Sacred Heart Catholic School
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Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Comprehensive School for 11-17 year olds in Camberwell
The replacement school block runs alongside Camberwell New Road, the street that forms the school’s principal address. Faced in brick and dominated by a tower supporting a clock, the street facade is articulated by a series of zip-like vertical recesses.
Classrooms are ranged along the longer of the building’s two wings with the other comprising a full-height dining hall and drama room.
To the rear of the site there is a new sports hall: a standard brick shed elevated by decorative timber detailing at its upper level.
Data
- Begun: Jan 2013
- Completed: Sep 2014
- Floor area: 6,900m2
- Sector: Education
- Procurement: Bespoke PFI building contract (design and build)
- Address: Trafalgar Street, London, SE17 2TP, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Cottrell and Vermeulen Architecture
- Client: London Borough of Southwark
- Structural engineer: Haskins Robinson Waters
- M&E consultant: Wallace Whittle
- Acoustic consultant: SRL
- Fire consultant: FDS Consult
- Breeam assessor: Fergusson Brown
- Planning consultant: Barton Wilmore
- CDM Co-ordinator: Aversion
- Approved building inspector : AIS
- Main contractor: Balfour Beatty Construction Services UK
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