McAvoy has over 50 years’ experience in providing temporary and permanent solutions to the education sector across the UK & Ireland. We can rapidly deliver everything from temporary classrooms to complete schools, providing an exceptional customer experience every time and with minimal disruption to live school environments.

Our dedicated education teams work collaboratively with schools, LEAs, colleges, and universities to help deliver their vision, within budget constraints and to the most challenging programmes.

 In the last 5 years we have delivered more than 20,000 new school places, utilising fast-track, offsite techniques to reduce lead times by up to half and helping educational planners meet the increasing demand for new schools, extensions and modular classrooms.

Our expertise includes complete schools, standalone classrooms, and seamless extensions to existing buildings for:

Primary Schools

Special Education Needs & Disabilities (SEND)

Secondary Schools

Sixth Form Centres & Colleges

Free Schools

Universities

Applications include

Whole schools

Canteens

Classrooms & SEND classrooms

Storage facilities

Office & meeting rooms

Drying & changing rooms

Our temporary solution enables us to respond rapidly and deliver additional education facilities to you when you need them most. Whether you need temporary classrooms due to RAAC or additional teaching space to keep up with the demand for school places, we have a solution to suit. Our temporary buildings can be rented or purchased, and can be extended, repurposed or relocated, providing you with ultimate flexibility. 

We provide permanent design and build solutions to the healthcare sector, managing projects from conception, through design and manufacture to completion. We use a platform-based approach with standardised, repeatable components which enables us to create flexible, highly configurable spaces. Early engagement and consistent collaboration with our clients enables faster and better decision making, and our consultative style includes an open BIM approach to achieve consistently high levels of customer satisfaction.

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Committed to circular construction

McAvoy employs a circular construction approach to its design, planning and manufacturing processes. This philosophy enables us to repurpose temporary buildings where appropriate and drives our sharp focus on recycling materials where possible to reach zero waste to landfill.

Find out more about our ESG commitment.

“The design process was incredibly well organised and the level of detail and thought that went into this stage has resulted in an exceptional result. The McAvoy team have worked together with OCL at every stage to ensure that we are happy with the buildings and site. This modular build will be used by the academy for several years, and the modular construction means that the buildings can grow with us as we require it. The flexibility this gives is invaluable. Every visitor has been amazed at the quality of the buildings and site. Parents who grew up in ‘mobile’ classrooms have been blown away when they have visited as it’s so far away from their expectations. The additional design features such as air con (which even most permanent schools do not have) will make this a wonderful learning environment year-round."
Rebecca Stepek
Project Manager, Oasis Community Learning
Oasis Academy
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Minimising disruption

Minimising disruption to teaching is an absolute priority for McAvoy. We will maximise construction and fitting out offsite and schedule module installation for holiday periods and quieter times wherever possible.

Our aim is to exceed expectations every time with our inspiring modular space solutions.   

Procurement options

We work as a key partner on a number of public sector frameworks for education buildings, including NHS Shared Business Services, Offsite Construction Solutions Framework, LHC Modular Buildings Framework and SEWSCAP. We also offer a highly flexible financing option which allows educational institutions to increase capacity using modular construction with a highly flexible operating lease option. 

Why McAvoy?

Build faster

On time & on budget

Reduced environmental impact

Certified building systems

Reusability & recycability

Minimum disruption

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