Mayfield School was a proposal for a three storey classroom building to accommodate four additional forms of entry, a sports hall and two multipurpose games areas.
WGI's winning design concept was to provide a light and airy learning environment, avoiding dark corridors and poor ventilation while offering spatial flexibility and minimizing wasted spaces.
The main challenge that the design team had to address was to find an innovative approach to design, which delivered efficiency, sustainability within the budget reductions set by the Government targets.
The solution was the use of standard design elements in the form of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) beams, which prefabricated offsite, would reduce the programme and budget.
WGI effectively used the collaborative BIM process and worked closely with all members of the design team on design evaluation, coordination and optimisation. This offered a great advantage over a traditional CAD platform as the CLT data within our BIM software and structural analysis software were ready to be used for fabrication of the beams offsite.
Location: Redbridge, London
Client: London Borough of Redbridge
Value: £20m
Service: Architecture: Full Design to Stage 2+