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SCEME Spring Meeting Wednesday 14th March 2012   During the meeting there will be a presentation on   Passivhaus school design   from Jim Quay and colleagues from JPA   The presentation will include a general description of the unique Montgomery Primary School and How the M&E services' design differs between ...»

BARTLETT SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES AND CIBSE SCHOOL DESIGN GROUP request the pleasure of your company to a lecture to be delivered by   Melissa Kirby Honeywell, Australia on   ‘Was it the bankers, the builder, the facility manager or the government? The anatomy of a public private partnership dispute.’   Public private partnership (PPP) is a government procurement model...»

OECD Centre for Effective Learning Environments (CELE) promotes the exchange and analysis of policy, research and experience in all matters related to educational facilities.  On 29 September 2011, CELE will launch its flagship publication Designing for Education: Compendium of Exemplary Educational Facilities 2011. Published once every five years, the 250-page book showcases over 60 exemplary or recently built or refurbished educational facilities from 28 countries. Each project...»

The new issue of the School Design Group Bulletin No. 4 will be published in September 2011. This issue is supported by RPS, WindowMaster, Reading University, Brunel University and University College London.»

For those involved in the design and construction of school buildings this is a time of great change. The river of money allocated for building schools has run dry and the price of energy is increasing. Yet, there are social and moral obligations to provide school buildings that are both safe and healthy for those who are amongst the most vulnerable in our society, and that enable children...»

Title             SCALA/SCEME Study Day 2011 – Making the most of what you’ve got When          Friday 3 June 2011 Where        UWE, Bristol Cost             £130 (one day) SCALA and SCEME have joined together for their 5th joint study day on the theme of ‘Making the most of what you’ve got. The challenge of building a sustainable environment has been explored at previous events. This year it...»

Title             Engineering Fire Protection in schools When          Wednesday 8 June 2011, starting 11.30am Where        City of London Cost             £15 SCEME members, £30 non- SCEME members, including lunch Following on from many enquiries and discussions, SCEME, the Society of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers serving local government are holding their summer meeting on Engineering Fire Protection in Schools. The speakers will cover a number of topics...»

Title: Sustainable School Design and Operation: A Whole School Approach   When: Tuesday 14th June, 2011; 9.30am – 4.30pm   Where: Hugh Aston Building, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK     The Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development at De Montfort University have been engaging secondary schools throughout Leicester City in the science, engineering and technology of low-energy school design and operation, as part of...»

The CIBSE Schools Design Group has prepared an outline for a new document dealing with integrated school design. CIBSE have agreed to the production and publication of this document and the Schools Design Group Management Committee are currently drafting the content. The proposed document will become a single point of access to essential school design information and provide a compendium of the design standards...»

CIBSE School Design Group has produced electronic version of all CIBSE School Design Group Bulletins (2008, 2009, 2010) with enthusiastic help of Umang Agrawal, a talented architect who just completed his MSc at the Bartlett, University College London.CIBSE School Design Group Bulletin No: 3 was supported by our friends in Monodraught, WSP, Nuaire, ACO and Capita Symonds. All articles were written by members of CIBSE School Design Group Committee free...»