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This booklet offers four two-page case studies of schools demonstrating exemplary facilities design. The institutions profiled are: Beverly Elementary School in Allen, Texas; Charles Young Elementary School in Washington, DC; Robert L. Mueller Charter Elementary School in Chula Vista, California; and Ridgeland High School in Northwest, Georgia.…
Descriptors: Building Design, Educational Facilities Design, Facility Case Studies, School Buildings
Taylor, Lee – PEB Exchange, 2002
Provides a case study of the planning and design of a new building for the Open University Business School. Goals included an energy-efficient building that would break the paradigm of traditional university working methods. (EV)
Descriptors: Building Design, Educational Facilities Design, Energy Conservation, Facility Case Studies
Grimm, James C.; Dunkel, Norbert W. – 1999
This monograph provides ideas and information to those professionals involved in planning and developing student living environments. The information is a compilation of data received from 42 institutions throughout the United States and Canada. The institutions provided information on 25 new construction projects (12 relating to apartment-type…
Descriptors: Building Design, Building Plans, College Housing, Construction Costs
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1976
This publication discusses the need to design school buildings that are both flexible (i.e., responsive to frequent slight changes in use) and adaptable (i.e., responsive to infrequent major changes in use) and examines three actual school buildings that illustrate different approaches to achieving building flexibility and/or adaptability. Part 1…
Descriptors: Building Design, Building Plans, Design Requirements, Educational Facilities
Withycombe, Richard – 1997
This case study of six newly-opened high schools explored: (1) What steps were taken to involve district staff members and community representatives in educational-specifications and design-development work? How effective did these steps prove to be? What impact did this involvement appear to have on the emergent and completed high school project?…
Descriptors: Building Design, Community Involvement, Construction Management, Construction Needs
Sanoff, Henry – 2002
This publication presents case studies of school buildings to demonstrate the application of a post occupancy evaluation (POE) during various stages of the design and planning process. It explains that because POE is a process for gathering information about a building in use, it can be applied effectively both to renovation and expansion projects…
Descriptors: Building Design, Community Involvement, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Improvement
Shrader-Harvey, Erika; Droge, Martha – 2002
This research project examined how educational facilities are perceived and used by the occupants. It sought to inform the design of effective learning environments in elementary schools through a heightened awareness of the needs of the occupants and an understanding of how they use their school facilities. Project objectives included the…
Descriptors: Building Design, Building Plans, Built Environment, Design Preferences
