St Michael’s Catholic Grammar School

The Brief

To extend the school building quickly to accommodate for new pupil intake. Located in Barnet, North London, St Michael’s Catholic Grammar School prides itself on academic excellence and pupils’ personal development. Enrolling over 90 new students each year, the school is formed of a secondary girls grammar and mixed sixth form.

As part of a long-term development programme, the school is increasing its student intake year-on-year, so additional teaching spaces were urgently required. Following a successful planning application, St Michael’s needed a construction partner that could provide a full-turnkey solution, including demolition of an existing building, service diversions, design, and handover of a new classroom block.

The new building needed to provide an energy efficient space, complete with features to help the school meet its sustainability targets. Additionally, at the request of the local community, a mosaic art installation inside the old school building had to be preserved whilst demolition took place. The project also needed to be delivered on a tightly constrained site without disrupting pupils’ education or the local neighbourhood. To achieve this at speed and within budget, we were appointed to design and build a new modular classroom block fit for future generations of students.