The Minister of Education, Universities and Employment, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, and the mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, today visited the works of the Secondary Schools Mecca and Francisco Ramón Arcas Ros Giner, whose buildings are planned to be completed for next year 2013/2014.
Projects both established centers have more and better facilities than those that existed before the earthquake it suffered serious Sun City and left in ruin both educational infrastructure.
In the case of Ramón Arcas, whose rear area and was recovered and became operational in the second quarter of the year 2011/2012, with an investment of more than nine hundred thousand euros, complete with a new two-storey building that includes 30 teaching spaces, rather than the 27 of the original building, which had to be demolished.
The Education Minister specified that "I agreed with the mayor and with the parents' association that the works would be launched in August and will not stop until the conclusion of the next course.'s Great misfortune that supposed earthquakes , let's make it a future opportunity to Lorca. This new center will be a reference, and students will have excellent facilities and equipment for integrated quality training by teachers ".
The new building under construction will have a total of 3081.80 meters.
The ground floor will house three classrooms spaces for versatile, laboratory, classroom technology, and a multipurpose room.
On the first floor are five multipurpose classrooms have a music room, a classroom of plastic, a classroom workshop, two classrooms and two seminars diversification.
The second floor will have seven multipurpose classrooms, a computer room and four classrooms workshop.
The new construction will communicate with the existing walkways through the first and second floors.
It also will include an auditorium over the original dimensions.
The project went out to tender for 3.8 million euros, being awarded to Dragados by almost 2.5.
Also, the company is counting on the town and other neighboring municipalities.
Double social benefit educational facilities and employment
For his part, Francis Secondary School was tendered by Ros Giner nearly five million, being awarded to Acciona Infrastructures for almost 3.2 million.
"Our policy is that companies who win the contests help generate jobs where we invested. We know that these two important new projects involve social a double benefit: the educational facilities themselves, and the direct and indirect employment generates execution, "he said Sánchez.
While Ros original facilities Giner, which had to be demolished, had built 4,200 square meters and 30 teaching spaces, the new pavilion have academic additional five hundred square meters and more than 40 rooms.
The building will have a central space as a gallery of columns triple height, with overhead lighting, and will serve as a meeting point to all classes.
The ground floor will have spaces for three laboratories, two workshops, two plastic classrooms, a classroom drawing three computer rooms and multipurpose room.
On the first floor, there are 16 multi-purpose rooms and toilets.
The second floor is dedicated to eleven workshops, offices, classrooms, support and integration, diversification classrooms, music rooms and library.
The pavilion will feature academic system type integrated LED lighting, which saves 50 percent of energy expenditure, and bioclimatic architectural elements, such as a wind collector.
Also, the auditorium will be higher and the new building will be connected by a walkway to the existing structure.
Source: CARM