Flood Defence Work At Pittwood House
31 December 2010 by Hamst
Work has started at North Lincolnshire Councils Headquarters, Pittwood House, to build a bund wall, erect security fencing and add new flood lighting.
The bund wall will help prevent against type of flooding which happened to the building during the heavy rain in July 2007. This saw flood damage in the basement of the 48-year-old building with a repair cost estimated to have been �440.000.
The basement conatined the councils computers server room and held the council's entire IT infrastructure, it included all of the different IT networks, telephony equipment, systems and much more.
Work on repairing and converting the basement cost �160,000 whilst about �280,000 was spent on creating a new computer server room following relocation from the basement.
Work on the building, which was listed by English Heritage as a building of architectural and historic interest in 1996, is expected to be complete in Febuary.
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