Wick Community Campus includes new primary school, high school, public swimming pool and library

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Galliford Try has announced that its Morrison Construction business has reached financial close on a £48.5m

project to build a new community campus in Wick, north Scotland.

The scheme, for Highland Council has been procured through Hub North Scotland and is expected to be complete by September 2016.

It will replace the existing Wick High School, South Primary School, Pulteneytown Academy Primary School, the Carnegie Library and a community swimming pool.

The contract covers the new facility’s design, construction, financing and maintenance.

Galliford Try executive chairman Greg Fitzgerald said the community campus was an “important project” that would provide “high quality school and community facilities” for Wick 

The firm said it would also invest £1.6m in funding for the project and provide ongoing hard facilities maintenance and lifecycle management services in a contract worth approximately £13 million over its 25 year concession period.