Haileybury SciTech - where B&K Structures recently delivered the cross laminated timber and glulam for the school’s new teaching block and research block on behalf of Kier Group - has now officially opened to pupils and staff.
Another fantastic Education project in our portfolio, Haileybury SciTech truly showcases our expertise with structural timber. The new three-storey teaching block and two-storey research block with cloister area has doubled the size of the school’s current provision, and utilising a low carbon timber structure will help the school achieve their sustainability goals to become net zero.
BKS designed and delivered the CLT wall, floor and roof panels with supporting glulam columns and beams. This required innovative timber connection and member design by our in-house team of skilled Structural Engineers, alongside our partner Engenuiti, with CLT manufactured by Stora Enso and glulam from Derix Group.
Haileybury SciTech’s vision was to integrate the existing buildings and new accommodation around a courtyard, bringing the disciplines together both symbolically and physically. The new SciTech project now provides space for not only practical work and theoretical study but science research to be integrated into the curriculum.
These experimental and interactive spaces - including laboratories housing the Stan-X programme, run in collaboration with professors from Stanford University - open up the rear of the existing 1930s science building, while enhancing natural light and views of the school site. Alongside utilising low carbon structural timber, the buildings also feature solar panels, green roofs and ground-source heat pumps.
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