CONSTRUCTION students are helping shape Bishop Auckland College’s future by working on its multi-million pound new development site.
Students are gaining work experience by helping construct the second phase of the new build, which is due to open in September.
Budding brick-layers, painters and decorators, electricians, joiners, and plumbers are being given the chance to practise their skills on a real-life building site alongside fully-trained contractors.
Brick-laying student William Drennan, 18, from Bishop Auckland, was the first from his course to complete a placement on the site.
"I would like to have spent longer on there, because it is great to put the skills I’ve learnt at college into practise," he said.
Bishop Auckland College has been subject to a £30.5m rebuild since February 2006.
Once completed, the second stage will increase the college by two-thirds of its original size.
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