Our mission is to improve the design, operation, and environmental quality of educational buildings by providing timely, impartial information on design techniques, and building technologies and developing novel engineering tools to enable the industry to deliver truly sustainable educational buildings.
Our vision is that educational buildings will become exemplars for cost-effective, low-energy design while creating the optimal learning environment.
Principal Terms of Reference
- to foster knowledge exchange between all interested parties working on sustainable school design.
- to develop a strategy for healthy and sustainable school buildings.
- to encourage cooperation between different professional bodies and institutions of relevance for school design.
- to reflect on changing procurement routes and design standards.
- to identify gaps in the science of designing learning environments.
- to initiate cooperation between academia and industry to resolve the problems of relevance to the industry.
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A new name for School Design Group
Reflecting a change to our focus, we have updated our name.
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Past Events
Education Buildings Knowledge
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Peer Reviewed – Published April 2015
TM57 Integrated school design (2015)
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- Apr 2015
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Peer Reviewed – Published March 2015
Guide A Environmental design (2015, updated 2021)
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- Mar 2015
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