Design and Technical workshop

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Design and Technical workshop

• Meet the team
• Our strategic approach to transformational design
  (John Walker CDA)
• Assessing design proposals to ensure
  transformation
• Our approach to stakeholder engagement
• School visions for transformation

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Pennine Lancashire
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Spectacular rolling landscape of Pennine
Lancashire. A proud industrial heritage of
textile manufacturing and world export that
created its own diverse population of workers
from the north of England, the Punjab region of
the Indian subcontinent and Bangladesh.
  Recognised today for its heritage, musical and
sporting success.
Darwen Tower
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People Inventors, Industrialists and
Designers
Wayne Hemingway
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Sport Great football heritage -
Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers.
Blackburn are one of only 4 football clubs to
ever win the Premiership. Watched and supported
all over the world.
Premier League Champions
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Arts Music (House DJ Sam Flannagan and
Bhangra) Art (Cassell and Turner) Triennale
(South Asian Art) C21 programme of cultural and
community activities.
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Education BSF will look to the future to
nurture modern, open-minded, informed, creative,
imaginative and pioneering young people.

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• The BSF partnership will -
• Deliver sustainable C21 facilities that will
  enhance learning and living for the whole
• community.
•  Develop personalised learning programmes.
• Through enhanced ICT, gain instant access to the
  world of learning
• Be supported throughout by teachers and
  assistants who will guide and nurture each
• student to suit their particular abilities and
  interests.

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Through innovative architecture, schools will be
able to offer a far more diverse range of
learning environments that will support and
enhance opportunities for pupils, staff and the
wider community. The physical environment will
be designed and built to be highly flexible and
adaptable to suit changing pedagogies.
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Places to learn will be created internally and
externally using high quality robust materials
with low maintenance requirements and
sustainable material and energy specifications.
  Each school will open its facilities to the
community with barrier free access and an
extended day.
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The Sample Schools   Darwen Vale A great
opportunity to blend the original three-storey
E-shaped building plan form with a contemporary
building that compliments and adds significant
value to the whole school. The site topography
steps significantly. Located close to the
M65.   Pleckgate As a completely new building on
a new site, the Pleckgate project offers one of
the most spectacular locations for a school with
the potential for stunning views across the
Pennines.
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Design for Sustainability   Blackburn with
Darwen is wet and windy! For the schools, this
means lots of indoor wet play and a great desire
for outdoor wind breaks and sheltered areas for
play. It also brings significant opportunities
for rainwater harvesting and highly efficient on
site renewable energy generation.

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Design for Transformational Learning   Recent
BSFs and Academies have WOW factors including
Atria, Strawberries, Streets, FLZs will these
transform learning? Understand pedagogies and
space usage Duffy and Nair. Flexibility and
adaptability.

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What is the EFEI?

• A comprehensive list of best-practice features in
  educational facilities design, each relating to a
  broader pattern
• Incorporates features that make for an
  ergonomically sound environment as well as
  features that create opportunities for rich
  learning

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Aspects of the EFEI tool
Students
Building/Ergonomics
Learning
Adults Working in Schools
Community
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Aspects of DQI
The School in its Community Within the
School Form materials Character innovation
IMPACT
Access Space Uses
FUNCTIONALITY
Performance Engineering Services Construction
BUILD QUALITY
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What is the EFEI useful for?
The EFEI has two main uses1. To assess the
appropriateness of existing school buildings for
providing 21st century education2. To assess
architectural and interior design plans for new
schools, thus providing an extra tool for clients
to use in assessing school building plans. It can
also be considered as an appendix to design
briefs for new school developments.
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How is the EFEI used?
The EFEI is scored using a simple, reliable
system. Each feature on the EFEI list is designed
to be easily quantifiable so that this is
possible. The assessor simply marks the item as
'present' or 'not present', and, for rare
ambiguous cases 'somewhat present'. A total
score is generated that allows different schools
to be compared with each other, however the most
important feature of the EFEI is its ability to
help pinpoint specific areas where change is
needed.
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Raw scores
Weighted scores
Pattern
Features 1-5
Total
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Who is using EFEI?
Individual schools in Canada and the USA
Salford City Council and Wigan Borough Council
(as SWEDQI)
Ministry of Education, Training, Youth, Sports
and Culture, Cayman Islands
Department of Education and Early
Childhood,Victoria, Australia
Department of Education, New Zealand
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The basis for EFEI
1) Education in 2010 should be responsive to the
world of 2010, not stuck in the world of 1950
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The basis for EFEI
2) All students learn differently and so we need
great variety in our teaching and learning
programme so that each child can reach his or her
full potential
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The basis for EFEI
3) Schools need to feel like warm, caring places
where "respect" is more than a word but
demonstrated by the kind of environments we
create for teaching and learning
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The basis for EFEI
4) Schools should foster a sense of community
where students and adults enjoy strong, positive
relationships (which is harder to do in
anonymous, institutional settings)
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The basis for EFEI
5) With the information and communication
revolution now more than two decades old, it is
time for schools to fully embrace ICT and
capitalise on its potential to make learning more
personal, meaningful, engaging and exciting for
each student
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The basis for EFEI
6) As we enter the conceptual age, our students
need to be trained for creativity, adaptability,
social consciousness and global awareness.
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The basis for EFEI
7) Schools themselves need to become globally
connected places where learning is personal,
hands-on, real-world connected and
interdisciplinary
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The basis for EFEI
8) School buildings should become learning
centres for the whole community, serve as
incubators for innovation and as places to build
and enhance social and economic health and
wealth.
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High quality design
Transformational design
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Ensuring design quality and transformational
design
SFCOBC
PQQ
ITPD
ITCD

• Launch with
• pupil briefs
• 8 week
• design review
• Review of
• Initial bids
• CABE review

• Strategic Design Brief
• School Visions
• School control options
• Initial DQI

• Pupil Design
• Briefs
• School output
• specifications

• EFEI training
• Initial EFEI
• assessment

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Stakeholder engagement

• Pupils
• Staff
• Governors
• Parents
• Wider community
• Sample schools
• All non-sample schools
• Meaningful engagement
• Innovative techniques