23/10/2025
🌱 We’re delighted to announce that St Mary’s Catholic Voluntary Academy, Derby has been recognised with multiple national awards for sustainability and educational design in 2024 & 2025!
Adept provided civil & structural engineering solutions that enabled the UK’s first biophilic school to achieve the DfE’s GenZero ultra-low carbon standard, supporting net zero operation and whole-life sustainability.
Award Wins:
- Healthy City Design Awards 2025 (Healthy Social Infrastructure)
- Education Estates Awards 2025 (Judges Recognition & Inspiring Learning Spaces)
- RIBA East Midlands Awards 2025 (Sustainability)
- Structural Timber Awards 2024 (Education Project of the Year)
- AJ100 2024 (Sustainability Initiative of the Year)
Thank you to the Department for Education, Hawkins\Brown, & Tilbury Douglas for making this vision a reality.