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alternative buildings & structures
Modular buildings and other quick-build structures offer a useful route for many schools
and colleges looking to extend their classroom or sporting provision – or those who merely
want to make existing amenities weatherproof or more flexible. With benefits including
affordability, shorter time scales and minimal disruption, such building systems can be
designed to many configurations and can be equipped with all the necessary services.
Craned into position in six days
Y
ORK HIGH SCHOOL, the city’s newest The building comprises 52 steel-framed The building was designed to be flexible
secondary school, features a £2m units in three different sizes manufactured and adaptable to change. The internal
purpose-designed building that was by Yorkon. Architectural features of the walls are non load-bearing and there are
craned into position in just six days and new building include a barrel-vaulted roof clear internal spans of up to 12m, so the
completed in six months. with central light wells, an overhanging teaching spaces can be reconfigured to
The project was part of a £10m contract roof which forms an entrance canopy and meet the school’s changing requirements
awarded to Clugston Construction to a range of external claddings – cedar and over time. David Ellis, York High School’s
refurbish and extend the site of the former terracotta – with metal panels to the head teacher believes it is difficult to tell
school, and create a new, larger campus. upper floor on each elevation. that it’s a modular building. “It is spacious
The new two-storey 1,900 sqm modular and light, with wide corridors for ease of
building has replaced a number of sub- Sustainable elements circulation. It makes a positive statement
standard teaching buildings with modern As well as the timber cladding from for the school and sits well with the
education facilities, and accommodates sustainable sources, there are also a existing adjacent sports centre – and the
the Communications Faculty for English and number of sustainable elements aimed at canopy brings both buildings together.
Modern Languages, along with the Inclusion reducing energy consumption, carbon
Faculty. There are seven general classrooms emissions and running costs. These include
and four language laboratories, a new biomass heating, passive ventilation, the
www.clugston.co.uk
science laboratory, dining and social use of light wells and a high level of glazing
facilities, offices, behaviour management to reduce the reliance on artificial lighting,
www.yorkon.co.uk
rooms, a hygiene suite and toilets. plus rainwater harvesting for toilet flushing.
More activity time
W
ITH ITS HOST borough status for Agoratop structure installed by Playdale
the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic also provides shade from high temperatures
Games, the London Borough of and, after dark, a timed lighting system
Newham aims to encourage local children enables activities to continue.
to get fit and participate in sport at all
levels – in all weathers, all year round.
An installation in Stratford provides a
www.playdale.co.uk
roof over a multi-use games area. The
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