Nearly 200 construction workers were on site at the peak of a scheme to build a temporary new home for a secondary school made uninhabitable by this summer’s Grenfell Tower fire.
Watch this time lapse video below, provided by Portakabin, to get a glimpse of how the firm and Mace built a school for the Grenfell community in just nine weeks:
Read more about the Kensington Aldridge Academy project
At the base of Grenfell Tower sits a state-of-the-art secondary school – now lying empty. The Education and Skills Funding Agency had a single summer to find 960 pupils a temporary new home
Project completed in just nine weeks, opening three weeks before planning approval was given
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