Hinckley Academy, Leicestershire

Architect: YMD Boon

This project consists of a new reception and admin base located within the existing music area. Furthermore, a change of use and a refurbishment of the existing languages area to music classrooms which were altered to suit the new music requirements. The languages area was relocated to another part of the school.

BEC designed the M&E services strategy for the refurbishment of three areas within the existing school. The scheme also involved complete replacement of all mechanical and electrical installations to the affected areas.

Duties: Full detail design, including assessment of existing infrastructure and site monitoring.

Heathcote Primary School, Warwickshire

Client: Warwickshire County Council

Architect: Lungfish

BIM Level II,  two-phase new build 16 classroom 2FE school with hall, kitchen and catering facilities. Constructed on newly acquired site in Warwick, Warwickshire. The school was designed to be a low energy school with natural ventilation strategy, full LED lighting scheme and photovoltaic renewables strategy.

Duties: Full detail design, including thermal modelling and natural ventilation modelling.

Hackwood Park Primary School, Derby

Client: Morgan Sindall Construction

Architect: Lungfish

Hackwood Park is a new housing development planned for Mickleover, Derby. The primary school is required as part of the section 106 planning requirements. The school is to be delivered by Morgan Sindall using a Sunesis modular build design. The project includes a new single form entry primary school complete with a nursery.

The building services design includes an energy efficient natural ventilation unit with heat recovery within each classroom to provide a high level of air quality and comfort for the pupils.

Duties: Stage 3 design, reviewing contractors design proposals and witness testing.

Cotton End Forest School, Bedfordshire

Architect: Lungfish

Contractor: Willmott Dixon / Bedfordshire County Council

BIM Level II, new Forest Primary School consisting of an entrance gateway building. This included a hall, kitchen and general admin facilities along with the provision of four pavilion teaching buildings with large open plan central learning spaces and classrooms. The school was designed to be a low energy school utilizing a fabric first approach, mixed mode ventilation strategy and full LED lighting scheme.

Duties: Building Services Performance Specification, including thermal modelling and SBEM.

Clarborough Primary School, Retford

Architect: Lungfish

Contractor: Ashe Construction

Located in the village of Clarborough, Retford, the existing primary school required an extension to increase pupil spaces.

The extension included two new classrooms with support area and saw the services extend from the existing school infrastructure. As part of the scheme the existing boiler was surveyed and identified as being uneconomically viable, therefore replaced as part of the scheme.

Duties: Stage 3 Design, reviewing contractors design proposals and witness testing.

Highfields Primary School, Derby

Client: Spencer Academies Trust

The need for a new primary school was identified by Derbyshire County Council due to an increase in house building in the Highfields area of Derby as part of Section 106 agreements.

The primary school is delivered by Morgan Sindall construction utilizing Eco Modular to deliver the school using off site modular construction. The project is for a single form entry primary school on a greenfield site integrated into the surrounding housing developments.

The building services design includes an energy efficient natural ventilation unit with heat recovery approach to the classrooms providing a high level of air quality and comfort for the pupils. Central learning streets provide supplementary spaces for teaching lit by natural light through roof lights.

Duties: Stage 3 design, reviewing contractors design proposals and witness testing.

Danemill Annexe, Leicester

Client: Leicester City Council

Danemill Annexe is an existing, traditional old school building in the village centre of Enderby.  The project includes a full refurbishment and update of the school into an adult education centre. BEC provided new mechanical and electrical services throughout classrooms and food technology rooms.

Duties: Full detail design followed by reviewing contractors design and installation.

Red Kite Academy, Corby

Client: ASHE Construction / Northamptonshire County Council

BIM Level II, new SEN facility catering for children aged 4-18 years with severe learning difficulties, profound and multiple learning, autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and higher function autism (HFA). 3,500m2 single storey building with 17 classrooms to teach the core curriculum subjects, living accommodation, hydrotherapy pool, hall, changing facilities, sensory room and catering kitchen facility. Constructed on a newly acquired site which forms part of a housing development in Corby, Northamptonshire. The school was designed to be a low energy school with photovoltaic & solar thermal technologies, natural ventilation and full LED lighting scheme.

Duties: Full building services detail design, including thermal modelling and natural ventilation modelling, VRF heating and cooling and hydrotherapy pool services.

Ryton Police Training Centre, Coventry

The project involved the refurbishment of the current accommodation facility with the introduction of new en-suite accommodation. Our role as an M&E consultant was to survey the existing services and design alterations to the M&E services to suit the new room layouts with en-suites. Other responsibilities included the removal of previous solar thermal and heat pump system and the replacement of a new gas fired boiler plant for heating and hot water generation. This was a challenging project undertaken in phases in an occupied building.

Duties: Full detail design.