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External publications: Guides and work tools
Here you will find informative and exemplary information and reports on the subject of sustainable building.
Climate Adaptation Plans for Schools
Climate adaptation plans for schools
Compendium of adaptation and resilience measures for schools
Compendium of adaptation and resilience measures for schools
School (learning) space
Volume 3 No. 1 (2023)
Cool buildings in summer
Requirements and methods of summer heat insulation, Federal Environment Agency
Federal Sustainable Building information portal
Further publications provided by the Federal Building Ministry on sustainable building.
Link to the website
Recommendations for practical ventilation concepts
Case studies for window ventilation and mechanical ventilation in high-occupancy rooms
Link to website
Making school operations sustainable
Building-related impulses and tools, Greenpeace e. V. in co-operation with the DGNB
Handbook "Building culture needs education!"
Publisher: Bundesstiftung Baukultur (BSBK)
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Efficiency House Plus pilot project (Zukunft Bau)
University in Ulm - new replacement building to the Efficiency House Plus standard
Link to website
Argumentation tools & guidelines with current implementation examples from the USA
Key Messages for Communicating About Carbon Neutral Schools
Decarbonisation Roadmap
Guide for School Building Decision Makers
The German School (DDS): "Spaces of Education"
Journal of Educational Science, Educational Policy and Educational Practice; 114th volume
Designing schools for the future
Expert opinion on the development of spatial teaching and learning settings for the Stuttgart and Karlsruhe city media centres
Link to website
Research project: BMWSB impulses for climate protection part 1
Climate education in schools in regions undergoing structural change (KiS), first pilot phase in schools
Link to website
Research project: BMWSB impulses for climate protection part 3
Social science evaluation of climate education measures in schools
Link to website
Energy-efficient schools: concept - implementation - measurement - results - costs
Reiß / Erhorn / et al: EnOB accompanying research team for the BMWi's "Energy-efficient schools - EnEff:Schule" research initiative
Zukunft Bau research project: School as a hybrid system
Systematic study on the development of an architectural-pedagogical concept for schools as a hybrid system
Link to website
Sustainability storytelling - communicating better through storytelling?
Publisher: German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)
Small school building encyclopaedia
Publisher: Otto Seydel
Designing forward-looking schoolyards
From participation to planning and implementation
BBSR 5 years of educational buildings to the Efficiency House Plus standard - experiences from the accompanying research
Publisher: Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR)
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Guidelines for the refurbishment of schools; Berlins school building campaign
Building for a better world - How buildings can contribute to the United Nations' global sustainability goals
German Sustainable Building Council
Link to the website
Innovation processes and potentials of learning space design at universities
Publisher: Katja Ninnemann
Guidelines for user participation in the "phase zero" of municipal school construction
Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
Link to the website
Timber construction as a contribution to sustainability requirements in Berlin
Merten Welsch, BBSR
Link to the document
SCHULBAUTEN - Spaces for learning and for the community
Publisher: Sandra Hofmeister
Guideline to Sustainable Building
Published by: Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community
Link to download
PV systems and green roofs - Photovoltaic planning guide
City of Munich, Department of Environment and Health
Link to document
BBSR Life Cycle Assessment and BIM in Sustainable Building - Final Report
Publisher: Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR)
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Sustainable Building: Effects of sustainability requirements according to BNB on building planning and on building and life cycle costs in the context of the new environmental protection requirements of performance sheet 26 of the VwVBU
Summary of the report for the Berlin Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection
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The little school building encyclopaedia
Publisher: Stadt Raum Bildung, Otto Seydel
Investigation of heat stress at day-care centres and primary schools in Jena
Studies on the climate adaptation strategy in Jena
Comparative evaluation and assessment of the current state of school construction and sustainable schools with regard to resource-saving, cost-effective, conceptual architecture and quality of stay criteria
"Publisher: Technical University of Munich, Chair of Building Technology and Climate-Friendly Construction, Prof. Thomas Auer"
Link to the website
Sustainable school construction - 12 schools compared
Publisher: DBU Bauland 2, Sabine Djahanschah, German Environmental Foundation, 2017
Sustainable educational buildings
Brochure on the Assessment System for Sustainable Building
Published by: Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community
Link to download
PlusEnergy - Niederheide primary school, Hohen Neuendorf
Lecture: Prof Ingo Lütkemeyer
Link to the document
Energy-efficient, energy-sustainable and learning-promoting refurbishment of school buildings
Publisher: Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector, Baden-Württemberg
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Building schools - building educates! Scientific research accompanying a model programme of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate
Publisher: Wüstenrot Foundation
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