Schools do spend a lot of money on maintenance each year but not enough to keep up with need.
A good roof is as crucial as a good foundation if you want your school building to last. Here's how several districts deal with making sure their roofs are maintained.
It is essential that school administrators and school boards seek community input when making decisions to change the grade configurations for their school district
Everyone will agree that a "successful" school must enhance the students' learning, but we may not agree on how that success is measured or maybe we do.
School nurses have learned the importance of providing input during the planning stages of new construction, renovations and remodeling projects.
Is it possible for schools — specifically window and door elements — to look good and offer protection at the same time?
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.