Development of a sustainability assessment system for education buildings - relevance, specifications and differences from other building types

An interdisciplinary task group has developed a Sustainability Assessment System for Education Buildings, which is based on the existing system for administration buildings (BNB). Changes to the system were only made with respect to the building type, so the different versions of the system are identical where possible and different where necessary. "Soft" and less quantifiable factors, i.e. spatial qualities or a building's influence on social behaviour constitute the main differences between the two building types and were thus closely examined.