Education Facilities Standards and Guidelines

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Welcome to the updated educational facilities, Standards and Guidelines website. This valuable resource has been redesigned to make information within it more easily accessible to its users. For that reason, it has been split into two complementary sites. This first site is designed with more broad appeal for school staff members and interested parents and members of the public. The other site covers technical standards and, as the name suggests, delivers important information for those involved in a range of school building projects.

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Both sites play an important role on one hand, giving insights into why certain design and build decisions are being made and on the other, real-time technical advice on how to achieve the best possible outcomes. The EFSG site begins with a look at school design and construction from an educational planning perspective. You'll discover how a whole range of education principles impact school design with careful consideration of the particular local needs of learners and their communities. Included are things like an overview of how different schools operate and why, how good design can make a huge contribution to learning and teaching, how designs that take inclusivity into account are creating much better outcomes and many other examples of how to achieve the best outcomes for contemporary learning environments in this ever changing and interconnected world. Moving on to the Design Framework section, you'll find a wide range of important factors apart from education that need to be considered at the design stage everything from site selection, sustainability and transport planning to making sure there is a focus on creating a safe equitable environment for all.

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Design Standardisation is a new approach adopted to the design and building of new schools and school buildings. This will take you to the latest updates on different types and sizes of schools and their learning hubs. The Effsg Side finishes with Design Components, an extremely useful aggregator of everything you need to consider in the school design and building process. It gives you simple tools to bring together your desired components, taking into account various building types and school sizes. Once you've made your selection, you will be presented with three key areas of information.

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Firstly, the functional relationships to provide the overall ideal master plan of the selected school type and size and the important adjacencies and other relationships to individual hubs that optimise the operation of a school. Secondly, the hubs and layouts that dive deeper into the individual planning and description of each learning or resource unit and thirdly, accommodation schedules where you'll be able to identify the types of rooms and spaces as well as the quantities which can be provided. The site is a great way to understand and get involved in the design and planning of schools. We hope you enjoy spending some time looking at the exciting prospects for the future of education. Note that the accompanying technical standards site has been designed for industry design and construction professionals and an access logging code is required.

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If you do require an access code, please contact us on this email.