Cheshire College.
Warrington & Vale.
A multi-campus
education programme.
A continuing programme of M&E design and consultancy delivered for AAProjects across the further-education sector — covering Cheshire College's three campuses, Warrington & Vale College, and a new-build Motor Vehicle and Construction Skills workshop.
A long-standing
education-sector
relationship.
[Directors to rewrite naturally. Working through AAProjects, Prana has delivered M&E design consultancy across a programme of further-education estate work — from low-carbon heating feasibility studies through phased refurbishment to new-build skills facilities.]
[Continuation — the value of a repeat-client, repeat-sector programme: institutional knowledge of how colleges actually operate, what works in a teaching environment, where the difficult constraints sit (term-time delivery, decant strategies, capital-funding cycles, T-Level wave funding rounds, low-carbon heating obligations).]
[Continuation — the schemes below are delivered or live as part of the wider programme. Each one is its own design effort; together they're the strongest education-sector portfolio in the studio.]
Schemes delivered
across three colleges.
Cheshire College — Phased Upgrades Across Three Campuses
[Director-led summary — M&E design and consultancy across phased refurbishment and upgrade works at Cheshire College's three campuses. T Level Wave 3 refurbishment programme and wider estate development.]
Warrington & Vale College — Refurbishment Programme
[Director-led summary — M&E design for refurbishment and upgrade works at Warrington & Vale College. Coordinated with active teaching programme; designed for term-time, half-term and summer-break delivery windows.]
Lakes College — Digital Accelerator
Full M&E design from concept to site completion for the internal refurbishment that became Lakes College's Digital Accelerator. The brief: convert existing space at the main campus into a bespoke teaching environment for digital disciplines — robotics, coding, 3D modelling, AI and adjacent technologies — supported by approximately £1m of Town Deal funding and intended to keep skilled young people in West Cumbria. Industry links with Energus and Gen II shaped the brief; Prana's services strategy supported the technical pull-through of a flexible, future-tolerant teaching infrastructure. Opened 2023.
Lakes College — Motor Vehicle Workshop
Full M&E design for a new-build motor vehicle teaching workshop on the Lakes College estate, plus specification of the external services infrastructure enabling works required to bring the site forward. Workshop-grade ventilation, vehicle-extract systems, three-phase distribution and the technical-services profile a live motor-vehicle teaching environment demands.
Cheshire College S&W — Motor Vehicle Workshop
M&E design and consultancy for the new-build motor vehicle workshop extension at Cheshire College South & West. Designed around a working teaching environment — vehicle extract, three-phase distribution, hot-and-cold supplies, washbay services, and the lighting/ventilation profile needed to keep instruction effective and air quality compliant under sustained workshop load.
Low Carbon Heating Feasibility — Multi-College Studies
[Director-led summary — Low-carbon heating feasibility studies delivered for AAProjects across Oldham Sixth Form College, Werneth Primary School, Cheadle & Marple College, Middlesbrough TTE College, and Sandwell Colleges. Heat-source options, payback modelling, carbon-saving forecasts.]
Why education
is a good fit
for the model.
[Directors to rewrite naturally. Further-education estate work demands long-term consultant relationships, comfort with phased capital programmes, and the design discipline to work around active teaching environments. It's a sector that rewards continuity over project volume.]
[Continuation — that's a natural match for Prana's director-led model. Same person on the brief from feasibility through design through site monitoring. Same person who explains why the heating strategy proposed last year still works against this year's funding round.]