Earlier this month Construction students from Salford City College’s City Skills Sixth Form Centre got a taste of the high life with a visit to a high-rise building site in Manchester’s Spinningfields. The site visit was hosted by contractors BAM, who are working on Spinningfields’ most highly specified and elegant commercial building, No.1 Spinningfields on behalf of their client Allied London.
BAM’s Education and Community Co-ordinator Penny Anderson and Project Manager Phil London showed the students around the site, which will be home to state-of-the-art office blocks, restaurants and cafés, and will stand at approximately 164m high.
The visit started with a briefing about how the project came in to fruition and a presentation of the progress of the works to date. The students were then taken to the site and to see the construction process of the concrete lift and stairwell towers, which will help support the steel frame structure, along with the raising of one of the site’s tower cranes.
BAM’s Project Manager Phil London commented: “No 1 Spinningfields provides a great opportunity for local students and young people to see construction on a grand scale. At BAM we aim to inspire future generations to want to work in the construction industry – the students from Salford City College are exactly the kind of people who we believe are the future of the industry.”
Simon Heyes, who organised the students’ visit with fellow Construction tutor Mike Jackson, said: “The aim of the visit was for the Level 1 and 2 students on the College’s Civil Engineering and General Construction courses to see the possibilities and scope of careers in construction. Getting to see the scale of such a major construction project, and how it is organized and carried out, will be a great help to the students when it comes to their theoretical and practical learning.”
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