Design Buy Build Issue 22 2016 | Page 18

School Focus Pick Everard Pick Everard Advises On Kazakhstan School Project 18 H AILEYBURY School has appointed leading independent management, design and construction consultancy Pick Everard to advise on a brand new kindergarten in Kazakhstan. The Herfordshire school established Haileybury Almaty – the first British public school to ever open in Central Asia – in September 2008, adding an additional school in the capital Astana three years later. Work on a new $5m kindergarten at Haileybury Astana is due to start later this year following a strategic review and feasibility study undertaken by the team at Pick Everard. Paul Knifton, associate architect at Pick Everard, has been working on the project.