Climate Ambassadors
Funded by the DfE, Climate Ambassadors match volunteer climate experts with education settings.
Let’s Go Zero Climate Action Advisors
Part of Let’s Go Zero, Climate Action Advisors are independent experts who offer free support for schools, colleges, and nurseries across England.
Use your building condition survey to identify climate adaptation interventions
Use the results from your building condition survey to pinpoint opportunities to make your setting more resilient to flooding, heat stress and other extreme weather events.
Some settings will already carry out a building condition survey periodically (usually every 3 to 5 years). If you have recently completed your survey, ensure that climate adaptation is included as part of the assessment for all future surveys.
Your building condition survey will help you identify which interventions will have the greatest impact on improving your climate resilience. In many cases, it will highlight opportunities to improve the building envelope through insulation or window and door upgrades, enhance flood protection through better drainage and flood barriers, strengthen structural resilience by reinforcing roofs, windows and doors, as well as improving heating and ventilation systems.
This approach will help you to coordinate any necessary structural and safety improvements with your climate adaptation interventions, creating cost and time efficiencies. By addressing building performance you will ensure compliance with building and safety regulations, and also reduce your environmental impact and create a safer, healthier and more comfortable learning environment for your community.
For settings with a leased estate, it is important to collaborate with your landlord to identify what is possible for your site.
Some settings will already carry out a building condition survey periodically (usually every 3 to 5 years). If you have recently completed your survey, ensure that climate adaptation is included as part of the assessment for all future surveys.
Your building condition survey will help you identify which interventions will have the greatest impact on improving your climate resilience. In many cases, it will highlight opportunities to improve the building envelope through insulation or window and door upgrades, enhance flood protection through better drainage and flood barriers, strengthen structural resilience by reinforcing roofs, windows and doors, as well as improving heating and ventilation systems.
This approach will help you to coordinate any necessary structural and safety improvements with your climate adaptation interventions, creating cost and time efficiencies. By addressing building performance you will ensure compliance with building and safety regulations, and also reduce your environmental impact and create a safer, healthier and more comfortable learning environment for your community.
For settings with a leased estate, it is important to collaborate with your landlord to identify what is possible for your site.
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