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Making a Move

Five important things to consider when selecting a moving company.

Do Your Homework on Cabinets and Casework

Making the most appropriate cabinet and casework buying decisions is more involved than many people would believe.

Measuring HVAC Efficiency

A brief review of HVAC measurements that are critical to efficient operation.

THE DESIGN OF INSTRUCTIONAL SPACE: The interrelationships of what we know, what we do and what we need to do.

Schools, education, teaching and learning, as we define them today, will change dramatically within the next decade. The alignment of five powerful current issues will compel all in education to inspect the practices of the past and realign thinking for t

Don't Overlook Your Own Experts

Make the best use of your available resources whether or not you use private consultants.

Seeking Efficiencies, Gaining Time

Are our employees working hard? Most definitely! Can they do just a little more in order to perform more work or increase their quality? Absolutely. It is our job to help them achieve these efficiencies.

Trends in Education

The latest and the greatest, both inside and outside the walls, continues to evolve.

TRENDS IN EDUCATION

Education-related professionals talk about what is happening in the areas of planning, design, architecture, legislation, energy management and security.

Perception is Reality

A clean campus can be an institution's best marketing tool.

Editor's Notebook -- RESOURCES FOR MAINTAINING SCHOOLS

School facility professionals who apply for the Facilities Masters Award will gain valuable insight into how their facility operations programs compare to national standards for excellence.

Maintenance Column -- DISTRICT CUSTODIAL SERVICES

Moving custodial services to the district level has proven to be a wise choice for Boyd County Schools. Within 60 days of implementing the program, we began receiving accolades from the teaching staff, letters of approval from the Health Department and po

Carpet's Hidden Benefits

School administrators often don't know what's right under their feet.

Mother Hens

When a safety incient occurs at a school, there are almost always indications of poor supervision of people, places or things.

Final Thought -- A DEMOGRAPHIC PROJECTING WRINKLE

Before any school district builds new facilities, it should conduct a demographic study so that it has a reasonably accurate picture of the number of students who are going to be in the schools during the next five and 10 years, and of the overall trend (

FIRST COST VS. LIFE-CYCLE COSTS: Don't get caught in the trap of saving now to pay later

The danger of building your budget for school construction upon short-term, as opposed to long-term, costs is not academic theory.

Master Planning Campuses for Today's Students

The decision-making process for developing today's campus master plan has ramifications that will carry an institution well into the future.

PREVENTING DEFERRED MAINTENANCE

Here's what administrators at Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Ky., are doing to prevent deferred maintenance issues.

THE POWER BEHIND THE TECHNOLOGY

As more and more systems move toward using IP-based devices connected to the local building data network, the owner has to determine how those IP-based devices will obtain the DC power required for them to operate.

SHINING A LIGHT ON A MORE HEALTHFUL ENVIRONMENT

One way to keep school environments more healthful is to take advantage of relatively new technology involving UVC lamps installed in the air conditioning system.

Carpet Elevates Image of 21st Century Learning Environments

Here is what administrators at Jefferson County Public Schools in Loiusville, Ky., are doing to prevent deferred maintenance issues.

A NATIONAL DISGRACE?

Restroom problems aren't unique to public schools in the U.S., but there are some solutions to the problem, and this man has been working on getting those solutions out into the public realm.

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