Case Studies

Chichester College were going into the first of year of offering their dedicated Esports course and were looking to refurbish one of their existing spaces to create a base for the course.

The College wanted to provide students with a professional and immersive Esports environment which would act a central hub for the ESPORTS course and create a fit for purpose Esports space that could accommodate traditional classroom teaching for up to 22 students and host competitive Esports events for the ‘Chi Cobras’ Esports team.

Collaborative teaching and learning spaces are key within education environments. In fact, research shows that students in new, technology-enhanced collaborative learning spaces exceed grade expectations (Insider Higher Ed, 2022).

Cardiff University wanted to populate two large spaces for 300 students that would encourage group and team-based learning in their engineering department. One of their key strategic objectives was to create spaces to support their goal of transitioning from lecture-based styles of learning to more project-based learning environments.

The rise of Esports as a mainstream industry has led to the development of specialised equipment and infrastructure to support competitive gaming.

DLD College London have recently implemented dedicated Esports courses and were looking to refurbish one of their existing spaces to accommodate and support a range of Esports activities.

There has been a huge rise in Esports around the globe and it is currently seen as the biggest growth section within education (Pearson). To meet the demand of this rapidly growing sector, Runshaw College are now one of many institutions to offer Esports courses as an exciting addition to their curriculum.

Cyber Security is a major issue in modern society which has driven a huge demand for new workers in this area. To meet demand, University College Birmingham (UCB) offer a dedicated Cyber Security course to open up a wide range of career opportunities for students.

UCB wanted to create a brand new dedicated Cyber Security Lab and were looking to refurbish a room located in the Camden House Campus. 

Derby College Group (DCG) were looking to refurbish one of their existing spaces and repurpose it as a brand-new Business Centre in collaboration with technology partner Fujitsu. The main objective for this new project was to help produce a high-quality facility which would be the focal point for partnership work with employers, other education providers and stakeholders.

The University recently underwent a campus wide project to renovate 80 of its classroom and seminar spaces. They wanted to improve the style, aesthetics and overall quality of their learning facilities across site to help meet the University’s long term vision and introduce lecture capture systems to improve the quality of online content and facilitate remote working for students.

We recently worked with Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust on a dedicated space focused on improving staff wellbeing in their new Healthcare and Wellbeing Centre.

This new building would help provide staff with a relaxing area for meetings and training sessions and a break away from the ever-busy hospital environment.

We recently worked with Cranfield University and GVAV on an exciting project, fitting out spaces for a pilot programme of degree apprenticeships and courses in the newly formed MK:U.

TOP-TEC were focused on specifying furniture for video conferencing rooms, boardrooms, flexible learning spaces, hybrid working areas and breakout spaces for informal meetings.

We recently had the opportunity to collaborate with Ulster University and Pure AV to provide a flexible and active learning solution for a new teaching space.

The University wanted to introduce a solution to help facilitate multiple teaching styles by supporting small collaborative group working as well as presenting to large groups of students.

They also wanted to offer the ability to adapt to any future teaching requirements by redeploying these screens to different spaces throughout the new campus where there were no existing screens on the wall.

We were recently approached by Derby College, who were looking to create and launch a space that would be used in conjunction with one of their first ever Esports courses.

The college wanted to see if we could assist in designing the new space and work together to combine our experience in education with gaming influences to create the Esports “look and feel” that they wanted. TOP-TEC happily took up the challenge, providing students with an environment where they could be fully immersed in the Esports gaming culture.

We recently collaborated with Cardiff University to develop some exciting spaces in the new ABACWS building.

For this particular project we focused on two rooms, a large Collaborative IT Space and a Cyber Forensics Lab. For the IT Space, the University wanted to employ an ‘all eyes on the lecturer’ style, which required students to maintain eye contact when the lecturer is presenting at all times whilst avoiding fixed screens which would obscure the line of site.