Benefits
- By Matthew Levine
- 09/01/19
Lighting
Safe & Secure Schools
The Wilkes-Barre Area School District approved an upgrade to safety measures for a new high school still under construction.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 08/30/19
New School Construction
Sartell High School's new building design places a focus on helping students prepare for a variety of options after they graduate including joining the workforce, following a two-year post-secondary path and attending a four-year college.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 08/29/19
New School Construction
As classes begin Aug. 28, Portland Public Schools continues construction and renovations on several schools that will be completed in the coming years. In 2017, voters approved a nearly $800 million bond measure to improve and rebuild four schools. Here’s a brief overview of the district’s construction plans.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 08/28/19
After spending millions of dollars over the years on renovating and repairing a more than half-century old school building, Sussex Technical School District’s school board unanimously voted to build a new Sussex Technical High School in Delaware.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 08/27/19
Industry Spotlight
Safco Products' Ashley Houck, senior manager, Vertical Market K12, spoke with School Planning & Management Editor-in-Chief David Nagel about the major trends in classroom furnishings and their impact on teaching and learning.
Safe and Secure Schools
With the high frequency of mass shootings in the United States, Fruitport School District administrators had campus safety on their mind when designing new sections of Fruitport High School in Michigan.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 08/26/19
STEM & STEAM
Marist High School, a Chicago-based Catholic school, transformed a former monastery into a high-tech science wing with a planetarium.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 08/26/19
Technology Solution
A company that makes hardware for managing tech infrastructure has released a new solution for organizing messy cables and wires.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/22/19
STEM & STEAM
Tennessee's Dobyns-Bennett High School has opened a new three-story science and technology center that fronts the high school and adds more than 70,000 square feet.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/22/19
New School Construction
A Texas district recently opened its sixth middle school. Marine Creek Middle School, part of Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District, consists of a two-story, 165,000 square-foot campus, serving students in grades 6-8.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/21/19
Learning Spaces
A new Indianapolis elementary school includes state-of-art learning spaces as well as a huge indoor slide. Walnut Grove Elementary School, which opened earlier this month in the Center Grove Community School Corp., features innovative learning spaces designed to provide flexibility for instruction.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/21/19
Building Blueprints
Our culture has changed. Your community has changed. Has your library changed yet?
- By Todd Bushmaker
- 08/20/19
Campus electrical distribution systems support all aspects of campus activity. Understanding the challenges for new and replacement installations is imperative for maintaining university operations and protecting capital investments. This article provides insight into identifying and addressing these challenges.
- By Jared Markle , Andrew Hay
- 08/14/19
STEM & STEAM
A nonprofit that develops STEM education programs has come up with portable learning spaces housed in shipping containers.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/13/19
When campus expansions and major building projects are underway, it is vital that the town/gown relationship be enhanced though community engagement strategies in advance and continuing through design, planning, and construction phases.
STEM & STEAM
An army of volunteers from local nonprofits and companies showed up to an Oklahoma City elementary school to help set up two new STEM operations.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/12/19
Renovations
Officials recently broke ground on a technical school rebuild in Hudson, NH. The Wilbur H. Palmer Career and Technical Education Center, based in Alvirne High School, offers 17 programs of study. Students bus in from 15 other high schools to take part in programs on computer science, digital media, health science and technology and pre-engineering, among others.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/12/19
Technology Infrastructure
The nearly $4 billion FCC program enters its fifth year since funding for networking infrastructure became available to schools and libraries. This article examines recent action taken by the FCC that could change how these institutions can access funds beginning in 2020.
Outdoor Spaces
Enlisting students in your design plan and working alongside nature can result in outdoor spaces that are recreational, educational and engaging in ways you might not expect.
HVAC
An Ohio school district tackled its outdated energy systems with the help of an energy service company and regained a functioning atomic clock in the process. Howland Local Schools worked with Plug Smart to implement new air conditioning and LED lighting.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/01/19
Campus Safety
The board of a California school system has approved funding to replace legacy security camera gear. West Sonoma County Union High School District awarded the $602,948 contract to Integrated Security Controls, a regional solution provider.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/01/19
Energy
Hamilton Southeastern Schools will be working with Ameresco to implement two solar arrays, with a total of 4,800 panels and the capacity of generating 2.4 million kWh annually.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/30/19