Len Brazier Building Healthy Schools
“Len is a former teacher with over 40 years’ experience and a specialist in teaching children with Special Educational Needs. He is a senior adviser to Local Authorities, helping them to develop their build plans and a Schools Commissioner. Len believes that young people should actively want to come to school and that a calm, sustainable and beautiful environment is essential.”
– Faster- Safer – Healthier – Better – More Profitable – FACT –
Find the time to watch this Video and see why CLT is our only true option for a more sustainable future.
Len has said why he wanted to join Lamella MMC and spread the word about building in Timber. Passion for real change…..Here’s what he said:
“Climate destruction is real, happening now and carbon neutral is/must be achievable. We all must do something to slow or stop climate change.
Young people now and in the future must have a future: a World in which to breathe, to grow and to love.
My initial focus is to help, support, commission and build education stunning establishments for pupils and people with disabilities to support their learning and living abilities.
That’s it.
Enough of the naysayers. We, all of us, must make a stand somewhere.
Mine is with expert people across the World who want to make construction really, positively reduce carbon emissions more than significantly: now.
My initial focus is to help, support, commission and build stunning education places for pupils and people with disabilities.
Using sustainable wood, designed by passionate architects we can create biophilic positive ‘learning and living’ environments. These buildings create an atmosphere where well-being is very evident: this is confirmed by oodles of data across the World.
So, use wood where you can in modern construction, always. We may be dedicated wood ‘Rebels’ now, but the ‘CLT Revolution’ is gathering pace. We are starting to build timber buildings that reduce our global carbon emissions.
This is not recycling but cycling new carbon. And we hope and expect that today’s rebels will be tomorrow’s mainstream practitioners.
So what, you say?!
I say, not only can we can help drive the essential, planet saving, human well- being that is world proven by using Cross Laminated Timber [CLT], as a significant element in modern construction, we can and will improve the quality of our buildings and give us all better schools to learn in, better buildings to recover in, better offices to work in and better homes to live in.
In UK we are fettered by carbon emitting, non- replaceable building solutions that take a long time to build with waste, cause immense disruption, waste, time and are not carbon zero or minus carbon Zero.
We don’t need to do this. There is a better way. We used to be world leaders in this technology. The rest of the World is ahead now. There is no reason why”.
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SPEED BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF HIGH QUALITY, BIOPHILIC AND NET ZERO SCHOOLS
Len Brazier, a senior Adviser to Local Authorities, Academies and Schools and the Private Education Sector, has just joined the CLT supply and instal specialist, Lamella MMC Ltd, to help them build more schools in CLT.
He says:
“The government has just announced £6.7 billion of investment in schools, focusing on SEN provision, and we are responding by engaging with education authorities to develop strategic infrastructure plans and help them build beautiful, biophilic, solid schools in which to give our kids the best education we can.”
We do that by building in Cross laminated Timber (CLT). CLT has huge advantages over conventional construction in a school setting. Being timber, CLT produces calm, warm and quiet learning environments
Speed is often of the essence with schools on tight deadlines. CLT is very quick to instal- allowing builds in school holidays. For example, the superstructure of the recently erected Arbour Vale school consisted of 14 CLT modules that together provided 4 full classrooms, and a kitchen utility area went up in less than 2 weeks.
Schools do not want hundreds of lorries coming and going- CLT is a simple system and cuts down vehicle movements dramatically.
And it is one fifth of the weight of concrete so needing lighter, less costly foundations.
CLT is manufactured offsite to very fine tolerances and is brought to site as finished panels with all door and window openings already cut to exact sizes. Because the product is draught proof and timber has good insulating properties, it is straightforward to design in world class energy savings with low operational costs.
And, finally, timber biogenically stores carbon. Your new school can be a carbon sink, sequestering the equivalent of 700kgs of carbon dioxide per cubic metre of material (after manufacturing and transport carbon emissions are accounted for).
Lamella’s suppliers plant 3 trees for every one harvested, while the construction methodology for CLT allows panels to be dismantled and re-used once the original building has served its purpose. This would be a great topic for a school lesson on nature and the circular economy.