Sustainability
Maintain your energy strategy for the long term and reinforce the energy efficiency measures put in place.
Many educational establishments struggle to sustain their energy strategy as priorities and policies shift and management teams change. Often one-off improvements are not monitored for on-going impact and/or a lack of funding expertise makes it difficult to maintain and enhance the school estate.
Why build in sustainability?
Produce energy policies so you can be sure that your energy strategy is followed and maintained
Continuously monitor energy performance to produce ongoing savings
Manage and refine all aspects of your energy strategy for greater efficiency.
Asking S2e to build sustainability into your energy strategy will:
Embed your energy strategy with robust monitoring and behavioural change
Increase buy-in from pupils and staff
Allow you to introduce further improvement as budget allows
Bring you the expertise of specialist chartered building surveyors for the education sector.
Collaboration and recommendations
To help you create a sustainable energy strategy we will draw up energy policies that are inspiring but realistic and that motivate both pupils and staff alike.
We will ensure energy performance monitoring provides monthly data for better decision making, keep you up to date with new technologies that offer further improvements and share our expertise on obtaining decarbonisation funding.
For more information on our Sustainability service please call 0116 5070130 or email enquire@s2e.org.uk.
Recent articles
The DfE has updated its guidance on the School Estate Management Standards Annual Return, publishing the questions Responsible Bodies will be asked and confirming how the process will work. With the first return opening in the third week of September 2026 and a DfE webinar on 9 September, here is what the updated guidance confirms and what organisations should be doing now.
The DfE has published the results of the 2026-27 Condition Improvement Fund appeals, with a further 10 projects approved. With successful appeals continuing to be limited and CIF expected to be replaced from Autumn 2028, here is what the results mean for schools and how to start preparing now.
The DfE has published guidance for the new School Estate Management Standards Annual Return, providing Responsible Bodies with their first look at how the annual submission process will operate.