Energy Academy 2

Expanding Newcastle College’s Energy Academy involves delivering a new education building and workshop facility on a constrained site beside an active rail line, while navigating extensive stakeholder engagement and statutory approvals. The scheme also requires the demolition of two existing structures and careful coordination between separate shell and fit-out contracts, creating multiple interfaces across the client, landlord and wider team. Built on the site of the original Energy Academy delivered by G&T in 2014, the project must balance legacy, logistics and ambition in a highly sensitive location.

G&T is providing Project Management services, working closely with the client and landlord to shape a clear delivery strategy for the new Energy Campus, which will sit next to the existing academy. By helping to develop separate shell and fit-out contracts, we are creating a coordinated framework that manages interfaces, clarifies responsibilities and supports efficient decision-making. Delivery strategies are also being used to streamline approvals between both contracts, helping align stakeholder engagement, statutory requirements and programme needs as the project moves forward.

With £8.48 million in funding secured from the North East Combined Authority and planning approved unanimously by North Tyneside Council, the project is moving ahead with strong momentum. The expanded campus will provide more space, specialist equipment and capacity for around three times as many learners preparing for careers in renewable energy, offshore and subsea engineering. G&T’s coordinated approach is helping lay the foundations for a major clean energy training facility that will strengthen employer partnerships and support access to high-quality regional jobs.