Thinking Buildings have been working with Oxfordshire Diocesan Board of Education and Oxfordshire County Council to deliver a new building at Grove CE Primary in South Oxfordshire. The new facility will provide a 0.5 form entry expansion, along with a new nursery on the site, and replaces a number of dated temporary buildings to allow the school to provide the best possible facilities for their pupils.

This has been facilitated by a Section 106 contribution from a local housing development which will give the school an expanded grass playing field and a synthetic surface Multi Use Games Area (MUGA), opening up some of the existing site to facilitate the new building. 

The new building will be constructed in a steel frame, with lightweight metal infill internally and external brickwork, with the hall and entrance clad in high quality zinc cladding. The building will meet high environmental requirements using the London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI) standards of thermal performance, with an extensive Photovoltaic array on the roof.

The building is currently under a tender process to identify a contractor partner to take the scheme forward under a Design and Build contract, so we are excited to be taking the project forward later in the year.