The bulldozer came into operation in the early morning, demolishing the concrete and cutting the iron of the first classroom under the eyes of a school group, the municipal authorities, the technicians of the Municipality and the company and of citizens and the traffic police who arranged the security service. Within a few days, only a memory will remain of the middle school building in via Caravaggio to make room for a new three and a half million euro block of flats. A modern school, functional on time as scheduled.
«The building has undergone various maintenance interventions in the past . The cracks – says mayor Tarcisio Anedda – have reappeared. There's no point in spending money on nothing. The opportunity came with the Pnrr, which guaranteed us the funds to demolish and rebuild: one of the 109 schools financed in Italy for demolition and reconstruction."
The Councilor for Public Works Aurora Cappai says that «with the offices we immediately seized the opportunity. We managed to skip ahead by also involving school groups and teachers in studying the project. What will be born will be a middle school suited to the times. The first task of the contractor will be to demolish the building with stability problems linked above all to the cracks on the walls. Demolition of the old building is expected to be completed in early December. Reconstruction will begin immediately thereafter. The completion of the works is scheduled for February 2025, but the objective of the municipal administration is to bring forward the times and deliver the building by Christmas 2024".
The head of the municipality's technical office Valentina Lusso explains the characteristics of the new project. «The structure - he says - will be built on two floors. It will have a large multifunctional space at the center, 120 square meters and seven meters high. Around this room, organized on two floors, there are eight classrooms, the canteen, two laboratories and a computer room, to which are added the interview room, the presidency, the media library and the archive". The councilor for public education Massimo Leoni . «Since last year, middle school children have been attending elementary schools in the Sant'Isidoro district. The objective is to save time to allow our children to regain control of their school."