There is also Children’s Centre which is the base for a multi-agency team led by an Integrated Services Manager who co-ordinates a large group of professionals from health, behaviour support, EWO’s, family support and inclusion services. This team provides services for HLC and its community as well as across the North Telford cluster.
There is a private provider Nursery (ABC) within the building which works very closely with the local authority nursery within the primary phase.
Sustainability
The building has been designed and built incorporating some advanced sustainability features to ensure efficiency and low energy consumption. These include:-
- Biomass Boiler – which produces most of the energy needs for the campus
- Rain Water Harvesting Systems – water is collected off all of the roofs and is recycled as grey water in the toilets
- Sedum Roofs – these have been laid on all flat roofs and are attractive and have good insulation properties
- Natural Ventilation Systems – there are carbon dioxide and temperature sensors in all teaching rooms and these control the opening and closing of the windows (Window Master system)
- Night Time Cooling – all internal doors are opened at night to allow the building to cool naturally by allowing the air to circulate.
- Photovoltaic System – there are solar panels on the roof and the electricity created is fed into the HLC grid. There is a display panel in a science laboratory showing the KJ of energy being generated and the amount of carbon dioxide as our result that has NOT been emitted into the atmosphere