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📣 Project Spotlight: Old Quadrangle Redevelopment | University of Melbourne The #OldQuad redevelopment at the University of Melbourne was the first in Australia to target the adaptive reuse model Passivhaus EnerPHit certification. The redevelopment required major upgrades to building services and extensive work to achieve airtightness around the building envelope. Learn more about this project here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gfvE56SJ #Changemakers #LivingSystems #Passivhaus #EnerPHit 📷 Lovell Chen

Students deserve safe, healthy, and climate resilient schools. 🏫 💚 Join The Passive House Network to learn how #PassiveHouse implementation in and adaptation to school systems small and large can meet the growing challenges of climate, power supply, and social well-being. Experts from the US and worldwide will provide critical insights through case studies and discuss what’s possible next in panel discussions. As communities invest in new construction and retrofit old buildings, let’s deliver school buildings that are as robust as our students and communities deserve. Featuring: Naomi C.O. Beal Beal, PassivhausMAINE Ann-Marie Fallon, Architype, UK Richard Lo, Kaplan Thompson Architects Timothy Lock, Opal Architecture Barry McCarron, South West College, Northern Ireland Moderated by Ken Levenson, The Passive House Network Learning Objectives: --> Outline how Passive House standards support successful new school buildings and retrofits. --> Describe the unique challenges schools present and successful strategies to overcome them. --> Identify successful project energy balance design and key implementation aspects from enclosure to programming to HVAC systems. --> Describe challenges and strategies addressing specialty uses in school buildings such as cafeterias, labs, and gymnasiums. #sustainabledesign #sustainablearchitecture #architecture #climateaction #healthyschools #students #passivhaus #efficiencyfirst #energy #cleanair

New Junior School Offers a Lesson in Modern Building Practices The new Junior School for the Girls’ Day School Trust Notting Hill & Ealing High School, designed by Hawkins\Brown, exemplifies sustainability. Rated BREEAM Excellent, it sets a benchmark for integrating modern building practices with academic excellence. Troldtekt A/S https://lnkd.in/edRTK-XZ #SustainableDesign #BREEAMExcellent #ModernArchitecture #EducationalBuildings #BuildingSustainability

How are we building (or renovating) the next generation of schools to meet health, resilience and climate targets? Here’s a FREE online symposium designed to offer answers and demonstrate solutions… Sign up below (and share with your local school boards or design decisionmakers.)

📰 Announcing the December Issue of the Transforming Homes Newsletter Join us on our journey to develop scalable design solutions to transform existing housing by working with, and for, communities. This month's featured articles: 🔹 Alliance for Sustainable Building Products partners Simon Corbey and Richard Broad reflect on their attendance to the #GTE Research Forum hosted by the #FutureObservatory, which brough together the four #GreenTransitionEcosystems Design HOPES Public Map Platform/ Llwyfan Map Cyhoeddus Future Island-Island and Transforming Homes. 🔹 Drawing from her recent participation at a series of events, Co-Director Prof Jo Patterson highlights the power of #collaboration and #communication in addressing the challenges of transforming the UK's ageing #housing stock. Spotlight on: 🔹 Richard Hawkins, Technical Innovations Manager at Sevenoaks Modular Ltd and co-investigator of Transforming Homes, who brings his expertise on #sustainable construction and industrial manufacturing to help deliver design solutions for home transformation. 🔹 Dr Lucy McFadzean, Research Associate at University of Exeter, who brings her expertise in qualitative research and #codesign to ensure that residents and communities are central to our design process. Full newsletter 👇 Sign up to stay updated on the #TransformingHomes project: https://lnkd.in/gxYwsWPA UK Research and Innovation Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) the Design Museum University of Bath Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd University of Bristol GW4 Alliance Mikhail Riches Knowle West Media Centre WeCanMake Woodknowledge Wales Sevenoaks Modular Ltd City & County of Swansea #UKRI #AHRC #GTE #GreenTransition #netzero #climatechange #innovation #designresearch #design #research #housing

We have documented the construction of a wide range of education facilities, from primary schools to universities. Our systems capture the entire building process, recording the development of spaces where future generations will learn and grow. Each project, whether a primary school, middle school, high school, college, or university, is recorded in detail, showing the building's progress until it is a completed educational institution. The footage serves as a visual record of the work that goes into creating environments for education, highlighting the construction milestones that shape these vital community assets. Through time-lapse, the transformation of architectural designs into functional learning spaces is preserved, creating a lasting record of the development of educational infrastructure. #education #tes #schoolbuild #timelapse #timelapseUK #schoolconstruction

We have documented the construction of a wide range of education facilities, from primary schools to universities. Our systems capture the entire building process, recording the development of spaces where future generations will learn and grow. Each project, whether a primary school, middle school, high school, college, or university, is recorded in detail, showing the building's progress until it is a completed educational institution. The footage serves as a visual record of the work that goes into creating environments for education, highlighting the construction milestones that shape these vital community assets. Through time-lapse, the transformation of architectural designs into functional learning spaces is preserved, creating a lasting record of the development of educational infrastructure. #education #tes #schoolbuild #timelapse #timelapseUK #schoolconstruction

Renovation Gives College Better ROI than New Construction In a post-pandemic uncertain economy, campus planners and facilities directors at large public universities are focused on value. Rather than new construction, organizations can get better return on investment from […] #transformfm #ifma #ashe

ARCHITEKTUR MACHT SCHULE! Our September/October newsletter focuses on how school buildings are always a reflection of societal development. We need spaces that promote social skills, encourage independence, and help children and young people find orientation in a rapidly changing world. In short, educational institutions today see themselves as "spaces for teams". A well-structured spatial framework where individuals collaborate in various configurations, along with areas for retreat to foster individual concentration or relaxation. These educational buildings and their outdoor spaces are places of encounter where children and young people can grow together, develop a sense of community, unleash creativity, and practice democracy. Some of our new school buildings illustrate what this can look like in practice. Read the newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/de-Sahad Image: Kurt Hoerbst, Rudolf Steiner Schule, Vienna #dietrichuntertrifaller #dtflr #architecture #architektur #europeanarchitecture #sustainablearchitecture #nachhaltigkeit #sustainability #nachhaltigearchitektur #educationalarchitecture #bildungsarchitektur #education #bildung #school #schule #futuregeneration #sustainablefuture #nachhaltigezukunft #publicarchitecture #öffentlichearchitektur

MPBA Member Industry News 📢 TG Escapes Eco-Buildings are pleased to introduce their DfE-Compliant Inclusive Learning Hub concept, designed to address the critical shortage of #SEND places across the UK TG Escapes Eco-Buildings are supporting #SEND providers across the UK suffering from a #shortage of places by designing flexible, attractive 16 and 32-place Inclusive Learning Hubs In partnership with SEND specialist architects Haverstock, The Blue Iris Partnership, and Terra Firma Landscape Architecture they have crafted schemes that can meet the unique needs of many different settings To read the full article head over to our website : https://lnkd.in/e58vCW5U #mmc #schools #education #school #modernmethofsofconstruction #modular #modularconstruction #manufacturing #offsite #offsiteconstruction #buildbetter #mpba #news