The Central St Michaels Sandwell Science, Engineering & Manufacturing Centre will grow West Bromwich's education hub by building a new campus on West Bromwich High Street.
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This scheme is complete!
The Central St Michaels Sandwell Science, Engineering & Manufacturing Centre project is part of the West Bromwich Towns Fund Programme and will support higher and advanced level skills and qualifications for students at both Central Saint Michael’s Sixth Form and Sandwell College. It will include electrical and mechanical labs, digital computer labs that will support both Building Information Modelling (BIM) software and computer aided design (CAD) along with an engineering laboratory virtual instrumentation suite (ELVIS). Also included, and a first of its kind for the Black Country, is a ‘Festo Suite’ preparing people and companies for the digital future in production and new technologies.
Works commenced on site in November 2022, were completed in August 2023 and the first set of students were welcomed in Spetember 2023. The centre was constructed via a modular build by Portakabin.
Find out more, visit www.sandwell.ac.uk.
Key deliverables:
- 29 temporary Full Time jobs supported during project delivery
- 6.7 Full Time Equivelemt permanenet jobs created as a result of the project
- 900 sqm land remediated
- Target of 400 learners assised each academic year (492 learners enrolled as at 31 December 2024)