Shelters specialist Broxap explores how the use of canopies can future proof schools SCHOOLS across the country have risen to the challenges of the last 12 months to continue providing interactive and valuable learning experiences. There’s many lessons to take from this time. One of the outcomes for sure will be the continued evolution of educational settings and how they are put to use.

Hearing, yes hearing, hello, hello, yes I said hearing, can you hear me now? Jokes aside, the ability to hear is such an important sense along with sight. Our ability to hear with ease and clarity is something we may take granted on a daily basis. We do it without even thinking about it.

How often can you remember queuing for your next class at school and walking into the room only to find it extremely hot, sweaty and smelly from the previous occupants?

How often do you think about the space in your immediate environment? The probability is that you rarely consider the space around you until there's a significant impact either negative or positive that affects you.

Light, we take it for granted and rarely think about it on a daily basis, but it is the centre of solar system, the driving force behind our world and reason we have sight. We have created time around the cycle of the daylight hours we experience on our planet and it is our primary source of energy, without light we could not exist.

What do you remember about your days at school and the classrooms you were taught in? Can you remember the design, décor and colours? The amount of light in the classroom and the furniture used?

We are excited to announce that Croft Architecture has won two awards at the recent Shropshire and Staffordshire LABC Building Excellence Awards 2014.