Les <i>Higher Education Funding Councils</i> pour l’Angleterre, l’Écosse et le pays de Galles ont fait exécuter un projet de recherche sur l’élaboration de statistiques de la gestion du patrimoine immobilier dans le secteur de l’enseignement supérieur. Ces travaux avaient pour principal...

<i>Technological, economic and social changes are putting growing pressures on teaching methods and programmes and pointing to new trends in tertiary education. Is existing infrastructure flexible enough to meet the changing demands? What new forms of facilities governance and funding are proving...</i>

An international PEB seminar on “Information and Communications Technology and Educational Property Management” was held in Montreal, Canada, from 31 October to 3 November 2004. The aim of this seminar was to examine how information and communications technology (ICT) can be incorporated...

Students with physical disabilities at the University of Grenoble are offered a range of services provided by various specialised and complementary structures to meet the needs of student life. A number of associations and government sectors have joined forces in quite a unique way to build a...

For some time now in Quebec (Canada), the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) has been promoting public/private partnerships (PPP) as a solution to the need to rehabilitate the public building stock. The TBS describes this as the best value-for-money solution for liquidating the maintenance and...

An architect and a librarian from the Albania Educational Development Program were in Paris for the PEB Experts’ Meeting on Libraries and Resource Centres for Tertiary Education. While in town, they visited three public schools – an elementary school, a middle school, and a high school –...

Presented here are the major reasons why an asset management system (AMS) is needed, a brief history of their evolution and a description of the initiative undertaken by Quebec to implement such a system. The appendix contains the recommended basic requirements for an asset management system.

This article takes a brief look at the new rules covering energy performance contracts for Quebec school boards. It discusses the following questions: the school boards’ educational buildings; the school boards’ energy performance; regulations with regard to the awarding of contracts in the...

For the construction of its newest school in Quebec (Canada), the Grandes-Seigneuries School Board, which has long been noted for its energy efficiency approach, wanted to set itself an especially challenging project which would reduce greenhouse gas emissions to close to zero. From an...

The French government set up in 1995 the <i>Observatoire national de la sécurité des établissements scolaires et d'enseignement supérieur</i>, a national agency for safety in schools and higher education, bringing together the public owners of school buildings, representatives of staff and parents...