Balfour Beatty has been selected to build a £67.8m Passivhaus accredited secondary school in Edinburgh.
UK’s biggest contractor to build replacement campus for Liberton High School, whose existing building is being demolished after a 12-year-old girl was crushed to death when a wall collapsed in 2014.
The mixed-use campus (pictured) will center around a three-story building and offer space for 1,200 students. The school will be built to Passivhaus sustainability standards, in line with the city’s 2030 net-zero goal, meaning it will need little heating or cooling.
Plans for the new campus include a public library, community cafe, dance studio, gym, 3G pitch, grass amphitheater and flexible workspace.
Edinburgh Councilor Joan Griffiths said: “The Liberton Community Campus is a really exciting project, offering an incredible opportunity to create, as part of an inclusive, zero-carbon city, a sports and lifelong learning for the community to replace the existing school.”
An earlier plan to include a 10,000-patient capacity GP surgery in the scheme was shelved in February after NHS Lothian halted its capital spending.
Liberton High School is one of 22 new schools funded in the second phase of the Learning Estate Investment Programme, an £800m effort by the Scottish Government and local authorities to rebuild education infrastructure.
