Pate’s Grammar School is one of the country’s most successful grammar schools and its high academic achievements are supported by an estate that boasts outstanding facilities. For Pates, Quattro Design Architects has been the architect of choice for a decade, delivering projects that have ranged from small refurbishments through to multi-million pound new builds. Working with a core group of governors, staff and students, a strategic plan was developed by Quattro, which has been used by the Academy, to inform development decisions and identify projects for funding opportunities over the past 10 years. This project included remodelling the school to create 11 classrooms and constructing a new 1000 sqm building at the front of the school, for an expansion of 150 students. The site concerned, is located in a prominent location near the main entrance to the School, making it a highly sensitive, busy and constrained site, this would need to directly inform the design, programme and risk analysis of the project, ensuring the safety of all and that the school remained operational at all times.