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Bessemer Grange Primary School & Children's Centre

Southwark

Project Details

£2m to £2.99M

New Build

Practice

Architype Limited

Architype , Twyford Barn , Upper Twyford, , Hereford , HR2 8AD , United Kingdom

A new Children’s Centre; relocated Foundation Stage facilities; re-vamped play areas and internal refurbishment. The structure of the new extension is a low embodied energy cross-laminated timber structure (KLH). The building is externally insulated with natural wood fibre insulation, and is naturally ventilated. Solar panels supplement a highly efficient condensing gas boiler combined with underfloor heating. The butterfly roof is covered in a wild flower blanket. Architype won TSB funding to undertake full Post Occupancy Evaluation on the building.