Building Schools for the Future

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Building Schools for the Future

• Beech Williamson
• Design Manager
• Partnerships for Schools

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Raising aspirations
Will our children arrive every morning at a
places like these
Recently completed PFI schools - main entrance
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Raising aspirations
Or these
main entrances of other recent schools
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Raising aspirations
Into lobbies and corridors like these
Recently completed PFI schools circulation
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Raising aspirations
Or these
other recent PFI schools malls
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Raising aspirations
Socialise in landscaping like this..
Recently completed PFI schools - landscaping
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Raising aspirations
Or this
other schools - landscaped courtyards
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BSF will provide
Places to arrive every morning like these.
Bristol BSF project Skanska/ Wilkinson Eyre
Architects
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Building Schools for the Future

• BSF is
• Transforming every secondary school in England
• A strategic building programme
• with educational vision at the heart
• 45bn over 15 years
• PFI/ DB mix
• Delivered through PfS and LEPs

Bristol BSF project Wilkinson Eyre Architects
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BSF is big

• 3000 secondary schools
• 400 special schools (secondary equivalent)
• 150 Local Authorities
• Every one in England except recently new and
  Academies

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The LEP Structure
LEA
Private Sector Partner
Partnerships for Schools (PfS)
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Local Education Partnership
PFI Agreement
ICT Contract
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Partnerships for Schools

• PfS is a national delivery vehicle for BSF,
  that
• Manages national programme
• Supports operations through Project Directors
• Supports local educational vision and strategy
• Ensures compliance with design standards set by
  DfES
• Standardises processes and contracts for LEPs

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Progress in Wave 1 and Pathfinders
Bradford Bristol Sheffield Newcastle Greenwich Sol
ihull Knowsley Lancs Stoke Lewisham Wal
Forest Leeds Leicester Manchester Sunderland Newha
m S Tyneside
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Programme prioritisation
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15 Waves
Number of LAs (LEP exists)
CAPEX
45bn
35(14)
52(21)
13(3)
110
10
90
2.4 bn
170
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15 Waves (5 sets of 3)
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Phases within waves schools open
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New LAs in Waves 4, 5 and 6

• Barking and Dagenham
• Bedfordshire
• Birmingham
• Blackburn with Darwen
• Blackpool
• Bournemouth
• Bradford
• Bristol
• Cambridgeshire
• Camden
• Coventry
• Derby
• Doncaster
• Durham
• Ealing
• East Riding of Yorkshire
• Essex

• Greenwich
• Halton
• Hammersmith and Fulham
• Haringey
• Hartlepool
• Hertfordshire
• Hillingdon
• Kensington and Chelsea
• Kent
• Kingston Upon Hull
• Kirklees
• Lambeth
• Liverpool
• Luton
• Manchester
• North East Lincolnshire
• Nottingham

• Nottinghamshire
• Oldham
• Portsmouth
• Redcar and Cleveland
• Rochdale
• Sandwell
• Sheffield
• Somerset
• Southwark
• Stockton-on-Tees
• Suffolk
• Telford and Wrekin
• Tower Hamlets
• Waltham Forest
• Wandsworth
• Wolverhampton

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Schools for the future will provide

• Learning environments that are
• attractive
• comfortable
• good acoustics
• adaptable
• Plus space for
• staff to work
• Inclusion
• ICT

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So we can consider

• Opportunities for
• Different organisation
• Fuller inclusion
• Pastoral care
• Future changes
• As well as
• Need for Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality
• Sustainability and Energy performance

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A difficult balance
area
spec
funding
sofunding is the constraint
sofunding is the constraint
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Gross area increases
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• average per pupil
• 1996 BB82
• 2002 BB82 draft
• 2003 revision/
• exemplars
• 2004 BB98/
• BB99

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Basis of BSF
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Categories of space
Basic teaching area
Minimum area recommended for each category
Halls
NET AREA
Learning resource areas
Staff and administration
Storage
GROSS AREA
Dining and social areas
Supplementary net area and associated non-net area
Toilets and personal care Circulation Plant
(including servers) Area of internal walls School
kitchen facilities
NON-NET AREA
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Part B Design Criteria

• Key design requirements
• Access and inclusion
• Safety and security
• Environmental performance
• Flexibility and adaptability

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Learning cluster
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Pre-LEP design work

• Client Design Advisors (CDAs) can
• Update AMP data/ surveys
• Option appraisal
• Develop brief
• Tease out new ways of working/ organisation
• Feasibility studies
• Input to DQI
• Involve pupils and others
• For sample schools, reference design

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Ensuring Design Quality

• DfES funds CABE enablers
• LAs fund Client Design Advisors (CDAs)
• PfS provide DQI facilitators
• RIBA accredits CDAs
• PfS/ cabe inform and update CDAs

DfES
cabe enablers
PfS design team
Local Authority
DQI facilitators
CDAs
school
brief
Using DQI
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Design Quality Indicator for Schools
The School in its Community Within the
School Form materials Character innovation

• Access
• Space
• Uses

IMPACT
FUNCTIONALITY
Performance Engineering Services Construction
BUILD QUALITY
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DQI tool in project stages
1.Briefing Commit to Invest
2.Mid Design Commit to Construct
3. Ready for Occupation
4. In-Use
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Standardisation

• Not off the shelf exemplar designs
• Standard docs avoid reinventing the wheel and
  allow more time for the important things
• Output spec
• Room data sheets
• Legal documents
• Key elements - doorsets, toilets

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Encouraging new blood

• Training/ dating seminars for new architects,
  schools and contractors
• Turnover, schools experience and IIP not key at
  PQQ
• Clear scoring for design at ITN
• Standard format
• Simple, specific questions in standard docs
• 2 or 3 sample schools only, then exclusivity on
  remainder
• Encouraged use of suppliers embedded in local
  community

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Funding for Schools

• Devolved for every school and LA for its highest
  priorities.
• By 2007-08
• 34,000 pa for a primary
• 113,000 pa for a secondary
• Direct funding for ICT
• Targeted capital fund for standards-based
  projects 14-19, SEN, academies, etc.
• Strategic BSF, transformational, not patch
  mend

Devolved
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Targeted
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Strategic
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Primary Transformation

• Half of all primary schools rebuilt or
  refurbished over next 15 years
• All others to receive funding for maintenance and
  improvements
• 150 million in 200809 for pilots
• rising to 500 million in 2009-10 for all Local
  Authorities
• funding allocated by open, simple formula
• Added impact by joining up with other funding
  streams

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Small practices where to start

• Wave 4, 5 and 6
• Client Design Advisors
• Local reference designs
• Training/ dating seminars
• Consortium
• Primary Transformation
• Masterplan required for all primary schools
  (BB99)
• DQI for Schools