News
3 October 2011
Full marks for Pick Everard with winning designs for £7.4m London primary school
Pick Everard has won a design and build tender with Farrans for a new £7.4m primary school in the northeast London Borough of Redbridge.
Pick Everard has been selected to deliver architectural design for the new building, Loxford School of Science & Technology Primary Department which will provide places for 800 pupils. The primary department building is part of a new development, providing the first, single-campus through-school in Redbridge, filling a gap in education provision within the area giving local children a seamless education from age three to 19. Work also includes structural engineering and civil engineering design, mechanical and electrical design and BREEAM consultancy. Pick Everard is working in partnership with Northern Ireland-based building and civil engineering contractor Farrans (Construction) Ltd, who will undertake construction work. Construction is starting on site this autumn, with completion scheduled for August 2012.
Fast turnaround and spot-on architectural design for creating a large primary department on a space-restricted site impressed the school and the result will be an attractive, three-story building with outdoor learning spaces on deck areas at each level and on the roof. A planning application has now been submitted.
The partnership with Farrans is seen as a positive move for both firms. Farrans has recently secured a position on the Smarte East regional framework, an alliance between Essex, Hertfordshire and Suffolk County Councils, aiming for continuous improvement in public sector capital works projects.
Paul Darlow, Pick Everard Design Director, said: “We’re delighted to have been able to produce a building design that has gone together so well in a short space of time, which is down to fantastic teamwork. We look forward to seeing the new primary department building up and running. The joint success of Pick Everard and Farrans at Loxford bodes well for the possibility of partnering on projects in the future.”
Having recently moved into new buildings, Loxford School of Science & Technology achieved an outstanding Ofsted rating in 2010, examination results making it among the most successful in the country.
