Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Ministry (MoW) has completed the Shaikha Mooza bint Hamad Al Khalifa’s Primary and Secondary Girls’ School in Jau and handed it over to the Ministry of Education.
Works Affairs Undersecretary at the MoW, Ahmed Abdulaziz Al-Khayyat, said that the school is the largest public school in the Kingdom in terms of capacity, cost and facilities.
Covering a total area of 50,000 square metres, and a building area of 26,500 square metres, the school consists of four academic buildings that accommodate 1440 primary, intermediate and secondary students and includes 48 classrooms.
It also includes all modern educational facilities, incuding multi-purpose laboratories, a library, offices for the educational and administrative staff, a multi-purpose sports hall that is designed to host various sporting events in the Kingdom, in addition to service facilities, including a cafeteria, bathrooms, stores and aroom for the guard, the undersecretary said.
Costing BD 10,847,560, the mega project was implemented within the GCC Development Project, supported by the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) and built by the Bahraini-Saudi Arabian consortium of Al Moayed and Nasma Contracting, he added.
Al-Khayyat pointed out that the project had won the Smart School Building Award during the third Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference 2018, as it was designed to meet the requirements of mordern schools and sustainable green buildings, as well as to conserve energy and preserve natural resources.