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Paisley Grammar School
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Woolgar Hunter provided civil, structural, and geo-environmental engineering services on this development, which will be completed in summer 2026.
The project comprises a new 3 storey school complex accommodating 1,400 pupils on the site of the former Chivas bottling plant in Paisley. The building is split into 2 wings with a central entrance hall linking the two. The remainder of the site contains access roads, surface car parking, sports pitches and general soft landscaping including a SuDS basin.
Engineering Excellence
The school’s state of the art facilities will include workshops, kitchens, all weather pitches and a 300 seat theatre in addition to standard classrooms and administrative space. These elements have influenced the structural design, requiring a long, column-free span at roof level. The central entrance hall is a double/triple height space and acts to link the two wings together, whilst also housing the dining facilities for the school. A series of double/triple height voids are also present above learning plazas throughout both wings of the building.
