Universities face growing pressure to do more with existing space while balancing financial, operational and student experience priorities. This interactive session combines real-world case studies with a live demonstration of the Lambent Spaces platform, showing how anonymised occupancy data captured through existing Wi-Fi infrastructure can reveal how buildings and spaces are actually being used.

Through examples from universities in the UK and internationally, Baker Stuart and Lambent will demonstrate how utilisation analytics can uncover hidden capacity, support estate strategy, improve operational efficiency and inform investment decisions. Attendees will then be invited to discuss their own estate challenges and priorities, with practical advice and approaches shared throughout the session.

A relaxed, informal opportunity to see the technology in action, exchange ideas and explore new ways of thinking about campus space.

A college estate needed to reduce carbon emissions while remaining fully operational. Garland UK delivered a fabric first roof retrofit across a live site, with multiple trades working at once, to support the wider decarbonisation programme and improve thermal performance.

This session walks through the project. It covers how technical insight, careful sequencing, and long-term thinking delivered a measurable step change in thermal performance, directly supporting the estate's decarbonisation targets, without disrupting daily campus life.
 

Tired of fire door and compartmentation companies flagging every single door as a fire risk and hitting you with eye-watering quotes for remedial work? There's a smarter way. Talk to us about an independent, third-party accredited fire strategy — one that can save your school thousands of pounds, while making it a genuinely safer place for pupils and staff.

A fast-paced, practical session unpacking what it really takes to run a successful school lettings operation. Drawing on real examples from schools across the country, we'll share top tips across three key areas: turning turnover into genuine profit, using lettings to build lasting community goodwill, and getting safeguarding and compliance right so you can open your doors with total peace of mind.

Our Washrooms for Education presentation will give insight into the key considerations when specifying school washrooms, including:

• Updated January 2026 Department for Education Guidance for school washrooms.
• Appropriate material specification and fittings for school washrooms.
• Which school toilet cubicle heights/styles should be specified depending on age groups.
• Privacy requirements – specifically in secondary school washrooms to prevent anti-social behaviour.
• Ducting – pre-plumbed, styles and access options.
• Hand wash facilities – vanity units and washtroughs.
• General safety and accessibility

Discover how connected data from facilities, building systems, and campus operations can enable smarter decision-making. Learn how universities can gain actionable insights to improve space utilization, operational efficiency, and the overall campus experience.

With education budgets under increasing pressure, energy decisions need to work harder than ever. Cost and value are understandably front of mind, but a good energy strategy can deliver more than a competitive price.
This interactive session puts attendees in the procurement hot seat, exploring the choices behind energy buying and what they mean for cost, budget certainty, risk and sustainability. Through practical scenarios, we’ll explore how different procurement approaches can deliver different outcomes, and where renewable energy and sustainability can add further value without losing sight of commercial priorities.

A live demonstration of how One Creative Environments worked with Plymouth CAST to digitise condition survey collection across 35 schools in six weeks, and turn it into a usable, ongoing asset management tool. We'll walk through the process end to end: mobile data capture in the field, automated grading against DfE condition and repair priority criteria, and how the output could feed directly into Capital Spend Plan and net zero decision-making at trust level. Attendees will see the live application, not just slides, and can ask questions about how it was built and how it could apply to their own estate.

This practical and interactive session will introduce attendees to wudu, the ritual washing performed by Muslims before prayer, and explore what appropriate provision means within schools, colleges and universities.

Using a live demonstration of the WuduMate Mobile, we will highlight common challenges that can arise when suitable facilities are unavailable. These include users lifting their feet into conventional hand basins, wet and potentially slippery floors, excessive splashing, limited accessibility and a lack of dignity.

The session will be relevant to anyone involved in planning, designing, constructing, supplying, managing or using education facilities. Attendees will see how a mobile, no-plumbing unit can provide a flexible solution where permanent provision is not immediately practical. We will also briefly explain the other types of purpose-designed ablution facilities available for different spaces, user numbers and project requirements.

The emphasis will be on education, inclusion and better decision-making rather than selling, with time for questions and shared discussion.

Focusing on planning, surplus estate management and increased revenue generation. 

Explaining the various uses of walkthrough metal detectors within a school environment, from searching students every morning to conducting random spot checks.

Watch a routine wireless screen sharing classroom activity turn into a real emergency in under a minute. We cast a laptop to a display, no cables, no setup. Then, mid demo, we trigger a simulated emergency alert. A light flashes, a siren sounds, and unless you already know the code, you have no idea what to do.

That's the gap Martyn's Law is designed to close. As UK schools and venues prepare for the standard and enhanced duty requirements ahead of enforcement expected in spring 2027, a clear way to instruct people during an emergency is becoming essential.

