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Registration | Exhibition Visit75 mins
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Shaping Tomorrow Stage60 mins
- Shaping Tomorrow
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Exhibition Visit | Coffee Break60 mins
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Shaping Tomorrow Stage60 mins
- Shaping Tomorrow
What does exemplar estate management look like? This session will feature leading clients sharing their insights on how they effectively manage and optimise their estates.
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SEND Stage60 mins
- SEND Stage
This session explores the contrasting design approaches for two neighbouring all-through schools: The Hawthorns (for autistic pupils) and The Sir Geoff Hurst School (for children with SEMH). This discussion, between architect and end users, will focus on the experience of a recent procurement process, along with lessons learnt on the balance between engaging with specific SEND cohorts and the requirement for standardised special school design.
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Estates & Facilities Management Stage60 mins
- Estates & Facilities Management Stage
School trusts often centralise core functions like estates, finance, and HR for clarity and consistency. This “model by expertise” helps streamline operations where roles and responsibilities are clearly defined. In contrast, a poorly managed non-centralised model can cause fragmentation and inefficiency, especially as the trust grows, but it can be effective when well-managed. This session will look at both models and also explore a third option: Estate Codification, which involves the development of a set of rules or guidelines that form a consistent system of works and improvements.
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Refurb, Reuse, Adapt60 mins
- Refurbishment, Reuse & Adaptation Stage
This session explores how educational estates can meet modern needs through thoughtful retrofit and adaptation. Featuring post-war case studies and innovative low-carbon solutions, speakers will share strategies for preserving architectural heritage while improving functionality, resilience, and sustainability across schools and universities.
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Design, Construction & Delivery Stage60 mins
- Design, Construction & Delivery Stage
Housing 900 students, Purdown View supports UWE’s Net Zero Carbon 2030 goals. This presentation shares post-occupancy feedback from the client, design team, and residents, with data on energy performance and student experience.
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Sustainability Stage60 mins
- Sustainability Stage
This session explores the real-world performance of Deyes High School, a DfE-backed net zero carbon in operation (NZCiO) project, one year after opening. The team will share key outcomes, challenges and how lessons are shaping future builds. Alongside this, attendees will gain insight into the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard pilot, launched in 2024, with a focus on how evolving carbon targets impact the design and delivery of schools.
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Surgery60 mins
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The New Procurement Act and Its Impact on the Education Sector
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Exhibition Visit | Lunch Break60 mins
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Shaping Tomorrow Stage60 mins
- Shaping Tomorrow
This session will look at the challenges and opportunities arising from new Government legislation on the Education Estate
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SEND Stage60 mins
- SEND Stage
This panel session highlights innovative approaches to SEND education delivery. Prestley Wood Academy showcases a community-focused, inclusive school designed with end-user input, sustainability principles, and student wellbeing at its core. In parallel, Bracknell Forest Council shares key lessons from its fast-tracked SEND Safety Valve Programme, outlining challenges, mixed procurement routes, and the realities of local authority-led delivery.
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Estates & Facilities Management Stage60 mins
- Estates & Facilities Management Stage
This session presents new findings from the 2025 School Estate Practitioner Survey, offering valuable insights into how school estate professionals view the DfE’s support pillars and how their input can shape future policy. Alongside this, Plymouth CAST will share their journey toward BIM maturity through the Condition Plus model, demonstrating how integrated digital tools can transform condition surveys into strategic, sustainability-aligned estate planning.
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Refurb, Reuse, Adapt60 mins
- Refurbishment, Reuse & Adaptation Stage
This case study examines the challenges of redeveloping a Grade A listed building, balancing heritage conservation with modern sustainability concerns.
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Design, Construction & Delivery Stage60 mins
- Design, Construction & Delivery Stage
This session explores how standardisation, offsite manufacturing and digital innovation are reshaping education construction. The OS-KOP alliance will present their open-source, kit-of-parts approach aimed at reducing embodied carbon, cutting costs, and ensuring consistent compliance. Reds10 will showcase how AI and automotive principles are driving scalable, high-quality school delivery, with a focus on safety, efficiency and workforce development in line with the Building Safety Act.
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Sustainability Stage60 mins
- Sustainability Stage
This session will feature presentations from the Department for Education Sustainability Award 2025 Finalists
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Surgery60 mins
- Surgery
This session brings together global research and practice to explore how design can enhance learning outcomes. The session offers practical tools and insights for designing spaces that support holistic learning and development.
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Exhibition Visit | Coffee Break60 mins
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Shaping Tomorrow Stage60 mins
- Shaping Tomorrow
This session will share strategies to futureproof schools, offering practical insights to enhance resilience and educational outcomes.
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SEND Stage60 mins
- SEND Stage
This session brings together pioneering approaches that challenge conventional SEND design, highlighting the power of user-led, sensory-informed, and future-focused environments.
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Estates & Facilities Management Stage60 mins
- Estates & Facilities Management Stage
This session will look at the role of universities in placemaking and regeneration of our towns and cities.
