BUILDINGS, MAINTENANCE & REFURBISHMENT


First phase of £44M school campus is handed over


High-flying secondary school chooses refurbished building fromPORTAKABIN


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he Portakabin Group has handed over the first phase of a £44 million school campus for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, which


will be the UK’s largest free school campus. Constructed using a Yorkon off-site solution, the new special educational


needs (SEN) school for Riverside Bridge has doubled its capacity in time for the start of the 2016/17 academic year, providing much needed additional places at an earlier stage. The SEN scheme is part of the 23,000sqm Riverside Campus – an


innovative new three-school campus which will accommodate 2,645 children aged from 0 to 19. It will be operated by the multi-academy trust, Partnership Learning, and will integrate provision for nursery, primary, special needs, secondary, and sixth form pupils. According to Anna Hope, Head of School at Riverside Bridge, “Portakabin


has really understood how to work with special educational needs children and has been absolutely brilliant. All the small details have made the whole construction experience fantastic for us.”


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oremans Relocatable Building Systems, a member of the Portakabin Group and the UK’s largest supplier of refurbished Portakabin buildings, has


handed over a purpose-designed sixth form centre at Higham Lane School in Nuneaton, following completion of a £1.6 million contract. Higham Lane is one of the highest-performing state-funded secondary


schools in Warwickshire, and is within the top 100 of all secondary schools in England. The new facility is allowing the school to provide a high quality, direct, post-16 progression route for its students for the first time, maintaining standards and outcomes far above national levels. The sixth form centre has been constructed by Foremans using 52 recycled


and refurbished Portakabin modules – a fast and highly sustainable building solution. The two-storey building was completed less than six months from receipt


of order to be open in time for the school’s first intake of sixth form students. Cranage of the refurbished modular structure was timed for the school holidays to minimise any disruption to teaching.


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