Skills for local economies and green jobs

Colleges are engines of opportunity, and our recent projects are built around the skills their regions need. At Wembley Park, our £92m new campus for the College of North West London - an eight-storey, 14,200m² landmark on Olympic Way - expands provision in construction, engineering and green skills, with specialist workshops for everything from bricklaying and joinery to hairdressing and science.

Bridgend College's new £13,000m² town-centre campus represents one of the biggest investments in the town's future, while The Quad in Telford, delivered with Harper Adams University and Telford College, bridges education and employment through digital and applied-science skills and a business incubator.

Net zero, future-ready college estates

With long-term running costs under pressure, we're helping colleges build for a low-carbon future. Hopwood Hall College's £39m Rochdale redevelopment, procured through the DfE Construction Framework, is designed to be net zero carbon in operation using photovoltaics, air source heat pumps and a hybrid ventilation strategy - and brings Higher Education to Rochdale town centre for the first time.

Bridgend College's new campus is also net zero in operation, and at Chichester College's STEM building we used low-carbon steel made in electric arc furnaces, with roof-mounted PV powering the building's heat pumps.

At Brighton Metropolitan College, we over-clad the main teaching block to dramatically improve its energy efficiency and make it future-climate ready.

Delivering on live, often town-centre campuses

Most college projects happen around students who are still learning. At Brighton Metropolitan College the campus remained fully operational throughout, and at Hopwood Hall we're building on a working campus in the middle of Rochdale, with careful phasing keeping college life running.

Few settings are more sensitive than the Bolton Institute of Medical Sciences - a "first of its kind" facility in the grounds of a live NHS hospital, set to train 3,000 students a year for careers in nursing, midwifery and physiotherapy.

Specialist and inclusive facilities

Modern colleges need specialist space and genuinely inclusive design.

Our buildings bring vocational workshops, science laboratories, creative and digital studios and high-tech simulation suites together with student hubs and shared social space - and we design inclusion in from the outset, as at the College of North West London (left), with expanded provision for learners with learning disabilities and difficulties (LLDD) and profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD).

A lasting skills legacy

Our college work leaves more than a building behind.

At Hopwood Hall we're supporting students on T-Level placements and creating apprenticeships and work placements during construction, with a Building Lives Academy giving learners site visits, mentoring and work experience - and local supply chain partners prioritising employment for residents facing barriers to work.

Examples of our work

• College of North West London, Wembley Park — a £92m, eight-storey landmark vocational campus targeting BREEAM Excellent.
• Hopwood Hall College, Rochdale — a £39m net zero in operation redevelopment bringing HE to the town centre.
• Bridgend College Town Centre Campus — a 13,000m² net zero in operation campus regenerating the town centre.
• STEM Building, Chichester College — a four-storey low-carbon STEM and HE hub.
• Bolton Institute of Medical Sciences — a "first of its kind" NHS training facility on a live hospital campus.