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Client Design - Advisors for schools
- Description:
- Improving the design of learning environments can have a big impact on the behaviour and attainment of the pupils attending a school.
- Submitted On:
- 23/08/2009
Schools within a school
- Description:
- The striking design for Bishops Park College led local residents to think it was a new terminal building for Jaywick Aerodrome.
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- 23/08/2009
Why Facilities Management Matters
- Description:
- Surely Transformation is about educational attainment, raised expectations and aspirations, meeting the 14 to 19 agenda or achieving sustainable Life Long Learning.
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- 23/08/2009
Who really understands Sustainability?
- Description:
- Cath Basilio, Senior Architect with Sheffeld City Council unpicks the trendy and superfcial concepts of sustainability to discover its radical promise for schools.
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- 23/08/2009
Transformation without demolition
- Description:
- The Government is spending £70 billion on schools over the next decade, and most of it is going on Knock It Down.
- Submitted On:
- 25/08/2009
Technical Transformation
- Description:
- Profound changes have taken place in schools and communities in South Yorkshire thanks to an EU funded project that is breathtaking in scale. Barry Philips reports on the lessons learned.
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- 25/08/2009
Turning a vision into reality
- Description:
- In June 2004 the DfES published Schools for the Future: Exemplar Designs, Concepts and Ideas. The publication is meant as a guide for local authorities, a starting point to get Councils and school staff thinking about their requirements and to help them explain their thoughts and ambitions to architects.
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- 25/08/2009
Designing School to Deliver Extended Services
- Description:
- Sharon Wright, Co-Editor of Century 21 Schools and author of a new DfES publication, looks at some of the key design issues and one example of an innovative new community school.
- Submitted On:
- 25/08/2009
The Contractors View - Balfour Beatty
- Description:
- With pathfnder and wave one Authorities well on their way, the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme is set to be the main mechanism for estate renewal for the Maintained Sector for the next ffteen years.
- Submitted On:
- 25/08/2009
How to read architects drawings
- Description:
- This is the second of five articles in ‘21C Schools’ for anyone thinking of building at their school, which will take clients through all the drawings sent by the architect and his team and explain their relevance. This issue will deal with foor plans, followed by sections and elevations, service drawings and fnally models, computer generated images and artists’ impressions in later issues.
- Submitted On:
- 25/08/2009
What not to build
- Description:
- Mairi Johnson explains how to apply the techniques of fashion gurus Trinny and Susannah to school design.
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- 25/08/2009
What is good design?
- Description:
- A new building is a fantastic opportunity for any school, but how can you make sure that you get what you need?
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- 25/08/2009
Reflections of a Headteacher
- Description:
- Coping with educational transformation in a heritage school.
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- 25/08/2009
Bog Standards
- Description:
- Dorothy Stringer School has cracked the gritty school toilets issue.
- Submitted On:
- 25/08/2009
Needs led Design
- Description:
- MPB education is an education-led integrator, which recognises that schools are much more than buildings. We are determined to work in close, long-term partnerships, in order to stretch the existing boundaries and bring about innovation in ICT, design and curriculum integration to the Building Schools for the Future programme.
- Submitted On:
- 25/08/2009
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