BAM has been appointed by the South Gloucestershire Council to deliver a £10m low carbon primary school under the Southern Construction Framework (SCF). Frenchay Church of England Primary School will be replaced with a two-storey, two-form entry building and will accommodate up to 420 primary-age children. It has been designed to achieve low carbon Passivhaus standards, featuring triple […]
Girls at a Vale of Clwyd secondary school have been given a taste of the opportunities for them to take up careers in construction by one of North Wales’s leading builders. Brenig Construction spent a day at Denbigh High School introducing Year Seven students to the opportunities in an industry that has thrown off its […]
Three schools in Slough have become the first in the United Kingdom to have ‘anti-Covid’ indoor air technology installed in their buildings. The Langley Academy Primary School, the Langley Heritage Primary and The Langley Academy, a co-educational secondary school, had a new ‘revolutionary’ air cleaning system put in before Christmas which uses Needlepoint Bipolar Ionisation […]
A primary school could lose an award-winning multi-million pound building constructed less than four years ago. Southwark council wants to cut the number of students each year at Ivydale Primary School in Nunhead by a third from 90 to 60. The plans would see the school downsize to one building, with the closure of the […]
Freeland Rees Roberts Architects have completed Clare St. Regis, a mixed-use regeneration scheme for Clare College Cambridge, featuring new student accommodation and market flats. The project was driven by the need to address the poor energy performance of the existing buildings, asbestos contamination, and outdated layouts, and to provide more and improved student accommodation for […]
Clear Safety is delighted to announce that its team of specialist consultants for heating systems now includes a certified CIBSE (Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers) Heat Networks Consultant. Clear, which specialises in safety, compliance and risk management consultancy is regularly involved in the review of heating solutions for its clients, which includes a number […]
With heating being a school’s primary use of energy, leading independent building services specialist Gilberts is taking steps to help the educational estate optimise its carbon footprint. The move coincides with updates to the required technical standards and performance criteria for schools’ mechanical services, within the Department for Education’s Facilities Output Specification(1). The updates […]
Wates maintains long partnership with Department for Education On Monday the Wates Group has cemented its long association with the Department for Education (DfE), with the announcement of its appointment to 11 lots of the DfE’s new 2021 Construction Framework (CF21). Under the four-year framework, Wates Construction will continue to deliver projects worth £12m and […]
Northwest school is now paying is no fuel bills this winter – thanks to a North Wales company installing an innovative, environmentally friendly heating system – saving £10,000 a year. As winter fuel bills rise, many schools across the North West are now facing tough budget challenges to keep their pupils warm. This is partly […]
A charity that aims to empower disadvantaged communities in Africa with quality IT school resources, has received a donation of over 300 computer items from the UK’s leading specialist ironmongery supplier, IronmongeryDirect and its sister company, electrical supplier, ElectricalDirect. The two companies, part of the Mantuan Group, have donated over 300 items of IT equipment […]