Checks of ‘deteriorating’ school buildings yet to start Government signed off on £2m scheme for assessments at schools with ‘system-built’ classroom blocks last year Ministers are set to miss their own targets to inspect hundreds of post-war school buildings that ministers rank alongside RAAC as a top safety concern. The government signed off on a […]
Plans have been unveiled to alter a 1960s school building in Waterlooville to replace cladding, roof material and fenestration. By updating the facade at Hart Plain Junior School, Hampshire County Council said it will extend the building’s life, reduce its carbon emissions and improve its thermal performance. The school is one of the 450 SCOLA […]
From a global pandemic, to unprecedented inflationary pressures, construction supply change have been dealt their fair share of challenges. However, digital tendering software is here to help, and EstimateOne is leading the way. With economic uncertainty impacting the industry, construction output is set to decline by 1.3% in 2023[1]. But how can you shift […]
Planning application submitted for refurbishment and Passivhaus extension at Edinburgh’s Trinity Academy A planning application has been submitted to City of Edinburgh Council for the second phase of development at Trinity Academy, a secondary school set within the Victoria Park conservation area in the north of the city. The project builds upon the award-winning phase […]
DLA ANNOUNCES START ON SITE FOR NEXT DEVELOPMENT PHASE AT OAKLANDS COLLEGE DLA Architecture has announced that works have commenced to deliver the next significant development phase at Oaklands College, St Albans Campus. Principal contractor, RG Carters is working alongside DLA to deliver a 32,130 sq ft Construction Centre which forms part of an overall […]
An innovative manufacturer of steel lockers has scooped a UK first – and what it believes could be a world first – for its sector, by achieving carbon neutrality. Locit, based in Deeside, has received PAS 2060 certification, which is deploying a holistic approach to reduce the environmental impact covering energy, supply chain, design, manufacture and […]
One of the buildings created for other schools by Losberger De Boer Temporary building plan is major step to getting children back to school at St Clere’s in wake of RAAC crisis ONE of the borough schools most affected by the Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) crisis is St Clere’s secondary in Stanford-le-Hope, where headteacher […]
A new primary school and community hub in Scotland fitted out by Deanestor, has won two major awards for design and architecture. Newmains and St Brigid’s Community Hub in North Lanarkshire has been awarded the prestigious Architecture Grand Prix Award at the Scottish Design Awards 2023, as well as the Education Building Award. The £18m […]
MORGAN SINDALL CONSTRUCTION COMPLETES WORK ON NEW PRIMARY SCHOOL FOR SNELSMOOR GRANGE DEVELOPMENTS Works have been completed on a new school in the East Midlands which promises to deliver school places for residents of the Snelsmoor Grange housing developments, The Meadows and Holbrook Grange, and a recent development of around 200 properties on Fellow Lands […]
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