{"id":27144,"date":"2018-10-10T09:09:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T09:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=27144"},"modified":"2018-10-10T09:09:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T09:09:28","slug":"schools-programme-kicks-off-in-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/schools-programme-kicks-off-in-rugby\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools programme kicks off in Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Rugby181011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Rugby181011.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Rugby181011-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>BAM Construction has commenced work on two new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Education_buildings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">schools<\/a> in Rugby, Warwickshire.<\/p>\n<p>The work comprises Rugby Free Secondary School and Quest Academy, a special needs school.<\/p>\n<p>The 1,450-place secondary school caters for 11-18 year olds and is run by the Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow Trust. It has been designed sensitively to blend in with the local area, predominantly brick-built over two and three storeys and including green space. The Trust\u2019s first free school, Rugby Free Primary School, opened in Warwickshire in September 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The work also includes extensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Car_parks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">car parking<\/a>, a new access road, landscaping, and sports pitches. Pupils are currently housed in temporary accommodation.<\/p>\n<p>Quest Academy, situated adjacent to it, caters for 80 special needs pupils and is run by the MacIntyre Academies Trust.<\/p>\n<p>BAM will also demolish the current Rokeby Infants School and create new playing fields for Rokeby Primary School in this space.<\/p>\n<p>David Barr, Construction Manager for BAM, said: \u201cIt has been a very thorough process to get to this point. We bring our integrated business model to this scheme, where one company designs and builds the facilities. That is always a powerful advantage both to us and the client for innovation, rapid responses and problem solving. The one-company approach strengthens communication and cohesion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAM Construction has commenced work on two new schools in Rugby, Warwickshire. The work comprises Rugby Free Secondary School and Quest Academy, a special needs school. The 1,450-place secondary school caters for 11-18 year olds and is run by the Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow Trust. It has been designed sensitively to blend in with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Rugby181011.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WsLP-73O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27145,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27144\/revisions\/27145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}