BBLB architects

Education Sector Campaign

Take your first step towards reducing bills, more effectively using available space, and having more ‘eco-effective’ facilities.

The drive to reduce costs and be more efficient is never far away from the headlines at the moment, be it around energy savings, having to stretch budgets or making your assets work harder. With additional pressures for education establishments regarding curriculum, government requirements and student performance, it must undoubtedly be a challenge to balance priorities.

Undertaking a review of how ‘eco-effective’ your facility is may not be top of the list but improving space utilisation and energy usage can make a real difference to the bottom line. In times of restricted funding enhancing existing building stock can be a solution to improving built assets at lower capital cost. Implementing sustainable practices also ‘sets the right example’ bringing the benefit of raising your profile as being environmentally conscientious.

Our teams are already working within the education sector, and other sectors, to improve Clients space utilisation and reduce their energy costs. We believe there are significant savings to be made, particularly for those that operate in older, even listed, properties. We will assist your team to work towards achieving the financial, environmental and curriculum benefits of becoming more ‘eco-effective’.

As Midlands based practices, BBLB architects, Greenwood Projects and DKS Consulting have joined together to offer local schools and colleges a comprehensive Space Utilisation & Energy Audit service.

In order to demonstrate our credentials, enable potential clients to find out more about our practice, and for us to learn more about them and their school, we are proposing – at no cost:

• an initial best practice/case study led presentation with a Q&A workshop session
• this would also incorporate a brief tour of the facilities
• and have the deliverable of a brief summary report giving an indication of our initial findings and recommendations

Following this exercise there would be the option to appoint the team, or part of the team, at minimal cost, to undertake a more detailed review of all or some elements to provide a more in depth report, including advice on any funding available.

Given the importance of incorporating sustainability into the school agenda our detailed review would also include a summary as to how we would assist with the integration of the works into the education curriculum as a real life case study of sustainable design and/or technology.

If you would like to discuss this opportunity further and allow our team to better explain what value this exercise and our services overall could bring to your organization, please call Simon Jones on 01384 880550 or email simon.jones@bblb-architects.co.uk.