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American School and University, 1977
Efficient management and construction techniques enabled the district to economically complete ten schools that have different exteriors. (MLF)
Descriptors: Construction Management, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Facilities Design, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedKing, Jonathan – National Elementary Principal, 1972
New developments in the building industry meet the cost-time-quality challenge. (Author)
Descriptors: Construction Management, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Facilities Design, Facility Planning
Ehrenkrantz, Ezra D.; Eckstut, Stanton – American School Board Journal, 1994
The New York City Prototype Schools Program was initiated in 1987 as one of the strategies to design and build new facilities more quickly and at a reasonable cost. The prototype school building features five different blocks that can be configured in a variety of ways to meet individual site requirements. (MLF)
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Building Innovation, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Facilities Design
Sch Manage, 1969
Descriptors: Building Systems, Construction Costs, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Facilities Design
Architectural Record, 1975
In this system the most efficient and appropriate technology was applied to the development and assembly of building components. (Available from 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, $15.00 annually.) (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Building Systems, Construction Costs, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Facilities Design
Download full textRezab, Donald – 1975
Building systems can be traced back to a 1516 A.D. project by Leonardo da Vinci and to a variety of prefabrication projects in every succeeding century. When integrated into large and repetitive spatial units through careful design, building systems can produce an architecture of the first order, as evidenced in the award winning design of…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Architectural Research, Building Systems, Construction Costs
Flansburgh, Earl R. – Architectural Record, 1975
An architect tells how cost monitoring affects the design and building process. Following are case histories of eight schools shown chronologically to reflect the growing design sophistication of his firm. (Available from 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, $15.00 annually.) (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Architectural Programing, Bids, Building Systems, Construction Costs
Ontario Dept. of Education, Toronto. School Planning and Building Research Section. – 1969
This report contains speeches and notes of workshop participants meeting to discuss improvement of the design and construction of elementary and secondary school facilities. Participants included educators, architects, engineers, and contractors. Twenty-two selections cover such topics as planning coordination for school construction, cost control…
Descriptors: Architects, Architectural Character, Building Design, Building Systems
Department of Education and Science, London (England). – 1967
This bulletin describes a facility designed to meet the needs of those students who desire to stay in school beyond the minimum leaving age and to satisfy the greater demand for higher education. Part I describes the findings of a planning group from a series of visits to schools and explains how the general conclusions were modified to the…
Descriptors: Building Plans, Building Systems, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Classroom Furniture
Clinchy, Evans; And Others – 1971
Discovered or "found" space in a school system most often appears as (1) space that a school system already owns in its outdated buildings and which is being used inefficiently; and (2) space lying close at hand in warehouses, factories, industrial plants, or in little-used public buildings. Found space is one solution to the problem of…
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Building Innovation, Building Systems, Construction Costs
