Wates will rebuild or refurbishment four primary schools, one secondary school and a special educational needs school.
Collectively, the six schools have 3,687 pupil places. *
The contractor was awarded the work having been shortlisted two months ago alongside BAM Construct. The Coventry batch is one of two in the first round of the £2.4bn Priority School Building Programme – the second round of which covers Yorkshire and the northeast.
The EFA has launched the procurement exercise for a second batch of schools in the Midlands.
Wates will now work with the Education Funding Agency and the schools to develop the designs for the new facilities ahead of the start of building works.
Wates Construction regional managing director Phil Harrison said: “This programme of works calls for a great deal of efficiency without a compromise on quality and our extensive expertise in producing innovative solutions in order to create outstanding education facilities places us as a trusted partner to the EFA.”
The Priority School Building Programme (PSBP) was launched in July 2011 and has been centrally procured by the EFA on behalf of the Department for Education. A total of 261 schools are expected to be rebuilt or renovated under the programme.
Schools included in the Coventry Priority Schools Building Programme are:
- Whitmore Park Primary
- St Thomas More Primary
- Wyken Croft Primary
- Richard Lee Primary
- Ernsford Grange Secondary
- Alice Stevens Special School
Wates’ presence in Coventry is also seeing the contractor deliver Coventry City Council’s Increasing Pupil Places Programme, a £13m contract which will deliver the expansion and refurbishment of five of the city’s primary schools.
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