image © Erieta Attali Grenoble-based firm r2k architecte presents Oiseau Lyre, a school with Nordic inspiration in Noisy-le-Grand, France. Anchored on a plot with eight meters of elevation, the school faces North toward the Marne and explores a new pedagogical model of Finnish design, offering a diversity of shared spaces. The compact building of 50mx100m […]
SGB-25975 BFHA pupils with Harron Homes Site Manager Kevin Adlington and Carrier Landscapers Site Manager Joe Carnell The official planting ceremony saw three BFHA pupils assist both Carrier Landscapers and Harron Home’s Bilsthorpe Chase Site Team in planting three native oaks on the development’s village green. Perhaps the most familiar of British species, the oaks, […]
The University of Cumbria is delighted to announce that family business Caddick Construction has been appointed as the lead contractor to create the first university campus in Barrow-in-Furness. The Caddick Construction team commenced work on-site this week, driving forward the programme for the University of Cumbria campus to be constructed throughout 2024. The campus will […]
New primary school in Wolverhampton ready to take on pupils for 2024 Wednesfield Technology Primary is currently being built and will take reception children from September 2024. Reception class places are now being welcomed for a new technology primary school currently nearing the end of construction in Wolverhampton. Due to open in September 2024, […]
Ahead of its time: some of the school’s very first students of Leicestershire’s first net zero school were joined by Bloor Homes’ regional Managing Director for the East Midlands, Mike Kelly (second from right), and Peter Merry Chief Executive of OWLS Academy Trust (left) to seal a time capsule for students at Hollycroft Primary School […]
The Guinness Partnership, one of England’s largest housing associations, has given students across six schools and colleges the chance to develop life-changing skills. The funding has enabled the Skills Builder Partnership, a global social enterprise, to work with Heritage Park School in Sheffield; Adelaide School and The Oaks Academy in Crewe; St Vincent College in […]
Morgan Sindall Construction has completed its conversion of the former Leeds Building Society Headquarters into a specialist Mathematics school on behalf of the Department for Education. The new Leeds Mathematics School (LMaS) provides a specialist Post-16, A Level curriculum, with an emphasis on Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences. Within the school, Morgan Sindall have created facilities […]
Trusts and councils facing falling rolls should not sell their sites, which could instead house other public services, the boss of the Department for Education’s property arm has said. Lara Newman, chief executive of LocatED, warned a Westminster Education Forum webinar today that government would find it “very difficult” to re-acquire sites in some areas […]
A major expansion of a South Cambridgeshire research campus has been recommended to go ahead. The plans, submitted by Urban and Civic, are the first phase in transforming the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton. Outline planning permission for the project was granted in 2020, including 150,000 square metres of employment space, focused on providing science […]
One of the schools says work will take four years, as ministers take legal advice over recouping costs from collapsed construction company. Three schools built by the same construction company at a cost of £45 million will be demolished and rebuilt over safety concerns, as the government seeks legal advice on recovering costs from the failed […]