Education & public buildings
Occupied buildings, fixed calendars, public scrutiny
Works in schools and public buildings are governed by the people using them: term dates, exams, safeguarding arrangements and a budget that has to be defended in public.
We programme around the calendar, work in occupied buildings, and hand over life-safety documentation the responsible person can actually use.
- Evidence
- Education capability statement
- Assessment
- CHAS Advanced
- Delivery
- Occupied buildings
What tends to go wrong
The calendar is the programme
Three constraints that decide whether a school or public building project lands.
- 01
Intrusive work belongs in the holidays
Planning runs backwards from the academic year. A closure window that is missed is not recovered in term time.
- 02
Safeguarding governs the site
The right checks and supervision arrangements for everyone who sets foot in the building, including subcontractors and deliveries.
- 03
Public money needs a paper trail
Scope, price, certification and outcomes documented well enough to be reviewed after the fact by someone who was not in the room.
Where the scopes meet
Decarbonisation has to be measurable to be defensible
A carbon claim without a metered baseline is not evidence. The electrical works create the baseline the renewable works are measured against.
One contractor on both sides of that interface is the whole argument.
- 01
Energy and carbon
Electrical scope
Sub-metering and distribution changes that make consumption visible building by building.
Renewable scope
Generation and storage sized against the real baseline, with the carbon and cost position stated before the decision.
- 02
Life safety
Electrical scope
Detection, alarm and emergency lighting to the standards the responsible person is accountable for.
Renewable scope
Monitoring and reporting aligned to the estate's compliance calendar rather than a separate contractor's system.
- 03
Closure windows
Electrical scope
Strip-out, re-cable and testing compressed into defined holiday closures.
Renewable scope
Roof-mounted generation installed while the building is empty and commissioned before staff and pupils return.
Relevant capability
The disciplines that come up here
Not every service is relevant to every environment. These are the ones that decide the outcome in this one.
Commercial electrical
The installation is fine. The evidence is missing. Distribution boards are not labelled to match the drawings, circuit schedules do not reflect what was actually installed, and the next contractor inherits a building nobody can trace.
Explore capabilityCommercial solar PV
Most commercial solar proposals are built on generating more than the site can consume, at a yield borrowed from the south of England, with an export rate that assumes the best available tariff.
Explore capabilityFire, security & data
When fire, security and data are separate contracts, coordination becomes someone else's problem. Ceiling space is contested, risers are filled in the wrong order, and commissioning dates slip against each other.
Explore capabilityMaintenance & compliance
Testing may be happening. The evidence often is not in a state anyone can use. Certificates sit in a folder, remedial actions are quoted but not prioritised, and the next duty holder inherits a list with no dates against it.
Explore capability
Existing assets
Existing school roofs are already generating
Many public buildings carry renewable assets installed under a previous funding round, with nobody accountable for condition reporting them.
Commercial RCR — from £295 + VATCondition reporting on existing solar PV, battery storage and EV charging assets.
Findings structured for estate planning, funding bids and insurance review.
Reported consistently across a multi-site estate so buildings can be compared.
Evidence
What we can evidence
Education Sector Capability Statement
Our published capability statement for the education sector: the scopes we deliver in occupied school buildings, the standards we work to, and the accreditations behind them.
Open the capability statement (PDF)No named education project is published on this site yet. The capability statement is the document we can evidence today.
Education & public sector
Send the closure windows with the tender
The holidays are the programme. Share the dates, the building constraints and the specification and we will tell you what can be delivered inside them.