Delivering a state-of-the-art, purpose built special education school that caters for students with disabilities in both middle and senior years of schooling
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Sector
Education
Contract value
$33+ million
Completion date
Stage 1 – 2015 | Stage 2 – 2016
Location
Tiwi, Northern Territory
Status
Completed
Type of project
Design and construction components
Client
Northern Territory Government
From initial design concept, we completed full design and construction of a purpose built school and VET facility for Territory students with intellectual disabilities.
The new Henbury School needed to be a generalist facility catering for a full range of students with disabilities including high needs student requirements. The facility also needed to be future-proofed to absorb expected increases in the student population.
This purpose built special education school caters for 120 middle and senior year students. The school incorporates special facilities to engage students in VET pathway training programs to better prepare them for an independent life after school.
Project features
- General learning area buildings (2) and high dependency learning area buildings (2)
- A multipurpose hall with retractable seating for up to 200 people
- A fully operational training and commercial kitchen
- Vocational education and training, science, sensory, horticultural and farm buildings
- A 20 m x 10 m pool with associated airconditioned change rooms
- An administration building and outside school hours care facility
- Civil works including carparks, an access road running between Henbury Avenue and Willeroo Street for off street school bus drop-off and pick-up, and the redesigning of Henbury Avenue to incorporate entry and egress into the school
- Extensive landscaping, specialised play equipment and undercover walkways
- 193,510 man-hours were completed over the project duration (464 days) with no industrial action or lost time injuries (LTIs)
- Complex structural steel
- Extensive roofing and wall cladding
- Specialised and high quality fit out
- Management of nominated subcontractors
- Public infrastructure
- High density, urbanised and live operational environments
- Complex staging of works
