Contractor scoops £14m school expansion contract
Morgan Sindall Construction has been picked to deliver a £14m expansion to Rockwood Academy in Birmingham, which will support almost 450 additional school places.
Birmingham City Council appointed the company through the Constructing West Midlands framework (CWM). The work will be funded through the Birmingham City Council Capital Education programme and will see Morgan Sindall work alongside Acivico to deliver the project.
Morgan Sindall Construction is one of the delivery partners that Birmingham Council and Acivico engage with to deliver educational capital projects for the city.
The additional teaching space will enable the school, based on Naseby Road, to expand its intake from four to seven form entry; or from 648 pupils to 1,050.
Work will see an existing administration building demolished to make way for a two-storey 2,200 sq ft extension. There will also be a refurbishment of the existing school facility with several areas reconfigured.
The expansion will accommodate ten additional classrooms, a new library, additional science labs, a drama studio, external landscaping and a new multi-use games facility.
Work will start on site this month and is expected to complete at the end of summer 2020.
Dave Kelly, CWM framework manager at Morgan Sindall Construction, said: “We’ve held a place on the CWM Framework for the past seven years, delivering the schools and municipal buildings which communities in the West Midlands depend on.
“We’re incredibly pleased to have been selected for this latest project. It is the first to be procured under the auspices of the council’s new Capital Education programme and will support almost 450 vital new school places.
“The continued focus on social value in the tender selection process is something we welcome wholeheartedly, and we look forward to engaging with pupils and the local community, as we do through all of our education projects.”
