EAST Yorkshire-based Foremans Relocatable Building Systems, a member of York’s Portakabin Group and the UK’s largest supplier of refurbished Portakabin buildings, has handed over a purpose-designed sixth-form centre at Higham Lane School in Nuneaton, following completion of a £1.6 million contract.

Higham Lane is one of the highest-performing state-funded secondary schools in Warwickshire, and is within the top 100 of all secondary schools in England.

The new facility allows the school to provide a high-quality, direct, post-16 progression route for its students for the first time, maintaining standards and outcomes far above national levels.

The sixth-form centre has been constructed by Foremans using 52 recycled and refurbished Portakabin modules – a fast and highly sustainable building solution.

The two-storey building was completed less than six months from receipt of order to be open in time for the school’s first intake of sixth form students. Cranage of the refurbished modular structure was timed for the school holidays to minimise any disruption to teaching.

This is Foremans’ 11th school project with education construction consultants Surveyors to Education, who were the designers and contract administrators for the scheme.