Education – Secondary

Client: The Highland Council I Value: £34m I Completed: October 2020 I Description of works: As part of The Highland Council’s (THC) school improvement programme, we designed and built a replacement school for Alness Academy. As well as demolishing the existing school building, we provided an ultra-modern learning environment for 660 students and their teachers. The two-storey building also features impressive community sports facilities, including a six-lane, 25-metre swimming pool, a four-court games hall, gymnasium, two floodlit 3G pitches and playing fields. Two biomass boilers heat the school and photovoltaic panels heat the pool. I Framework: hubNorth

Client: Sheffield City Council I Value: £20m I Completed: April 2019 I Facilities: New build secondary school for 1200 students. Education provision is from nursery right through to sixth form I YORBuild

Client: Department for Education I Value: £12m I Completed: August 2021 I Facilities: New build secondary school with standalone teaching block and the demolition of existing school buildings. I Framework: ESFA

Sector: Education (combined primary and secondary) I Client: Denbigshire County Council I Value: £20.6m I Completed: July 2020 I Facilities: Merger of two schools - Ysgol Mair (primary) and Blessed Edwards Jones (secondary) onto one site. The finished school will have capacity for 420 primary and 500 secondary school pupils. The demolition of the existing school buildings and external works to the sports/play areas was completed when the school building was handed over I Framework: North Wales Framework

Client: Flintshire County Council I Value: £12.3m I Completed: October 2019 I Facilities: New 2 storey extension block with new hall, drama studio, library, art and DT rooms plus new bus layby and pull in and demolition of the existing John Summer High School.

Client: Education Funding Agency I Value: £11.4m I Completed: August 2016 I Facilities: The project involved construction of new 1050 pupil educational Academy with state-of-the-art modern ICT and teaching facilities on the playing fields of the existing academy. I Framework: EFA

Client: Sunderland County Council I Value: £5m I Completed: December 2020 I Facilities: Completion of new SEN school for 96 pupils From the New Year the school will have 40 pupils on roll and they will transition to the new site after February half term.

Client: Outwood Grange Academies Trust I Value: £3.3m I Completed: January 2021 I Facilities: The works comprise the wholescale internal refurbishment of the previous Inland Revenue Office building in Middlesbrough, to provide temporary accommodation for the Academy for a period of three years, whilst a new school is constructed. I Framework: ESFA

Client: Northumberland County Council I Value: £42.7m I Completed October 2021 I Facilities: Single stage D&B project to construct a Primary & Secondary School, Leisure Centre and Fire Station all co-located within one building in Ponteland, Northumberland. It will be built on the existing Ponteland Leisure Centre site, which shall remain operational during the build. The project also includes for demolition of the existing high school and leisure centre.

Client: Secretary of State for Education I Value: East Midlands Ripley Academy (£3.3m), The Bemrose School (£13.7m), Wilsthorpe Community School (£14m), Bluecoat Academy (£10.2m) and Nicholas Chamberlaine School (£18.1m) I Description of works: Part of the Priority Schools Building Programme East Midlands A Batch to delivery 10 schools with a total value of £85m I Framework: PSBP

Sector: Education – Secondary I Client: The Secretary of State for Education I Value: Don Valley High School, Doncaster £19.8m, Oakwood High School, Rotherham £12.2m I Completion: 2018

Client: Hub South West Scotland and South Ayrshire Council I Value: £35m I Completion: May 2020 I Description of works: The design and build of the new Academy will cater for 800 pupils with modern classrooms, interactive ICT, a large games hall, two gyms, two all-weather pitches and hard games courts. The building will also house Psychological Services and a Supported Learning Centre, which are already based at QMA. The new Academy was built in the grounds of the existing school and the existing building was demolished after the new school opened with the site fully landscaped. The building achieved BREEAM Excellent. I Framework: hubSW

Client: Education Funding Agency I Value: £15.4m I Completed: August 2016 I Facilities: The project consisted of the construction of a new secondary school, for 1,050 pupils and a 400 pupil sixth form, within the current school site, and the demolition of the Our Lady’s Hall, Frances de Sales, Lourdes, O’Connell and Clitheroe buildings. I Framework: EFA

Client: Liverpool City Council I Value: £20m I Completed: September 2018 I Facilities: Design and construct a new build new 2/3 storey 3 block pavilion school in the grounds of an existing school and demolition of external buildings. Works also include external works and sports facilities

Client: Education Funding Agency I Value: £11.1m I Completed: August 2016 I Facilities: The project consists of the construction of a new secondary school within the current school site at St Michael’s Catholic Academy, Billingham. I Framework: EFA

Sector: Education – Secondary I Client: ESFA I Value: £4m I Completed: July 2019 I Facilities: Design and build demolition of the existing school (including asbestos removal) and associated external works and landscaping

Client: Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council I Value: £2.8m I Completed: September 2018 I Facilities: The new school will have a new kitchen and dining hall, allowing the school’s two existing dining halls and kitchens to be converted into education space. This will enable the school to expand, accommodating additional pupils. Kier are carrying out both the new build and refurbishment works. The refurbishment works will primarily take place during school holidays so as not to disrupt the school’s activities.