News
New design standard for schools We need more
set to spread across public sector
community
heating, says
DECC official
The UK government wants to set
up a forum to encourage the use
of waste heat in buildings to help
the industry meet its 80 per cent
carbon emissions target.
Hergen Haye, an official at
the Department of Energy and
Climate Change, said setting up
something like a “heat-markets
forum” would enable industry, the
energy regulator Ofgem and the
government to collectively create
a set of codes and conducts for
community heating. Speaking at
a recent conference organised
by the Renewable Energy
Association, he said: “If we don’t
tackle heat we have no chance of
meeting our target for 2050.”
Design-led: minimum standards will now apply to new school builds
He said that district heating
needed to be installed at a local
n
A UK government advisory schools design panel, but now • The inclusion of educationalists, level, and a large-scale heat
body has been given the only those graded as ‘very good’ or sustainability and landscape and combined heat and power
power to veto new school designs ‘pass’ will proceed to procurement specialists on the peer review panel; policy framework was needed to
using a new minimum design and construction. Designs graded • Teachers and students’ views; drive energy efficiency in large
standard. ‘unsatisfactory’ or ‘poor’ at their • Random checks on non-sample businesses.
The Commission for Architecture third and final review will not be scheme schools; and On the domestic front, just
and the Built Environment (CABE) built. • CABE will provide more in-depth two per cent of homes in the UK
has been pressing for such a Knight said: “This is the first time feedback reports, education and currently receive heat from district
standard for the past three years. ever that independently-assessed, informational support. heating systems. It is estimated
Schools minister Jim Knight clear, objective and robust design CABE believes the standard will that 5.5m homes could be
announced the standard’s standards have been laid down for a have a longer-term impact on the benefiting from these.
introduction for the Building public sector building construction quality of schools than almost any He believes feed-in tariffs,
Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. It adds real teeth to other educational reform. which should come into force in
programme in an attempt to the design process. It will make the l CABE and the Homes and April 2010, and the renewable
prevent more unfit-for-purpose design process faster and more Communities Agency have heat incentive, will be key to
schools being built. It is envisaged efficient by promoting best practice completed the first national survey meeting the government’s
this will eventually lead to all public and thinking in school design.” on the design quality of affordable renewable energy target of 15
sector buildings having a minimum Features of the new minimum housing, which found just 18 per per cent by 2020. A consultation
design standard in the future. design standard include: cent of schemes were judged to be on renewable heat incentives is
Designs for BSF schools are • A new, simpler four-point grading either good or very good. scheduled to begin this summer.
already assessed by the CABE system;
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