BRE Innovation Park

BRE
Bucknalls Lane
Watford
Hertfordshire
WD25 9XX
England

Website

Our website

www.bre.co.uk/education

E-mail

Education Department

education@bre.co.uk

Telephone

Helen Ball - Education Manager

01923 664303

Chloe Halfhide - Education Manager

01923 664538

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Aerial view of the Innovation Park showing (from left to right) the Osborne House, Kingspan Lighthouse and EcoTech House
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The Innovation Park consists of seven state of the art houses and a healthcare campus of the future.

Construction is underway on a new building which will form part of the programme in 2010.

Venue Type:

Museum, Science centre

 Opening hours

All year round
Mon-Fri 9.00-17.00

 Admission charges

Free of charge for educational groups.
Please note: Our facilities are open to educational groups by appointment only.

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Guided tours
  • Information point provided
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Parking for coaches
  • Refreshments
 Disability access
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Touch exhibits
  • Parking for disabled available
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to some public areas
 Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
 Research and adult learning
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students

Additional info

Our facilities are open to educational groups by appointment only.

BRE
Bucknalls Lane
Watford
Hertfordshire
WD25 9XX
England

Website

Our website

www.bre.co.uk/education

E-mail

Education Department

education@bre.co.uk

Telephone

Helen Ball - Education Manager

01923 664303

Chloe Halfhide - Education Manager

01923 664538

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

The Innovation Park consists of seven state of the art houses and a healthcare campus of the future.

Construction is underway on a new building which will form part of the programme in 2010.

Collection details

Science and Technology, Design, Architecture

Key artists and exhibits

  • Hanson EcoHouse
  • ecoTech Hose
  • Kingspan Lighthouse
  • Osborne House
  • Barratt GreenHouse
  • Stewart Milne Sigma House
  • Willmott Dixon Healthcare Campus
  • The Renewable House

BRE
Bucknalls Lane
Watford
Hertfordshire
WD25 9XX
England

Website

Our website

www.bre.co.uk/education

E-mail

Education Department

education@bre.co.uk

Telephone

Helen Ball - Education Manager

01923 664303

Chloe Halfhide - Education Manager

01923 664538

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
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BRE's Education for Sustainable Development Programme

A schools programme incoporating workshops and real life experience of innovative buildings of the future. Themes explored include Climate Change; sustainability and energy efficiency; design; Modern Methods of Construction; materials and renewable energy and technologies.
Level: Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 5
Group size: maximum of 36
Duration: 3 hours

Creator

  • BRE

Publisher

  • BRE

BRE
Bucknalls Lane
Watford
Hertfordshire
WD25 9XX
England

Website

Our website

www.bre.co.uk/education

E-mail

Education Department

education@bre.co.uk

Telephone

Helen Ball - Education Manager

01923 664303

Chloe Halfhide - Education Manager

01923 664538

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Related teaching activities

BRE Innovation Park, Watford, Glasgow and Port Talbot

Key stage 3 art & design, 1-2 lessons

2.1 Explore and create

Using an interactive whiteboard, look at images of the BRE Innovation Park’s school of the future. Design and draw a classroom for the future.

Key stage 3 design & technology, Small project

1.3 Creativity

Work in small groups to build a sustainable structure. You can use a range of materials and could design a structure to stand in the grounds of a domestic home or public building. Your design can be a prototype and should stimulate discussion about sustainable design.

Key stage 3 design & technology, 1 lesson

1.1 Designing and making

Using BRE Innovation Park to generate ideas, create a statistical chart to show the main construction materials that can be used in sustainable design.

Key stage 2 English, 1-2 lessons

En3 Writing

Watch the film Wall E and see how the film makers imagine Earth will be like in the future. How could you persuade people to live their lives differently so that the environment won't get so damaged? Use some ideas from BRE Innovation Park to help you write a speech to argue your opinions.

Key stage 3 geography, 1 lesson

1.6 Environmental interaction and sustainable development

Use BRE Innovation Park to learn about sustainable development and discuss the role individuals can play in shaping a sustainable future.
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