Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Good exterior design can "celebrate" the school.
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Using audio enhancement systems in the classroom.
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Evolving classroom styles drive acoustics and audiovisual design.
- By Jonah Sacks, Larry McIntyre
- 05/01/16
Business (Managing Higher Ed)
Administrators can use effective tools to keep their eye on the bottom line when they find themselves involved in designing new or undertaking improvements to existing campus sports facilities.
- By Peter Knowles, Steve Kelly
- 05/01/16
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Integrated BAS Technology Enables Schools to Improve Energy Efficiency.
Technology (Enhancing + Engaging + Connecting)
New technology seems to be constantly moving the goalposts for best in class presentation tools.
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Building systems are acting more and more like social media, getting smarter, driving energy savings and customer satisfaction. Are you #connected?
Technology (Innovations for Education)
Here's a look at how Cleveland State University administrators envisioned and built a state-of-the-art center where all health care students work, study and collaborate to create a diverse workforce.
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Colorado State University is finding success with a unique approach to promoting sustainability through its parking program.
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Lakeshore Schools renovate to pass the IAQ test.
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
School buses in the United States have an astonishing safety record. School-Bus-Safe is as safe as safe can be.
- By Michael Fickes
- 04/01/16
Maintaining Buildings & Grounds
Keeping unwanted residents off your campus is an integral part of maintaining healthy and safe college facilities.
- By Jim Fredericks, Cindy Mannes
- 04/01/16
Safety & Security (Prepare and Be Aware)
Here's what the experts have to say about what constitutes effective physical access control systems and ensuring that your systems work together to achieve the best results.
Safety & Security (Prepare and Be Aware)
Finding solutions to the challenges that come with securing college campuses
that are open to the public.
- By Michael Fickes
- 04/01/16
Maintenance
Investment levels in all but three states will not meet the standards.
Maintaining Buildings & Grounds
The water crisis in Flint, MI, has many colleges and universities taking a critical look at their water supplies. What are schools in Flint and around North America doing to ensure their drinking water is safe?
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Libraries transform to learning commons.
Maintenance
Building component forecasting and obsolescence/major maintenance planning.
- By John P. Rome Jr.
- 04/01/16
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Parkland College's new Student Union building is designed to be an integrated "front door" for the college's campus.
Maintaining Buildings & Grounds
A system called composite product mapping can help you select the most price-friendly and best-performing products for your maintenance needs.
- By Michael Wilson
- 04/01/16
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
From extreme weather to the passage of time, campus roofs take a beating. Keeping your roofs in prime condition is key to maintaining secure, comfortable facilities.
Safety & Security (Prepare and Be Aware)
Violent incidents in K-12 schools have led security directors to develop more comprehensive programs.
- By Michael Fickes
- 03/01/16
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Just like everything else in education, technology and new methodologies are changing the traditional approach to roof management.
- By Mike Raible, Andrew LaRowe
- 03/01/16
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Lighting design for educational facilities can impact student achievement. A careful balance of natural and artificial lighting is optimal for spaces where learning takes place.
- By Imke Wies van Mil, Anne Iversen, Jakob Strømann-Andersen
- 03/01/16
Business (Managing K-12 Education)
How to create library space that will be viable well into 2070 and will prepare students for careers in the 22nd century.
- By Kerrianne Wolf
- 03/01/16
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Systems, sensors and controls that save money.
Business (Managing Higher Ed)
Communicating effectively with your board or local authorities is a vital aspect of getting a capital project green-lighted and completed on schedule.
Safety & Security (Prepare and Be Aware)
Finding a balance between security systems and budgets, always with the primary goal of a safe campus in mind, can be achieved with planning and advice from the experts.
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
A planning primer for band and choral room acoustics design.
- By Regan Shields Ives, Ben Markham
- 02/01/16
Building Blueprints (Facilities in Focus)
Restroom and locker room design for specialized instruction.
- By Robin O'Hara, Veronica Mazo
- 02/01/16
Technology (Enhancing + Engaging + Connecting)
Transitioning to VoIP isn't always smooth sailing for school districts.
- By Frederic Dickey
- 02/01/16
Technology (Innovation for Education)
Planning and flexibility are key when developing digital resources for informing your campus population of news, opportunities and events.
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Signs and the emerging graphics movement in schools.
Technology (Innovations for Education)
Balancing pedagogy, technology and space is key to creating innovative learning facilities.
- By Kenneth A. Gruskin, Michael Searson
- 02/01/16
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
American University's new Washington College of Law complex consists of a dramatic collection of spaces centered on a great atrium that unifies a series of interconnected buildings.
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Campus landscapes can have an integrated role in education and research. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a living-learning laboratory -- The Lakeshore Nature Preserve — has successfully evolved in partnership with the greater campus community.
- By Alfonso Morales, Gary Brown, Daniel Aragon
- 01/01/16
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
How The Department of General Services used a non-profit service provider to assist in monitoring and verification of school repairs during a short timeframe.
Safety & Security (Prepare and Be Aware)
Terrorists do attack K-12 schools, and you need to plan a response just in case your school comes under attack.
- By Michael Fickes
- 01/01/16
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Bloomfield Hills Schools administrators have built a learning ecosystem that includes three learning ecosystem elements — flexible furnishings, engaging technologies and collaborative spaces.
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Playgrounds, gardens and outdoor classrooms are gaining in features and uses.