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EDUCATION & RESEARCH

We support our clients in achieving their goals; to improve educational outcomes for the pupils and students they teach, deliver world class research and achieve it through a sustainably-built and progressively-maintained estate.

The pandemic has accelerated new opportunities and challenges in the education sector specifically in the domain of agile working practices, bringing into sharp focus wellbeing and sustainability. Our role is to ensure clients unlock the full potential of a modern education estate through hybrid and mixed-mode learning.

With decades of experience working at the leading-edge of education construction, we have built strong long-standing relationships with education and research institutions around the world. This gives us deep knowledge of the world’s best practice and latest benchmarks.

Contact us now to maximise your estate potential stephen.scott@uk.rlb.com

Delivering value to the Education & Research Sector

Through our specialist knowledge and best practice, we develop and deliver strategies focused on creating a modern sustainable estate that’s built for the future. In the last 5 years we have helped deliver:

  • £
    2.5
    B
    of teaching and learning space from primary schools to universities
  • £
    2
    B
    of advanced Research & Development space
  • 21
    M
    m2
    of School, College and University Buildings surveys
Improving the estate in uncertain times

Our clients across the sector face conflicting demands; to improve and develop their estates but against a background of constrained funding, an uncertain future and the demands of a sometimes ageing estate. Our extensive sector experience of delivering multi-faceted property surveys encompasses over 5,500 schools, 2 million m² of FE College space and University campuses nationwide. This experience has allowed us to develop a data driven solution that provides holistic property intelligence with robust expenditure forecasting. This is the baseline for an effective estate strategy and will provide focus of the funding to deliver long term operational savings, reduce carbon and protect the delivery of your educational goals.

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Sustainability

The imperative to achieve net zero carbon and to improve the sustainability of the education estate is clear. This sustainability agenda has also widened to encompass wellbeing and social value. Balancing these challenges has complicated decision making and strategy around built assets and has moved decisions from balancing time, cost and quality to considering many other influences. We support at a strategic level with this complex set of project drivers and combine sustainability targets; embodied carbon; carbon in use; social value and wellbeing into one balanced “value model” for your project.

Delivering state of the art facilities capable of attracting staff and students

In an increasingly globalised and competitive market, the university estate has become key in the race to recruit academic staff and students. 3/4s of students rank campus facilities as “important” when deciding where to study. Yet 1/3rd of the HE Estate is coming to end of its design life. RLB has the experience of delivering prestigious, high quality facilities that modernise the estate and provide a focal point for attracting students and academics

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE EDUCATION & RESEARCH SECTOR, CONTACT:

Stephen Scott
Stephen Scott

Partner - National Head of Education

+44 20 7398 8300
stephen.scott@uk.rlb.com
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