PROJECT PROFILE
DEVENISH COLLEGE, ENNISKILLEN
A £27.25M PROJECT CREATING A 10,800SQM CAMPUS FOR 800 PUPILS, CHALLENGES FROM THE PANDEMIC AND HYPER-INFLATION TO A SLOPING SITE WERE OVERCOME TO CREATE AN EXEMPLARY CAMPUS… GLASGIVEN CONTRACTS DELIVERS A COMPLEX BUILD FOR DEVENISH COLLEGE
A complex, challenging and ultimately rewarding project, Devenish College represents a proud addition to the portfolio of Glasgiven Contracts Ltd. The main contractor’s first post- primary project in Northern Ireland, the Enniskillen school is also its biggest education commission completed in the region to date. Funded by the Department of Education and delivered through the Education Authority’s Major Capital Works Programme, the £27.25m project has created a 10,800sqm campus with capacity for 800 pupils. Designed by Isherwood + Ellis, it features three distinct blocks and a sports complex with a four-court hall, changing rooms, fitness suite,
classroom, synthetic rugby and soccer pitches, tennis courts and a multi-use games area. Block A houses technology and design and home economics suites, science labs, and ICT, maths, art and general classrooms. Block B, running downhill between Block A and Block C, features a general reception area and visitor entrance, staffroom, principal and vice principal offices, library and learning support suite with modern languages, history, geography, RE and general classrooms. Block C includes a music suite, recording studio, practice rooms, drama suite along with green-screen technology and English, media, business, study and careers rooms, assembly hall, kitchen
and cafeteria. Works completed by Glasgiven
Contracts also comprised a separate sports hall with gym and changing facilities alongside 3G and grass pitches, tennis courts, car-parking, roads and landscaping of the 11.5-hectare greenfield site. A team of seven management and up to four additional support staff was typically on site throughout the project. The school was handed over in September 2023 and the sports hall and 3G pitches in January 2024 while, delayed by inclement weather
conditions, grass pitches were completed in January 2025.
Among major challenges facing the project were its coincidence with the
“We had to be really careful how we sequenced the building because it has around 10 different roof levels.”
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