See what you could learn
Gweld beth allech chi ei ddysgu
This year’s programme brought together thought leaders, policymakers, architects, and education professionals for a day of essential insight, innovation, and collaboration. From keynote sessions to technical presentations, the conference addressed the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing the design, delivery, and management of learning environments across Wales.
How can Data and Digital Twin reshape the future of education spaces? This session showcases how leading-edge data-driven masterplanning, design and construction is transforming universities. From streamlining construction to unlocking data-led estate planning, discover how live digital models are helping institutions to make smarter, faster, and more sustainable decisions. Featuring practical case studies, we’ll examine how technology is reducing costs, improving space utilisation, accelerating project timelines, and enabling net-zero strategies.
Explore innovative approaches to designing for Additional Learning Needs (ALN) through evidence-based methods and collaborative design and delivery. This session highlights how stakeholder insights can shape responsive, inclusive learning environments.
The Welsh Government has set a pathway of decreasing targets for embodied carbon on publicly funded projects. In this session, we will describe what embodied carbon is, how to divide these targets between different elements of a building so they can be effectively measured and managed through the design process, and how they can be met by adapting traditional construction methods to manage risk and embrace innovation. The session will also explore how thoughtful material choices can contribute to carbon reduction and how these strategies can deliver long-term benefits for building occupiers, including improved comfort, wellbeing, and operational efficiency.
This session explores how school environments can foster resilient, inclusive communities through the lens of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, and showcases inspiring outdoor spaces that enhance learning, play, and well-being.
This session will focus on St Mary’s Catholic Voluntary Academy in Derby, the school with a theme of ‘a school built with nature’ and the post occupancy evaluation. The school was delivered in collaboration with the Department for Education as part of an innovative pilot scheme. The presentation is centred around how the Biophilic design translated into an excellent learning and teaching environment. Including the School, The University of Derby’s early PHD findings from the project, along with Tilbury Douglas, who will be presenting the Building performance data.
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)