Education News - Education Estates Consultancy of the Year and CIBSE Schools Chair

We're delighted to announce that Max Fordham has been shortlisted for Consultancy of the Year at the Education Estates awards.

Our shortlisting comes on the back of a strong few years of delivering state, independent and higher education projects including:

• Sevenoaks School Science & Technology and 6th Form Centre
• Exeter College Cohen Quad, University of Oxford
• Harrison Centre, Reigate Grammar School
• The Dorothy Garrod Building, Newnham College
• University of Nottingham Teaching and Learning Hub

You can read about these projects, and many others, in the Education section of our website.

Education Estates organises the UK's Leading Education Buildings and Learning Spaces conference and awards. You can see the full shortlist for all the Educations Estates awards here.

We're also delighted to announce that Jeremy Climas - Schools Leader and a Principal Engineer in our Cambridge Office - has been nominated as the new Chair of the CIBSE Schools Design Group.

Jeremy will be speaking about the challenges and opportunities that arise from designing an educational establishment below residential buildings at the Education Estates Conference on Wednesday 16th October. You can find out more information about his talk here.

About Jeremy Climas

Jeremy has more than 13 years’ experience of engineering services design for new-build, sensitive refurbishment and extension projects. Before specialising in school design, his projects included theatres, university departments, college buildings, student accommodation, offices, leisure centres, sports facilities, visitor centres, museums, archives, research laboratories and heritage buildings.

Jeremy’s notable projects include a wealth of experience in the design of schools at both Primary and Secondary level, delivered via a variety of procurement routes. He has designed schools on a wide range of sites with differing constraints and opportunities and enjoys applying this experience on new schemes.

Jeremy has spoken about environmental design and the design of schools at numerous conferences and events.