A team of joiners from Aberdeen-based Hall & Tawse Joinery and parent group Mansell plc are recreating timber work at Dundee’s Morgan Academy which was destroyed by fire in 2002.
The £18m rebuild was commissioned by Dundee City Council and Michael Moir, national sales and marketing manager at Mansell, said there was another year’s work before the school could be re-opened.
Hall & Tawse is involved in more than £750,000 of specialist joinery on the site.
Mr Moir said: “A major fire destroyed everything internally and left just the shell of the building. The school is of great historical interest and we are working from original drawings and from bits and pieces that were salvaged to put it all back together again.”
Douglas fir is being used on joinery work that is not visible, while English oak is being used for all the external mitres and sills.
The joiners are recreating the main façade towers and further work includes the manufacture of replica sash and casement windows.
