PKL's Temporary Kitchen Maintains Standards for Trinity College

CHELTENHAM, England, February 11 - PKL has supplied an extensive, high specification temporary kitchen
facility to Trinity College, Cambridge to ensure the College's high catering
standards for students, Fellows, and staff were maintained during a major
refurbishment of its kitchens.

Trinity College is renowned for the quality of its food and its kitchens
cater for three to four sittings a day with up to 300 eating per sitting,
ranging from routine meals for around 900 students in residence to feasts and
other formal functions. The Fellows were keen that both the quality of the
food and the breadth of the menus for all meals should be maintained during
the 12 month refurbishment.

"It was essential that the temporary kitchen was equipped to the same
high standards as the permanent kitchens so that all those taking meals would
not notice any difference," recalled Dan Thomas of Bidwells, which managed
the project. "We considered a number of options, including making use of
facilities in nearby colleges, but the extended period of refurbishment meant
this was not feasible. Our design team included specialists from GWP
Foodservice Design Solutions and they were able to recommend PKL as being the
best choice to provide a temporary kitchen," he added.

The kitchen was customised to meet the College's requirements and
prefabricated at PKL's purpose designed facility in Cheltenham. It was then
and delivered to site as 29 separate cabins. A crane was used to lift these
into place and partitions were removed to create an open plan space. As the
entrance to the College dining room is 1.3m above ground level, the temporary
kitchen is also raised to the same height and connected to the main building
by a specially constructed flying walkway. The exterior of the kitchen has
been finished in a colour selected by the College to blend in as far as
possible with the surrounding buildings, which are Grade 1 listed..

Dan Thomas continued: "The project presented many logistical challenges,
including negotiating Cambridge's narrow central streets with large
prefabricated buildings, but everything went very smoothly and we were very
impressed with PKL's support throughout the project. They were also very
responsive in helping to fine tune the kitchen design once it was up and
running, and have taken responsibility and financial risk for the equipment
through the duration of the project."

As well as managing the project, Bidwells is also providing architectural
and structural engineering services as part of the refurbishment.

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