YORK-based off-site construction specialist Portakabin Group has craned the final building into place on its £5.6 million school project in Surrey.

The Huntington headquartered company last year secured the seven-figured deal to build Pyrford Primary School near Woking to accommodate 480 children.

The project is replacing an existing facility which is beyond repair, and is the first of six schools in the Surrey and Kent region being rebuilt under the Government’s Priority School Building Programme (PSBP) by the Portakabin Group in contracts worth in the region of £28 million in total.

Each scheme will be delivered using Portakabin's Yorkon off-site construction solutions.

The structure for the new Pyrford Primary School has been manufactured off site in York using the latest modular technology.

It was craned into position on site in Woking in just seven days during the school holidays. A large 500-tonne crane was used to lift the steel building modules, weighing up to 20 tonnes, from an adjacent cricket field and over trees.

Kathryn Krynicki, headteacher at Pyrford Primary School said: "We were delighted and excited to return from the school holidays to see our new building already in place.

"This is another key milestone in the project and in the history of the school."

The Portakabin Group was announced as preferred bidder for six infant and primary school projects in Surrey and Kent. The contracts for the Department for Education are worth in the region of £28 million and will be completed by winter 2017.