McAvoy to helm £8.2M Concordia Academy design and offsite build

The McAvoy Group is to design and build offsite a brand new £8.2M 630-place primary school on behalf of Concordia Academy in Romford, East London.

The 2,972sq m three-form entry free school is being funded through the Department for Education via the Education and Skills Funding Agency, and will be operated by REAch2 Academy Trust – the largest primary only academy trust in the UK. Crucially, with local population on the increase, Concordia Academy will help to address an urgent need for primary school places in the South East.

Offsite construction will enable the new school to be built atop a cramped brownfield site. Once built, a 1.5 metre gap will separate the site boundary from the building’s front elevation, making this a potentially disruptive project for conventional construction techniques. Offsite construction will help minimise that disruption and reduce build time to 12 short months.

Raymond Millar, Construction Director at McAvoy, was on-hand to explain more: “We are delighted to be building this wonderful new school which will provide much needed primary school places for the local community in Romford. We will be using the latest advances in education design and offsite construction to create an inspiring environment for teaching and learning, and an outstanding school to help every child realise their highest aspirations.

“Offsite construction offers clear benefits for the delivery of new education facilities. On this project, the solution from McAvoy is enabling the development of a very restricted and challenging brownfield site, and with much less disruption to the local community. It offers the opportunity for increased value for money, greater quality control and programme benefits because the construction work can progress offsite in the factory while groundworks are put in place on site. Speed of construction is key when the demand for school places continues to rise.”

The first of 67 modules will arrive on site during the autumn months. Meanwhile, a suite of temporary school buildings will house Concordia Academy’s classes until the official opening in September 2018.

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