Hundreds of campus projects are launching throughout the U.S. Here are just a few of them.
- By Mary Scott Nabers
- 09/20/19
Construction
The construction industry is bringing real-time information into centuries-old processes. Internet of Things (IoT) devices and sensors can collect job-site data in affordable, efficient, and effective ways, improving efficiency and safety.
New School Construction
The $85 million neighborhood school is brightly lit, with lots of windows and features colorful murals and inspirational words on the walls that integrates STEM symbols with traditional West African art patterns.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 09/03/19
Business (Managing Higher Ed)
How to find success in university facility and program management partnerships.
- By Elle Carne, Marcus Huff
- 09/01/19
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Modular buildings on college and university campuses rise up here, move over there and, when necessary, just disappear.
- By Michael Fickes
- 09/01/19
Safe & Secure Schools
The Wilkes-Barre Area School District approved an upgrade to safety measures for a new high school still under construction.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 08/30/19
New School Construction
Sartell High School's new building design places a focus on helping students prepare for a variety of options after they graduate including joining the workforce, following a two-year post-secondary path and attending a four-year college.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 08/29/19
New School Construction
As classes begin Aug. 28, Portland Public Schools continues construction and renovations on several schools that will be completed in the coming years. In 2017, voters approved a nearly $800 million bond measure to improve and rebuild four schools. Here’s a brief overview of the district’s construction plans.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 08/28/19
After spending millions of dollars over the years on renovating and repairing a more than half-century old school building, Sussex Technical School District’s school board unanimously voted to build a new Sussex Technical High School in Delaware.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 08/27/19
Safe and Secure Schools
With the high frequency of mass shootings in the United States, Fruitport School District administrators had campus safety on their mind when designing new sections of Fruitport High School in Michigan.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 08/26/19
STEM & STEAM
Tennessee's Dobyns-Bennett High School has opened a new three-story science and technology center that fronts the high school and adds more than 70,000 square feet.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/22/19
New School Construction
A Texas district recently opened its sixth middle school. Marine Creek Middle School, part of Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District, consists of a two-story, 165,000 square-foot campus, serving students in grades 6-8.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/21/19
Learning Spaces
A new Indianapolis elementary school includes state-of-art learning spaces as well as a huge indoor slide. Walnut Grove Elementary School, which opened earlier this month in the Center Grove Community School Corp., features innovative learning spaces designed to provide flexibility for instruction.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/21/19
STEM & STEAM
A nonprofit that develops STEM education programs has come up with portable learning spaces housed in shipping containers.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/13/19
STEM & STEAM
An army of volunteers from local nonprofits and companies showed up to an Oklahoma City elementary school to help set up two new STEM operations.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/12/19
Green Schools
The project includes the installation of solar panels capable of generating a megawatt of energy and a 660 kilowatt-hour battery energy storage system at Amador Valley High School.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/25/19
Green Schools
The project, with WE Energies and SunVest Solar, will install 8,076 panels at three schools this summer. The installations will primarily go on rooftops, but one school will also have a solar field with 2,134 modules.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/24/19
Green Schools
Orange Unified School District has begun construction on its first solar project. The installation will include a combination of ground-mounted and shade canopies at eight district sites, generating a projected 3.6 million kilowatts of renewable electricity during the first year of operation. The school system, which has 28,000 students, is working with Ameresco on the project.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/23/19