Bce Inner City Co Education Secondary College Update

Secondary school

01 Sep 2025

An artist impression of BCE's new co-educational secondary college.

The Windsor Inner North Secondary School (WINSS) project is a strategic response to the growing demand for co-educational secondary education in Brisbane’s inner-city region. It is part of BCE’s 20-year ‘New School Development Schedule’ which identified the inner north of Brisbane as a priority location for additional school infrastructure. The proposed school, planned to be opened in 2029, is being designed with students' futures in mind - blending innovation, sustainability, and wellbeing into every aspect of the campus by aligning with the vision of Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’.

A significant amount of work has been conducted on the prosed future school including:

Architectural plans, elevations, and sections
Educational brief
Acoustic, fire, landscape, and structural reports
ESD (Environmentally Sustainable Design) report
Preliminary building certification assessments
Cost estimates and engineering services

One of the key components of the WINSS project is its commitment to Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si, delivering a school design that is sustainable through net-zero operational carbon emissions. This includes:

Passive design strategies
Façade optimisation through parametric modelling
Thermal and visual comfort enhancements
Energy-efficient envelope design

An Educational Brief has been developed to allow the project architect Hayball, to design a comprehensive masterplan aligning with the following areas: Functional area schedules