Meet Jane the Crane and Ark Titan
Cranes over White City given names by pupils of future EdCity school
The two newly dubbed cranes at EdCity
April 25, 2022
With two gigantic cranes set to dominate the skyline over White City for months to come, Bowmer & Kirkland, building contractors at the EdCity site on South Africa Road decided they needed to have names.
They turned for inspiration to pupils at Ark Swift Primary Academy, which will be moving to the site when it is completed in September next year along with a second primary, Ark Burlington Danes.
Over 40 children joined in the fun, with the winning ideas coming from Charlie Jackson-Pollock, 11, and ten year-old Raidah Ahmed.
Raidah chose Jane for the larger crane, saying: “ I thought it was nice to have a name that rhymed. We've been studying poetry at school, so this seemed perfect."
Jane is 108 metres tall and can lift a maximum of nine tonnes.
Charlie chose Ark Titan for the second crane, which is 80 metres high and can lift up to 12 tonnes. He said: "I got the idea from a TV programme with a character called Titan, and I thought that it would be a good name for one of the cranes."
Daniel Upfield, Principal of Ark Swift, said: "We are all very excited at the prospect of a new school building, and it was great to see so many wonderful suggestions that came from our children."
Bipin Mepani, Project Manager from Bowmer & Kirkland, said: "We were delighted to offer this opportunity to the local schoolchildren. They are obviously very interested in the work that's going on.”
The school will be at the heart of the EdCity development in White City and is part of a wider regeneration of the area undertaken by a not-for-profit partnership between Ark and Hammersmith & Fulham Council to bring new community facilities for the local neighbourhood.
The new school will have state-of-the-art facilities, including a roof terrace with growing gardens for each year group, space for outside lessons, and a high-quality playground area. It will also have multi-purpose cooking, DT, science and art, and a sensory room. The school will also have extra-wide learning corridors which can be used as flexible breakout space from the classrooms.
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