Lytham St Anne's High School

Lytham St Anne’s High School is the biggest school in the Fylde Borough and is one of fifty schools nationally to receive a share of £1bn funding through the Government’s School’s Rebuilding Programme.

Wates Construction is the main contractor on this project and they are using a ‘fabric first’ approach to ensure that the school has a high level of insulation and air-tightness. This will result in low energy consumption and demand heating for heating. The building will make use of passive ventilation chimneys, mechanical heat recovery systems and on-site offsetting of energy use through a bisolar roof system.

Wates are also using an efficient heating method and LED lighting so that upon completion it will be net zero carbon in operation. Lytham St Anne’s High is one of the first schools to be built using these standards by Wates.

Construction of the new Lytham St Anne’s High School will include a two-storey main building and a detached sports hall. The sustainable design aspects of the building include an optimised thermal envelope with increased insulation and triple-glazed windows, optimised window sizes to maximise daylighting, together with rooflights and lightwells, enhanced ventilation with openable windows to classrooms, and solar panels.

The construction industry has a role to play in helping meet the country’s ambitious climate goals, and project is an important step towards achieving net zero. During the construction phase Easi-Edge supplied over 490 LM of double height edge protection barriers to the site.

The project is being delivered using Wates’ Adapt solution, a component-based school kit which offers a more sustainable method of construction, ensuring less waste and higher finished quality through offsite manufacture.