This document reports the importance of the category of consciousness and
education for sustainability in the school environment. Education in school has a potential to
make the benefits of the building construction visible for society and media, showing to the
students, parents and communities how sustainability in built environment could improve the
people life in economic, social and environment aspects. Thus, this paper addresses the main
events related to sustainability, such as the Stockholm Conference, the Brundtland report,
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) and Agenda 21, until
reaching the necessity of the elaboration of Methodologies for environmental assessment of
building, and later, the development of the specific methodologies according to the buildings. It
is also described some examples of sustainability in schools in Germany, Finland and Italy and
what kind of sustainable systems those countries are currently using.