FOI Request - Cladding on Schools
Request 101002799197
1. The type of cladding being used at all local authority schools.
2. The percentage of the school building covered in the said cladding.
3. The date that the cladding was fitted at the school.
4. The cost of installing and removing the cladding.
Response 11-06-2021
| Elgin High School | Elgin Academy | Keith Primary School | All other schools | |
| 1. The type of cladding being used at all local authority schools. | Building is 3 storey steel framed teaching block with concrete floor slabs, facing blockwork/insulated render/trapezoidal cladding/translucent cladding external walls and composite roof cladding with glazed roof light to central atrium area. Single storey sports block with concrete floor slab, facing blockwork/composite wall cladding and composite roof cladding. | • Weatherboard cladding is timber or timber effect boarding. • 80mm thickness Kingspan Building Product Ltd’s • External walls are an outer leaf of either masonry cavity construction or insulated cladding panels supported by softwood timber infill panels designed to resist wind loading and accommodate vertical deflections in the main steel frame.support. |
No cladding present as far as we are aware | In accordance with section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 please be advised that we do not hold data of all the cladding types used on all our schools. We have reviewed and checked that there are no issues with cladding as a result of advice from the Grenfell tragedy. |
| 2. The percentage of the school building covered in the said cladding. | Estimated as 75% with remainder glass. | Estimated as 25% | Estimated as 0% | In accordance with section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 please be advised that this information is not held. |
| 3. The date that the cladding was fitted at the school | Installed during the construction phase of the school which completed October 2017. | Installed during the construction phase of the school which completed October 2011 | n/a | In accordance with section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 please be advised that this information is not held. |
| 4. The cost of installing and removing the cladding. | Install was undertaken as part of the overall construction cost of the project which was a new build and as such there was no cost of cladding removal. | Install was undertaken as part of the overall construction cost of the project which was a new build and as such there was no cost of cladding removal. | n./a | In accordance with section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 please be advised that this information is not held. |