31/03/11
Coleg Morgannwg top out with Construction Excellence
The Taf Ely Learning Campus at Nantgarw, which is backed with over £34m Welsh Assembly Government funding, including investment from the European Regional Development Fund, has just celebrated the halfway point in its construction and topping out ceremony.
The campus is being developed to strict reduce, reuse and recycle guidelines and has resulted in it being used as an exemplar project for other construction companies.
The structure of the building was pre-fabricated off-site before being transported in sections to Nantgarw for construction company, Laing O’Rourke, to assemble. This has resulted in a quicker erection process and waste reduction of 85% which would normally go to landfill.
Coleg Morgannwg celebrated the completion of the structure with a topping out ceremony attended by Leighton Andrews AM Minister for Children, Education and Lifelong Learning.
Leighton Andrews said: “We want our young people to be learning in facilities which are environmentally responsible, modern and technologically advanced. Coleg Morgannwg’s new campus is a great example of this ambition in practice.”
The new four-storey building will replace the college’s existing site at Rhydyfelin and provide state-of-the-art facilities for more than 3000 students and staff.
Principal at Coleg Morgannwg, Judith Evans, said: “The new campus has been developed to the highest sustainable standard working towards the BREEAM rating of excellent. So to be recognised by Construction Excellence Wales as an outstanding project in sustainability is a huge achievement.
“The topping out ceremony was a great opportunity to celebrate the months of planning, development and construction and it was really satisfying to finally see it all coming together.”
Laing O’Rourke will now begin work on the internal structure of the new campus which is due to be completed in September 2012.
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