Notting Hill Prep School in Ladbroke Grove, London is a split site school, with 3 separate buildings. There was a need to build a new school building, but the constraints of the urban landscape posed a very demanding and special challenge – it would need to be built under a motorway. Hanson Architects were chosen […]
Air quality in classrooms has a major bearing on the academic performance and productivity of occupants and with air pollution levels continuing to rise in the UK, especially in cities, it has become increasingly important that these issues are addressed. Dunham-Bush’s Commercial Manager, John Tarling, focuses on indoor air quality. […]
Mark Schlotel, Marketing Manager at Cistermiser and Keraflo, talks to School Building about the importance of managing water safety in schools and explains how sometimes it’s the smallest things that can make the biggest difference. Providing safe stored water in schools As the saying goes, good things do come in small packages and it’s […]
A well established and well respected college in Bury, Manchester has undergone a period of renovation and extension to provide upgraded facilities for its students. Holy Cross College, a Catholic sixth form college, saw an extension join together existing buildings and create walkways around a quadrangle all of which now enjoy the benefits brought by […]
Universities continue to compete with each other to win new students and one area that is sure to attract is the quality of student accommodation on offer. For some, the days of old fashioned accommodation blocks are gone, with the rise of stylish new hotel and apartment style schemes set to win new students. Eurobrick […]
Andy Smith, Head of Business Development at Caledonian Modular, looks at how offsite construction can help alleviate the shortage of school places. For a number of years, councils have been warning about a shortage of school places, mainly because last decade’s baby boomers are now entering secondary education. Last year alone, about 20% of […]
Creagh Concrete is a key supplier to the education market with a range of offsite concrete products for school, academy and university projects. The fast track advantages of Creagh’s offsite build systems and precast components can meet the needs of time sensitive education schemes. Concrete’s inherent properties are ideally suited to the education sector, […]
The Defence Infrastructure Organisation is working with construction contractor Kier VolkerFitzpatrick to share construction career opportunities with a local school. Construction work to ready RAF Lakenheath for the arrival of the new F35s is well under way. DIO awarded a contract worth £160m to the Kier VolkerFitzpatrick (KVF) joint venture in November to deliver critical […]
Consortium Procurement Construction (CPC) provides project managers Faithful+Gould with fast and effective, OJEU compliant Modular Buildings procurement framework Northumberland County Council embrace innovative Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) for first time, with pioneering 14 week programme Premium quality extension completed early and below budget by M-AR Offsite – well ahead of 2019/2020 school year starting […]
A report from insurer Zurich Municipal – which insures ‘about half’ of all UK schools and universities – noted that two thirds of schools ‘are not properly prepared’ for a fire. The Guardian reported on the Zurich investigation and report, which came after it undertook 1,000 site inspection over the last two years. The insurer has […]