Planning & Design


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.

Building Schools in a Digital World

Building Schools in a Digital World

Building information modeling (BIM) enables architects and builders to collaborate and improve efficiency, quality and cost performance.

Model Behavior

Model Behavior

RoboPark

RoboPark

Nobody thinks of parking, until they need it. Then it's a chore. Technology promises to make finding and paying for a space easier, and might even convince drivers to take the bus.

New Technology in Old Buildings

New Technology in Old Buildings

Making long-existing structures technologically up-to-date is a challenge, but it can be done.

A Capital Idea: Blending Strategy and Opportunity to Manage College Assets

The time has come to examine development partnerships as an opportunity to move forward as the deep recession eases.

Cost Effective Maintenance

Be Mindful of Maintenance

Cost-effective and efficient maintenance and housekeeping operations begin at the programming and design stages of residence hall construction projects.

Building Blocks

Revitalized structures are a cornerstone of town-gown relations.