There are some simple concepts that can enhance the design process to help reduce the chances that an unsafe facility is built. More architects are learning they can build better buildings, reduce civil liability, better satisfy their clients, and save cl
- By Michael S. Dorn
- 11/01/07
Properly conceived, designed, and integrated into a community, a school can contribute to economic well-being or even economic recovery.
- By Michael Fickes
- 11/01/07
During visits to other countries and through his role with an international organization, this nationally known crusader for better restroom care confirms his expectations that some problems are not unique to U.S. schools.
A thin layer of intumescent paint can mean the difference between life and death in a fire. Would your school's buildings benefit from a coat or two of this product?
Every administrator should know the capabilities of today's advanced safety communications technologies.
We all have spent time trying to anticipate the future of schools. One approach opens up many opportunities for our high schools and middle schools of tomorrow the laptop computer/e-school.
Even before the Virginia Tech tragedy, administrators at South Texas College had been carefully examining and revising their own campus safety plans.
- By David Plummer, Wallace Johnson
- 11/01/07
If someone suddenly handed me some extra dollars and said,Use them in one of five ways to improve student achievement,” I wondered what I would do and where I would do it.
Meeting IAQ standards requires comprehensive monitoring and maintenance of HVAC systems — a measure that also addresses comfort and energy conservation needs.
Innovative School Building Continues to Make the Grade… And Then Some
- By Richard Parrish
- 11/01/07
The issue of safety on campus has come to the forefront as never before. Senior-level administrators at colleges and universities throughout the United States are responding to the situation with immediacy, care, and vision.
Unlike schools in the past, there is a lot of thought and logic behind the way learning spaces are being designed and decorated.
- By Thomas G. Dolan
- 10/01/07
Sustainability is the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
College research labs used to befortresses of solitude.” Professors tenaciously guarded their work and their grad students from even their closest colleagues. That model has crumbled as today's colleges tear down the walls between professors and
Two-year institutions can benefit from study abroad programs that aid students in workplaces around the world.
In an excellent media-relations presentation, a state police press officer recently used the analogy of hungry dogs. He said the press during a crisis can be like hungry dogs, they are okay as long as you feed them regularly.
- By Michael S. Dorn
- 10/01/07
Time is money, the old saying goes. But that truism has a corollary that's just as important for colleges and universities trying to stay competitive in a highly competitive market: space is money.
- By Chris Chivetta
- 10/01/07
Successful landscape architectural design in an educational setting not only resolves obligatory envrionmental, safety, and secruity concerns, it also contributes to the education of students and to the welfare of the community.
- By John P. Jacobson
- 10/01/07