Welbeck - the Defence Sixth Form College
Facts and figures
- Contract value: £250m (Services: £1.9m p.a.)
- Services duration: 30 years
- First school or college in the UK being operated entirely through a PFI
- Minerva Education and Training Ltd consortium comprises Interserve, TQ Education and Training Ltd, Bank of Ireland Group
- Best Project to reach financial close at the Public Private Finance Awards 2004
- Construction was completed on time and took only 16 months, meeting the first intake of students
- Responsible for the provision of education services as well as 24-hour-a-day welfare and pastoral care of students
Interserve-led consortium, Minerva Education and Training Ltd, has created a purpose-built, modern educational facility to replace the highly-respected Army Sixth Form College at Welbeck Abbey that had been operating since 1953.
The new Defence Sixth Form College is the first school or college in the UK being operated entirely through a PFI. The design, build and subsequent facilities management services are provided by Interserve; specialist partner TQ Education and Training provides the educational expertise.
The new facility integrates and links complementary buildings into clusters for teaching, living and administration by grouping the new buildings into four zones:
- A central forum containing the entrance concourse hall, dining rooms and kitchen, the main hall, administration, medical wing, student club and learning resource centre
- A bright and airy teaching wing including high specification, computer networked laboratories, workshops and classrooms
- Flexible student accommodation comprising five boarding houses and integrated houses for residential house staff
- The parade ground and extensive sports facilities, including squash courts and a 25m swimming pool.
An integrated energy-efficient approach included the use of natural ventilation through heavy mass, sedum roofs and high-level windows above the main concourse and teaching wings to provide cross-ventilation. Along the education wing, overhangs were cleverly utilised to provide solar shading to south-facing rooms below. Find out more
Interserve's package of facilities services is being delivered for 30 years and includes administrative and IT system support, medical support, catering, linen and laundry services, security, transportation and estate management and maintenance.
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