Safe Schools for the Future Launch Webinar

Woodknowledge Wales is a membership organisation that exists to support the whole of the wood sector from forest to customer.  Our mission is to champion the development of wood-based industries for increased prosperity and well-being in Wales.

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Students deserve better spaces. Join us as we launch a design guide paving the way for future-ready learning environments.

Safe Schools for the Future is an initiative that helps and supports project teams in achieving consistent, high performance outcomes for health, energy, carbon and cost, with UK-timber primary schools.New fire research, led by Architype Architects, and created with UCL, University of Edinburgh, and IGNIS, explores the conservativeness of current design for learning environments, and clarifies the benefits of a physics-based approach when creating high-performance, high-health, low-impact schools for the future.This research, funded by the Forestry Commission under its Woods into Management Forestry Innovation Fund, demonstrates how timber frame construction, viewed through the lens of a simulated built case study, can be shown to be unaffected by internal fire scenarios.These forward-looking insights have been paired with monitored in use health + wellbeing, and energy performance, and embodied carbon data of 17 completed primary schools across England, Scotland, and Wales. All of these buildings are timber frame construction, using a low-tech, high-performance assembly that is implementable at scale today and an ideal opportunity for meeting the Government’s ambition to increase the use of timber in construction for supporting the decarbonisation of the country.Our panel of experts will share insights, best practices, and innovative strategies of the design guide.

Aims of the event<ul><li>Attendees will gain a thorough understanding of why this guidance is needed, the problems it addresses, how it can support their project aims, and where to find it through the experts involved in the project.</li><li>Attendees will have the opportunity to start a conversation about how the adoption of this guidance can best be supported moving forward, with the experts involved in creating the information. This could be a knowledge network bringing together contractors, clients, and teams or similar forms of learning community.</li><li>Attendees will be invited to contribute examples of similar performing schools.</li></ul>

Agenda for the eventWelcome and introduction by Chair Christiane Lellig, Woodknowledge WalesContext and importance from the perspectives of government, local authority and the supply chainSafe Schools for the Future: presentation of outcomes and practical implications by Seb Laan Lomas, ArchitypeQ&amp;A with project partnersClose and next steps from Christiane Lellig, Woodknowledge Wales

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