Willmott Dixon is the country's leading builder of schools and colleges. Over the past five years alone we've created more than 30,000 new school places, spanning every part of the education sector, from free schools and academies to the most advanced special educational needs provision in the country.

Today, much of that work is delivered through the Department for Education's Construction Framework, where we are the most active education partner of any contractor. That position gives our clients certainty: a delivery partner with the scale, systems and sector knowledge to take a school from business case to handover, and, increasingly, beyond handover into verified operational performance.

As Government commits to the School Rebuilding Programme, rebuilding over 500 schools across England through to 2034–35, we're already delivering at the leading edge of that pipeline.

Our work spans every category

• Free Schools

• Primary Schools
• Secondary Schools
• Academies
• SEND Schools

Our work is recognised at the highest levels, by central Government, by local education authorities across the country, and by head teachers themselves. Among them, the Head Master of Eton, who praised our work at Hollyport College, the free school near Maidenhead that Eton sponsors. We're equally proud of our long-standing academy partnerships, Outwood Academy Kirkby is the third school we've delivered for Outwood Grange Academies Trust, following Outwood Academy Danum and Outwood Academy Hemsworth.

Leading the way on net zero and Passivhaus

We help our customers to redefine what a school can be, delivering some of the UK's most significant net zero and Passivhaus education buildings, achieving a series of national firsts along the way:

• Harris Academy Sutton: the first secondary school in the UK built to the Passivhaus standard, and the largest Passivhaus school in the country, setting the sector benchmark for exceptionally low energy use and superb user comfort.
• Hackbridge Primary School: the UK's first Passivhaus 'Plus' school, generating more renewable energy than it uses and exporting the surplus to the grid.
• Hounsome Fields, Hampshire: a new primary school targeting Passivhaus Classic certification.
• A growing national portfolio of net zero carbon in operation schools, including the first two schools in Leicestershire County Council's net zero schools roll-out, and a new Passivhaus, net zero in operation primary school and community hub for Rhondda Cynon Taf in South Wales that is set to exceed Welsh Government targets for embodied carbon in new schools.

Special educational needs: purpose-built for the children who need it most

Demand for specialist places has never been higher, and SEND is one of the fastest-growing areas of our schools work. We design these environments in close consultation with the children who'll use them and the people who care for them, creating calm, safe, inclusive spaces where every pupil can thrive.

Our SEND portfolio includes Paddock School in Tooting, a purpose-built secondary and sixth form for 64 additional pupils, targeting net zero in operation and BREEAM Outstanding, with a student-run public café providing real-world work experience; Acre Wood Academy in East Sussex; Hopescourt in Surrey; Oxlow Bridge in Dagenham; Silverwood School; and the London River Academy, a new 90-place school for children with social, emotional and mental health needs delivered as part of the Barnes Hospital regeneration.