Over £3000,000 has been spent on St Regis C of E Academy School to finally stop the roof leaking. It was built by Carillion but the wrong parts were used and parts were blowing off in the wind, but that can all be put to bed now after a big project to fix it.
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00:00So we're here at St. Regis Church of England Academy, and hello Bishop Illichfield, how are you sir?
00:06I'm very well thank you, I'm very glad to be here as we celebrate the completion of the roof at St. Regis
00:14and all the future that that holds for this wonderful academy.
00:17Hence the plaque here, and so you're the chairman of the trust?
00:22Yes that's right.
00:23And it's been quite a big project hasn't it I understand?
00:25It has, it's been over £3 million and many people have helped make it work over three years it's taken to get here.
00:32And we thank God and thank everybody who played a part,
00:36and the roof is now watertight for the first time since the school was built.
00:41Wow, that's yeah that's some going.
00:43And back in the day it was, well the Hampton firm wasn't it that built it?
00:48No it was Carillion, yes.
00:51Yeah Carillion, that's it.
00:53So there was no comeback there to try and for the £3 million,
00:56so you had to kind of find that from your own resources I suppose?
01:00Well lots of people helped, the Department for Education were very good,
01:04the diocese helped and the trust helped.
01:08And Bishop what do you think of the school here, have you had a bit of a tour?
01:11I have, I've been here a few times before but I'm very glad to be here again,
01:14it's a great place built on Christian values with a wonderful diverse community coming to learn here,
01:21and now in a fantastic waterproof building.
01:24Yeah which is what we all want.
01:26Well thank you very much gents, thank you.
01:28Thank you.
01:30So David we're just up here on the roof where all the work's been done,
01:32and a fantastic cone shaped structure behind you,
01:36is that part of a chapel or a religious?
01:39Looks gorgeous, so some of the stuff that's had to happen,
01:42there were leaks and just fill us in, there were bits flying off,
01:46bits that shouldn't have been there.
01:48This is a school which has got 20 flat roofs,
01:51some of them is long enough to run a 100 metre running track,
01:55and they are kept watertight by having a main membrane putting over them,
01:59and the membrane that was put on 12, 15 years ago by Carillion failed,
02:05because it hadn't been laid properly.
02:07Yeah.
02:08And consequently since then the school has been battling,
02:10they've done really well, catching leaks and keeping going.
02:13Yeah.
02:14We wanted actually to make sure that the school would be watertight.
02:17When you come to school you want to concentrate on learning and experiencing new things,
02:21not sort of mopping up.
02:22So when the school joined the trust we said we would help,
02:27and we managed to get with God's help in prayer,
02:30and with others all around the place,
02:31the Department of Education and the local authority,
02:33we managed to raise the funds 3.5 million.
02:36Yeah.
02:37And the school has now celebrated, it's now an academy,
02:40and it has a completely watertight roof,
02:42and for the staff here and the students,
02:45it means they can now concentrate on their real job.
02:47It's brilliant.
02:48And so these lovely looking panels behind you,
02:51when you took it on they weren't fixed properly,
02:54they were coming off and they...
02:55Yeah, some of it's been wear and tear.
02:58I mean it's 2012, so it's 12 years ago.
03:02Yeah.
03:02So we have to repair that.
03:04But some of them, they needed netting to keep them safe,
03:07but now that's all done away with.
03:09The contractor has re-secured them in a better way than at first.