South Devon UTC
Key facts & challenges
- Short Description
- South Devon UTC will be the area's first University Technical College, offering learning opportunities for 600 young people between 14-18. The college has been built on a challenging site in Newton Abbot, and will specialise in water, engineering and the environment, to help boost the numbers of technicians in the area. The four storey 4700m2 facility with a full height atrium is also the first rural UTC to be constructed. With innovation and sustainability key to the features and build process, GTEC Weather Defence, which has a fully recyclable gypsum core was chosen for the frame based construction methods, to provide a faster way to weathertight and airtight the building.
- Sector
- School
- Project Value
- £10.5 M
- Client
- South Devon UTC
- project
- South Devon UTC
- Contractor
- BAM Construction Ltd
- Subcontractor
- External: Korbuild Internals: CAP Ceilings & Partitions
- Location
- Newton Abbot, Devon. UK
- country
- UK
- shortInstallDescription
- "A full analysis of the acoustic, fire and spanning performance requirements of all partitions was undertaken and a project pack was produced giving us a very useful set of information to specify and detail the building’s partitions".
- installQuoteAuthor
- Tommy Burke, Director Brebur Ltd
Project description
South Devon UTC will be the area's first University Technical College, offering learning opportunities for 600 young people between 14-18. The college has been built on a challenging site in Newton Abbot, and will specialise in water, engineering and the environment, to help boost the numbers of technicians in the area. The four storey 4700m2 facility with a full height atrium is also the first rural UTC to be constructed. With innovation and sustainability key to the features and build process, GTEC Weather Defence, which has a fully recyclable gypsum core was chosen for the frame based construction methods, to provide a faster way to weathertight and airtight the building.
