Building Schools For The Future
Derby Moor is taking part in the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) program, being one of the test schools for Derby City along with Noel-Baker Community School. The school is having a partial refurbishment and partial a partial new build, the cost of this being £19 million, with some £3 million of this to be spent on IT equipment. The new building and refurbishment has been designed by Hawkins\Brown as the main architects, Fabric as landscape architects and Cundall Johnston and Partners as the structural, mechanical and electrical engineer. These companies partnered with Balfour Beatty to win preferred bidder status in 2010.
The new building was designed to link together Derwent building and what was to remain of Stenson building, after it was decided that these two where to be kept. The remainder of Stenson's fabric was to damaged to be of use and Cromford, due to its construction methods, had inefficient energy usage and poor acoustics. The new building, known as the Learning Barn would provide many of the more complex facilities such as the science and technology labs and ICT suits. This allows the older buildings to provide what they are able to in terms of learning spaces as they are restricted due to the arrangement of the original steel work. The rooms and facilities are grouped in accordance with the house system; Dedication, Honour, Solidarity, Spirit and Participation respectively. There is a 'Hub' area in each faculty containing IT facilities and open learning space. In addition to this there is a main hub that contains the dining area, Flexible Learning Centre (which contains the library and IT facilities) and the sixth form centre (The Millennium Centre).
After uncertainty around whether funding would be given due to spending cuts by the UK Government, construction started in January 2011. In January 2012 the PACE faculty opened, this being contained in what remains of Stenson building, this included the refurbished sports hall. The rest of the building was due to open in September 2012, but unfortunately due to rusting within the existing frames of Derwent building and therefore extended foundational works must be carried out, the building is now set to open in January 2013. These foundational problems were found when stripping the back of Derwent building within the process of refurbishment, the problems couldn't have been identified earlier as this would have required an intrusive survey which could not be possible to be carried out when the building was a learning environment. After the refurbishment is fully completed, the demolition of the other buildings to commence afterwards.
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