XR Lab: designed by Architects WindsorPatania. Image © WindsorPatania. XR Lab: Transforming Education with Futuristic New Learning Facilities. Architects WindsorPatania are reimagining the future of education with their latest project, Extended Reality Lab (XR Lab) for Eastern Colleges Group. Students at West Suffolk College have started to explore the awe-inspiring facilities comprising of four […]
Ashe seals £24m Milton Keynes East community projects Ashe Construction has been awarded a £24m design and build contract to build a new primary school and community health hub for Milton Keynes Council just off junction 14 of the M1 as part of the Council’s MK East development. The scheme is in preparation for 5,000 […]
The University of Cumbria has launched its invitation to tender process to seek and secure a contractor to build its brand new campus in Barrow-in-Furness. A successful contractor will create a university campus, the town’s first, on a 2.76-hectare site beside BAE Systems’ existing Submarines Academy for Skills and Knowledge. The multi-million pound campus project […]
The ribbon has been cut at a “stunning” new multi-million-pound teaching block in Eaglescliffe. Egglescliffe School and Sixth Form has officially opened its new state-of-the-art Peake building, named after British astronaut Tim Peake, this week. The £7.1m building was funded by Stockton Council as part of its £57.7m investment programme to transform school buildings in […]
Around 700,000 children in England are studying in schools requiring major rebuilding or refurbishment which can negatively impact pupil attainment and teacher retention, a new National Audit Office report on the Condition of school buildings says. In a separate report published today – DfE: Environmental sustainability overview – the NAO found DfE had insufficient plans […]
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Ysgol Tir Morfa Community School in Rhyl, North Wales, is an additional learning needs school for boys and girls aged from 3 to 18. The school is split across three areas, with the newest part now being heated by two Ideal Heating 32kW ECOMOD monobloc air source commercial heat pumps. Becoming carbon neutral In […]
By Michael Hiscock Partner – Head of Construction at Wright Hassall Coming from a family of teachers, I know that teaching is still as much of a vocation as it has ever been. However, a recent meeting, at which I was advising a specialist timber frame company that designs and builds school buildings, demonstrated that […]
The inaugural Modern Methods of Construction Awards recognises excellence in modular construction. TG Escapes Timber Frame Eco-Buildings were honoured to receive awards in two categories, winning both the ‘panelised system’ Project of the Year for their 10-classroom block at Ratcliffe college and the Public Sector Innovation of the Year for their innovative concept of a […]
By Bill Sinclair, technical director, Adveco. The most consistent issue we see in school hot water systems is oversizing, whether through a lack of understanding of application design or concerns over providing suitable backup to ensure system continuity. The result of oversizing is however always the same, unnecessary capital costs for system supply, installation and […]