The newly completed Skills Exchange is located on a 9 acre site to the Northern end of Blue Ridge Park at Glasshoughton. It comprises approximately 12,000 square feet made up of 2/3 storey spaces which house a variety of exciting uses including a spacious dramatic triple height library and recreation area, specialist construction and skills bays, teaching classrooms, staff spaces and state of the art hair and beauty training suite. The new college accommodates in excess of 2,500 16 – 19 year old students studying skills based qualifications. Waystone commenced building works in May 2007 and the building was completed in January 2009.
Contract sum £18.5 million