Plymouth School of Creative Arts
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A free school located on a brownfield site in Millbay, Plymouth
Affectionately known as the Red House, Plymouth School of Creative Arts is a four to 16-year-olds ‘all-through’ free school sponsored by Plymouth College of Art.
The school and college combined form a unique continuum of creative learning from nursery school to degree and postgraduate level.
The school is a place for making things – making ideas, making technology, making art – for discovering how knowledge, values and language, identity or experience are made.
It is a place of performance in both senses: performance as doing; performance as achievement – a place of creative learning in all subjects.
Data
- Begun: Oct 2013
- Completed: Mar 2015
- Floor area: 6,920m2
- Sector: Education
- Total cost: £10M
- Procurement: Design and Build
- Address: 22 Millbay Rd, Plymouth, PL1 3EG, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
- Project architect: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
- Client: Kier Construction/Plymouth School of Creative Arts
- Structural engineer: Jubb Consulting
- M&E consultant: AECOM
- Quantity surveyor: James Smith (Kier)
- Cost consultant: Gleeds
- Landscape consultant: Rathbone Partnership
- Education consultant: Lloyd Wilson Partnership
- Fire consultant: Togo Fire
- Acoustic engineer: Hawksmoor
- Project manager: Bryan Trethewey (Kier)
- CDM Co-ordinator: Jacobs
- Approved Building Inspector: Plymouth City Council
- Main contractor: Kier Construction
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