Components and Materials


Healthy Carpet Care

Keys to Healthy Carpet Care

Methods to make sure your school's carpeted areas are clean and safe.

Refinishing Floors

Refinishing Floors

The difference between a good floor refinishing job and a bad one.

Ceiling, Walls and Floors Maintenance

On the Surface

Ceilings, walls and floors present challenges that can be met with planning and maintenance and without breaking the budget.

Roofs

What is hanging over your head?

Classroom Design

Do Classrooms Have To Be Designed A Certain Way?

Rethinking the good, the bad, and the ugly of flexible learning spaces.

Food service floors

Five-Second Rule

Expert advice on sorting through flooring options for food preparation and service areas.

choosing the right flooring

Flooring: Putting Your Foot Down

Experts share their preferences and decision-making processes for choosing the right flooring.

Video Screens on Campus

Big Screen on Campus

The digital delivery of information across campus is facilitated by the proliferation of innovative video screens.

Lighting the Way

Lighting the Way

It's hard to overstate the importance of effective campus lighting. At institutions of all types and sizes, lighting is a key consideration.

lighting and HVAC control

Creating a Brighter Future

Best practices and benefits of optimizing lighting and HVAC control.

exterior and interior of campus buildings

The Finished Product

Today's options for building exteriors vary widely from traditional brick. An expanded palette of materials offers vivid color and texture choices to architects and designers.

School Roofs

Out of Sight...

...out of mind. That's what most people -- facility managers included -- think about their roofs, until there’s a problem. Informed choices and diligent maintenance could extend the usefulness of one of your school's biggest assets. Can you stretch the life your roof 20 years or beyond?

school building products and materials

Pleasing and Green

What's new in building products and materials?

School Roofs Aren

School Roofs Aren't What They Used To Be

Sustainable, teachable roofs are beginning to replace asphalt and black membrane roofs.