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school roof installation

Weather or Not?

Maintaining watertight roofs is an ongoing challenge for many facilities professionals. In seeking advice from experts all over the country, their lessons learned were in several categories.

Let's Huddle...Sort of

Student collaboration doesn't need to be hardware-based.

Science Labs: Design to Influence Recruitment, Retention

Cutting-edge design trends for science facilities can help recruit and retain the best and the brightest scientists, faculty and students.

Natural Disasters

Preparing Schools for Natural Disasters

Preparation paves the way to surviving a disaster and getting right back to business. How can K-12 schools prepare?

green cleaning

Green Cleaning Without VOCs

Take a closer look at the "no VOCs" claim when evaluating your green cleaning efforts.

Ethics in Facilities Management

How do we integrate ethics into our FM duties?

Multi-purpose training facilities

Flexible Space Inspires Innovation

Multi-purpose training facilities follow 21st-century learning trends.

Virtual Reality

The potential applications for education are exciting to consider.

snow storm

It Might Happen: Tips for Preparing for Natural Disasters

Depending on your location, you may be at risk of experiencing specific disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, wildfires or winter storms. Here is advice from the experts on being prepared.

school play environments

The Stuff of Memories

Designing for play in learning environments.