Preparing bright minds for future success
High quality education, skills, and research are vital to the success of the UK economy. Yet for many schools, colleges and universities navigating a relentless series of external shocks, the pressure to deliver academic priorities and shape the workforce of the future has never been greater.
From schools seeking to deliver safe, warm and dry learning environments with constrained budgets, to universities seeking to evolve ageing estates to meet net zero milestones and changing teaching and learning expectations, many turn to RLB to find imaginative ways to do more with less.
Navigating the challenges
Enhancing learning environments
Delivering essential maintenance whilst also driving enhancements is not easy. From schools striving to provide safe, warm and dry buildings to universities struggling to keep up with changing campus role expectations, the pressure to improve the estate can feel relentless.
We are experts in helping clients to meet their building and estate project ambitions. From guiding schools to pitch successful improvement funding applications, to providing universities with data-driven solutions that enable them to plan building renewal programmes, our intelligence can give you the assurance to continue with confidence.
Optimising assets and estates
Improving and developing an estate against a backdrop of constrained income, an unclear future and ageing assets can be challenging. Rationalisaiton, retrofit, reuse and rebuild are all viable options for doing more with less, but it can be difficult to plot a way forward.
Drawing on our expertise in understanding estates, which includes multi-faceted property surveys for schools, colleges, universities and the Department for Education, we provide holistic property intelligence with robust expenditure forecasting. Our intelligence can reveal effective estate strategies to focus investment, deliver long-term operational savings, reduce carbon and realise education ambitions.
Reaching Net Zero
The imperative to achieve net zero carbon is clear, but for many schools, colleges and universities, the roadmap to meet it is not yet in place. Decarbonising built assets and estates requires precise decision-making matched with long-term strategic planning - all set against challenging time, cost and quality pressures and influences.
We provide the education sector with a holistic suite of solutions that lead to a greener future. From benchmarks and accreditation assessments to decarbonisation delivery, we work at all strategic levels as we tether targets, embodied carbon, operational carbon, social value and wellbeing into one balanced ESG value model.
RLB in Education

We are a trusted delivery partner to the Department for Education, supporting them with CDC surveys and RAAC inspections

100% employee-owned and managed, our independence provides schools with authenticity, transparency and clarity

We offer a turnkey solution, with services delivered in-house, simplifies administration and can reduce unnecessary fees

We have built a strong track record in securing capital funding for improvements - at no cost to the client
Extensive sector expertise
At every stage of education, we provide support with building surveying, cost management, project management, and a range of focused and specialist services.
Drawing on our expert knowledge and best-practice, we develop and deliver strategies and solutions that focus on creating sustainable and optimised education estates.
Independent, holistic support
We meet our client needs with flawless technical execution. As an employee-owned, independent organisation, we guarantee the best advice – without any conflict of interest.
Our 'One RLB' holistic approach supports value-based decisions, delivering outcomes that meet a range of objectives and measure value beyond financial targets.
Forward-thinking approach
Our innovative systems and robust processes are tailored to meet your individual requirements.
We apply solutions and integrated systems to devise fresh perspectives on existing problems. We utilise cloud-based digital tools to bring clarity and economy to the increasingly complex task of construction management in education.
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