Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Thoughtfully designing the high-traffic areas that define your campus plays a crucial role in establishing your institution's identity.
- By Jessica Ritter, Lori Garrett
- 06/01/19
K-12 school environments can cause illness and injuries. What schools must do to prevent these problems.
- By Michael Fickes
- 06/01/19
Technology (Enhancing + Engaging + Connecting)
Three district-level directors of technology share their best practices for ensuring that your digital initiatives are ready to go the moment students set foot in the classroom.
- By Barbara Nesbitt, Joe Catania, Neil Bolton
- 06/01/19
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Nearly all flooring surfaces in a school facility can be considered 'high traffic areas.'
- By Gordon Buntrock
- 06/01/19
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
It's both big things and little things that come together to ensure student safety when evacuating a residence hall in an emergency. Here are three things to take into account.
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
- By Javier Esteban, Meghan Bogener
- 06/01/19
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Each roof leak is an opportunity to fail. As always, planning for all possible alternatives in advance will pay dividends in the future.
- By Mike Raible, Andrew LaRowe
- 04/01/19
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
How the latest lighting technologies enhance student success, safety, and engagement.
As we do each year, College Planning & Management recently surveyed college and university housing administrators to learn about the state of their facilities, what challenges they are facing, what the trends are in new facilities, and what improvements they would like to see in their residential life programs and accommodations. Here are some results and observations from that survey.
- By Shannon O'Connor
- 04/01/19
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Imagine the opportunities that could be created in the learning environment if there were 50 or even a 100 points of light in each classroom that could be controlled individually or grouped in zones.
- By Andrew LaRowe, Mike Raible
- 04/01/19
Safety & Security (Prepare and Be Aware)
Many different kinds of disasters can strike your school. Are you prepared to respond?
- By Michael Fickes
- 04/01/19
Safety & Security (Prepare and Be Aware)
It doesn't happen often, but every now and then a wildfire threatens lives and property at a college or university campus.
- By Michael Fickes
- 04/01/19
Here's what administrators have to say about specifying products that best serve the needs of the school or district.
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure when it comes to roof maintenance.
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Optimizing School Mechanical Systems By Paying Attention.
- By Andrew LaRowe, Mike Raible
- 03/01/19
Business (Managing Higher Ed)
Building and maintaining diverse purchasing and procurement capabilities for colleges and universities is educated buying.
- By Michael Fickes
- 03/01/19
K-12 school buildings that automatically manage and control utility costs 24-hours a day.
- By Michael Fickes
- 03/01/19
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
The key to engaging students in learning.
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
A landscape reboot at the University of Windsor makes for a more cohesive, competitive, and inviting campus.
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Choosing the right flooring for lecture halls and classrooms will have an impact on acoustics, aesthetics, maintenance, and more.
From the IoT to self-driving cars, college and university campuses are becoming more efficient and productive with the development and deployment of new technologies.
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
The structure and surrounding landscape can be active learning tools.
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Design strategies to support learning are smoothing the transition from learning environment to care setting for health care training.
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Like many things in life, flooring decisions are not always easy 'black or white' decisions.
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
- By Randy Kray, Ami Shah
- 03/01/19
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Expecting children to learn in poorly ventilated classrooms is like requiring them to read blurry textbooks.
- By Andrew LaRowe, Mike Raible
- 01/01/19
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Today's schools aren't putting all of their eggs in one basket, but opting for more personal
choice, food portability, and digital functionality in student dining facilities.
Business (Managing Higher Ed)
Here are five questions to ask potential partners when seeking to outsource Software as a Service (SaaS).
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
The EPA says improving indoor air quality can improve the performance of students and faculty
- By Michael Fickes
- 01/01/19
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
The EPA says improving indoor air quality can improve the performance of students and teachers.
- By Michael Fickes
- 01/01/19
Technology (Innovations for Education)
Details of developing a successful installation on the campus of West Virginia University.
- By Stephen Stavar
- 01/01/19
Business (Managing Higher Ed)
In today's technology age, parking audits are more important than ever.
- By Will Rhodin, David Lieb
- 10/01/18
What higher education can learn from kindergarten classroom design.
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Why a new type of cleaning and maintenance protocol may be necessary.
- By Robert Kravitz
- 10/01/18
Changing space is easy, but changing what happens in that space is where the real magic happens.
- By Steven Herr, Carla Remenschneider
- 10/01/18
Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Are the buildings on your campus clean enough? We asked the professionals how clean buildings should be—and how to get them that clean.
- By Michael Fickes
- 10/01/18
Safety & Security (Prepare and Be Aware)
Designers should consider these three things.
- By Daniel A. Dain
- 10/01/18
Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Organizing and managing a school bus operation is a large business undertaking for any school district.
- By Michael Fickes
- 10/01/18
Technology (Innovations for Education)
The Internet of Things can make the job of facilities managers easier, but getting buy-in may take some time and education.
- By Brandon Barrett
- 10/01/18