Why Your Current Fire Risk Assessment Might Now Be a Liability
If you manage an education estate, the push for stricter competency standards probably isn't news to you. You likely alr …
Legionella in the News: The Pre-Return Reality for Estates
Some of you might have read about the UKHSA investigating a London Legionella cluster. With eight confirmed cases, they …
DfE SRP 2026: Up to 250 Schools Will Be Selected — Will Yours Be One?
If your school buildings have moved beyond routine maintenance and require total replacement, the School Rebuilding Prog …
The HSE Isn't Your Only Regulator Anymore
At the end of January 2026, a fundamental regulatory shift took place: the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) separated fro …
The new DfE portal: It’s only half the story
The "Manage Your Education Estate" portal, which launched this month, marks a significant shift in how the Department fo …
Education Estates Strategy: A Decade of National Renewal
Yesterday, Wednesday 11 February 2026, the Department for Education (DfE) released its Education Estates Strategy: A Dec …
The Clock is Ticking: Are you at Level 3?
It has been roughly ten months since the DfE officially launched the School Estate Management Standards on 23 April 2025 …
Life Cycles - Why They Matter So Much
I was reading a Sky News article this morning about the UK weather forecast. According to the Met Office, temperatures c …
What Estates Team Culture Really Means
Over the Christmas break I was chatting to an architect who works on new school builds. We got onto a project he’d been …
7 Things Your School Site Team Shouldn’t Do Over the Festive Break (and What to Do Instead)
You know the feeling: the site’s finally quiet, the corridors aren’t full of coats, and you can almost hear the caretaki …
