Ulverstone Secondary College

The Ulverstone Secondary College Classroom is a contemporary learning space designed to demonstrate how sustainable design and innovative timber construction can enhance educational environments. The project was intended to support modern teaching practices while encouraging students and the broader community to engage with sustainable building principles.

The project delivers a flexible classroom built predominantly from locally sourced plantation timber. It also provided an opportunity to explore new approaches to prefabricated timber construction through collaboration with engineers, timber suppliers, contractors and researchers from the University of Tasmania, helping to advance the use of locally grown timber in education projects.

Renewable Tasmanian plantation timber forms both the structure and the interior character of the building, creating a warm and inviting learning environment while reducing embodied carbon. The prefabricated timber elements improved construction efficiency and showcased the potential of locally sourced materials, resulting in a building that serves as both a classroom and a practical example of sustainable design in action.