Promoting Sustainable Schools

Alastair Blyth, Analyst OECD Programme on Educational Building

alastair.blyth@oecd.org

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: alastair.blyth@oecd.orgwww.oecd.org/edu/facilities