Design and Build
£540,000
Manchester City Council
Morgan Sindall Construction
2010 saw the completion of Irk Valley School, Manchester, which replaced the former St Thomas’ School. An unusual feature of the new school is that it is built on stilts to minimise the one in 100 year risk of flooding. The stilts range in height from 60cm at the front to 1.5m at the back with a series of raised platforms leading to a walkway that will allow pupils to evacuate the school in the event of a flash flood.
The new two storey school will have a range of facilities including 12 classrooms, a library, a sprung floor hall, computer suite, music rooms, IT suite, kitchen, dining room, floodlit multi-use games areas and cycle tracks.
This was a particularly challenging contract, as the client added a new phase to the contract half way through the project, whilst maintaining the original completion date.