Global University Technical College

Media and lighting were integrated into the highly glazed west façade which can be illuminated during live broadcasts from the building.

The four-storey purpose built school building combines state-of-the-art TV and radio studios with flexible teaching spaces, informal learning zones, a dining area, a sports hall and a lecture theatre.

By joining traditional and modular construction methods on the Global build, the structure was able to grow at twice the speed of a fully traditional project. It would have taken up to two years to build this academy using traditional methods. Offsite reduced this to just 12 months allowing the school to open in time for enrolment for the new term.

In those 12 months, Portakabin was able to engineer a full turnkey solution and provide a truly inspiring space for the young minds of Global to learn, develop and hone new and exciting skills for the future.

By moving construction into a controlled factory environment, quality of the finished building was superior to an onsite build. Every single Portakabin module goes through an extensive quality control process in the factory which incorporates more than 100 individual operations and creates buildings that are made from over 2,500 precision components, to be manufactured to engineering tolerances of millimetres.

The science behind Global UTC was engineered and precision built to generate 35% less carbon than required by current regulations – a major achievement which meets the requirements of the latest London Plan.