Caunton are supplying the structural steelwork for four new schools in the City of Sheffield under the Government’s BSF, Building Schools for the Future, programme.

Two of the schools, Newfield Secondary and Talbot Special Needs Secondary are in fact on the same site – the former Newfield School site.

The third school, Silverdale Comprehensive School, is in effect a green field site development, but directly alongside the existing school, which will then be demolished once the new building opens. Perhaps the same green field where famous Silverdale Old Boy, Michael Vaughan, now England’s cricket captain, learnt his craft?

Work on the fourth school, Yewlands Technical College, is very much a traditional refurbishment-rebuild mix, but aiming to create what the school itself calls a new ‘school of the future’, with over £1 million of ICT equipment to be installed.

Caunton’s steelwork is framing the sports hall, the main hall, the performance centre, the music and drama area, the dining area and the pool-cum-changing area at Newfield and Talbot, the sports hall, main hall and the street areas at Silverdale and sports hall and the main halls at Yewlands.

The overall BSF contract is with Paradigm (led by Taylor Woodrow) and is set at a massive £320million, with these four particular schools part of Phase One - budgeted at £158m.