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Team on 06 June 2006
New Academy eases city secondary school
shortfall
Leading architectural and engineering practice Pick Everard are project managers, architects and consulting engineers for a new Leicester secondary school.
Leading architectural and engineering practice Pick Everard are project managers, architects and consulting engineers for a £10.1million Leicester secondary school for 600 pupils to be constructed by Leicester-based J H Hallam and Co as main contractor The foundation stone of the new Madani High School will be laid in a special ceremony on 9 June and the new building is scheduled for completion in August 2007
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 3 Sep 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Voluntary Aided Madani High School and Community Centre will be the new home of the Leicester Islamic Academy (LIA) secondary school and help to address the 1,398 shortfall forecast for secondary school places in Leicester, as well as meeting the growing needs of the city's Muslim population.
A grant of £15.2million has been awarded by the Department for Education and skills (DfES) towards the total estimated cost of £17.8million required for the project - the largest grant awarded to a Muslim faith school in the UK and part of the Government's commitment to grant-aiding such schools.
The Muslim community will raise £2.4million.
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One of the oldest independent Muslim schools in Britain, the LIA was established in 1981 and started with just seven girls of secondary age.
It now provides education for over 750 pupils, aged from 3 to 16, and has outgrown its current premises at 320 London Road, Leicester.
The school has been at the top of the GCSE league table over the past 6 years, with A to C pass rates in 5 or more GCSEs.
It has the highest value-added score in the county and one of the best nationally.
The new premises will enable the school to increase its capacity to cater for 600 secondary students, the majority of whom will come from areas that have the city's highest number of people without qualifications and the highest unemployment (6.8%, twice the national average).
Pick Everard partner John Tiernan said: "The new school will increase the diversity of educational provision in Leicester and also promote community cohesion and other principles outlined by the City's School's Organisation Plan".
"Our design sets out to create an efficiently planned modern building which will provide a pleasant, secure and stimulating environment for pupils and staff".
"The school will also provide sports, social and community facilities that will be available for local residents, regardless of their faith or cultural background".
The school will be located on a 4.2acre site in Evington Valley Road, Evington, previously occupied by metal and rubber component manufacturer Metalastik.
Work to demolish redundant factory buildings and clear the site has already been completed.
A land remediation contract has also been completed, removing contamination from oil spilled on the site from industrial use over the past 80 years.
The two-storey building, arranged around a central courtyard, will be designed on sustainable development principles which include natural ventilation, avoiding large expanses of glazing and using components and materials from renewable resources.
Pick Everard has many years experience of designing buildings for the education sector and is currently working on a raft of projects including a PFI project for five new Derby schools, a framework contract with Norfolk County Council in primary and secondary sectors, on master planning at West Suffolk Further Education College and at Keele, Nottingham and Warwick universities and is involved in the Government's 'Building Schools for the Future' programme.
Pick Everard picked up the prestigious Leicestershire and Rutland Society of Architects 2006 Design Award this year for the first phase £15.24 million statement building, designed for Stephenson College which embraces modern thinking on teaching environments.
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