Sally Brincat News Today

According to Harvard School of Public Health, the average student spends over 15,000 hours at school by the time they graduate high school. That’s secondary only to the amount of time they spend at home, and makes it paramount to design school buildings that support the physical and mental health of students, teachers and staff. We asked Sally Brincat, an architect with over 20 years of experience, as well as ThomsonAdsett’s Victoria Education Sector Lead, how that fundamental factor influen...

In this revealing, one-on-one interview, Sally talks about the latest ideas in school design, the move towards vertical schools and what roles an architect has in design the modern Australian school.

The increasingly complex needs of primary school students have been addressed in a bundle of five schools and two early learning centres designed by ThomsonAdsett and Law Architects for the Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA). The VSBA has committed to building 100 new schools between 2019 and 2026.