The Sky Academy Skills Studios in Livingston, Scotland, is progressing well on site. Leading, international multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy, Hilson Moran is the building services, and sustainability consultant, as well as the BREEAM assessor for the project.
The facility has four studio spaces suitable for eight people at a time, and aims to provide 12,000 young people per year, aged 8 to 18, with a free learning experience that will link to the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence and help students build life skills. It also has an immersion room, which will tell the story of Sky, and a welcome room, which provides a seating area for the students to eat lunch within the realms of the Sky experience.
Students will be able to create their own TV report about a subject they are studying at school using Sky’s state-of-the-art technology, including broadcast quality cameras, green screens and touch screen edit tables. It will also build on the success of the first Sky Academy Skills Studios at Sky’s headquarters in West London, where 18,000 students have taken part in the experience since its launch in 2012.
Mark Sessions, Associate at Hilson Moran, said: “The Sky Academy Skills Studios is a great project for Hilson Moran to be involved with. The facility in London has already proven to inspire students and help them build skills such as communication, creativity and team work.
“As part of the project, we have used displacement ventilation, which is low velocity, to assist in complying with stringent noise levels specified in the studios; a necessity for having the best broadcasting environment.”
The project is targeting BREEAM ‘Very Good’ and is expected to launch in early 2015.
