Willmott Dixon begins work on flat-pack school

Work has started on Britain’s first flat-pack school in Manchester.

Willmott Dixon is using pre-fabricated wooden frames and timber panels manufactured in Switzerland to build St Agnes CE Primary in Longsight.

The frames are cut by a computer and linked together like a puzzle and are expected to save six weeks construction time and £10,000.

The biggest panels weigh two tonnes and are 12m long, the Times reports.

The school is scheduled to open in March 2009.