Case Study
Building the first purpose-designed conservatoire for the digital age
Building the first purpose-designed conservatoire for the digital age The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is one of the most ambitious, exciting and successful educational projects that our civil and structural engineering teams have worked on. On a confined city centre site, it provides five acoustically separated performance spaces, including a 500-seat concert hall, alongside recording and teaching facilities, a public exhibition space and more than 70 music practice rooms. Opened in 2017, the Conservatoire is the first new, purpose designed teaching, rehearsal and performance space built in the UK for over a generation and is part of a £260m campus expansion programme for Birmingham City University (BCU). We already had a long-term relationship with BCU, having provided multidisciplinar