The Building Sights Award judging panel met in Sheffield on October 10th and selected Classrooms of the Future in Telford as the winner of the 2003 Building Sights Award. New classrooms at Wrockwardine Wood Church of England Junior School and The Lord Silkin School were constructed off site and, as part of an ongoing programme of public involvement, pupils were taken to the Yorkon factory in York to see them being manufactured.

Turlogh O'Brien, Chairman of the Construction Industry Council and chair of the Building Sights judging panel said: 'We were particularly impressed by the quality of the feedback that the children had produced which clearly demonstrated that they had understood and been fascinated by the processes involved in the construction of their new classrooms. Children were encouraged to champion the schemes in their local communities and the whole project was carefully integrated into the curriculum. They were also able to influence aspects of the final design. We felt it was a good model which could be replicated elsewhere.'

The judges also gave high commendations to The National Centre for Deafblindness in Peterborough and the LSO St. Luke's- UBS and LSO Music Education Centre, in London.

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