BAM Construction is to deliver a £25 million expansion of a co-educational boarding school in Kent.

The contractor will refurbish Grade II listed buildings at the Duke of York’s Royal Military School in Dover, as well as providing several new buildings.

The school became an 'Academy with Military Traditions' in September 2010, and is now open to the children of both serving and non-serving parents.

BAM's major project will include demolishing several non-listed blocks and building a sports hall, two two-storey teaching blocks and four two-storey junior boarding houses.


The company will also erect a two-wing, two-storey extension to Centenary House for senior boarders.

Further remodelling and repair work will take place across the estate, as will hard and soft landscaping and the provision of car park spaces.

The scheme will increase capacity at the school from 468 to 722 pupils and provide enhanced facilities.

Project director Rod Stiles said: "BAM is pleased to be able to use our extensive experience in the education sector to help this historic and important school upgrade its facilities. This scheme will provide cutting edge teaching, living and sporting facilities for students while remaining loyal to its historic roots. Most of the suppliers and construction workforce will be from Kent and our training programmes will continue to develop new local construction apprentices."

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