Case Study

Barking Abbey School is a heavily over subscribed 9FE mixed secondary school with 1,950 students including a large sixth form of over 600. It is ranked in the top 20% of all schools in the UK for progress at Key Stage 4 and rated as ‘Good with Outstanding features’ by Ofsted. Neilcott and selected design partners were appointed to deliver complex expansion plans following an early stage design and build competition. Together we developed efficient, innovative solutions to meet the school’s outline brief to expand the school by 3FE through construction of 3 new buildings across 3 school sites located just under 1km apart.

The Thermo-Fluids Research Centre is part of the School of Computer Science, Maths and Engineering (SMCSE). The Engineering Laboratory consists of 16 Test Cells used for research projects and is located in the basement of Tait Building which is a major teaching and student facility within City’s Northampton Square campus. The facility allows for the direct connection of experiments to a dedicated exhaust system which is managed by SMCSE.

Neilcott was appointed to undertake phase three of the nine-phase Royal Grammar School (RGS) masterplan.

The new facilities in the heart of the historic school were co-ordinated within a live school environment and included conversion of old design & technology labs into state-of-the-art chemistry labs, followed by construction of a 725m2 fourthfloor extension over the existing three-storey ‘spine’ block between two central courtyards.

Building upwards within the existing building footprint due to the tight urban site, this extension provides improved dining facilities, a suite of 9 new modern languages classrooms and language laboratory, new offices, break-out learning space and a 160-person seminar/exam room.