Buildings & Maintenance

Like thousands of others, adapting to online and hybrid teaching during the pandemic required a rapid and effective response from renowned London based postgraduate art and design University, the Royal College of Art (RCA). Fortunately, the RCA’s reactive approach and experience with the Zoom platform enabled its 2300+ students to …

A £15.8m project to build a new state-of-the-art school for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is taking shape within the grounds of the existing Valley School in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. On Monday 17 October, selected pupils from the Valley School joined county councillors and project officers to get …

The proposals for the first primary school at the development of the former barracks at Waterbeach have been announced by Cambridgeshire County Council. The new school will be called Deneia Primary Academy, to reflect the history of the area, and will be a part of Anglian Learning, a multi academy …

Students today need school lockers more than ever. With a vast range of subjects in the curriculum, as well as many extra-curricular activities on offer, students are often required to bring many books, textbooks, and folders with them daily, which can quickly become extremely heavy, leaving many suffering from back …

A&S Landscape has recently launched a new competition which will see one school win a canopy worth £15,000. After running a successful contest in 2021 which saw over 100 schools enter, the canopy company is this time offering a fully-installed fabric roof product. The competition is open to all schools …

Door Group, a unit of ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions UK & Ireland, is stressing the need for greater awareness of fire safety in education buildings, with a large percentage of fire doors in schools found to be non-compliant while undergoing inspections. The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires schools …

Schools are already suffering from the recent dramatic increases in electricity and gas prices.  The price of another utility, water, is soon to increase.  Here’s what your need to know and what your school can do to avoid ever-increasing water rates. In April 2022, the cost of mains supply water …

Staffordshire University Academies Trust will be investing over £150k, in academic year 2021-2022, to replace the roofs at four of its academies. This will bring the Trust’s total investment in the real estate across its 20 schools to around £1.5 million over the last three years. All 20 schools have …

The Houses of Parliament Restoration and Renewal Programme has partnered with educational charity, Smart School Councils, on a programme of activities to hear the views of children and young people about the historic restoration of the Palace of Westminster. Children and young people will be able to take part in …

New or refurbished school buildings should offer both the potential to provide education in a modern place as well as a safe environment. There are many regulations and laws that must be followed, but in addition to this, there is also a whole range of additional things that would be …