Caunton worked with Vinci PLC Company Norwest Holst yet again on a PFI Schools project. Following on from the great success by Norwest Holst (with Caunton their steelwork supplier) on the Derby PFI schools contract, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council announced Vinci PLC as its preferred partner for the £45 million Doncaster Schools PFI scheme. This provided two new secondary schools at Edlington and Mexborough.
Caunton enjoyed being part of their team to deliver this. Caunton fabricated, supplied and erected over 800te of steelwork, working to engineer Scott Wilson’s design on the two schools. Both schools combined steel framed and concrete framed construction in adjacent independent wings. Caunton provided initial cost engineering advice to Norwest and Scott Wilson to assist economical development of the scheme design.