Promoting Sustainable Schools
Alastair Blyth, Analyst OECD Programme on Educational Building
Programme on Educational Building (PEB)
1. Innovation in design to meet
educational needs.
2. Evaluation of procurement
policy and practice.
3. School safety and security.
Work in 2009-10 will include:
Education for Sustainable Development
Contents
• Sharing information
• Linking sustainable practices with teaching
• What can OECD do?
• Conclusion
1
How can countries and localities
share best practices in building
and managing environmentally
and socially sustainable schools?
Information at the right time
SCHOOLSDYNAMICCHANGING
BUILDINGSFIXED
SUPPORTIVE
MANAGE
Facilities should be supportive
Education need
Society need
Information
Information
School Project Life Cycle
Design / Construct Occupy / UseConceive
Feed forward
Experience
Define need
Sustainability? Design and build Is it sustainable?
Design / Construct Occupy / UseConceive
Feedback
Stakeholders
Information need
• Two sides to sharing!! Giving and Receiving
• What information is needed?
• By whom?
• When is it needed?
• How is it to be used?
• How do you get hold of it?
Methods of sharing
• Demonstration projects
• Meetings
• Networks
• Case studies
• Guides / regulation?
• Reports
• Web
• Exhibitions
• Magazines
• ….
2.
How can sustainable school
practices be better linked to
teaching sustainable development
concepts and competencies?
Is it just ‘teaching’ or should it be
‘learning’?
Interactions
Physical
Environment
Social
Environment
Curriculum School
Practices
Physical Environment:
• Building and materials
• Energy use
• Landscape
• …..Schools for the future: Design of
sustainable schools Case Studies,
DFES, TSO, UK
Social Interaction
• Play
• Group projects
• Parents
• Other visitors
Tajimi Junior High School, Gifu-ken, Japan, PEB
Compendium 3rd Edition.
Curriculum
• Subjects
• Links to physical environment
• Creativity
• Inspire
Schools for the future: Design of
sustainable schools Case Studies,
DFES, TSO, UK
Rod Bunn, BSRIA
School Practices:
Examples set by the school:
• Recycling
• Lights off, taps not dripping
• Driving to school
• ……
Schools for the future: Design of
sustainable schools Case Studies,
DFES, TSO, UK
3 How can the OECD assist in
promoting sustainable schools?
What PEB is doing.
Current PEB Work
• PEB Compendium
• PEB Posters
• PEB facility performance
evaluation project
– includes energy, water
consumption
• Examples for analysis of PISA
data
Canning Vale College, Perth, Australia,
PEB Compendium 3rd Edition.
Tajimi Junior High School, Gifu-ken, Japan, PEB Compendium 3rd Edition.
PEB ESD project
• 2009-2010 programme of work
• Costs and benefits of environmentally sustainable learning environments
• Analytic report and good practice guide
• Review national, regional, local policies
• Review national approaches to ESD
• Analyse approaches towards facilities– Procurement, design and use
– Issues such as carbon footprints
Other related PEB work
• “PEB Compendium 4th Edition
• Higher education: spaces and places for
innovation, learning and knowledge
transfer
…. on Carbon Footprints…
1890 1974
2004
Photos:
Rod Bunn, BSRIA
1890 1974 2004
51 kg/m2
71 kg/m2
48 kg/m2
Carbon Footprint
30,000 kg/yr 163,300kg/yr 62,400 kg/yr
210 students340 students121 students
A special report for the BSRIA Briefing, Primary School Carbon Footprinting, Jan 2008,
Rod Bunn & Adrian Leaman
One last point…….
Let’s be optimistic!
Thank you!
Alastair Blyth, Analyst OECDProgramme on Educational Buildings
Contact: [email protected]/edu/facilities