Castlebrae Community Campus, Edinburgh
The Castlebrae Community Campus project is a key part of a masterplan for wider regeneration of the Craigmillar area of Edinburgh and involves the redevelopment of a redundant brownfield site to provide a new high school and associated community facilities.
Client: Hub South East/City of Edinburgh Council
Architect: JM Architects
Castlebrae Community Campus, Edinburgh
The Castlebrae Community Campus project is a key part of a masterplan for wider regeneration of the Craigmillar area of Edinburgh and involves the redevelopment of a redundant brownfield site to provide a new high school and associated community facilities.
Our Geo-environmental team provided interpretation of ground investigation findings and worked with the wider design team to develop suitable remediation strategies to deal with residual ground contamination, liaising with the regulatory team at CEC to secure approval of these.
During the early stages of the project we worked closely with the design team, Tier 1 contractor and Council stakeholders to undertake a feasibility study and option appraisal exercise which sought to balance competing design considerations, including orientation and massing, life cycle assessment of energy consumption, planning and site earthworks balance. This arrived at the proposed optimum design solution, with a split-level building working coherently with the topography, and a steel framed structure with flat precast concrete soffit 'slimfoor' slab offering a cost effective and highly flexible building. The structural design makes specific allowance for a a future 'phase 2' extension to the building.
In our role we also worked closely with stakeholders within CEC to develop a SuDS strategy and design for the school that provides not only a technically compliant solution, but one that adds value to the landscape and offers opportunities for educational benefits.
The project is now structurally complete on site.
Our Geo-environmental team provided interpretation of ground investigation findings and worked with the wider design team to develop suitable remediation strategies to deal with residual ground contamination, liaising with the regulatory team at CEC to secure approval of these.
During the early stages of the project we worked closely with the design team, Tier 1 contractor and Council stakeholders to undertake a feasibility study and option appraisal exercise which sought to balance competing design considerations, including orientation and massing, life cycle assessment of energy consumption, planning and site earthworks balance. This arrived at the proposed optimum design solution, with a split-level building working coherently with the topography, and a steel framed structure with flat precast concrete soffit 'slimfoor' slab offering a cost effective and highly flexible building. The structural design makes specific allowance for a a future 'phase 2' extension to the building.
In our role we also worked closely with stakeholders within CEC to develop a SuDS strategy and design for the school that provides not only a technically compliant solution, but one that adds value to the landscape and offers opportunities for educational benefits.
The project is now structurally complete on site.
Client: Hub South East/City of Edinburgh Council
Architect: JM Architects