Vivi's visual alerts solve it. The moment an alert triggers, Vivi pushes plain language instructions like "Evacuate" or "Shelter in place" to every display and staff laptop on site, instantly. No decoding, no guessing. Just visual alerts everyone can see and act on.

Come see why a flashing light or a bell ringing doesn't tell you what to do, but a visual alert does.

    We will examine the communication challenges schools face during both emergency situations and everyday operations.
• How do you currently communicate non-fire related incidents?
Specifically, if you need to lockdown or direct an evacuation or invacuation AWAY from a threat?
• How do people react when they hear the fire bell ringing?
• How does your current system tell the occupants/patrons to move away from a threat?
• If you use a PA system, you need trained operators to deliver specific, zoned messages
Those trained operators need to perform under the potential stress and threat
• How does your current system communicate different messages in multiple areas simultaneously?
• Can you communicate a multilingual emergency message?
• How do you currently deal with Live threats beyond your perimeter, within the grounds or inside the building
• How do you meet the communication elements required for the upcoming Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, commonly known as Martyn's Law, which received Royal Assent on April 3, 2025

Then explore the role of integrated mass notification systems in supporting lockdown procedures, improving the delivery of critical information, and enabling clear, consistent communication across the school throughout the day.

A live, hands-on demonstration of how real-time estates intelligence works in practice. Using NFC-enabled interactive displays, attendees scan a tag on a physical asset and instantly see live data, alarms and asset history appear on screen, the same experience schools get when using Inscyte ELEMENT day to day. No slides, no jargon, just a genuine look at what a fully digitalised estate feels like to manage.

With education budgets under increasing pressure, energy decisions need to work harder than ever. Cost and value are understandably front of mind, but a good energy strategy can deliver more than a competitive price.
This interactive session puts attendees in the procurement hot seat, exploring the choices behind energy buying and what they mean for cost, budget certainty, risk and sustainability. Through practical scenarios, we’ll explore how different procurement approaches can deliver different outcomes, and where renewable energy and sustainability can add further value without losing sight of commercial priorities.

Tired of fire door and compartmentation companies flagging every single door as a fire risk and hitting you with eye-watering quotes for remedial work? There's a smarter way. Talk to us about an independent, third-party accredited fire strategy — one that can save your school thousands of pounds, while making it a genuinely safer place for pupils and staff.

Our Washrooms for Education presentation will give insight into the key considerations when specifying school washrooms, including:

• Updated January 2026 Department for Education Guidance for school washrooms.
• Appropriate material specification and fittings for school washrooms.
• Which school toilet cubicle heights/styles should be specified depending on age groups.
• Privacy requirements – specifically in secondary school washrooms to prevent anti-social behaviour.
• Ducting – pre-plumbed, styles and access options.
• Hand wash facilities – vanity units and washtroughs.
• General safety and accessibility

A live, hands-on demonstration of how real-time estates intelligence works in practice. Using NFC-enabled interactive displays, attendees scan a tag on a physical asset and instantly see live data, alarms and asset history appear on screen, the same experience schools get when using Inscyte ELEMENT day to day. No slides, no jargon, just a genuine look at what a fully digitalised estate feels like to manage.

Schools and multi-academy trusts are under increasing pressure to reduce carbon emissions while managing ageing estates, limited budgets, and changing policy requirements.
In this session, Baxi will break down the key findings from Decarbonising the Education Estate, a guide commissioned by Baxi and prepared by Talan UK & Ireland. The session will explore the challenges and opportunities facing education estates, the role of low-carbon heating technologies, available funding support, and practical steps schools can take to develop a realistic and achievable route to net zero.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to collect a complimentary printed copy of the guide and discuss its findings with Baxi's experts. 

Universities face growing pressure to do more with existing space while balancing financial, operational and student experience priorities. This interactive session combines real-world case studies with a live demonstration of the Lambent Spaces platform, showing how anonymised occupancy data captured through existing Wi-Fi infrastructure can reveal how buildings and spaces are actually being used.

Through examples from universities in the UK and internationally, Baker Stuart and Lambent will demonstrate how utilisation analytics can uncover hidden capacity, support estate strategy, improve operational efficiency and inform investment decisions. Attendees will then be invited to discuss their own estate challenges and priorities, with practical advice and approaches shared throughout the session.

A relaxed, informal opportunity to see the technology in action, exchange ideas and explore new ways of thinking about campus space.

A college estate needed to reduce carbon emissions while remaining fully operational. Garland UK delivered a fabric first roof retrofit across a live site, with multiple trades working at once, to support the wider decarbonisation programme and improve thermal performance.

This session walks through the project. It covers how technical insight, careful sequencing, and long-term thinking delivered a measurable step change in thermal performance, directly supporting the estate's decarbonisation targets, without disrupting daily campus life.