Internationally renowned for its creative and innovative approach to teaching and research, Goldsmiths, University of London has nearly 9,000 students taking part in undergraduate, postgraduate, teacher training and return-to-study opportunities in subjects covering the arts, social sciences, humanities and computing.

A £16 million cutting-edge academic building has been sensitively designed by architects Stride Treglown to be eye-catching, attractive and blend in with the surrounding College Green aesthetic, including the auspicious Richard Hoggart Building opposite. This new 6,500 square metre, four-storey building now houses the University’s Institute of Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship and Department of Media and Communications, and has allowed different sections of the two departments that were scattered across the campus, to centralise into a single purpose-built space.

Areas of the passenger transport system in Masdar City Abu Dhabi, one of the world’s most sustainable cities, will be illuminated by a natural daylight environment created using Monodraught Sunpipes. The unique Sunpipe natural daylight systems were adopted as part of Masdar City’s Technology Roadmap, a programme that has led to a number of globally important innovations and the formation of key technological partnerships to minimise Masdar City’s impact on the environment. Monodraught’s contribution, an even more sustainable Sunpipe, was designed especially for this project. When Masdar was announced four years ago Justin Carter of Edison Lighting (Middle East) Ltd, Monodraught’s agent in Dubai, realised that it would be an ideal opportunity for Sunpipe natural daylight technology and, following an initial approach, Monodraught and Edison were invited to review conceptual drawings of a natural daylight installation prepared by architects Foster+Partners. The daylight delivery system features a glass block arrangement designed to provide natural light from a ground-level podium walkway directly above the transport system, into an undercroft below.

Walworth Academy opened in 2007 and moved into its new building in January 2010, uniting the whole school on a single site for the first time. The academy serves 180 students in each year, in six classes, and will open a sixth form in September 2010, so that Walworth students can continue their studies to age 18.

A key resource of the new 1200 square metre building is a double height multi-use school hall/auditorium and a full size sports hall which. The latter, together with other facilities, provides an excellent resource for the local community as well as for Walworth students who, besides using the hall for physical exercise also used it for mental exercise when sitting school examinations.

A new world class Sports Park located within the University of Surrey campus lists among its wide range of facilities a 50 metre, eight-lane swimming pool, a 12 metre high climbing centre and 21 sports pitches.

Opening in spring 2010, the latest additions to this vast sports complex are two multi-purpose sports halls – one an 8-court and the other a 4-court – both of which are benefitting from Monodraught WINDCATCHER natural ventilation systems.

Initially, a university-appointed consulting team had developed the sports halls to RIBA Stage D, enabling preliminary tenders to be obtained for their design and build; and at this concept stage a mechanical ventilation system had been proposed.