Concrete can be a key element in a strong, sustainable and attractive building envelope.
- By Brandon Barrett
- 11/01/14
Safety & Security
Are we less prepared now?
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Wasting Energy and Resources, Low Voltage Distribution Transformers (LVDT).
Editor's Note (The View From Here)
- By Deborah P. Moore
- 11/01/14
Emerging Technology (Enhancing, Engaging, Connecting)
Smartphone use and applications are outpacing the technology needed to protect them.
Safety & Security (Prepare and Be Aware)
Classroom security after-market devices may not be as safe as they are advertised.
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Campus signage offers branding and wayfinding potential. Your signage program, however, must keep in step with the times to be effective for all users.
Recruit & Retain (Capital University)
Giving students flexibility leads to positive results.
- By Amy Adams, Jody Fournier
- 11/01/14
Trends in Green
Can schools be rewarded with lower insurance costs by taking steps to reduce risk? A new program shows how it can be done.
- By Eric Brossy de Dios
- 11/01/14
Designing a new K-4 school that is comfortable for young occupants and easy to operate and maintain.
- By David Mount, Shane Day
- 11/01/14
Editor's Note (The View From Here)
- By Deborah P. Moore
- 11/01/14
Facility Focus (Career and Vocational Education)
A look at ways to redesign learning environments through the use of furnishings and equipment.
Building Envelope
- By Elliott Horner, Scott Steady
- 11/01/14
The mid-term election results are already having an impact on education policy at the national and state levels. With Republicans winning the majority in the Senate, increasing their majority margin in the House, adding more governors and continuing control of many state legislatures will affect the direction of education policy, priorities and practice for at least the next two years, and possibly longer.
- By Fritz Edelstein
- 11/01/14
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Using signage and graphics to unify the look and identity of an institution and its campus.
Building Blueprints (Facilities in Focus)
Transforming 20th-century vocational workshops into 21st-century learning labs.