Mexico’s UACJ Designing University City

19-May-2008

Mexico’s Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez (UACJ) is designing a 300-hectare University City which will consolidate its existing campuses into one.

PEB Archives in Mexico

19-May-2008

PEB is pleased to announce that its document archives will be housed in Mexico and made available to everyone. The Architecture for Education Division at CIPAE (International Centre for Prospective and Higher Studies) in Puebla, Mexico, will care for the Programme’s historic set of books, reports, guidelines and architectural reviews related to educational infrastructure.

Disaster Risk Reduction Website

06-May-2008

PreventionWeb (www.preventionweb.net) is a new information service created to increase knowledge on disaster risk reduction. The website provides a common tool for those interested or working in the area of disaster risk reduction to connect, exchange experiences and share information.

Reducing Greenhouse Gases in English HEIs

04-Apr-2008

Higher education institutions (HEIs) in England will benefit from a new fund to provide repayable grants for projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Projects funded under the new scheme will reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, from both existing and new buildings, and enable HEIs to save money in the long term and to benefit from carbon trading. Projects might include better energy management, on-site renewable energy generation, waste management, and sustainable construction and refurbishment.

February issue of "PEB Exchange"

25-Feb-2008

This latest issue features these articles: Modernising Portugal’s Secondary Schools; New Zealand: Modernising Schools in a Decentralised Environment; Changing School Architecture in Zurich; US Academic Libraries: Today’s Learning Commons Model; Implications of Curriculum Reform for School Buildings in Scotland; Evaluating School Facilities in Brazil.

Modernising Portugal’s Secondary Schools

08-Feb-2008

In March 2007, the Portuguese government announced an ambitious plan to modernise secondary schools by improving the quality and usefulness of its teaching and learning facilities, while putting schools back into the centre of the community of which they are an integral part.

Environmentally Sustainable Learning Environments: Special Session of the PEB Governing Board

on 20-Nov-2007

A special session of the PEB Governing Board in November 2007 highlighted a range of approaches and good practices in developing environmentally sustainable learning environments.

Other events

Additional conferences and seminars related to educational building.