Portfolio of projects and experience
Glenwood School | £15.4m Benfleet, Essex
Delivered on time, in budget and scoring 10/10 for customer satisfaction, Glenwood School has completely transformed the children's learning environment.
Procured through the Essex County Council framework, the 210-place school for 3-19 year olds is a two-storey timber framed building with 26 spacious classrooms, a hydrotherapy pool and specialist facilities to help meet the young people's sensory needs. The team also created independent living areas within the school to help students prepare for adult hood and an immersive room that uses projection imagery. During the project, the team raised money for Glenwood and managed to secure enough to provide much needed equipment in the school.
Lexden Springs School | £18.8m Colchester, Essex
Lexden Springs School is a state-of-the-art SEND school and boarding campus in Colchester. Delivered in partnership with Essex County Council, this major relocation scheme has increased the school capacity from 120 to 200 young people.
The school includes specialist classrooms, sensory rooms and a hydrotherapy pool as well as a new 30-place residential accommodation village.
During the project the team used 360 degree cameras and virtual reality headsets and were able to take pupils into the building as it grew, creating an immersive experience ahead of the school moving in, which ended up as a pioneering research study by the National Foundation for Education Research (NFER) helping show how important the transition is for SEND pupils.
The Bridge School | £9.3m Ipswich, Suffolk
The Bridge School is a special education needs and disabilities school in Ipswich. The major redevelopment includes a new state-of-the-art school and demolition of the existing secondary school to create an immersive external space.
The building houses a hydrotherapy pool and two sensory needs rooms, as well as music, food tech and art teaching rooms. It is located on the same site as the existing primary school helping pupils with a smooth transition between primary and secondary.
By bringing the cut and fill exercise into the enabling package, we were able to get more lorries onto site without affecting the school. Using SIPS as the structure for the project, the team managed to save six weeks on the programme
HIghfields Littleport Academy | £40m Littleport, Cambridgeshire
Delivered in partnership with Cambridgeshire County Council, Highfield Littleport Academy is an area special school for pupils aged two to 19 who have an Education, Health and Care Plan.
The new school is part of a major new all-through campus development including SEND, early years and secondary schools as well as a leisure centre.
The SEND school includes a host of state-of-the-art facilities for its 110-capacity cohort, including a hydrotherapy pool for swimming and therapy programmes.
Additional sensory facilities and carefully crafted rooms enable the teachers to provide a stimulating environment across the whole curriculum with a pathway to suit individual needs.
Springwell School | £6.6m Southampton, Hampshire
Springwell School is a primary school for children aged 4-11 years with complex learning difficulties.
The school caters for children with a severe level of learning difficulties and many have associated disabilities such as autism, speech and language disorders and challenging behaviour.
The project provides an additional 2200m2 of accommodation; comprising the construction of a new two storey education facility containing classrooms, health, sports and community facilities (dining hall), offices, storage facilities, toilet facilities and support rooms. Including associated parking and landscaping which also comprised of and all weather sports pitch for the children to extend their outdoor learning.
Ramsden Hall Academy | £9.8m Billericay, Essex
Delivered under the Department for Education's national framework, Ramsden Hall Academy is a brand new teaching block on the site of the existing school and a new build boarding accommodation block for the school.
The school is a school catering for Social Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) specialist needs.
During the project the team had to construct the new facilities in areas o semi-woodland and therefore the programme wads carefully sequenced to avoid breeding and hibernation seasons, helped with collaboration with Natural England.
The project was designed from RIBA stage 1 including the planning application process.
Shepherds Down School | £1.4m Winchester, Hampshire
Shepherds Down School in Winchester is an existing SEN school at which we refurbished their existing dining room and extended their teaching facilities.
The scheme was delivered under the SCF framework and involved refurbishment on the live site and a new classroom block to create two classrooms, a therapy room, quiet room and toilets.
The only access and egress to the school was via the car park and deliveries were restricted heavily to just twice a day to minimise the impact on the students. This was carefully scheduled around the busy pick up and drop off times so that the school could keep operations normal at their key times throughout the day.
Downs View School | £6m Brighton, East Sussex
The £6 million project has seen the former Downs View Hollingdean and Downs View Woodingdean school merge.
The project included substantial extension of the current building and the creation of five new classrooms with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) including hoists and sensory areas.
A new school hall was created with stunning coastal views, a food tech room, medical room, planning rooms, a soft play room and an interactive assessment room.
During the build, the team gifted the school an outdoor learning area, the Woodlands Walk, with a tarmac path to allow for wheelchair accessibility.
Chapel Green School | £15.4m Old Buckenham, Norfolk
In order to double the existing Chapel Road School’s capacity, Norfolk County Council embarked upon a journey to create an incredible new facility in Attleborough.
Chapel Green School is a 110-place SEND school built on a greenfield site. The two-storey facility includes a specialist hydrotherapy pool, sensory rooms and a large external play area designed especially for the needs of the school. Its 14 classrooms are carefully crafted to enable flexible teaching and learning enabling them to meet their motto of ‘ensuring the best for every child that comes through the door.’ Throughout the project, the team held numerous site tours and engagement sessions with the pupils to help with excitement and transition across to their new school.
Oak Lodge SEN School | £6.4m London Borough of Barnet
A new build expansion to Oak Lodge SEN school providing 35 additional SEN places.
The new build includes eight new classrooms, admin block, music room and meeting rooms.
The works also included a new canopy walkway linking the existing school to the new build, as well as the refurbishment of the existing gym floor and swapping the changing rooms to make for easier access to the hydrotherapy pool.
Delivered on a live SEN site, it was important for the logistics to be designed carefully around the school, ensuring drop off and pick up times were protected, and access for the young people remained interrupted,
Eight classrooms
Music room
Admin block
Meeting rooms
Link canopy walkway
NEC contract
