Yesterday’s launch event of our new resource ‘The New 3Rs’ threw up some really interesting observations from the presenters about the new landscape we are working within – and some radical options for the future of schools and school design. Interestingly many of these had their roots in the history of schooling and identify a [...]
Posts under ‘Refurbishing schools’
The New 3 Rs – refresh, refurb & reusing schools
We’ve just published a report entitled ‘Rethinking schools capital investment: the new 3Rs? – Refresh, refurb, reuse. We’re loading the whole thing up as a permanent section to this site and you can download it here (pdf). It has been produced in conjunction with Scott Brownrigg and Davis Langdon. The New 3Rs – refresh, refurbishment [...]
Award winning refurb
One of the most impressive refurbishments of an existing school that we’ve seen in recent years was the job that Haverstock did on the Ifield School in Gravesend, Kent. It was deservedly a joint-winner of the 2009 BCSE Awards, providing an example of how to really implement a new extension, remodel and refurbishment to an [...]
Every Special School Matters
Following our call for ideas – I am posting up some great case studies and discussions we had about designing special schools. As a major issue for the new government, special schools are very much here to stay – but their design and work is not always given the same profile and visibility way as [...]
Remodelling education spaces
For obvious reasons, we’ve been getting a lot of interest around the question of school refurbishment and remodelling in recent weeks. It’s an area that we’ve covered in a number of ways over the past year or so. Our major remodelling conference in March 2009 featured some of the best case studies and presentations available in England. [...]
Reshaping our learning landscape
We are really pleased to be working with Croydon and Kingston Council and their team (the fantastic Jo Twine and Darren Atkinson) on a series of provocation papers as part of their Building Schools for the Future programme. One of the papers is already on the DesignShare website and is written by Prakash Nair and [...]
Why wait for BSF?
Yesterday I spoke at an event entitled, ‘Why wait for BSF?’ , hosted by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. It’s early days for their work on this issue but some of the invited schools had done fantastic work. Like the BCSE’s Big School Makeover schools – these schools had not waited for permission to [...]
BCSE Members Only seminar: Refresh, Refurb, Reuse & change of use?
Our latest BCSE Member Seminar is going to be covering an issue we’ve already picked up a few times on this site. We ran a one day policy conference entitled ‘Creating great remodelled schools’ in March 2009, and since then this key issue is increasingly taking centre stage. This seminar will discuss the issues behind the [...]
