Baxall has just completed its first Islamic faith school, which earned contracts manager
Matthew Fothergill MCIOB a fulfilling career boost.

Willmott Dixon has been appointed by Surrey County Council to build a new home for Hopescourt School in Walton-on-Thames, which will be net zero in operation.

The Vale of Glamorgan Council has appointed Morgan Sindall Construction to take on a school project in Wales that ISG had started just months before its collapse.

A Passivhaus school in the Black Country has required a whole new level of rigour from Tilbury Douglas. Kristina Smith visited the project ahead of its handover for the new autumn term.

Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council has awarded Kier a £25m contract to build a net-zero carbon teaching block.

The government is being called upon by education unions to take urgent action on dilapidated school buildings, some of which are on the verge of collapse.

Kier has been appointed by the City of Edinburgh Council to deliver a new secondary school built to Passivhaus standards.

Built on the plot of an old community centre, this new-build school faced considerable risk.

On a difficult brownfield site, Chris Purchase scored the big victories in the ground.

On this 600-pupil school in under six months, Amy Griffiths upended the typical handling of the landscaping works

Harry White, project manager at Morgan Sindall, shares his experience working on Ash Manor School – a new £4m standalone purpose-built Performing Arts Centre.

Some 40% of primary school classrooms do not have an adequate ventilation rate to combat the spread of covid-19, a study has found.

Wates has started construction on some of the UK’s first net-zero schools, under the Department for Education’s (DfE) Schools Rebuilding Programme.

Steve Turner urges his peers to take action in helping shape the next generation of construction professionals.