This new Community Campus is located on a greenfield site on the slopes of the Jedburgh valley. The flagship development integrates a local nursery, two primary schools and a secondary school whilst providing modern leisure facilities for the local community all under one Scottish Borders Council facility. The campus also provides a new car parking facility along with a separate school bus park with appropriate pedestrian linkages.

The Campus building overlooks the town of Jedburgh but is carefully blended into the hillside by stepping the building as it follows the natural valley profile. At its rear a 9m high retaining wall allows the games halls to be built into the hillside, with classroom located above. This teaching floor provides level access to the senior school upper playground.

The steel framed building consists of feature cantilevers of up to 7.5m in length around the perimeter of the building as well as numerous double height rooflights. These not only provide expansive areas of natural daylight to the heart of the building but also allow large parts of the building to be naturally ventilated.
The teaching areas are split over three floors with the nursery and primary school located in the two-storey zone of the building with the high school being located in the three-storey zone. All zones are accessed from a large central street which forms the heart of the community facility. The teaching zones are open and natural throughout the building, with learning encouraged to spill out into these mixed-use spaces. Full height curtain walls in the classrooms allow expansive views of the surrounding landscape and parkland trees whilst also providing a direct connection with nature even when in a teaching environment.
In total there is a 50m level difference across the site. A significant earthworks operation was undertaken to terrace the site which resulted in a total of 5 no. retaining walls. This required approximately 80,000m3 to material to be re-worked but did result in any material needing to be taken off site.
This project was highly commended in the IStructE Scottish Structural Awards.