Maintenance & operations
As coronavirus concerns mount, what should administrators and cleaning professionals know?
- By Robert Kravitz
- 03/09/20
Healthy Schools
<em>Spaces4Learning</em> has several resources on best practices for cleaning and sanitizing schools and maintaining healthy schools during peak flu season, which can be applied to the coronavirus. Here you'll find our top articles and a webinar on the subject to help you combat the spread of coronavirus.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 03/06/20
energy efficiency
Electric vehicle chargers are much more than a plug-and-play upgrade to the old gas pump.
Episode 2
In this episode, Todd Ferking of DLR Group talks about education design that is geared toward the future.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 03/04/20
transportation
Autonomous shuttles could make transportation around campus easier for students, instructors, staff and visitors.
facilities
Some common strategies and parallel considerations are at play in all master planning for the outdoors. Each campus must first be approached on its own terms, free of predispositions on planning.
- By Turan Duda, Jeffrey Paine
- 03/02/20
K-12 Remote Learning
As coronavirus changes life as we know it, these education experts offer advice on how to make the transition to online instruction.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 03/01/20
Sustainability
Architects continue to design buildings much the same way they always have; yet, a carbon-free future will require new practices, namely true, front-loaded integrative design.
COVID-19
Frictionless parking can promote public health by dramatically reducing the number of common touch-points within a garage or parking lot.
Building Blueprint
Healthy eating at school isn't just about changing the menu — it's also about the increasing significance of the student's dining experience.
- By Wendy Watts, Craig Siepka, Steve Shearer
- 03/01/20
Facility Focus: Student Housing
Building Envelopes
When a system shows signs of failing, what is the most cost-effective course of action an owner should take? Does the owner replace the system or close the facility?
- By Harold Stephens, Whitney Cabaza
- 03/01/20
Facility Focus: Campus Housing
For students of all ages, carefully planned outdoor learning areas and features can become an integral component of education.
- By Sean Sanger, Andrew Arbaugh
- 03/01/20
Issues impacting the ability and training of cleaning contractors vary in different settings and situations. However, all of them must be overcome, and urgently, if we are going to get on top of the COVID-19 situation.
COVID-19
Custodial workers must modify cleaning practices and behaviors to help reduce COVID-19 risks, not only for a building’s occupants, but especially for themselves.
- By Eugene C. Cole
- 03/01/20
Planning & Design
Just as Winston Churchill once said, “we shape our buildings and thereafter they shape us,” designers must consider how education environments of the next decade will shape student behavior.
FACILITIES
facilities
How can good design contribute to better campus life? The opening of the Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati unlocked a new view to the future.
OPERATIONS
Parking guidance also offers tremendous administrative benefits to colleges and universities by keeping track of how their parking assets are being utilized.
- By Chris Scheppmann
- 02/21/20
STEM & STEAM
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics are crucial parts of today's curriculum. When it comes to maximizing learning outcomes, many schools focus on the equipment and technology available. However, design also has a significant impact.
Components & Materials
The 333,606-square-foot high school includes the addition of railing infill panels made by Banker Wire, a manufacturer of woven and welded wire mesh for architectural and industrial applications.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 02/14/20
Safety & Security
Despite the name, panic buttons are designed to take the panic out of a situation. As instincts kick in, a trained employee can have direct and easy access to alert or summon people for help quickly and discreetly with the push of a button.
New School Construction
New Fairfield Public Schools recently selected JCJ Architecture to design two new school projects — the expansion of the Grades 3 through 5 Meeting House Hill School and a new high school.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 02/12/20
Funding
Applications for the award will be accepted until May 4, 2020.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 02/12/20
Flooring
Shaw Contract has launched two new flooring lines for education institutions.