DIAMOND BUILD COMPLETES PRIMARY SCHOOL UPGRADE Primary school pupils and staff will benefit from an improved environment following a £3.7m refurbishment delivered by Diamond Build PLC. The works were completed at Chestnuts Primary School in Tottenham on behalf of Haringey Council. The project has added two new classrooms to the site and enhanced the exterior […]
Pupils helped to fit the first solar panel to the roof of the new expansion of Winterstoke Hundred Academy in Locking Parklands on Tuesday, in a ceremony marking another important step forward for the upcoming eco-school. The school expansion, which is funded by Homes England’s Housing Infrastructure Fund, supports North Somerset Council’s commitment to make […]
Aggregate Industries has stepped in to help a Leicester school to provide vital access to specialist classrooms for its students. The leading construction materials supplier, which has its headquarters in Coalville, Leicestershire, was approached by Keyham Lodge School in Hamilton to solve the problem it had accessing its new educational pods. The school, a […]
How the new Horsham school could look Construction company Reds 10, on behalf of the Department for Education, is currently seeking planning permission from Horsham District Council to knock down Greenway Academy and put a new junior school on a playing field within the school grounds. The new school building would include classrooms, staff offices, […]
FARRANS COMPLETES TECHNICALLY CHALLENGING STUDENT ACCOMMODATION PROJECT IN BELFAST Leading building and civil engineering contractor, Farrans Construction, has completed a technically challenging student accommodation project in Belfast for client CA Ventures. The Aster House PBSA scheme offers 253 student bed spaces across 5-storeys and is situated in Belfast city centre on a 20-year […]
ABERDEEN City Council will look to develop its school estate over the next ten years and beyond, it has said. It comes after the local authority’s education and children’s services committee agreed a draft implementation plan associated with recommended actions to be taken to develop the school estate. The first phase of work begins this […]
We’ve all grown understandably weary of the term “shortage” these days, but the lack of suitable school buildings for a surging numbers of school-age children should top the list of parents’ most pressing concerns. Growing populations of primary and secondary pupils means that many UK and European schools simply don’t have space to house their […]
Work is underway on a new transformational learning space for Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) children at East Hunsbury Primary School. The school has teamed up with Wellingborough-based Timotay Playscapes to plan three distinct areas for pupils aged four and five. Features include a role play village, an outdoor learning zone (with ‘deluxe’ mud kitchen), […]
The Buntingford First School, which is being funded by Hertfordshire County Council and built by Morgan Sindall Construction’s Northern Home Counties business, will open for September 2023 and will be operated by the Scholars Education Trust. This is the first school in the county to be built and operate at net zero carbon, in line […]
PCBs were domestically manufactured for construction materials in the United States beginning in about 1930 until 1979, a time period that coincides with a boom in school construction to meet the demands of post-war birth-rate growth. This increases the vulnerability of any school built or renovated before 1979. Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banned […]