Evans River Community School

Evans River Community School caters for Kindergarten to Year 12 students, offering education to students from Evans Head, Woodburn, Broadwater, Rileys Hill, Dungarubba, Swan Bay, Bungawalbyn, New Italy, and Tabbimoble on the North Coast of New South Wales. BKA Architecture was engaged to design a Special Education Learning Unit as an extension of the existing school.

Situated in a bushfire zone, one of the key challenges in the project was to design in accordance with the newly introduced NCC Specification 43, effective from 1 May 2023, for bushfire protection measures in Class 9

buildings.

This newly implemented design specification for certain Class 9 building typologies required high-level coordination and navigation with a range of consultants throughout the design process to ensure compliance designed to BAL 40 zones. This ultimately resulted in a cohesive, integrated design that complements the existing building.