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RIBA urges Government to review school building programme
The RIBA says that the Government needs to urgently review its current programme of building new schools in order to reduce soaring operational costs across England's education estate from new and existing buildings. A new report, Better Spaces for Learning, claims that the
Government could have prevented the English school estate from spending upwards of £150m annually on unnecessary operation and maintenance costs by commissioning better school facilities. RIBA President Jane Duncan said that poor school buildings
were negatively affecting learning: “How can we expect our children to compete with the world’s best when too many of our school buildings are substandard? Educational improve- ments resulting from the current programme of school building are not reaching the basic standards that British taxpayers and our economy expects. We need to do better and we urge the Government to review its programme of building new schools.” The Government has admitted that only 5 per cent of the
nearly 60,000 school buildings across the UK are performing as intended and operating efficiently. The RIBA said that the prevalence of damp, leaky classrooms and asbestos-ridden buildings in British schools was causing many pupils and teach- ers to struggle to learn and teach. The RIBA report claims that the Government’s current pro-
gramme of building new schools was suffering from a lack of flexibility to make the best possible use of resources, and little opportunity for school staff to input into the design of their own new buildings. RIBA believes that the Government
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Five BDP-designed projects have been successful in this year’s RICS Regional Awards, with two of them winning the top accolade of project of the year. The award scheme has been established to showcase the achievements of the most inspirational regional initiatives and developments in land, property, construction and the environment. The winning projects are:
• Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool – winner of Community Benefit, Design Through Innovation and Project of the Year in the North West.
• Blackburn Meadows, Sheffield – winner of the Infrastructure award and Project of the year for Yorkshire and Humber.
• Cardiff and Vale College – winner of Design through Innovation for Wales.
• Essex Business School, Colchester – winner of Design through Innovation for East of England.
• Victoria Station, Manchester – winner of Infrastructure in the North West. These winners will now be automatically entered into the
RICS National Awards, where they will compete against other leading projects from across the UK in October.
programme must be improved to guarantee better outcomes. Jane Duncan added: “This country is in the grip of the worst
shortage of school places in living memory. Our report high- lights the vital importance of school design and how it affects the general health and wellbeing of their users, our children and their teachers. As limited funding is available to deal with the growing problem, every penny spent on schools must deliver maximum value for money. Award winning well-designed, successful schools with happy pupils and productive staff like (Stirling Prize winner) Burntwood School in London shouldn't be the exception, they should be the standard. One of the RIBA report's key findings was that good school
design can reduce running and maintenance costs in some cases by more than several times a teacher’s average salary a year.
BDP takes five at RICS Regional Awards
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