Morgan Sindall is set to start work on the construction of six new state-of-the-art primary schools in South Lanarkshire – the latest phase in the £150 million Primary School Modernisation Programme in the region.

The company is about to start Phase 2, Tranche 2 of the framework after completing the construction of 13 schools in the first tranche of activity.

Work is set to start imminently on the new £4.8 million Carstairs Village Primary School campus on Avenue Road as well as the new £4.6 million Carstairs Junction Primary School on Coronation Street. Both schools are due to complete in summer 2013 and have been designed to give children a top specification learning environment using sustainable green technology such as biomass boilers.


The other schools to be constructed by Morgan Sindall in the second tranche of Phase 2 of the building programme are Woodside Primary School, Newton Primary School, Machanhill Primary School and Forth Primary School.

South Lanarkshire Council appointed Morgan Sindall to its Primary School Modernisation Programme in 2007. The construction firm is working with two others in constructing 30 primary schools over a four year period; with an anticipated total spend of up to £150 million.

It is part of South Lanarkshire Council's wider £812 million Schools Modernisation Programme which will rebuild all 129 of the area’s primary schools by 2016.

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