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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.

"Learning Spaces and School Architecture: Rethinking, Replanning, and Redesigning Primary Schools with Children" - Volume 157 of the Primary School Association's book series

The photo book, edited by Prof Jörg Ramseger and Dr Michael Kirch, shows inspiring new school architecture from Germany and around the world and aims to "whet the appetite for future-oriented learning spaces".

The texts and illustrations by the numerous authors are aimed at all those responsible for the exterior and interior design of buildings: Educators, school planners in local authorities, architects and anyone who commissions school buildings

 

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Concept study "Teaching space of the future" (Kopie 1)

Exciting publication about the "ZUG - Equipped for the future" project at Munich University of Applied Sciences.

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Concept study "Teaching space of the future"

Exciting publication about the "ZUG - Equipped for the future" project at Munich University of Applied Sciences.

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Photo book with examples of future-orientated learning spaces

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More than a place of learning

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2023

Climate Adaptation Plans for Schools

Climate adaptation plans for schools

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2023

Compendium of adaptation and resilience measures for schools

Compendium of adaptation and resilience measures for schools

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2023

School (learning) space

Volume 3 No. 1 (2023)

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2023

Cool buildings in summer

Requirements and methods of summer heat insulation, Federal Environment Agency

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2023

Federal Sustainable Building information portal

Further publications provided by the Federal Building Ministry on sustainable building.
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2022

Recommendations for practical ventilation concepts

Case studies for window ventilation and mechanical ventilation in high-occupancy rooms
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2022

Making school operations sustainable

Building-related impulses and tools, Greenpeace e. V. in co-operation with the DGNB

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2022

Handbook "Building culture needs education!"

Publisher: Bundesstiftung Baukultur (BSBK)
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2022

Efficiency House Plus pilot project (Zukunft Bau)

University in Ulm - new replacement building to the Efficiency House Plus standard
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2022

Argumentation tools & guidelines with current implementation examples from the USA

Key Messages for Communicating About Carbon Neutral Schools

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2022

Decarbonisation Roadmap

Guide for School Building Decision Makers

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2022

The German School (DDS): "Spaces of Education"

Journal of Educational Science, Educational Policy and Educational Practice; 114th volume

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2021

Designing schools for the future

Expert opinion on the development of spatial teaching and learning settings for the Stuttgart and Karlsruhe city media centres
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2021

Research project: BMWSB impulses for climate protection part 1

Climate education in schools in regions undergoing structural change (KiS), first pilot phase in schools
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2021

Research project: BMWSB impulses for climate protection part 3

Social science evaluation of climate education measures in schools
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2021

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

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2021

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
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2021

Sustainability storytelling - communicating better through storytelling?

Publisher: German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)

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2021

Small school building encyclopaedia

Publisher: Otto Seydel

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2021

Designing forward-looking schoolyards

From participation to planning and implementation

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2020

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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2020

Guidelines for the refurbishment of schools; Berlins school building campaign

2020

Building for a better world - How buildings can contribute to the United Nations' global sustainability goals

German Sustainable Building Council
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2020

Innovation processes and potentials of learning space design at universities

Publisher: Katja Ninnemann

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2020

Guidelines for user participation in the "phase zero" of municipal school construction

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
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2020

Timber construction as a contribution to sustainability requirements in Berlin

Merten Welsch, BBSR
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2020

SCHULBAUTEN - Spaces for learning and for the community

Publisher: Sandra Hofmeister

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2019

Guideline to Sustainable Building

Published by: Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community
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2019

PV systems and green roofs - Photovoltaic planning guide

City of Munich, Department of Environment and Health
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2019

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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2019

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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2018

The little school building encyclopaedia

Publisher: Stadt Raum Bildung, Otto Seydel

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2017

Investigation of heat stress at day-care centres and primary schools in Jena

Studies on the climate adaptation strategy in Jena

Link to the final report

2017

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"
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2017

Sustainable school construction - 12 schools compared

Publisher: DBU Bauland 2, Sabine Djahanschah, German Environmental Foundation, 2017

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2014

Sustainable educational buildings

Brochure on the Assessment System for Sustainable Building
Published by: Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community
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2014

PlusEnergy - Niederheide primary school, Hohen Neuendorf

Lecture: Prof Ingo Lütkemeyer
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2013

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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2007

Building schools - building educates! Scientific research accompanying a model programme of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate

Publisher: Wüstenrot Foundation
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