Some 80 earthquake specialists, architects, engineers and civil servants from a dozen countries met to discuss the different relationships which may occur between educational facilities and natural disasters; the emphasis was on the implications and effects of earthquakes and the appropriate...

Many Latin American countries are undertaking projects, in line with practices disseminated by PEB, to share school facilities with the local community, to adapt traditional schools for students with disabilities, and to collaborate with private companies to finance educational buildings. The...

City and Islington College, in the heart of London, was formed in 1993 through the amalgamation of a range of local institutions, including a sixth form college (offering mainstream academic courses leading to national qualifications and university), two colleges of general further education and...

The following pages include articles describing recent developments in three Latin American countries to expand public education facilities. They are followed by a report on UNESCO’s recent seminar on architecture for an inclusive education. Chile, Brazil and Venezuela have undertaken various...

Presented here are Australian case studies of educational buildings with environmentally sustainable designs – an upper secondary school complex and a university learning centre – and sustainability initiatives by a private developer working in collaboration with government authorities.

Le 26 février à Lisbonne, une équipe du Centre pour des environnements pédagogiques efficaces (CELE) de l’OCDE a présenté sa première évaluation d’un programme national de construction d’écoles…

CELE has carried out its first review of a national school building programme, which aims to tackle the physical deterioration of the building stock, poor environmental standards in terms of energy performance...

Voici des exemples d’études de cas australiennes sur des bâtiments scolaires de conception écologique - un complexe éducatif d’enseignement secondaire et un centre universitaire de formation – et des projets d’aménagement écologiquements viables de promoteurs privés, menés en...

De nombreux pays latino-américains entreprennent actuellement des projets, conformes aux pratiques recommandées par le PEB, visant par exemple à partager des installations scolaires avec les collectivités locales, à adapter les écoles ordinaires aux élèves souffrant de déficience et à...

<i>Plus de 80 personnes – des sismologues, des architectes, des ingénieurs et des fonctionnaires – originaires d’une douzaine de pays se sont réunis pour examiner les différentes relations qui peuvent s’établir entre les équipements éducatifs et les catastrophes naturelles ; deux...</i>