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Really looking forward to this. Question for service designers out there: what do you think a teenager should know about #servicedesign as a career? Could be something inspiring or even a reality check!

Planning has been approved for Callander Community Campus by the National Park Planning Authority ✅ The scheme will deliver a vibrant and inclusive campus for Stirling Council that enhances the learner journey from nursery to high school. The new Callander primary school will sit adjacent to Callander Nursery, McLaren High School and McLaren Leisure Centre, creating a new community campus. Chris Malcolm, partner at Ryder, said: "This is a really important project for us within the beautiful setting of the national park, and is a good example of what can be achieved through sensitive engagement and a considered approach to working with context. Having planning consent granted is an important milestone in creating a fantastic learning environment for the pupils of Callander primary, and delivering wider place benefits to the town." #planning #education #architecture

More great news from our Yorkshire business with their recent appointment by the University of Leeds to undertake a series of works to improve its campus. 🏫 🎓 The capital works programme – procured through the Procure Partnerships Framework - will entail refurbishment of existing university spaces and entrances as well as reroofing and cladding works. The team will also create new informal student spaces and as well as upgrading teaching facilities. Read more about this project here: https://lnkd.in/eB56T4wt

Dundee and Angus College has unveiled plans for a £265m redevelopment - which could include some significant relocations. The college is exploring moving its Dundee campus to a new facility at the city's Wellgate Shopping Centre and moving its Arbroath campus into the town centre - possibly at the Abbeygate Shopping Centre. This would involve closing the college's existing Kingsway campus in Dundee and its campus in Arbroath. The college said its third campus at Gardyne in Dundee would be expanded and developed to include a green skills and innovation hub. Find out more via BBC https://lnkd.in/ezAcWzcJ #DundeeAndAngusCollege #Dundee #Angus #EducationDevelopment #CampusRedevelopment #HigherEducation #GreenSkills #InnovationHub #CommunityDevelopment #ScotlandEducation

In recent years, we have seen several adaptive reuse projects for higher education facilities. These types of projects were common in the hospitality, mixed-use, and residential markets in the past. Whether the impetus is preserving a historic building or saving on construction costs; it has been proven that older buildings can be repurposed to provide modern, interesting, and technologically advanced educational spaces for campuses.   Read our blog Adaptive Reuse in Higher Education to see how three large Universities are reimagining existing spaces for the benefit of students and their learning: https://lnkd.in/eV4UkStt

The University of Greenwich has picked McLaren Construction, #Wates, #MorganSindall, #Vinci and #WillmottDixon to deliver a £300m programme of works covering a mix of refurbishment, rebuild and new build projects. Projects delivered by the University’s framework deal are expected to vary in value between £50m and £250m across three campuses. The mix of properties within scope include scheduled monuments, listed buildings, buildings of various ages and new construction. This includes the delivery of a new learning, research, and enterprise hub at #Greenwich; new learning and research spaces at the #Medway campus and up-graded teaching, simulated learning and research spaces at #AveryHill to meet changing models of health care and education

New Junior School Offers a Lesson in Modern Building Practices The new Junior School for the Girls’ Day School Trust Notting Hill & Ealing High School, designed by Hawkins\Brown, exemplifies sustainability. Rated BREEAM Excellent, it sets a benchmark for integrating modern building practices with academic excellence. Troldtekt A/S https://lnkd.in/edRTK-XZ #SustainableDesign #BREEAMExcellent #ModernArchitecture #EducationalBuildings #BuildingSustainability

A challenging tight site optimised to maximise density. Whist Phase 1 took an existing planning consent not optimised for modular which we worked tirelessly with DMDmodular to make work, Phase 2 became a masterclass, optimised to reap the benefits of offsite volumetric modular construction. You wouldn't know to look at it, which shows how this approach can really work in inner city constrained sites in the face of record high construction costs.

Find out how Sheppard Robson is using modern methods of construction for 1480 new student residences at York University, resulting in high-performing buildings. ➡️ https://bit.ly/4biRyUn

Grad students in Ivan Rupnik’s mass modular building studio are reimagining the future of housing—right from the factory floor. Read more about the course at: https://bit.ly/3OSotGy.