HME Technology completes University of Birmingham School contract

HME Technology, the Bromsgrove-based manufacturer and installer of design and technology equipment, has completed a £125,000 contract for the new University of Birmingham School.
 
The firm secured the work through main contractor Willmott Dixon which won the £19m order to build the UK’s first such university-linked schools project.
 
Julian Davis, managing director, said: “This is a flagship scheme which is taking education to a new level.
 
“The sector is watching this visionary development with huge interest and it is fantastic for us to be part of it all. For an SME like ourselves it is a very significant piece of business and shows what we are capable of delivering.
 
“We believe it will help us significantly when others look at who supplies the best design and technology equipment.”
 
Founded in 1984, HME Technology products include forges, brazing hearths, furnaces, welding tables, fume extraction systems, kilns, woodworking equipment, wood dust extraction systems, metal finishing, routers and CNC machines. It also supplies fume cupboards and ventilation systems for science departments.
 
The University of Birmingham School is on Weoley Park Road in Selly Oak and will ultimately accommodate 750 pupils aged between 11-16, with a further 400 places in the sixth form.
 
The school is free to attend with year seven admissions open to children from across Birmingham, 50% of the intake coming from Selly Oak and the remainder from three “node” areas, Hall Green, the Jewellery Quarter and Small Heath.
 
Michael Roden, the school’s principal, has said the aim is “to give the kind of education that other parents pay £30,000 a year for”.