With all the awareness of green in construction and facilities, how much attention is being paid to green in the operation of schools?
The outdoor elements present on a college campus can be planned to play a vital role in promoting sustainability.
In an April 22 visit to the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit, MI, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced proposed regulations for No Child Left Behind that would address strengthening choice and free tutoring, accountability, assessments
New LEED Carlstadt School achieves silver certification.
School facilities now have guidance to help them develop a green cleaning program.
School's roof includes plants to produce oxygen, reduce storm-water runoff, and reduct the building's temperature.
Prior to our first visit in Africa in Dec. 2005, Schools for the Children of the World (SCW) had worked primarily in Honduras. As we worked in Nicaragua and Belize, we found that conditions there were very similar to Honduras.
Teachers are experimenting with podcasts. Students can listen, watch, and learn at their convenience.
During recent months, the digital music industry has been changing in very tectonic but very silent ways.
Higher energy costs combined with a slowing economy is making energy management one of the most challenging and important tasks for school facility managers today.
Why you should outsource some school security functions but not others.
Colleges get serious about saving water.
Reducing your campus buildings' carbon footprints can be hard. But helpful pointers can aid colleges and universities in saving the environment
and some energy dollars as well.
The benefits of high-output UVC devices can extend beyond simply optimizing a facility's IAQ.
Standing seam metal roofing represents the state-of-the-art when it comes to durable, sustainable, eco-friendly roofing alternatives, providing service life of three or four decades.
Last August, 91 school districts received $27M in federal grants to boost safety and security. Did you get yours?
The choice of a laboratory workstation exhaust system for science facilities, as well as its placement, represent a critical step in ensuring the ultimate success of the facility.
Admiring today's beautiful campus facilities, there's no doubt that interior designers are hard at work. The question is, are they employed in-house or by architectural and design firms?
State College Area School District's print manager is bringing her growing department into the digital age, all the while working toward cost savings and greater efficiencies.