St. Pauls Primary School

Project Description

St Paul’s Primary School in Blantyre is a new build single storey building. The school houses four primary classrooms and one nursery classroom together with library, IT, office, storage, assembly and gym areas. Externally, and to the rear of the school, there is a specialist MUGA sports pitch and nursery playgrounds in addition to the traditional playground. To the front of the school is the staff and visitor parking.

Location: Hamilton
Client: Kier Scotland Ltd
Value: £ 3.5 Million
Project Dates: 2010

Construction Overview

St Paul’s is constructed in timber frame with the external walls supported on traditional strip concrete foundations. Internal timber stud walls are supported on the concrete ground bearing floor slab. In addition, there is an internal block work retaining wall which creates the split level between the assembly area, the stage and the remainder of the building.