Farrans has secured a detailed designs contract for a new £20 million academy in Tottenham.

The pre-construction services agreement was awarded by the Harris Federation after the exemplar design was completed by Mace.

The new Harris Academy will be built on the former site of the Lee valley Technopark.

It will provide 12,000m2 of new teaching accommodation, with the existing Technopark buildings.

being internally refurbished along with the development of a two-storey teaching block and sports hall.

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The first phase of refurbished accommodation is required to be complete by September 2016, with further phases completed for September 2017.

The scheme has been awarded through the Education Funding Agency’s Free School Programme.

Chris Randall, Director of New Developments at Harris Federation, said: "We are delighted to be working with Farrans again on this project which provides much needed high quality school places for Tottenham.

"It is a challenging project with the need to work at speed on the first phase to deliver remodelled accommodation for September 2016 and to work around an occupied site delivering the rest of the phases in September 2017 and the sports hall shortly after that."

The first construction phase is due to begin at the end of March.

(LM)