Buildings group schools the South with £5.6m contract

YORK-BASED modular building business Portakabin has signed a £5.6m agreement for a school development.

The have won a contract with to Education Funding Agency to supply a school in the Surrey and Kent area.

Each module for the site will weigh up to 20 tonnes and will be manufactured off site in York.

Portakabin recently won preferred bidder status for a series of schools projects worth £28m.

Simon Ambler, director of the Portakabin Group added, “We are delighted to be able to demonstrate our ability to deliver high quality, affordable school buildings to faster programmes to the benefit of children’s education. 

“The opportunity for off-site construction to help transform the learning environment for thousands of pupils and their teachers under the Priority School Building Programme is immense.”

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