West Exe Technology College, Exeter, 500T
Carillion
William Haley Engineering provided the steel frame for this 1300 pupil secondary school, including its sports hall and science block, gymnasium and internet café. A link bridge and a cycle ramp were added later to bring the total steelwork to 500T. William Haley Engineering worked from 3 – 11pm to avoid noise during the examination times.
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Bradley Stoke School, Bristol, 390T
Kier Western
The building for our contractor partner Kier Western included class rooms, gymnasium and offices. The programme overlapped design and construction, so the primary steel was erected in phases linked to the design process. Our erection team (direct employees) went through the steelwork again to fix the secondary steelwork. Kier Western appreciated the site knowledge acquired by our team and their continuity on the job, and said this contributed significantly to the success of the project.

St Joseph’s Catholic Comprehensive School, Swindon, 405T
Cowlin
A new 1300 pupil school was built of combined masonry and steelwork. The project includes a sports hall and a novel 11 meter wide “street” that forms an indoor circulation way along the length of the teaching block.

Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, 470T
Mowlem
William Haley Engineering completed the steel framework for the new Peninsula Medical School and Knowledge Spa of the Royal Cornwall Hospital. The six level steel frame incorporated 220T of “slimform” beams (beams with coverplates to support concrete planks.) The site was limited to one bus/ emergency access road so Haley Engineering had to carefully plan all deliveries and have a back-up plan. We also built an associated project for ROK, the Peninsula Radiology Academy at Plymouth.

University of West of England, Bristol, 235T
Carillion
This is a new student village of 2000 residencies. We built the sports hall and ancillary rooms. The sports hall has a 35 meter span, and uses the FLI truss, a patented system of our sister company ( for more information see Francis & Lewis International ).

St Peter’s School, Exeter, 500T
Carillion
This is a new secondary school for 1225 pupils. Our work covered all school requirements such as a sports hall and included a chapel. William Haley Engineering completed both St Peter’s and West Exe for Mowlem as part of Devon County Council’s private finance initiative (PFI) programme. The structure comprised beam and column, portals, trusses, and curved steels.

Holsworthy School, Devon
Morgan Ashurst
William Haley Engineering made this unusual circular steelwork for their music and drama block.

Bristol Schools
Skanska
William Haley Engineering was the only specialist sub-contractor to work on all 4 Bristol BSF schools for Skanska. Brunel Academy, the first school to open under the Building Schools for the Future programme, was opened by Prime Minister Gordon Brown on 6th September 2007. Haley’s detailed, fabricated and erected over 2,000 tonnes of structural steel.

Swindon Schools
Laing O'Rourke
William Haley Engineering supplied and erected steelwork for the first two schools in the North Swindon schools PFI scheme. Hreod Parkway was a 250 tonne secondary school & Mordeon a 100 tonne primary school.

Plymouth Schools
Interserve
Part of the Plymouth schools PFI programme, William Haley Engineering completed two primary schools for Interserve: Ernesettle school and Kinterbury school. Haley Engineering also recently completed a primary school in Ranby, Nottinghamshire for Interserve as part of the Nottingham County Council Construction Framework.