Ardrossan Community Campus

Ardrossan Community Campus is the most significant school investment in North Ayrshire’s history.

Location: Ardrossan
Client: North Ayrshire Council
Cost: £100m
Completion: On-Site
Services: Civil & Structural

The campus will serve children aged 2 to 18 and will be formed from the closure and merger of Ardrossan Academy and Winton Primary School and Early Years Class. The Campus will also house community facilities including a public library, and swimming/leisure facilities. Another key
component of the Campus will be dedicated accommodation for the Health and Social Care Partnership Children and Families
Locality Team.

(Images courtesy of JM Architects)

Partially funded by the Scottish Government through the Scottish Futures Trust, the project will create a new community and educational campus on a former brownfield site within the town’s North Shore and Harbour area and is designed to meet Passivhaus standards and target in-use energy consumption of 67/kW/m²/annum.
The new education and community campus is part of £150million plans for the site which also include sports pitches, housing, commercial uses, roads, a new coastal path, and facilities associated with an extended marina. Enabling works for the site include the construction of a new sea wall revetment, remediation of the former Shell site and extensive earthworks.

Key Challenges

The historic land-use of the site posed significant issues including contamination, remnant foundations and a buried sea wall.
Blyth & Blyth worked closely with the advanced works team to make sure remediation works and investigations complimented the campus design and ensure both phases maximized efficiencies.
The proximity of the site to the coast has provided many learning opportunities in a striking setting however the design has also had to take account of the environmental conditions including wave overtopping and wind.
Working closely with the architect and landscape architects the team has design passive ways to protect the site which enhance rather than detract from the design.