New College Leicester is one of the participating schools in a ground-breaking industry engagement programme designed to bring education and industry closer together and to teach children about the built environment. The Leicester-based school has high expectations and aspirations for its students, which comprises a culturally diverse mix of some 900 young people aged 11-18 […]

Stephen George + Partners has successfully launched a trailblazing course to get schoolchildren excited by the built environment and thinking about architecture as a career. The course – ‘Architecture and Sustainability – looking to the future’ – rose out of the practice’s long commitment to sustainability, social values, and community engagement. A major first for […]

The Hemp House project at Bassingham, Lincolnshire, has been awarded the title of Best Individual New House at the Grand Final of the LABC Building Excellence Awards. Stephen George + Partners worked closely with owners, Paul Rea and Nicola Jones, to create a comfortable 21st century home that is easy to run and maintain and […]

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 […]

Siemens’ Feilden House in Lincoln wins Most Sustainable Development of the Year at the 2013 Insider Media East Midlands Property Awards. Completed in 2012, this new facility for Siemens was entered for the awards by main contractor Bowmer & Kirkland. The new facility on the outskirts of Lincoln is the result of a strategic decision […]

As part of the launch of the 2013 RIBA President’s Award for Research and in an effort to encourage more entries from practising architects, the RIBA is running a series of blog posts written by former winners about what winning the awards meant to them. Not one to miss such an opportunity, our very own […]

SusCon, our sustainable construction training and research centre delivered for a public/private partnership consisting of Prologis, Dartford Borough Council and North West Kent College, has won the Further Education BREEAM Award 2012. An example facility designed to demonstrate environmental technologies, sustainable building materials and techniques, SusCon was designed and constructed using a methodology developed with […]

On Wednesday 7th December 2011 the RIBA held the RIBA President’s Medals Awards 2011 which reward and encourage outstanding research in architecture. Hosted by RIBA President, Angela Brady and RIBA Director of Education, David Gloster, our very own Joanne Denison and Chris Halligan were present (with other members of the Practice and their families for […]

SusCon, a sustainable construction training and research centre in Dartford has been awarded a BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ rating with a score of 88.85% following a recent BREEAM Education 2008 design stage assessment. This is the highest BREEAM score ever achieved for an education building. SusCon, which was designed by Stephen George & Partners for a public/private […]