• Under floor Heating – the entire campus has under floor heating and therefore reduces the loss of space form radiators or heating units
• Light motion Detectors – every teaching space, office, changing room has motion detectors so that the lights go out if no motion is detected in the room and the lights also dim near windows if light levels are sufficient.

All of these systems are available on the Building management Systems and the data can be accessed for use in the curriculum.

ICT

HLC has had ICT incorporated as part of the build design. The entire campus has a high speed CAT 6 network and is also wireless. The ICT expenditure was approximately £5 million and the vision was to have a campus which had leading edge ICT and as paperless as possible.

All teaching rooms from nursery, primary, secondary and special are equipped with Promethean Interactive Whiteboards. These are run from a desk top with amplifier and sound system. There are additional PC’s in each classroom and every faculty has sets of laptops, in lap safes, for use in the curriculum. All teachers have their own laptops for use in school and at home.

There are 4 ICT suites in the secondary phase as well as two fully equipped CADCAM rooms in the Engineering Faculty.