Facilities (Learning Spaces)
A few things to consider when selecting new flooring.
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Campus signage offers branding and wayfinding potential. Your signage program, however, must keep in step with the times to be effective for all users.
Safety & Security (Prepare and Be Aware)
Classroom security after-market devices may not be as safe as they are advertised.
Designing a new K-4 school that is comfortable for young occupants and easy to operate and maintain.
- By David Mount, Shane Day
- 11/01/14
Building Blueprints (Facilities in Focus)
Transforming 20th-century vocational workshops into 21st-century learning labs.
Safety & Security (Prepare and Be Aware)
An action plan to improve the safety and resilience of your college or university, even if you are dealing with limited resources.
- By Jim Van de Voorde
- 11/01/14
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
An innovative installation on the Carrier Dome is diverting rainwater into a usable commodity.
A slew of new California building codes came on line this summer. What does this mean for the Golden State and the rest of the country?
Concrete can be a key element in a strong, sustainable and attractive building envelope.
- By Brandon Barrett
- 11/01/14
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Wasting Energy and Resources, Low Voltage Distribution Transformers (LVDT).
Building Envelope
- By Elliott Horner, Scott Steady
- 11/01/14
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Using signage and graphics to unify the look and identity of an institution and its campus.
Technology (Innovations for Education)
The flipped classroom model is serving today’s digital native students' needs by providing space to actively collaborate alongside integrated technology.
- By Matthew LeFeber
- 11/01/14
When you know what's wrong with a building envelope, you can make repairs and once again have a facility that is watertight, safe and energy efficient.
Athletics, Fitness and Outdoor Spaces
Master planning is imperative for any institution that expects its needs will grow and evolve in the future in order to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of every space, program and investment.
- By William Hastings
- 10/01/14
Safety & Security (Prepare and Be Aware)
Technology can help protect people and property on a university campus. Too often, though, schools have the wrong technology.
- By Michael Fickes
- 10/01/14
Athletics, Fitness and Outdoor Spaces
New design trends are making pools more functional and cost-effective.
- By John Davids, Bill Robertson
- 10/01/14
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Or is it just you? Internal air quality and comfort are more than just temperature. Whether your school is pushing the envelope or making small changes, there are many ways to keep building occupants happy and energy bills in control.
Technology (Innovations For Education)
With effective and timely communication vital to all campus constituents, the right tools must be planned, in place and operating smoothly.
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
The correct fencing system may require elements unique to your campus.
Sports, Athletics and Recreation
Often, the most cost-effective route to a state-of-the-art facility involves the adaptation and reorganization of existing spaces.
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Campus fencing serves many different functions, be it to enhance landscaping or visual identity, for safety, noise reduction and privacy, or directing traffic. There are any number of types of fencing and other amenities to consider when site planning on campus.
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Here's how energy benchmarking is helping some school districts reduce energy consumption, thereby gaining energy savings. It may be just the tool your district needs.
Business (Managing Higher Ed)
College and university career service offices are changing to meet new expectations.
Sports, Athletics and Recreation
Curtis Granderson Stadium, the new $10-million ballpark for the UIC Flames, is designed to be a ballpark that redefines what a collegiate athletic facility can provide a team, a campus and a larger community.
Technology (Enhancing + Engaging + Connecting)
Changing the way schools communicate by using a Unified Communications business phone system.
- By Cameron Moredock
- 10/01/14
Safety & Security
Improving school security with visitor monitoring and management software.
- By Brett St Pierre
- 10/01/14
Higher-Ed Procurement
Talent development is essential in today's purchasing environment.
How schools are using it to upgrade security.
- By April Dalton-Noblitt
- 09/01/14
This recently released guide provides a host of tools and resources for administrators, teachers and parents concerned with making healthy purchasing decisions that are good for students and the school environment.
- By Brandon Barrett
- 09/01/14
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Furman University has received recognition for its commitment to its campus environment, most recently as a model for arboreta in the Southeast and across the nation.
Business (Managing K-12 Education)
A school district's path to running completely on solar.
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Sustainable design expertise has delivered the first high-performance building on the campus of Boston University.
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
After its first year in operation, this school facility is proving to be unique.
Safety & Security (Prepare and Be Aware)
Integrating access control into a K-12 Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) program.
Business (Managing Higher Ed)
The challenges of energy efficiency and savings, along with other sustainability efforts, are being met through teamwork and innovation on the island campuses of The University of the Virgin Islands.
Business Managing Higher Ed
A commitment to sustainability, combined with a public benefit corporation relationship, is allowing Nazareth College to reduce its carbon footprint.
Higher education has always been at the heart of innovative, committed, societally responsible change, and never has there been more and better ongoing evidence of this in sustainability.
- By Mitch Thomashow, Anne Waple
- 08/01/14
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Seven steps to sustainable, energy-efficient schools.
- By Jeff Parker, Jim Messner
- 08/01/14