Building Bulletin 103 Area guidelines for mainstream schools

Publication Year

2014

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Establishes simple, non-statutory area guidelines for mainstream school buildings and sites covering the ages between 3-19. Provides recommendations for the net area: basic teaching, halls, dining and PE, learning resource areas, staff and administration and storage and non-net areas: toilets and personal care, kitchen facilities, circulation, plant and internal walls and supplementary areas. The site covers net areas for: soft outdoor PE, hard outdoor PE, soft informal and social areas, hard informal and social areas, habitat areas and non-net sites.

Document History

BB103. Supersedes the area guidelines in Building Bulletins 98 and 99 (BB98 and BB99), recommending reduced minimum internal and external areas. DfES BB 98 Briefing framework for secondary school projects 2004 and DfES BB 99 Briefing framework for primary school projects. 2nd edition 2007.

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