Hamad Town boys school to be ready by mid-2016

Manama : The construction work of Hamad Town Intermediate School for Boys will be completed and the school will be handed over to the Ministry of Education by mid-2016, said the Assistant Undersecretary for Construction Projects & Maintenance at the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs & Urban Planning, Mona Al Motawa.

The announcement came as Al Motawa visited Hamad Town Intermediate School for Boys along with Construction Projects Director Wadeea Al Marzooq and a number of officials in charge of the project at the Ministry.

The Ministry has completed the foundation works on the school’s main building, in addition to the power sub-station that has already been handed over to the Electricity & Water Authority, said Al Motawa. The internal and external finishing works, the electromechanical works, installation of tools and works on the external fence are currently underway. 

The school is part of a string of projects implemented by the Gulf Development Programme for the Ministry of Education, in support to education and development requirements in Bahrain.

The Works Ministry’s Construction Projects Directorate is supervising the project, which also includes four other schools funded by the Saudi Development Fund. These include Malkiya Intermediate School for Girls, Busaiteen Intermediate School for Girls, Hunainiya Secondary School for Boys and Isa Town Primary School for Boys.

The BD3,850,321 school, which is funded by the Saudi Development Fund, was awarded to Sahara Contracting and is constructed on an area of 11,403m² and a total construction area of 14,550m². The main school building comprises of a ground floor and three additional storeys with 30 classrooms. The school has the capacity to accommodate 1,000 students.

The school’s main building includes multi-purpose laboratories for science and computer, in addition to a library, offices for the teaching and administrative faculty, sports hall and other service facilities such as a cafeteria, toilets and store rooms. This is in addition to a guard room, parking spaces, bus stops and an air-conditioned waiting area for students.

Al Motawa explained that the school building has been designed based on the latest MoE’s requirements, which include sustainability, green buildings and energy saving measures. These include thermal insulation for roofs and walls, double-glazing windows to reduce noise, sensor taps in bathrooms, energy-saving lighting systems, acoustically insulated vinyl flooring, and paints with low volatile and anti-carbon organic compounds to paint walls internally and externally.

The design also takes into account providing all the facilities needed for students and staff with special needs and also pregnant women, such as constructing a special parking lot close to the main school entrance, providing slopes on all entrances, using non-slip vinyl flooring in all rooms, corridors and stairways, in addition to providing elevators close to all entrances and toilets with a size that properly accommodates the needs of those students.