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finishes, edge treatment and security - to name a few - to ensure the wellbeing of the children and their families. For the families who will be accompanying the children to the centre a reception/ waiting area will include kitchen facilities to allow families to prepare food throughout the day. Provisions will cater for all accessibility needs. An external outdoor play area will be used to observe motor skills in children. Consideration has again been given to this space to ensure a suitable environment for children with development disorders. This space will also be used as a break out area. The new building will be BREEAM Excellent and serious consideration was given to the future needs of sustainability and biodiversity, through the building’s heating and plumbing and other sustainable initiatives including cycle storage, A+ materials and an extensive Sedum roof.
Planning consent was granted on the 20th March 2019 with work on site starting shortly after. Piling and structural reinforcement is now underway with completion of the project due early 2020.
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the new building and will incorporate laboratories and associated spaces required to accommodate toddlers and their families. It will contain a series of natural environment rooms such as home environments, pre-school, sleep laboratories and a “cave” enhanced reality laboratory (to be located at
the research facility will be the world’s first ‘ToddlerLab’
basement level), where AV equipment can create an interactive environment of different scenarios. The rooms will be equipped with the latest technologies showing the precise location of where a child is looking can be detected, along with their movement and actions, and on- line measurement of their brain function. In this complex facility the internal design was very important, and attention has been given to the experience of both the academics and those who come to visit. The research needs have been met, but what
might ordinarily be functional fixtures and fittings have been welcoming, and a more domestic setting has been embraced.
The palette of colours of the external landscape and internal scheme complement each other and through the materials used, every effort has been made to create an uplifting environment during a sensitive experience. The internal spaces have been
carefully designed in order to create calming and child friendly environments. It is very important that children with development disorders are comfortable and not overwhelmed by any obvious aesthetical features that would cause anxiety.
Consideration has been given to lighting,
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