Budget: £14 million
Location: Hayes and Harlington

Urbane team members won the concept, design and delivery tender for the new Global Academy UTC in Hillingdon, London. The project utilised a fully modular construction and was erected in 6 months. The glass building elevation lights up in response to the activities within (red for off air, green for on air). Global Academy UTC will provide 800 places for 14-19 year old students to learn a wide variety of technical skills required by the media industry including studio operation and production, broadcasting, programming, computer science and digital engineering technologies.

The college will be fitted with high-tech specialist TV Studios, TV/radio facilities, radio/ broadcasting facilities and music/ sound recording facilities. It will also benefit from a 3x badminton court sports hall (the intention is to extend the use of this sports facility to the local community), secure external dining area and two large theatre spaces.