Works Affairs Undersecretary of the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Ahmed Al Khayyat stated that the Ministry has completed the construction of a new school for girls in Busaiteen and has handed it over to the Ministry of Education. The project was implemented as part of the Gulf Development Program and cost BD4.7 Million.
The school was constructed on an area of 14791m2, with an actual construction area of 14290m2. The school building comprises of 3 storeys that consist of 30 classrooms with a capacity to accommodate around 1000 students. The school also includes multi-purpose laboratories for science, computer, home sciences, and physics, in addition to a cafeteria, a library, offices for the teaching and administrative faculty, sports hall, other service facilities such as toilets and store rooms. The school also comprises of a multi-purpose hall, a guard room, electricity sub-station, and also 50 parking spaces, parking spaces allocated for buses and an air-conditioned waiting area for students.
According to Al Khayyat, the Ministry has also taken into account sustainability, green buildings and energy saving measures; such as thermal insulation for roofs and walls, double-glazing windows to reduce noise, sensor taps in bathrooms, energy saving lighting systems, acoustically insulated vinyl flooring, and paints with low volatile and anti-carbon organic compounds to paint walls internally and externally.
Also, a comfortable and healthy internal environment has been provided in the school, with non-slip vinyl flooring in all rooms, corridors and stairways.
The design also takes into account providing all the facilities needed for students and staff with special needs and also pregnant women, such as constructing a special parking lot close to the main school entrance, providing slopes on all entrances, in addition to providing 4 elevators close to all entrances and toilets with a size that properly accommodates the needs of those students.

Source: BNA