Successful school design

Helps local authority clients, bidders, designers and local planning authorities whose Building Schools for the Future sample school projects are being reviewed by CABE to understand the process.

Successful school design sets out when reviews happen in relation to the procurement process and explains how the schools design panel assesses design quality. It is made up of three separate publications.

How the CABE schools design panel works

Lists the 10 assessment criteria used by the panel in full and explains what the overall design quality ratings it awards mean. It also gives details of the briefing meetings and site visits by CABE staff before the review, what happens at the review and what happens afterwards.

Questions to ask

Helps bidders and designers prepare their schemes. It is also for local authority clients when developing their briefs and evaluating the schemes presented to them by consortia. It sets out the key issues to consider when designing secondary schools. It highlights the key strategies for each of the criteria that CABE expects consortia and design teams to have addressed when coming into review.

We have created a web resource to help your scheme meet the assessment criteria, with guidance on what the panel is looking for as well as annotated plans showing how real schemes have met the criteria.

Effective graphic approaches

Help the bidders and designers whose BSF school projects are being reviewed by CABE to prepare their visual presentation. It features effective graphic examples of the eight sheets required for review by the panel. Each graphic shows how the proposals relate to the 10 assessment criteria.

We have created a web resource to help you present your scheme to the panel, with good practice examples of presentations from four types of scheme.

Published on 13 May 2009

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Primary education | Secondary education | Design review | Education buildings | School design