Sheile School-Back to School in Style

Photo courtesy of Gulf Region North, US Army Corps of Engineers

Students at the new Sheile School express their delight with their new quarters. The school, a $460,000 project, completed March 2006, was funded by the Iraqi Relief and Reconstruction Fund and built by a local Iraqi construction company. Of the 317 IRRF funded school projects in the northern region of Iraq, 315 are complete and two are in progress

Sheile School-Back to School in Style
By Polli Barnes Keller, Gulf Region North, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Mosul Iraq- A newly constructed school located in the center of Dahuk will provide service to approximately 840 students and 36 teachers.

This new two-story complex consists of a 12-room classroom school with a detached exterior lavatory building, a play-yard and a generator building; all of which is surrounded by a three-meter high perimeter wall.

The exterior and interior walls are of masonry construction with a concrete super structure and terrazzo tile flooring. The exterior wall finishes are cut stone and plaster.

“The architectural design and material selection was made by a local Iraqi engineer in coordination with the Director General (DG) of Education and then provided to the Dahuk Residence Office,” said Joshua Adekanbi, Dahuk resident engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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