Ruth Gorse Academy

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Client: BAM Construction

Value: £1.9m

Location: Leeds

Contract Period: 52 weeks

Contract Type: BAM Bespoke Contract

Background

Howard Civil Engineering's package for what was the largest free school in the country is now complete. Pupils of Ruth Gorse Academy started their new 2016/17 academic year in the completed new building. The Government-funded free school is located on previously derelict land between Black Bull Street and the New Dock development, close to the Royal Armouries. It has capacity for 1,580 pupils and 150 staff, and has been instrumental in driving the regeneration of the south of the city centre.

Howard Civil Engineering, working for BAM Construction, carried out the substructure and superstructure reinforce concrete works together with the foul and surface water drainage and external works package.

Scope of works

Substructures - Cropping 516 concrete piles, 620m³ reinforced concrete in pile caps and ground beams
Ground floor - 968m³ reinforced concrete slab
Upper floors - 10,450m²
Foul water - 882m 150mm dia pipe upto 2.5m deep
Surface water - 580m 150mm to 375mm dia pipe upto 2.5m deep
Attenuation - 4.5m x 74m grate attenuation tank
External works - 272m ACO channel. 7,000m² bituminous surfacing and associated kerbs and edgings