Schools searching for green roof structures are often driven by a broader sustainability brief – the need to demonstrate environmental responsibility through the built environment, to support biodiversity on a constrained site, or to create spaces that connect students with the natural world.

Those objectives are increasingly part of the wider brief for school buildings and covered structures, not a separate product category. Sustainable building services – including heating, ventilation and environmental performance – are standard across the buildings and covered structures Streetspace.Build delivers. Thermal modelling at pre-construction stage ensures buildings perform as designed throughout the year. The environmental credentials of new structures are considered as part of the design process rather than added as features after the fact.

Where a project has a specific sustainability focus – green roof elements, biodiversity provision, visible environmental features that support the curriculum – those requirements are developed as part of the design brief alongside the functional and operational requirements of the space.