The Oakgrove
Millennium Community in Milton Keynes is developed on a brown field site to
the east of the area and includes 1,850 houses as well as the secondary
school that will ultimately provide 1,500 places for local children. The
initial development of approximately 5,600m2 accommodates the
first 300 pupils.
The inter-linked buildings provide a single-storey sports hall with viewing
gallery, a single-storey community facility comprising a hall, changing
rooms and storage areas. The two three-storey blocks provide the main
reception area, fitness suite and squash courts as well as teaching areas in
one building, and the second houses staff areas on the ground floor,
laboratories and teaching areas on the upper floors. Constructed on piled
foundations with beam and block suspended ground floor slabs, steel frame
and precast concrete suspended floor slabs the buildings are constructed to
achieve a BREEAM Excellent rating.
