Education Buildings Wales 2025
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Lecture Theatre
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.
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Level 4
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Lecture Theatre
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Lecture TheatreFive years on from WEPCo’s establishment in 2020, Charlotte Arnell, Paul Poole and Sarah Rudall will share lessons learned on quality, building performance, social value initiatives and feedback from their first completed school.Chairperson
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Level 4
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.
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Level 4
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.
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Level 4
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.
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Level 4Empowering students, whether in school or university, requires environments designed with intention, inclusivity, and adaptability. From spatial layout to social architecture, these environments must support wellbeing, relationships, and diverse pathways to learning. This session will explore how intentional design can meaningfully support student learning, wellbeing, and development.Speakers
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Lecture TheatreLessons Learnt During Design Phase of the Challenge Projects: Proffiliau swyddogion Cyngor Gwynedd – Prosiect Campws Cymunedol Bontnewydd; CBS Rhondda Cynon Taf; and Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Rhosafan, Neath Port TalbotSpeakers
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Lecture Theatre
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.
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Lecture TheatreThis session will feature a video address from Vikki Howells MS, Minister for Further and Higher EducationChairperson
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