Construction work on a 20,000 square metre public secondary school for 1,000 students in Qormi has been completed, 10 months after the foundation stone was laid.
The €9 million school will have 50 classrooms, nine science labs, five computer labs and four technology workshops as well as a 90-space car park and wheel-chair accessibility.
All work on the new school should be completed in time for the new scholastic year next September.
Built alongside Qormi’s existing boys’ secondary school, the new school incorporates five of the old school’s huts, which were renovated to be used for indoor sports.
Lighting adjusts to existing natural light
A series of energy-saving measures have been incorporated into the school, ranging from the use of solar heaters to intelligent lighting, which adjusts itself to existing natural light and turns itself off whenever a room is empty. School toilet flushing cisterns will be filled with rain-water collected in three specially-built reservoirs, which will also be used to water the school’s gardens.
Education Minister Dolores Cristina pointed out that school construction generated several jobs, with each new project creating about 130 jobs.Over the past four years, 1,519 jobs had been created in the educational governance sector.