Education Estates has become one of the highlights of our year, a chance to properly catch up with a sector we care a lot about, see where estates policy is heading and who’s building what. However, this year it’s doing something a bit different, and we’re thrilled to be at the heart of it. For the first time, EBDOG has a dedicated space and voice at the event, thanks to a new partnership with STEP CONNECT2.
As longstanding supporters of EBDOG and the work it does to connect education estates professionals, Building Spatial Intelligence is proud to support its first year at the event by sponsoring the EBDOG Stage and Networking Lounge. This new partnership reflects a shared ambition to bring people, knowledge and data together. Too often, estate information remains divided along governance lines rather than organised around the buildings it is intended to support.
Building accurate spatial and condition data for schools only pays off if the people making decisions, whether that’s a capital bid, a SEMS return, or a straightforward maintenance plan, can actually see it and trust it. That’s as true for a trust three years into managing a site as it is for a local authority handing one over.
Jeremy Pilgrim, Managing Director at Building Spatial Intelligence, put it this way:
“We spend a lot of our time translating between people who hold different pieces of the same building. Having MATs and Local Authorities in one room, even informally over coffee at the EBDOG lounge, does more for that than another report ever could.”
If your organisation is navigating that handover between LA and trust, or building the case for capital investment in an estate, we’d be glad to talk it through. We’ll have a stand on the day, so come and find us there, or catch us in the EBDOG networking lounge between talks. If you’d rather talk before then, book a free consultation today or find out how you measure up against the DfE’s 10 Year Estates Strategy, GEMS and SEMS with our DfE-aligned Self Assessment Tool.
