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is a premier, fully integrated professional and technical services firm positioned to design, build, finance and operate infrastructure assets around the world for public and private-sector clients. With nearly 100,000 employees – including architects, engineers, designers, planners, scientists and management and construction services professionals – serving clients in over 150 countries around the world, AECOM is ranked as the #1 engineering design firm by revenue in Engineering News-Record magazine’s annual industry rankings. The company is a leader in all of the key markets that it serves, including transportation, facilities, environmental, energy, oil and gas, water, high-rise buildings and government. AECOM provides a blend of global reach, local knowledge, innovation and technical excellence in delivering customised and creative solutions that meet the needs of clients’ projects. A Fortune 500 firm, AECOM companies, including URS Corporation and Hunt Construction Group, have annual revenue of approximately $19bn.

Aecom: www.aecom.com

From our network of offices across the UK, our people apply their local knowledge and use local suppliers to ensure construction projects benefit local communities. On every project we engage with key stakeholders to develop facilities intended to give people the best opportunities to learn. Combining this with our engineering expertise produces quality learning environments that benefit future generations.

Our achievements in the education sector include delivering the UK’s first grouped schools private finance initiative (PFI) in Stoke, producing an innovative system build product for the Hertfordshire Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, as well as developing the Retained Estates Evaluation Process (REEP) for Oldham BSF to provide an optimum refurbishment solution.

Balfour Beatty: www.balfourbeatty.com

At BAM we understand that designing and building a new school entails creating a better environment and opportunities for pupils, staff and the surrounding community. That’s why we listen and collaborate and aim to make the process itself an enriching experience for everyone involved.

We have unique capabilities in BIM and apply a whole lifecycle approach, linking the design, construction and operations phases, so that the school works better for everyone who uses it and is cost-effective to manage and maintain. We operate throughout the UK and are part of Royal BAM Group, a worldwide construction services enterprise.

Bam: www.bam.co.uk

With an award-winning and extensive project portfolio in the education sector, Bouygues UK is at the forefront of regenerating and renewing school and higher educational facilities across the UK. We build comprehensive and world-class campus facilities which enable students to use the most modern, virtual and physical learning techniques available.

From innovative refurbishment and extension projects to pioneering new builds and rebuilds, we consistently deliver teaching and learning environments that enable children to receive a first class education.

This experience, along with the relationships we have developed with leading educationalists and designers, has given us a real understanding of how to work with education providers to create transformational learning environments.

We are proud of the difference we have made with our clients to the lives of school children and students across the UK.

Bouygues UK: www.bouygues-uk.com

The Education Construction Network provides a forum where information about forthcoming bid and tender opportunities can be shared in an open and informal environment, at an affordable level that is accessible to all. Our membership covers a wide range of disciplines from architects, engineers and contractors to educationalists, FFE (furniture, fixtures and fittings) consultants and suppliers. All share a passion for education and a desire to seek new opportunities within this sector. As a knowledge-sharing organisation, guest panellists discuss and debate current issues that affect our sector and directly impact upon the way we work.

ECN: www.educonnet.co.uk

Galliford Try is a leading construction and housebuilding FTSE250 company working across the public and private sectors, with a £1.7bn turnover. The company has a strong track record in the education sector, having constructed 80 primary, special and secondary schools in the last five years from the Highlands and Islands to central London, as well as early years settings, FE colleges and university facilities. Their education team have developed a multi-award-winning, innovative approach to component-based standardisation in school design: Optimum Schools. Built examples illustrate the approach’s inherent efficiency and flexibility across different scales of project, types of school and sites.

Galliford Try: www.gallifordtry.co.uk

Creating enhanced building environments improves the quality of learning for students. At Osborne, one of the UK’s leading construction companies, we strive to achieve this by embracing a partnership approach to deliver facilities that help schools, colleges and universities achieve wider ambitions.

Our experience and the diversity of our work in the education sector brings many benefits. We provide creative building solutions, cost-effective systems and innovative funding methods. By working closely with you and continually adapting to the unique pressures of the education arena, we can help develop exceptional facilities that will support your needs for years to come.

Osborne: www.osborne.co.uk

Clients are looking for partners who, right from the start, can understand their world, address their challenges and manage complexity; partners who go beyond technical excellence, credible skills and experiences to add real value and contribute to their business performance.

We are that partner. We create, engineer and manage intelligent, inventive and practical spaces that amaze our clients, and help them succeed. We are proud of our technical brilliance, thrive on solving the toughest challenges, and create grounded workable solutions, no matter how complex the problem.

Why do we do this? Because, in the end, by pushing ourselves to be smarter and better we can make a positive difference to how people live, work and thrive. Because we believe in contributing to the world we live in through the creation and management of ingeniously practical spaces.

Shepherd: www.weareshepherd.com

Wates Group is a family-owned construction company with a single-minded commitment to delivering the highest quality for our customers, while making a lasting difference to the communities in which we work. Wates Education works across all areas of the education sector including primary, secondary, SEN, further and higher, delivering excellence in every sector.

Specifically within the education sector, Wates adopts a holistic approach to creating inspiring individual learning environments, designed specifically to meet the end users requirements. Wates vision is to be the first UK construction company to deliver every project on time, on budget, safely.

Wates: www.wates.co.uk