At CD Hood commercial builders in Cambridge we are specialists in helping schools to develop their buildings, whether it’s adding a sympathetic wing/classroom, creating a new corridor, or refurbishing an area. We work with team of architects, ensuring that a project runs smoothly from start to finish.
We have recently completed a staff room extension and built an additional classroom for Robert Arkenstall school in Haddenham.
We make sure that we schedule the works, where possible to fit in with school terms, to reduce the disruption to the school as much as we can. However with larger projects, such as this, we are unable to achieve this, so we make sure our team of CRB checked builders, keep the disruption to a minimum, which means that teachers can keep working with the minimum disturbance.
Arkenstall is one of our most recent school building projects, we completed the work one week early than the completion date.

CD Hood commercial builders in Cambridge are working on a lab and a corridor refurbishment for Sagentia in Harston, Cambridge at the moment.
We have worked successfully with Sagentia over the past few years, helping them to expand their labs and buildings in accordance to the growth of their R & D consultancy services to start-ups throughout the global market leaders.

Sagentia is a global innovation, technological and product development company. They have headquarters across the globe in Cambridge, UK and US.
Quadro Design, is part of Sagentia’s new design service. Quadro delivers award winning innovation and product design using processes tailored to each business need. This gives their business the edge, as unlike other ID firms their design is grounded in real science and technology, which ensures that end products deliver real benefits to the intended user.
If you would like find out more about Sagentia, then why not visit their website @ http://www.sagentia.com/

CD Hood, commercial builders in Cambridge specialise in developing schools, whether it’s building a new wing to renovating an existing building. 

We have just recently completed a hygiene facility for Spring Common School in Huntingdon. The school was called ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted in 2012, was in need of hygiene facility. 

The project was quite involved and took much planning to ensure that we made sure that the work was completed within 9 days, to make sure that it fitted in with the Easter Break, to minimise disruption to the school. 

All of our team of internal and external contractors are CRB checked to make sure that there are no problems on site. Our experience in school buildings mean that we can start a project from concept to finish, seamlessly, with little disruption to the schools busy timetable. If you are looking at developing your school, then why not give one of our team a call on: 01353 658403,  we deliver on time and on budget.

At CD Hood Commercial builders in Cambridge, we have recently been awarded the work of carrying out extensive refurbishment on the Age Concerns, (now known as Age UK,) at the Cherry Tree day Centre in Cambridge.

Age Concern and Help the Aged have joined forces to become Age UK, so that they can help people in later life. The new organisation was created in April 2009, and brings 120 years of combined experience and shared history with respect to working with older people. 

Age UK now helps about 5 million people over 50 every day throughout the UK, the charity has been build upon the foundation that people need respect in their old age, kindness and sometimes help. Age UK in Cherry Tree day Centre, is one of 330 centers across the UK aimed at supporting older people. 

If you would like to find our more about Age UK, then why not visit their website @ http://www.ageuk.org.uk/

CD Hood commercial builders in Cambridge, have recently been awarded the work of renovating the outside of the Jesus College boathouse, which is situated on the River Cam in Cambridge.

So we thought we would look into the history of one of the largest boat clubs in Cambridge. The boat club of Jesus College, in Cambridge, was founded in 1827, and the Club, Jesus College Boat Club, is often referred to as JCBC among rowers. 

It is one of Cambridge’s largest and most successful clubs with the 1st Men's VIII never having dropped below 12th place in the May Bumps and 11th position in the Lent Bumps. Jesus men have been head of he Lent Bumps on 39 occasions and May bumps on 24 occasions.

The clubs first race was in the six-oared bumps race in 1827, but there performance was not their best. However over time the clubs performance got much better and they and they won the Head of River in 1841, but they didn’t gain their current force until the 1860’s. By 1877 they gained Headship again and for the subsequent 11 years, until 1886, a record which has not been beaten since. 

In 1886, the boathouse went through a series of refurbishment, including the addition of the weathervane and some years later, the clock tower. 

We are looking forward to starting the external alterations, repairs and decoration on one of Cambridge’s historical and well known boathouses. 

If you are looking to renovate a historical building in or around the Cambridgeshire area, then why not give one of our specialist team a call on Photograph by James Bowe