Scottish Government

ISBN 978 0 7559 5260 1
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Contents

Preface

1.0 Executive Summary

2.0 Introduction

3.0 Concept Design
3.1 Overview
3.2 Site Analysis
3.3 Building Form and Location
3.4 Building Factors Affecting Building Form and Location
3.5 Energy Sources
3.6 Weather Data and Climate Change

4.0 Environmental Design for Schools
4.1 Overview
4.2 Thermal Comfort
4.3 Acoustics
4.4 Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality
4.5 Lighting
4.6 Interrelationships

5.0 Briefing and Design Process
5.1 Overview
5.2 Consultation with End-Users
5.3 Design Process
5.4 Design Specification
5.5 Design Validation

6.0 Good Practice Design Solutions
6.1 Overview
6.2 Light
6.3 Ventilation
6.4 Acoustics
6.5 Thermal Comfort
6.6 Design Solutions

7.0 Specification Clauses
7.1 Overview
7.2 Summer Overheating
7.3 Acoustics
7.4 Daylight
7.5 Indoor Air Quality ( IAQ)
7.6 Room Data Sheets: Internal Environmental Criteria

8.0 Conclusions

Appendix 1 - Design Process
Appendix 2 - Room Data Sheets
Appendix 3 - Websites
Appendix 4 - Glossary of Terms