The architects had likened the shape of this school’s structure to “an Ammonite”; Caunton’s erectors identified it as “a saw blade” - reflecting their own trade skills of course – but everyone agreed the steel framed school building for Bewerley Primary School near Leeds is an exciting design.
Erection of the frame by Caunton Engineering, as the photograph shows, was completed in January 2006 and it looks terrific. The traditional closing ceremony for the steelwork-erection phase – the tightening of the last two bolts – was most appropriately to be carried out by two future pupils of the school.
Contractor Kier expects to be completed the whole building by November with the school starting in earnest in the New 2007 Year.
Lucky schoolchildren, we say.