Education Projects

Overview

DSSR has been closely involved with the design of projects across the spectrum encompassing the education sector

Universities & Further Education Colleges

• Accrington & Rossendale College

• Ayr College – New Academic Building

• Castlehill Community Learning & Resource Centre, Bolton

• Gaelic College, Skye

• James Watt College, Kilwinning, Ayrshire

• Kendal College, Milnthorpe Campus

• Loughborough College

• Reading University Framework Agreement

• Sir John Deanes College, Cheshire

• University of Edinburgh, Rutherford Building

• University of Glasgow – various commissions

• University of Manchester Framework

• University of Warwick Framework

• West Kent College Campus Redevelopment

Schools

• Balfron High School, Stirlingshire

• Ballikinrain School, Stirlingshire

• Eastwood High School, Glasgow

CAST Project

Client
Welsh Development Agency/University of Wales

Description
The CAST Technium Building for the School of Informatics is a joint venture project between the WDA and University of Wales.  The project is at the leading edge of computer technology, incorporating virtual reality, accommodation software hotels, incubator suite, lecture theatres and open living/leisure facilities.

The Conference/Exhibition Hall can be configured into a lecture theatre if required and includes translation facilities & loop system & front projection passive wall with surround sound.

Project Value
£9 million

Royal Holloway University of London

Client
Royal Holloway University of London / Laing O’Rourke

Description
All work has been undertaken on a busy Campus site with the University maintaining operations throughout. Royal Holloway has aimed for sustainable best practice for the new development and DSSR has undertaken environmental/sustainable energy studies for the new buildings.

Project Values

• New Student Accommodation – Eastfield Residences £18.0m,
• Student Accommodation Phase II £12.3m,
• Bedford library refurbishment £11.3m,
• New Lecture Theatre £3.0m,
• Bourne laboratory refurbishment £3.0m

Aberdeenshire Schools

Client
Robertson Capital Investments

Description
5 No. Primary and 1 No. Secondary Schools new build projects.  During the preferred bidder and construction stage DSSR have performed a policing role on the contractors design to ensure that the detailed design and installation complies with the agreed solutions.

Project Value
£34 million capital expenditure

Architects
Holmes Partnership

Lecture Theatre, Egham Royal Holloway University of London

Client
Royal Holloway University of London

Description
This new development will provide a state of the art 400 seat auditorium with eight seminar rooms. The auditorium will be primarily used as a lecture theatre and conference facility that can be adaptable to become a performance space with seating for 350 people. The design features a dynamic shell structure and adaptable internal acoustics. The scheme is part of the phased development of RHUL’s Egham Campus.

Area
1,675m2

Project Value
£3.0 million

Architect
Stride Treglown   

Queen Mary University of London Arts & Humanities Building

Client
Queen Mary University of London

Description
This new development will provide 4,000m2 of teaching space. The new building will comprise a 400 seat Lecture Theatre, Lecture Rooms, Seminar Rooms and Exhibition area. The building is seeking to achieve “Sustainability Best Practice” with the optimum use of natural ventilation and high levels of natural light. The Lecture Theatre is to be a “black box” environment with appropriate acoustic characteristics & insulation.

Project Value
£8.5M

Project Team

• Wilkinson Eyre - Architect
• Currie & Brown – Project Manager

University of Manchester Project Unity

Client
University of Manchester

Description
Major Masterplanning role following the merger of Victorian University of Manchester and UMIST. The combined universities will have a student body in excess of 30,000 with over 6,700 staff. It will be the largest University in the UK. The academic structure involves 180 University departments, which are to be re-organised into 4 coherent faculties. Spread over two disparate campuses, the City Centre estate comprises over 600,000 m2 of accommodation in 55 hectares and includes most types of University faculties.

Area
600,000m2

Project Value
£248M

Masterplanner
Terry Farrell & Partners

Cost Consultants
Davis Langdon & Everest

Infrastructure & Transportation
Arup

South Lanarkshire Schools

Client
Amec Building Services

Description
17 No secondary schools, 15 of which are new build.  Due to the size of the project DSSR have had to interface with 3 different architectural and structural engineering practices to ensure that building layouts, plantrooms and routes for services are all taken account of in the final designs

Project Value
£290 million capital expenditure

Architects
3D Architects / Aedas / Capita Symonds