CHR Equipment Ltd delivering profitable solutions to the UK Food Service Industry

Kidderminster Academy

Birmingham

Students at Kidderminster Academy, part of Birmingham Metropolitan College, are enjoying a new dining experience and those studying towards catering qualifications are learning to cook on a state-of-the-art, British-made suite supplied by CHR, designed to keep running costs down and standards up.

We won the tender to design and project manage the installation of a combined training and production kitchen for the refectory area, coffee bar which would also deliver an evening offering to support a training restaurant requirement. The set up would have to cope with 200 covers in the refectory and café area and fine dining for 50. It was a perfect site for our own environmentally friendly Eco-Chef cooking suite.

The College’s key stipulations for the project were value for money, energy efficiency and sustainability.

John Starmer, Estates Director explains: “It is important for any College development that right from the construction stage sustainability is built in. From my point of view, energy savings and conservation are absolutely critical. Right from the project concept we knew CHR’s design proposal made commercial sense.”.

Over and above the cooking suite, the college’s investment ensures that students have a world class dining facility. That level continues into the new chefs training centre which is helping to deliver a wide range of hospitality courses for the college.

The sustainable design included a promise to build 80% of the project from within local UK manufacturing while demonstrating value for money. New servery counters, bars, a coffee shop and the training kitchen made up the scope of works carried out.

This project was recognised in the CEDA Grand Prix awards for outstanding achievement.

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