Schools and education estates need reliable asbestos information to protect pupils, staff, visitors and contractors while meeting their duty to manage asbestos. Professional asbestos surveying helps education providers understand where asbestos-containing materials are located, their condition and how they should be managed.
Professional Asbestos Surveys
Clear information on the location and condition of identified asbestos-containing materials.
Education Estate Support
Practical asbestos surveying support for individual schools and wider property portfolios.
Maintenance & Refurbishment
Survey information to help plan works that could disturb asbestos-containing materials.
Safe, Compliant Approach
Work delivered in line with relevant UK asbestos legislation and guidance.
Education Estate Asbestos Support
ACS supports schools, academies, colleges and education estates with professional asbestos surveying and sampling services. Our asbestos surveys for schools help dutyholders identify asbestos-containing materials and understand their location and condition.
Asbestos surveys for schools can help dutyholders:
- Identify asbestos-containing materials
- Understand their location and condition
- Maintain accurate asbestos records
- Plan maintenance and refurbishment works
- Provide relevant asbestos information to contractors
- Support ongoing asbestos management arrangements
For larger education estates, survey information can also help estates and facilities teams coordinate asbestos management across multiple buildings and planned works programmes.
Do schools need an asbestos survey?
Schools and colleges in England generally need an up-to-date asbestos management survey unless all structures on the site were wholly constructed after 2000.
Asbestos surveys for schools help identify asbestos-containing materials, their location and condition, supporting safe asbestos management and future maintenance or refurbishment work.
Where refurbishment or demolition work could disturb the building fabric, a more intrusive Refurbishment & Demolition Survey may be required.
Managing Asbestos Across Education Estates
Managing asbestos can become more complex when an organisation is responsible for multiple schools or buildings.
Academy trusts, local authorities, colleges and other education providers may have to coordinate asbestos information across buildings of different ages, construction types and uses.
A robust asbestos management approach helps ensure relevant information is available when buildings are occupied, maintained or altered.
ACS can support education estates with:
- Survey reporting and recommendations
- Management Surveys
- Refurbishment & Demolition Surveys
- Re-inspections
- Asbestos Sampling
- Asbestos Management Support
Our Asbestos Services for Education Estates
Asbestos Management Surveys
Identify and assess asbestos-containing materials during normal building occupation.
Refurbishment Surveys
More intrusive surveys where planned refurbishment could disturb the building fabric.
Asbestos Re-inspections
Check the condition of known asbestos-containing materials and help keep records current
Asbestos Sampling
Professional sampling and laboratory analysis of suspected asbestos-containing materials.
Asbestos Management Support
Practical support for dutyholders managing asbestos risks across their buildings.
Asbestos Removal Support
Where removal is required, ACS can support the next stage of the asbestos management process.
Asbestos Management for Schools
The presence of asbestos in a school does not automatically mean it needs to be removed. The priority is to identify asbestos-containing materials, assess the risks and manage them appropriately.
Under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, dutyholders need to know whether asbestos is present, where it is located and what condition it is in. They must also maintain appropriate management arrangements and provide relevant information to people who may disturb asbestos.
For schools and colleges, effective asbestos management includes:
- Maintaining an up-to-date asbestos register
- Assessing the condition and risks associated with asbestos
- Maintaining an asbestos management plan
- Communicating relevant information to staff and contractors
- Reviewing management arrangements regularly
- Considering asbestos before maintenance or construction work
DfE’s current guidance sets out these five core elements for day-to-day asbestos management in schools and colleges
PLAN AHEAD
Planning Asbestos Surveys
Around School Holidays
School buildings can be busy environments, making access and intrusive survey work more difficult during term time. Where appropriate, planned closure periods can provide useful opportunities to coordinate asbestos surveys for schools alongside maintenance and refurbishment programmes.
October Half-Term
Plan survey work around shorter maintenance windows, helping to minimise disruption to teaching and school activities.
Christmas & Easter Closures
Coordinate surveys with planned building works and contractor access during longer closure periods.
Summer Holidays
Use longer closure periods for larger survey programmes or refurbishment projects, when access to buildings is easier.
Minimise disruption to learning
Safe access for contractors
Support planned maintenance
Safe learning
environments through
expert asbestos management
PLANNED WORKS SUPPORT
Supporting Planned
Maintenance & Refurbishment
Maintenance and construction work are among the activities most likely to disturb asbestos-containing materials in schools and colleges. Before intrusive work begins, the relevant asbestos information should be available to those planning and carrying out the work. Asbestos surveys for schools can help identify potential asbestos risks before maintenance or refurbishment work begins.
ACS can help education providers obtain the survey information needed to support projects such as:
Classroom refurbishment
Heating upgrades
Electrical works
Roof and building repairs
Domestic refurbishment
Internal alterations
Planned maintenance
Refurbishment projects
DfE guidance highlights maintenance and construction work as a key area where asbestos materials can be disturbed and states that a relevant refurbishment or demolition survey may be needed where work affects the fabric of a building.
Protecting People
Protecting Pupils, Staff & Contractors Through Effective Asbestos Management
Effective asbestos management helps education providers control risks to the people who use and work within their buildings.
Relevant information should be available to those who may disturb asbestos, including maintenance teams, caretakers and contractors.
ACS provides clear survey information to help dutyholders understand identified asbestos risks and make informed decisions about planned works.
Good asbestos management supports:
Pupil and staff safety
Contractor awareness
Maintenance planning
Accurate asbestos records
Safer refurbishment projects
Ongoing duty-to-manage arrangements
Working together for safer learning environments
People | Information | Safer Buildings
HSE specifically identifies contractors, maintenance workers and others who may disturb asbestos as people who need access to relevant asbestos information.
Education Estate Asbestos Survey Programmes
For organisations responsible for multiple education buildings, asbestos surveying can form part of a wider planned estate management programme.
ACS can work with estates and facilities teams to understand the scope of a programme, identify buildings requiring surveys and provide clear reporting to support ongoing asbestos management.
Whether you are responsible for one school or multiple education properties, early planning can help coordinate surveys with maintenance programmes, refurbishment projects and school closure periods.
WHY SCHOOLS CHOOSE ACS
A Trusted Partner for Education Estates
We understand the unique requirements of schools and education settings, providing practical asbestos solutions that keep pupils, staff and buildings safe.
Education Sector Experience
Extensive experience working with primary schools, secondary schools, colleges and multi-academy trusts across the UK.
Clear
Reporting
Easy-to-understand reports with clear recommendations to support effective asbestos management.
Minimal
Disruption
We work around school schedules, including holidays, to minimise disruption to teaching and learning.
Accredited,
Compliant
All surveys and services carried out by qualified professionals, in line with UK regulations and best practice.
Ongoing
Support
From initial surveys to ongoing asbestos management, we provide long-term support for your school’s compliance needs.
Let’s keep your school safe and compliant
Speak to our education sector team for expert advice or request a free, no-obligation quote.
Our Happy Customers
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