Collinson to deliver £3m Runshaw College facility

Catterall-based Collinson Construction has been selected to build a new £3m teaching facility at Runshaw College.

The 1,000 sq m facility will be built off Langdale Road in Leyland and will feature a block of 12 classrooms over two storeys.

Collinson will build the learning centre to BREEAM very good standards, having considered energy efficiency and sustainably in the design alongside user needs.

The building will feature a stone effect finish wall keeping its character consistent with its surroundings. It will be named the Buttermere block, continuing the Runshaw tradition of naming buildings after parts of the Lake District. 

Robert Duxbury, managing director of Collinson Construction, said: “We’re incredibly proud to be working in partnership with Runshaw College, as well as the professional teams at Day Architectural, Curtins and Magnitude Quantity Surveyors to expand the college’s site provision of first-class teaching space."

Clare Russell, principal & CEO at Runshaw College, added: “We are really proud of our impressive college campus and we constantly invest in our estate to ensure we provide high-quality learning and social spaces, resourced with industry standard equipment and technology.

“Buttermere will meet the needs of our students both now and in the future, ensuring that our beautiful college campus, facilities and resources continue to be outstanding.”

The scheme was unanimously approved by South Ribble Borough Council’s planning committee last summer and has received finance from the Department for Education’s ‘Post-16 Capacity Fund’. Construction is set to take eight months and be completed in October of this year.

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