Is it possible for schools — specifically window and door elements — to look good and offer protection at the same time?
Schools do spend a lot of money on maintenance each year but not enough to keep up with need.
A plan for designing an effective and useful early childhood education center.
Using a national standard, administrators can be sure classrooms are planned and designed to achieve excellent acoustics.
Many schools look at commissioning as an extra, unnecessary layer in an already expensive construction process but when measured against the savings to the annual utility bill, the lower costs for maintenance and operations, and improvements to the learn
Do any of your schools need a cosmetic makeover that also serves to make them safer?
Creating small learning communities within large high schools takes more than a declaration of intent. It takes commitment and agreement among faculty, administrators, students and parents.
As we look to the future, planning physical education spaces in educational environments may present a challenge to develop a more direct relationship between traditional teaching/learning spaces and gross motor activity spaces.
We saw first hand the aftermath of one of the greatest disasters in our history and stood with people of indomitable spirit dedicated to rebuilding their community and the schools within them.
Successful disaster recovery depends on preventing or limiting the impact of disasters before they occur.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs uses a client-server system to keep track of the maintenance needs of its 7,465 buildings.
Is built-in school furniture becoming a thing of the past?
Effective safety requires that ability to periodically assess our safety and emergency preparedness measures in a critical manner.
Schools, education, teaching and learning, as we define them today, will change dramatically within the next decade. The alignment of five powerful current issues will compel all in education to inspect the practices of the past and realign thinking for t
Education-related professionals talk about what is happening in the areas of planning, design, architecture, legislation, energy management and security.
School facility professionals who apply for the Facilities Masters Award will gain valuable insight into how their facility operations programs compare to national standards for excellence.
Moving custodial services to the district level has proven to be a wise choice for Boyd County Schools. Within 60 days of implementing the program, we began receiving accolades from the teaching staff, letters of approval from the Health Department and po
When a safety incient occurs at a school, there are almost always indications of poor supervision of people, places or things.
Before any school district builds new facilities, it should conduct a demographic study so that it has a reasonably accurate picture of the number of students who are going to be in the schools during the next five and 10 years, and of the overall trend (
The danger of building your budget for school construction upon short-term, as opposed to long-term, costs is not academic theory.