Rutherglen School, South Lanarkshire
"The classrooms and other accommodation are excellent. Both staff and pupils are very happy with it. The building is clean and bright with a good sense of space, and is such a welcome change from our old school."
The Requirement
A new 10-classroom primary school was required by South Lanarkshire Council for use as a decant facility. The project is part of a £400m primary schools modernisation programme that is underway to upgrade and improve every school in the region.
The Solution
A £1.8m, three-storey school, which is presently occupied by St Columbkille's Primary School, was designed and built by Yorkon. The new facility accommodates general and infant classrooms, an IT suite, toilets and administrative offices. It is built on a constrained site between two existing schools, which will also be rebuilt as part of South Lanarkshire Council's modernisation programme.
The school building was manufactured off-site in York as 36 steel-framed modules and craned into position in just five days ready for fitting out internally.
This is Yorkon's second contract for South Lanarkshire Council. Yorkon has also completed construction of a new £5m primary school, which is believed to be the UK's first complete school to be built off-site. The 500-pupil, 16-classroom school and nursery in East Kilbride was ready for occupation just eight months after start on site.
Comments from the Client
Helen McShane, Headteacher, St Columbkille's Primary School:
"We are delighted with our new facility. The classrooms and other accommodation are excellent. Both staff and pupils are very happy with it. The building is clean and bright with a good sense of space, and is such a welcome change from our old school which had reached the end of its life."
