Skanska wins £28m Essex high school

Skanska has come top of class to a take a £28m contract to build Belfairs High School in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.

Skanska has pulled together an in-house team covering construction, M&E installations, structural design and piling.

Main construction work will start immediately in the 11,000 sq m project and is scheduled for completion in Summer 2011 ready for the start of the new school year.

The award of this project, a pathfinder for Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, under the Building Schools for the Future programme, signifies an important milestone for
Skanska and its client who have been working together under an advance works agreement over recent months to develop the scheme and establish temporary
accommodation to make way for the new school.