Features


Fire Safety in our Schools

Fire Safety School

What we've learned about protecting people and school buildings from fire.

Campus Interior Design Value

More Than Skin Deep: The Value of Interior Design

Colleges and universities that don't have historic identities to direct interior design choices can still develop and furnish modern, desirable interior spaces where students want to study, be and stay.

Designing for Research

Designing for Research

Selecting the right materials in order to deliver a safe, efficient and technology-laden facility that can adapt to changing research directions can be a daunting task.

Comfortable Learning Environments

A "Kit of Parts"

Providing high-quality, comfortable learning environments.

Safe, Efficient, School Transportation

Transportation's Key Words: Safety, Efficiency and Service

Here's how two transportation directors are using GPS, routing and other systems to increase student and fleet safety while making operations more efficient.

Restroom Etiquette Care Health

Restrooms Around the World

Students participate in gathering about restroom etiquette, care and health issues.

Choosing the Right Roof

Choosing the Right Roof

Here's what school administrators need to know about choosing the right roof and ensuring it performs effectively.

Digital Video Schools

Digital Video Schools

Teachers are figuring out how to use video in the classroom. At the same time, school boards are figuring out technology budgets.

Healthy Sustainable Campus

Healthy Campus, Healthy Community

Sustainability has becomes a way of life at Michigan's Kalamazoo Valley Community College. Their new Healthy Living Campus is a testament to that.

Student Dining Facility

The WOW! Factor

64 Degrees, a reimagined student dining facility, has opened at the University of California, San Diego.

classroom and lecture hall presentation technologies

Show and Tell in the Digital Age

Today's classroom and lecture hall presentation technologies provide accessibility to a variety of materials both to presenters and students, in the classroom or remotely.

LEED Sustainability Architecture

ObsoLEED?

Connecticut's high-performance school building standards show that the sustainability conversation needn't start or end with LEED.

Roofs Bearing Weight

Roofs: Bearing the Weight of a New Job

Today's roofs are often expected to bear the weight of physical components that contribute to sustainability efforts. Here's what you need to know when planning for these features.

Parking Video Surveillance

Keeping an Eye on Parking

Video surveillance makes a big difference in improving parking lot safety. The latest technology promises to streamline operations and maybe boost your bottom line as well.

School Safety Technologies

Hand in Hand

Seeking balance to make school technologies and people work together.

Walls and Ceilings

Walls and Ceilings: What's Beneath the Surface?

More than just pretty faces, walls and ceilings must be carefully designed in order to create functional, safe and efficient interiors.

Better Light

Let There Be Better Light

Research shows that different kinds of light help students take tests, study, collaborate with others and relax.

Sound Design

Sound Design

The Berklee College of Music's 160 Massachusetts Avenue recording education complex is designed for next-generation music pedagogy.

Lighting

The Lighting Master Plan

Lighting and controls technology change fast. Does that mean your school must constantly update its lighting master plans? Two experts discuss the options.

Noise Control

Controlling Noise and Increasing the Voice

The materials used for walls, ceilings and even furnishings have a considerable impact on classroom acoustics. Here’s what the experts say about it.

Near field communication

The Buzz On NFC

Near field communication, or NFC, makes smartphones into access cards, credit cards and other tools usually stored in wallets.

Digital Edition