Success for CSD within the Education Sector

CSD have been appointed on behalf of LJJ Mechanical & Electrical Contractors Ltd to provide a detailed Design from Stage 4 through to Stage 6 for a brand new 100 place SEND School.

The Oxlow Bridge School will be a brand new, 100 place school, covering 3,700m2 of floor space and specially designed to support the PMLD needs of pupils from four to 19 years old.

The new school will help Barking and Dagenham meet the huge demand for specialist school places. Meanwhile, the council will continue to plan and create more SEND capacity to meet the needs of the borough.

The building and how it relates to the site has been carefully designed to ensure the impact of the surrounding industrial uses have been appropriately mitigated and to maximise the efficient operation of the school.

Some key features of the new school include:

Drop off and collection points, designed to make the process smoother. Pupils will arrive via minibus or private car. Pupil arrival and departure is staggered, and the site has been designed to have drop of bays and an entrance and exist gate to prevent congestion on site and allow the school to operate smoothly, as this is such an important part of the school day.

 

 

16 large general classrooms, each on benefitting from direct access to an individual external covered teaching area, as well as access to additional outdoor areas for play, learning and sensory exploration.

Ceiling mounted tracked hoists will provide connection between classrooms and adjacent Hygiene Rooms.

A Hydrotherapy Pool, Life Skills, Art / Music and Sensory & Therapy rooms which will all benefit from having a ceiling mounted tracked hoist.

A mixture of specialist Sensory and Therapy rooms centrally located for ease of use by all

A multi-use Hall which will have a trampoline built into the floor to assist pupils with therapy.

Large roof lights to provide natural light to corridors and open areas of shared storage areas will help to make circulation spaces feel more comfortable.

Community access will be provided to the hydrotherapy pool outside of school operating hours.

The school will be Net Zero Carbon in Operation facility.