery, classroom facilities, administration offices and toilet facilities.
The main school reception will be dramatically overhauled, creating a more contemporary and efficient space for students, staff and visitors. The project, financial details of which have not been released, is due to complete in August, ready for the new school year.
Integral Build divisional director Tim Stringer said: “This is a challenging project because we're working in a live and very dynamic environment and to very specific constraints regarding both the working landscape and term times.
“Health and safety, cost control and communication are key. We’re grateful to the school, which has been immensely flexible. The final results are going to be stunning.”
Red Maids’ bursar Peter Taylor, who is overseeing the project for the school, added: “We are fortunate to be situated in a beautiful 12-acre site which has been home to the school since 1911. But this has naturally changed in a number of ways since then.
“This investment is a commitment to ensuring our facilities are the best they possibly can be, in order to benefit our students in their academic and personal development.”
Integral Build, a division of Bristol-based Integral group, the UK’s largest privately-owned property solutions company, is working on the Red Maids’ project with Bristol-based architects Stride Treglown and Corsham, Wiltshire-based project managers CMS.
Red Maids’ School, founded 378 years ago, making it the oldest independent girls’ school in England.
