With all the awareness of green in construction and facilities, how much attention is being paid to green in the operation of schools?
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?
Motivation for building green comes in three flavors -- social, environmental, and economic.
Interior design is shaping the educational experience.
A "green" school building is a high-performance structure with technologies that collect and reprocess energy, rainwater, and waste.
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.
Designing for all children in schools, pre-K and early childhood programs.
New furniture and furnishings support new approaches to science instruction.
Adaptive reuse of a courthouse as two 500-student schools illustrates typical challenges and solutions.
New sources of fiscal distress, demographic shifts such as the aging population and the increasing size of minority groups, and globalization are transforming the education landscape and creating new curriculum and financial challenges.
Keeping school computers secure is not as easy as you might think.
A federal program called Safe Routes To School funds programs that encourage kids to walk to school.
It is important to incorporating fire protection design during school renovations.
To be efficient, a school needs to be secure against the weather, including water, wind, heat, and cold. This means it needs to be watertight and well insulated.
School Planning & Management asked experts who are involved in various education-related fields to describe what they see as new and significant changes in regard to K-12 education. Their responses are as follows.
Funds for the first phase of a planned school building program have been released after teams of architects and engineers assess hundreds of schools for the state.
A Little Bit of Technology for a Lot of Learning