Acknowledgements

Thank are due to all those, who have helped, inspired and guided us in this work. Firstly, we would like to thank our supervisor Dr. Paul Strachan for his precious guidance from the commencement of this project until completion. His comments and inputs to our work were very valuable. We would also like to thank Dr. Stephane Citherlet for the information he provided to us, regarding LCA in buildings, and Iain Macdonald who provided the group with the ESP-r model of the school. Thanks also goes to Prof. Joe Clarke, Mrs Lori B. McElroy and Dr. Andy Grant for their comments and critical assessment during our presentation sessions in order to became better and well prepared for the final presentation. Finally, we would like to thank Mr. Jim Webster from HLM Ltd for his guidance and for the architectural information  that was made available to us.