Interserve has been selected to deliver a new £36.5 million secondary school in South Wales.

The company is underway with work to design and build the new Caldicot School in Monmouthshire, with official completion scheduled for June 2018.

The new 13,076 sq m facility is part of the council's 21st Century Schools Programme which will see two new schools built in the county over the next three years.

The three-storey development, which will house up to 1,500 students, is being built next to the existing Caldicot School The old building will be demolished once the project is completed.


Gordon Kew, Managing Director at Interserve, said: "We have a strong history of working with the education sector, having completed over 200 schemes during the last 15 years, and we look forward to providing a modern new school in Caldicot, which we hope the pupils, teachers and the local community will be proud of. As part of the project we will be creating local jobs and using members of our trusted local supply chain."

County Councillor Liz Hacket Pain added: "I'm very pleased with the progress on the delivery of the new schools. This is one of the largest construction projects in Wales, one which will bring fantastic opportunities to thousands of Monmouthshire's young people in the coming years."

Interserve last week announced that it had started work on a £41.4m contract to build three new schools for pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs (SEMH), which will be split across three sites in north, east and south Leeds.

(LM)