Wick rumour mill at its best again......New High School is falling apart

[Shaggy]

Just heard the rumour that the new school has developed a serious subsidence issue and part of it may have to be rebuilt. Anyone know if it's true or not?

[RUNT]

Lol, what people don't know they make up!

[Kevin Milkins]

One of the contractors working on the school told be they had dropped a major clanger on the build.

[fingalmacool]

Yip heard that too, there seems to be some steel issues also and I think the full scale of the screw ups will be farcical. So to open a school that seems to have a number of faults will be a brave decision for somebody. whatever the issues, the scope which is always done to the minimum (to save money) could be disastrous and possibly fatal. Could be a long wait for the grand opening??

[RUNT]

This is clearly made up gossip, if you're spreading such rumours then shame on you.

Do you think that they would open a 'dangerous' school

[pat]

RUNT
Edinburgh council knew about the wall (many complaints about it) which was built at PFI funded school for a long time and various other problems at other mainly PFI funded schools, took the wall to fall and a young girl killed before action taken to check all the schools and repair many problems, some of the schools were closed for many months.
Maybe the builders and building regulations are being adhered to after the programme on the Edinburgh schools fiasco, which then went on to state where and which other councils were having severe problems with PFI funded schools. The number of councils having problems with school buildings was very very thought provoking and scarey - the folk attending in these buildings are our future and deserve to be cared for prpperly in safely structured buildings which have fully passed all regulations currently in situ.
Do you wish your child to go to one of these schools and run the risk of not returning due to "inappropriate" levels of building checks and regulations?
This programme was aired in the last couple of months.

[riggerboy]

so the new school is on par with the old school, will they never learn,

[scorrie]

I was at the Public Meeting in the Assembly Rooms regarding whether to build the school on the playing fields or on the Bignold Park.

What we were told by the Highland Council representatives and the designers who carried out the feasibility study on the night in question was that, either way, we would "Get a fantastic school, delivered on time and on budget"

I laughed at the notion of that unlikely hat-trick then, but am sad to see that they couldn't even manage to fulfil ONE of their three promises.

I have it on good authority that there are significant problems with the construction of the school.

People can consider this to be rumours if they wish.

[bagpuss]

Those of us who attended Wick High back in the early 1970s had their education affected by the miners strike 3 day week, and the newer part of the school falling down a year later- which meant that those of us doing Highers were again down to a three day week. It actually made us very effective independent learners as we were home revising much of the time.

[sids]

we were home revising much of the time.

Yeah right.

[badger]

Trouble with all these public building contracts is they're not supervised by the architects who designed them (if they were architects) so contractors cut corners. Can't use the main entrance of the new council offices now, presumably because the cladding has to come off. Also suspect initial spec. is too vague, look at Holyrood. Disaster and costs a fortune to maintain.

[Mik.M.]

Do you not have district surveyors in Scotland to oversee these jobs as they progress?