School Signage

As with all school contracts there is always more than one party to liaise with. For this project this involved the client, Rushcliffe School, the Main Contractor, Robert Woodhead, and the architect, Church Lukas.

The contractor was employed by Rushcliffe School to build an extension to the school to provide valuable space for a new performing arts centre. This project also involved altering the original entrance, meaning that two new signs were required – one at the new main entrance and one at the entrance of the new performing arts centre.

The original design concept for the signage was already determined by the school and this reflected their corporate identity.  Our challenge was to display these signage concepts in a school/public environment without contravening the planning designs.  Another difficulty encountered was the advanced state of the new build, this unfortunately precluded obvious installation access.

For the main entrance sign, innovative but secure fixing methods were used, resulting in a suspended sign with no visible fixings.  Both signs were constructed as aluminium back-to-back trays with push-through lettering which were halo-lit by internal LEDs. This satisfied the planning restraints that we had on illuminated signs at that point in the job.

Due to the weight of the sign trays, we needed to use an ingenious method to gain access to the inside of the building in order to provide secure fixpoints for the fixings, sufficient to support the weight of the signs, before fixing them into place.

Without secure fixings the entire weight of the signage would have had to rest upon rivets into thin sheet steel which would have made the sign unstable and liable to pull away from its fixing.

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