Stephen George + Partners (SGP) is delighted to report that its Better Buildings toolkit has now gone live in a school in the Midlands. The team behind Better Buildings at SGP have been working with staff and pupils at Tardebigge CE First school, a primary school in a rural location outside Bromsgrove, whose teaching philosophy […]

The new hall, sixth form area and classrooms for Redborne School were completed in July 2015. The building is planned around a ‘street’ with clusters of spaces arranged along it. This allows the project to be phased without impinging on the use of the building. The ‘street’ is lit at the top with a continuous […]

We are pleased to see SusCon making a reappearance in this month’s AJ Specification. Please click here to read the full article: Sustainability AJ Buildings Library Article. Completed in 2011, SusCon’s Sustainable Construction training and research centre in Dartford was awarded a BREEAM Education 2008 ‘Outstanding’ rating with a score of 88.5% against a design stage […]

The Loughborough Grammar School Physics Building project has been selected as a finalist at the LABC East Midlands Regional Building Excellence Awards 2013 to be held in May. The LABC awards, which recognises good building practice, are acknowledged as a benchmark within the construction industry with winning projects automatically qualifying for the National Building Excellence […]

On 17 October the new Physics department was opened by Professor Ian White, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge. A physicist himself, he described the building as the finest physics teaching facility he had ever seen in a school. The building was remodelled around an existing CLASP frame; it completed on budget, ahead of programme and […]