Longsight Academy Teaching Block
A two-storey, twelve-classroom teaching block built on the edge of a live primary school playground.
- Sector
- Education and civic
- Place
- Longsight, Manchester
- Value
- £4m to £6m
- Completed
- Summer 2025
The brief, the hard part, the handover.
The trust needed twelve classrooms ready for the September intake, on a corner of the playground that was still in daily use. The design team had a brick-faced block with board-formed concrete at the entrance, and we were appointed design and build with the architect novated to us.
The hard part was the site, not the structure: one access gate shared with drop-off, a boundary fence three metres from the nearest classroom and a hard stop on the programme. We split deliveries into early-morning windows, agreed a banksman at the gate and kept noisy work out of exam weeks.
The block was handed over in the summer break, with the trust’s caretaker walked through the plant before the staff returned. The soft landings visits followed in the autumn and again before the first winter.
- Client
- A Greater Manchester academy trust
- Value
- £4m to £6m
- Programme
- 56 weeks
- Route
- Design and build