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Refurb, Reuse, Adapt60 mins
- Refurbishment, Reuse & Adaptation Stage
This session explores two approaches to sustainable school transformation and how the schools perform in reality
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Design, Construction & Delivery Stage60 mins
- Design, Construction & Delivery Stage
The session will feature lightning talks from the Education Estates® Awards 2024 Project of the Year Winners
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Sustainability Stage60 mins
- Sustainability Stage
Drawing on three case studies, this session explores how biophilic principles are transforming educational environments to support student wellbeing, engagement, and achievement.
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Surgery60 mins
- Surgery
With the clock ticking on hundreds of PFI contracts due to expire in the next decade, proactive planning and collaboration is crucial to effectively navigating the challenges (and opportunities) involved in the hand-back process. Success will require a multi layered approach aligning aspects of commerciality with deep asset and service knowledge that goes way beyond normal ”business as usual” operations. The session will look to cover the following: What are the risks at hand-back and why is it crucial to be proactive? What steps should be taken in response?
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EduFest Networking Drinks Reception45 mins
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Event Close0 mins
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Registration | Exhibition Visit60 mins
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Shaping Tomorrow Stage45 mins
- Shaping Tomorrow
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Exhibition Visit | Coffee Break45 mins
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Shaping Tomorrow Stage45 mins
- Shaping Tomorrow
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SEND Stage45 mins
- SEND Stage
This session highlights how tailored spaces support young people with SEND as they prepare for adulthood, with a focus on life skills beyond the classroom.
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Estates & Facilities Management Stage45 mins
- Estates & Facilities Management Stage
This session highlights how schools can collaborate with contractors and suppliers to enhance project outcomes, pupil learning, and sustainability.
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Refurb, Reuse, Adapt45 mins
- Refurbishment, Reuse & Adaptation Stage
Aging infrastructure can hinder university development and decarbonisation. This session explores how universities are tackling issues of condition, capacity, and resilience, and unlocking opportunities to modernise, reduce maintenance, decarbonise heat, and adopt smart campus solutions.
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Design, Construction & Delivery Stage45 mins
- Design, Construction & Delivery Stage
This session showcases two innovative school projects that combine high-quality learning environments with ambitious sustainability goals. The case studies offer practical insights into overcoming complex challenges through integrated, forward-thinking design.
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Sustainability Stage45 mins
- Sustainability Stage
Net Zero Accelerator: Pathfinder and beyond
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Surgery45 mins
- Surgery
This surgery session will challenge current assumptions around heat pump sizing in school buildings. Drawing on Cundall’s detailed research, attendees will gain practical insights into optimising system performance, minimising capital costs, and informing better design decisions aligned with long-term sustainability goals.
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The AI Exchange45 mins
- AI Exchange
Join Ryder as they explore how AI and digital tools can enhance the inclusivity and adaptability of school design.
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Exhibition Visit | Lunch Break75 mins
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Shaping Tomorrow Stage45 mins
- Shaping Tomorrow
Whether you manage, design, or operate university estates, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to create a more inclusive and supportive campus environment.
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SEND Stage45 mins
- SEND Stage
This session will look at how modular construction plays its part in delivering local SEND places
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Estates & Facilities Management Stage45 mins
- Estates & Facilities Management Stage
This session will look at how the planning system can support healthier, more active travel, by embedding walking, cycling and wheeling into school journeys through thoughtful design and planning.
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Refurb, Reuse, Adapt45 mins
- Refurbishment, Reuse & Adaptation Stage
This panel session will examine how the market needs to respond to deliver scaled-up condition and net zero interventions
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Sustainability Stage45 mins
- Sustainability Stage
The session will explore the design strategies employed to reduce both the operational and embodied carbon at the new Fife College Campus in Dunfermline.
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The AI Exchange45 mins
- AI Exchange
Through case studies, this session explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping both construction and architectural practice in the education sector and offers practical insights into how AI can deliver smarter, more sustainable educational environments.
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Exhibition Visit | Coffee Break30 mins
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SEND Stage45 mins
- SEND Stage
Case study session on the Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People which provides care for some of the UK’s most vulnerable young people experiencing anxiety, depression, OCD, self-harm, trauma, and autism. Within this setting, is the Maudsley and Bethlem Hospital School which offers a supportive, nurturing and kind learning environment dedicated to academic, emotional, and social development.
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Estates & Facilities Management Stage45 mins
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Refurb, Reuse, Adapt45 mins
- Refurbishment, Reuse & Adaptation Stage
Does adopting a “fabric first” approach as part of an estate’s strategy, deliver added dividends, worthy of elevating it to one of best practice? This session explores the wins secured through applying “fabric first” before debating dissenting views on the posited universality of its application.
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Move to EduStage for Final Session15 mins
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Shaping Tomorrow Stage45 mins
- Shaping Tomorrow
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Event Close0 mins
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