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“Feedback on the completed rebuild has been highly favourable, with reports of dramatic improvements in pupil attendance and


performance, increased demand from parents to secure places for their children, and vacancies attracting a better calibre of staff”


the road.” Feedback on the completed rebuild has been highly favourable, with reports of dramatic


improvements in pupil attendance and performance, increased demand from parents to secure places for their children, and vacancies attracting a better calibre of staff. The school was won a RICS London award for community benefit building, as well as local design awards and regional prize nominations. “The college appears in quite a lot of publicity for Building Schools for the Future (BSF)


schemes, even though it was actually a forerunner to those,” says Paul. “It’s such a shame, what’s going on at the moment with BSF, with all these schemes being


chopped or put on hold. It was probably a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reconfigure and develop schools in this country. I’m sure something will happen in the future, but I don’t think it’s going to be on the same scale as was originally anticipated.”


Project manager, lead consultant, CDM co-ordinator and access consultant – Tuffin Ferraby Taylor Construction – Willmott Dixon Architect – IID Architects Main subcontractors; Cost Consultant – Robinson Low Francis Services Consultant – FaberMaunsell Glazing – Pilkington Group ICT Solutions – Ramesys Demolition – Capital Demolition Roofing – Mero-Schmidlin (UK) PLC


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