Hiring the perfect maintenance person for that position is always a challenge, in addition to managing employee turnover.
Each geographic area of the country requires special considerations when it comes to roofing materials and maintenance.
Everyone will agree that a "successful" school must enhance the students' learning, but we may not agree on how that success is measured or maybe we do.
Is it possible for schools — specifically window and door elements — to look good and offer protection at the same time?
Schools do spend a lot of money on maintenance each year but not enough to keep up with need.
A plan for designing an effective and useful early childhood education center.
Using a national standard, administrators can be sure classrooms are planned and designed to achieve excellent acoustics.
With a variety of options, moveable walls allow for flexibility when space is limited, dollars are tight and change is constant.
Many schools look at commissioning as an extra, unnecessary layer in an already expensive construction process but when measured against the savings to the annual utility bill, the lower costs for maintenance and operations, and improvements to the learn
Do any of your schools need a cosmetic makeover that also serves to make them safer?
- By Michael S. Dorn
- 02/01/06
Creating small learning communities within large high schools takes more than a declaration of intent. It takes commitment and agreement among faculty, administrators, students and parents.
Effective safety requires the ability to periodically assess our safety and emergency preparedness measures in a critical manner. A thoughtful self-evaluation of campus safety plans can save lives.
- By Michael S. Dorn
- 02/01/06
The number of machines available is staggering — but what students want is extremely predictable.
- By Julie Sturgeon
- 02/01/06
The proliferation of shrinking electronic technologies promise big benefits (and big headaches) for college and university administrators.
- By Michael Fickes
- 02/01/06
As we look to the future, planning physical education spaces in educational environments may present a challenge to develop a more direct relationship between traditional teaching/learning spaces and gross motor activity spaces.
- By Thomas G. Neff
- 02/01/06
We saw first hand the aftermath of one of the greatest disasters in our history and stood with people of indomitable spirit dedicated to rebuilding their community and the schools within them.
- By Robert J. Kobet
- 02/01/06
All of us struggle with increasing responsibilities in our lives and the vastly inadequate time available to do them. The good news is that there are tools available that can help us become far more efficient and productive.
Successful disaster recovery depends on preventing or limiting the impact of disasters before they occur.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs uses a client-server system to keep track of the maintenance needs of its 7,465 buildings.
Is built-in school furniture becoming a thing of the past?
- By Michael Fickes
- 02/01/06
Effective safety requires that ability to periodically assess our safety and emergency preparedness measures in a critical manner.
- By Michael S. Dorn
- 02/01/06