Education

Energy cost at US K-12 schools represents the largest single operating expense after salaries and benefits. Developing a plan to help rein in those costs is important to a school’s bottom line and helps to ensure a more sustainable future.  Buro Happold, through our G.Works collaboration, partnered with HR&A to provide a full infrastructure, energy and economic analysis for both the Hill and River campuses of Riverdale Country Schools (RCS) located in the Bronx, New York. The result is an energy action plan with strong economic analysis as a foundation for RCS’s infrastructure investments.  

This lecture area and dining hall is the latest building project for the Lake Bunyonyi Community School located a remote area of Uganda. Working for the Richard Feilden Foundation and the Happold Trust this simple structure was designed and constructed by Buro Happold with the expert construction help of Charley Brentnall. Utilising locally sourced round pole eucalyptus timber, the structure adopts a 'reciprocal' form of construction for the back to basics design for the roof.  The foundations and retaining structures are constructed from a combination of in situ concrete and locally produced handmade bricks.

Buro Happold senior structural engineer, Phil Anthony Moutousamy, was recently named the AFBE UK Young Engineer of the Year at an awards reception at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London. The judges were impressed by...

Buro Happold is honored to have been involved in the recent renovation of the California Institute of Technology, Earle M. Jorgensen Laboratory, designed by John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects.

Having been involved in the environmental design of schools for over 15 years, I have seen the sector emerge from old style PFI projects and adding extensions to clapped out buildings, through the first glossy academies of the...

Summer may be over but Buro Happold’s New York office is still basking in the glow of recognition as six of its projects were honored with awards from some of the Northeast’s most revered industry organizations. The Municipal...

Buro Happold is proud to have worked on 9 out of the 10 universities identified in the recent QS World University Rankings.

Polytechnic School’s North Campus project in Pasadena, California was selected to receive a 2012 Sustainable Innovation award from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). The award will be presented at the Los Angeles...

‘.....can we save carbon, increase resilience and reduce operating costs at the same time?.....’(University Estates Manager, July 2012)The challenge Our universities face a range of...

Buro Happold delivers state of the art campus development opened by the Queen

From over 306 national and international entries, the Civic Trust Awards have recognised a total of 52 projects this year. The awards which celebrate outstanding architecture and built environment projects were presented to the...

Pigs love it, Glastonbury’s full of it, and it’s a pain to get out of carpets.

Buro Happold is the sustainability consultant to the Polytechnic School and their North Campus project, a six building, 34,000 ft² development in Pasadena, California. Polytechnic School is a top rated private college...

The University of Salford is committed to the Campus Plan 20-year vision that is contributing to the wider regeneration of the city of Salford. The plan aims to provide a sustainable, accessible place for students and staff to...

Thomas Deacon is the UK’s largest academy, with 2,200 students from three pre-existing schools. The project brief called for the design to ‘promote the specialist science and mathematics nature of the academy and the concept of...

High on a hilltop, just nine miles from Boston, lies the state of the art Brandeis Science Center. This recent addition to Brandeis University opened in 2009, and is a research and teaching centre of excellence which connects new...

Lynn University is one of the most ambitious universities in North America. Independent, co-educational and innovative, the mainly residential 3,500 students at Lynn benefit from one of the finest 21st century learning...

Edinburgh’s Napier University new Sighthill campus boasts a state of the art Faculty of Health, Life and Social Sciences for 5,000 students and staff. This ambitious, multi-million pound development will not only feature...

The Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), developed by the University of Sheffield in partnership with aerospace giant Boeing, was set up to tackle manufacturing problems, utilising the university’s expertise in metals...

Sustainability is at the heart of the Langley Academy, an 1,150 pupil school near Slough that caters for students aged from 11 to 18. The academy embodies the passion and commitment that Buro Happold have for sustainable...

Designed around the theme of assembly and open debate, the Forum is a central part of the University of Exeter’s campus. The Forum Project saw several structures built or refurbished and enclosed under a stunning gridshell roof. As well as unifying these buildings and hosting a dramatic new reception, the roof shelters a range of state of the art teaching and discussion spaces.