The Kirklees College will not only provide a 5,500m² learning environment for students on completion, but it will also provide current students with the opportunity to engage in the design and build process during the construction process.
The new building is due to open in September 2012.
GMI managing director Jarrod Best said: “As a well established construction services company founded in Yorkshire, we are proud that we can play a significant part in the development of a new state-of-the-art campus for Kirklees College. The new facilities are combining extraordinary design features and the professional building services of the team with the dynamic and creative minds of the students – a real community project.”
The project is the second phase of a proposal that was granted funding in September 2009 by the Learning Skills Council, now known as the Skills Funding Agency, for Kirklees College’s new learning facilities. The separate building was deemed a more efficient relocation of the college’s engineering and motor vehicle teaching facilities, which had originally been planned for the Waterfront Quarter.
For the new medical centre in Headingley, being developed by Landmark Healthcare, GMI will convert the upper floors of the St Michael’s Court building next door to the Arndale Centre. When it opens in summer 2011, it will house two medical practices and cover 1200m².
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