Higher Ed


Trends in Interior Environments

Address your present and future furniture needs by understanding interior design trends.

Maximizing Hard Floor Maintenance

The appropriate care and maintenance of hard surface floors ensures long life cycles and inviting spaces

Wireless Andrew

On a sunny day, laptop users at Carnegie Mellon University can carry out sophisticated research while lounging around a campus courtyard. They simply log onto the Internet by way of a wireless network.

Six Steps to Grounds Maintenance Master Planning

Master planning that incorporates grounds maintenance can lower maintenance costs and create a campus of enduring beauty.

Smart Classrooms Require Smart Planning

To equip classrooms optimized for the Information Age, you need to consider flooring, wiring, furniture and more.

Handy Cash on Campus

Independent ATMs on college campuses, often operated by the institution, are providing students with a greater level of service while potentially boosting bookstore and other business revenue.

The New Wave of Community College Partnerships

Community colleges are implementing unique partnerships that further their reputations, offerings and facilities -- all without busting their budgets.

This Way Out

New technology in life safety lighting and exit signs provides a safe haven – at reduced cost.

Coping With the Crunch

Residence halls filled to overflowing may sound like a dream come true to some administrators but, for facilities managers, it can be a nightmare. Here's how several cope with the problem of where to stash the extra students.

Weaving an Integrated Information Web

Finally, the technologies managing different university databases have begun to work together in single, integrated systems.

2000 Construction Report

Colleges and universities are growing, with $7.2 billion in construction to be completed and $7.25 billion to be started this year alone.

Specifying, Installing and Maintaining Built-Up and Modified Bitumen Roofing Systems

Here's how you can assure high-quality performance and durability.

Tug of War

Students want residence hall furniture that offers a comfortable, attractive, homelike environment. Housing managers want residence hall furniture that offers long life. Is it possible to satisfy both?

How to Prioritize and Complete Renovation Projects

Following some simple, yet critical, steps can greatly facilitate both the prioritizing and completion of renovation projects.

How to Select Replacement Windows

Your window replacement project can be more easily completed with the help of a Window Selection Guide and these 11 tips.

Doing Your Homework on Indoor Air Quality Issues

Administrators at the Georgia Institute of Technology did their homework when building a new residence hall. The result? Indoor air quality that paid for itself from day one.

Oh the Things I Learned on Mulberry Street

As college and university library designs evolve, so does library furniture.

From Here to 2010

Higher education must make dramatic changes in curriculum, technology, governance and more in order to survive the next decade.

The Custodian: Your New Building Design Consultant

As classroom and other campus buildings have changed through time, so too has the need to take into account the requirements of maintenance personnel when designing new facilities.

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