Planning & Design


historic Alta Vista School building

A Second Life

The historic Alta Vista School building was built in 1917. The building was listed on the Colorado State Register of Historic Places in June of 1999 for its significance in the area of education. It recently underwent a significant rehabilitation in order to meet the needs of today's students.

Renovating Legacy Data Centers

Renovating Legacy Data Centers

Examples of innovative solutions to difficult problems demonstrate the value of a dedicated team approach to updating campus computing spaces.

student collaboration

Working Together

New school designed with student collaboration in mind.

Classroom Design

Do Classrooms Have To Be Designed A Certain Way?

Rethinking the good, the bad, and the ugly of flexible learning spaces.

Regenerative Education

Regenerative Education

Improving outcomes and changing destinies.

Four Mistakes Universities Make When Expanding Their Campus

Certain colleges and universities across the country are making plans in 2014 to expand their campus footprint and acquire more real estate. The question is, how do they carefully manage the potential challenges and risks, and implement a successful and efficient plan?

The Faster You Go, The Behinder You Get

Unless your district is a one-room schoolhouse, every capital improvement brings a corresponding disparity.

Maintenance by Design?

Avoid maintenance nightmares by claiming a spot at the design table.

School Design

School Design That Gets Inside a Student's Head

School design that gets inside a student's head research has begun to quantify the effect of interior school design on the performance of students.

Basements & Lower Levels

What Lies Beneath

Basements and underground real estate are evolving from mechanical rooms and storage zones to fully functional, vibrant campus spaces.

Fill, Don't Close, Underused Schools.

It may be wiser to find ways to use the empty space for the community.

Adaptive technologies

Access for All

Adaptive technologies help students with disabilities fully engage in campus life.

exterior and interior of campus buildings

The Finished Product

Today's options for building exteriors vary widely from traditional brick. An expanded palette of materials offers vivid color and texture choices to architects and designers.

Today's Dollars

Designing for Safety

Designing for Safety

Integrating Crime prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) concepts into master planning and design is one demonstrated way to create an overall safe campus.

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

Basic approach looks like natural surveillance.

Collaborative Learning Spaces

A Challenge and Opportunity

Three strategies are essential when creating successful classrooms and collaborative spaces.

Campus transformation and growth

Transforming a Campus

In just over a decade, Nashville's Belmont University has undergone measured and successful change and growth.

Nexus

Nexus

Change Is Happening

At the start of each New Year, many people consider turning over a new leaf and trying to live differently. The world of education is no different, as the New Year can only mean one thing: changes are on the horizon.

Sustainable Grounds

What Grows Here?

Healthy, sustainable grounds can greatly impact the overall quality of campus life for everyone. The best ways to create such a landscape however are as varied as the plants that inhabit them.

Designing for the Arts

Designing for the Arts

Designing a large school theater in New York City may include different considerations than a tiny theater for a rural community school. Yet, in each case there are similarities that are common to any good theater design.

P3: Selling the Value in Learning Spaces

Quality schools need funding to be properly planned and built to the highest standards. Selling the value of this funding can be easy

Coloring the Classroom

Coloring the Classroom

The forgotten component of the educational experience.

Number 300

ER Ratios

Built to Last

Project-Based Learning

Project-Based Learning

Creating learning spaces for a stem environment.

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