Caunton supplied the steelwork for a new school built in Corby by main contractor, Interserve. Caunton is no stranger to Northamptonshire educational establishments having helped build two new schools within the Northants PFI scheme – at the time the largest ever implemented.
The new Kingswood School, which will cater for 1200 pupils, is built partly on the site of the existing Kingswood School and partly on the site of a former school - the Our Lady and Pope John School.
Caunton supplied over 500te of structural steelwork, on a design and build basis, for this two storey structure and its three storey central core.
The school is a highly regarded specialist arts college. The new facilities include speciality drama facilities which includes its own theatre plus an outdoor amphitheatre, a recording studio, rehearsal rooms and a mirror dance studio with sprung floors. There is also an atrium roofed with EFTE.
Architect for this exciting new School was Aedas and the consulting engineer is Faber Maunsell.