Glan Usk Primary School

Pupils and staff from Durham Road Infants School recently took part in the topping out of the new Glan Usk Primary School in Newport, South Wales. Although topping out is a ceremony which marks the completion of the highest point of a building, the occasion was marked by the planting of a tree.

The £14.9 million contract includes the design and construction of a new primary school as part of a PFI contract signed last year between Newport City Council and Newport School Solutions Limited, a VINCI Investments joint venture company. The Civil Engineering division undertook a £4 million contract to remediate the site prior to the commencement of construction.

The new school will consist of three single-storey teaching blocks radiating from a two-storey building. Externally, a floodlit multi-use games area and all-weather pitches will be provided.

Taylor Woodrow will undertake a £7.5 million contract to fit-out and provide a full range of hard, soft and helpdesk services including the management and delivery of the life cycle capital replacement programme of works at the school for a period of 35 years upon completion.

Published: 28/04/2009