New School Building, St Swithuns School, Winchester

Project Info

  • Construction Date

    April 2016

  • Category

    Education

  • Value

    6.5M

  • Duration

    61 weeks

  • Achievement

    BREEAM Very Good

St Swithuns School was founded 1884 and is located in Winchester, Hampshire. It is a mainstream, independently funded senior school for girls aged 11-18 years old.

The project comprised of creating new build School facilities to accommodate an additional 260 pupils from Nursery, Reception and years 1 to 6. In addition to two classrooms per year group, specialist classrooms were constructed for the teaching of DT/ ICT/ Science/ Art/ Music/ French and the Humanities. The project also delivered a new library, music practice rooms, cloakrooms, staff room, administration offices, a music / performance hall and a gym hall.

The scheme was built in two phases separated by a year’s gap and the duration of the works took place within a live, occupied environment.

The required BREEAM accreditation of VERY GOOD was achieved.