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Existing school facilities in most cases offer significant opportunities to satisfy not only the learning needs of all learners, but many of the social and recreational needs for the community. School buildings, their contents and grounds, often represent the The New York Times of 14 May quotes OECD work on school seismic safety:  “In 2004, the 30-nation Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development released a report, “Keeping Schools Safe in Earthquakes,” concluding that schools ‘routinely’ collapsed in earthquakes around the world because of avoidable design or construction errors, or because existing laws and building codes were not enforced.” A review of OECD countries’ implementation of the Recommendation Concerning Guidelines on Earthquake Safety in Schools, featured in the report and approved by OECD Council in 2005, will be released later this year.