Part of the Government’s ‘Teaching in the North’ initiative, this brand new £15 million landmark building for the Durham area has been created to provide a focal point for both pupils and the surrounding community, housing state-of-the-art science and technology classrooms, nursery, sports hall, 440 seat auditorium and public cyber café & library.

Having specified over 3500m² of Dune and Fine Fissured Armstrong ceiling panels throughout the building, the architectural and design teams required an audio system which would match its clean, contemporary lines. Furthermore, the College’s language laboratories needed the highest levels of intelligibility. i-ceilings easily met both these criteria, exactly matching the Armstrong ceiling tiles for an ‘invisible’ loudspeaker solution, while the NXT technology utilised ensured high quality voice reproduction.