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New Construction
After several years of planning, design, and construction, we proudly opened the doors to Paluxy Hall at Northeast Lakeview College in August 2022. Situated on our 267-acre campus, the 80,000-square-foot facility provides students with the resources and support that they need to achieve success in science, engineering, technology, and math (STEM) fields.
05/01/2024
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ESSER Funds
Congress appropriated an extremely large amount of funding for school projects, and the final round allocations totaled $122 billion. That’s a huge amount – about $380 per person in the U.S. This revenue came through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief program and was delivered with a mandated deadline: It must be obligated by Sept. 30, 2024.
02/27/2024
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Predictions & Trends
We asked our readership to send us their predictions for 2024 trends in educational facilities. Across K–12 and higher-education campuses both, we asked for opinions on topics like technology, flexible learning spaces, campus safety & security, disaster response, and more. This article is the second in a three-part series compiling responses from educational professionals and vendors.
02/06/2024
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Facility Focus
The Kirk Kerkorian Medical Education Building (MEB) is the flagship facility for the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and serves as an anchor for future expansion within the city s burgeoning medical district. With a diverse program that supports learning and collaboration at many scales, the new facility—the med school’s first permanent structure—allows the school to double its graduating class from 60 to 120 students and help address a shortage of healthcare professionals in the state.
11/30/2023
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Building Blueprints
“Your voice matters” defined the Upper Arlington, Ohio, High School master planning and design process, and it was the catalyst behind the project to improve aging facilities in this high-performing district.
11/28/2023
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New Construction
Construction activity on university campuses in America is more than noteworthy. In fact, it is being categorized as transformative! Due to a massive increase in students after COVID-19, a construction trend is sweeping college and university campuses in response to the high demand for more housing.
10/19/2023
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Facility Focus
Home of The Barton School of Business, Woolsey Hall at Wichita State University (WSU) bridges the traditional academic campus with a newer complex of makerspaces, labs, and research facilities.
10/12/2023
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Facility Focus
The Francis Tuttle Technology Center, one of the premier career training schools in Oklahoma, enlisted architecture and design firm Bockus Payne in the creation of the Francis Tuttle Danforth Campus in Edmond, Okla.
02/22/2023
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Building Blueprints
10/01/2021
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Grand Prize 2021 Education Design Showcase
10/01/2021
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Grand Prize 2021 Education Design Showcase
10/01/2021
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Facility Focus
The John and Joan Bollier Family Center for Integrated Science and Engineering completes a 270,490-square-foot quadrangle of buildings aiming to enhance interaction between students and faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the College of Arts and Sciences.
10/01/2021
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05/01/2021
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05/01/2021
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PODCAST
Ishita Banerjii, project architect at Hollis + Miller, discusses Kansas State University’s new multicultural student center. The building, dedicated to advance student diversity, features various gathering spaces like dance studios, huddle rooms, and a commercial kitchen.
12/08/2020
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Facility Focus
12/01/2020
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Adaptive Reuse
As the education industry assimilates to a new and uncertain future, we can take one lesson from 2020 with us: we must embrace innovative solutions and have the courage to try new things as we plan for the future. Adaptive reuse can support this endeavor.
11/16/2020
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Classroom Spaces
With a curriculum centered on connection to nature and environmental stewardship, Linden Waldorf School's vision for the pavilions were to move all classes completely outdoors where students get to be in nature throughout the whole school day.
11/06/2020
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Planning
Here are five ways that K-12 school districts can keep their learning space design projects on track in a world where social distancing rules and shutdowns interfere with normal operations.
07/22/2020
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Design-Build
The academic sector is the perfect use case for exploring how design-build is the best delivery system for mitigating risk, increasing the speed of delivery, lowering costs, and delivering great design – all through a simpler, more collaborative process.
07/01/2020
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COVID-19
With COVID-19 changing the educational landscape each day, school and college decision makers need all the help they can get during this global crisis. Here are some resources on everything schools and colleges need to consider regarding educational facilities, construction, design and planning of new facilities, maintenance, managing employees and much more. (Updated 5/13)
05/13/2020
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Building Envelopes
When a system shows signs of failing, what is the most cost-effective course of action an owner should take? Does the owner replace the system or close the facility?
03/01/2020
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facilities
How can good design contribute to better campus life? The opening of the Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati unlocked a new view to the future.
02/21/2020
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STEM & STEAM
De Soto ISD’s Katherine Johnson Technology Magnet Academy aims to spark curiosity at an early age through STEM education.
11/15/2019
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Guest Viewpoint
A few solutions to minimize renovation costs and support sustainablity goals.
11/01/2019
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Hundreds of campus projects are launching throughout the U.S. Here are just a few of them.
09/20/2019
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Construction
The construction industry is bringing real-time information into centuries-old processes. Internet of Things (IoT) devices and sensors can collect job-site data in affordable, efficient, and effective ways, improving efficiency and safety.
09/06/2019
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Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Modular buildings on college and university campuses rise up here, move over there and, when necessary, just disappear.
09/01/2019
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Business (Managing Higher Ed)
How to find success in university facility and program management partnerships.
09/01/2019
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Preventative maintenance is crucial for identifying maintenance needs and determining the amount of deferred maintenance needed. It will also help facility managers plan and prioritize projects and evaluate their costs.
07/02/2019
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03/06/2019
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Editor's Note (The View From Here)
01/01/2019
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The recent addition of three laboratory buildings on the campus of Colorado State University, completed through three different delivery methods, allowed the university to determine the delivery method that was more cost efficient, efficient, and enjoyable, while retaining a high level of design and construction.
12/10/2018
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Facilities (Learning Spaces)
07/01/2018
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Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Personalized prefab is here. Really. Are you willing to try it?
07/01/2018
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Facilities (Campus Spaces)
Often before a new building goes up, an old building must come down. These are the steps to a systematic, sustainable approach to demolition.
07/01/2018
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Business (Managing K-12 Education)
In this article, we explore lifecycle costs and vital factors to consider in order to make the most cost-effective choices for your facilities.
07/01/2018
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Editor's Note (The View From Here)
02/01/2018
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Editor's Note (The View From Here)
02/01/2018
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Facilities (Campus Spaces)
New buildings on historic campuses must pay homage to the past while claiming their own time and place in history. It's a hard line to walk. Three schools discuss rules to live by and when to break them.
04/01/2017
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Business (Managing K-12 Education)
A construction procurement alternative.
02/01/2017
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Facility Focus (Student Centers)
02/01/2017
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Business (Managing Higher Ed)
Delivering a finished building is a difficult, complicated process. From innovative financing to construction management partnerships, colleges and universities have tools to make project delivery a little easier.
09/01/2016
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Facilities (Learning Spaces)
Now that projects are finished and occupied, it is time to review the lessons learned and the process by which capital projects are planned, budgeted, funded and delivered.
09/01/2016
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Purchasing experts teach us the difference between cost containment, purchasing, procurement and strategic sourcing — and offer strategies for containing costs.
03/01/2016
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Editor's Note (The View From Here)
02/01/2016
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What can administrators do to avoid construction delays that can hamper or even delay the start of the school year?
09/01/2015
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Editor's Note (The View From Here)
09/01/2015
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From scaled-back plans to increased costs, scrambled schedules and more, construction delays cause headaches. Planning for the unexpected will help to keep your projects on track.
09/01/2015
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Editor's Note (The View From Here)
We need to train the next generation of skilled workers.
09/01/2015