Space is a serious, expensive business on college campuses. Following a decade-long building boom, a crippling recession, a spike in energy prices (with further increases probable), and in some regions fierce competition for a shrinking pool of students, the stakes of managing campus space have never been higher. Students, it is often assumed,…

Provides advice to child care center directors on purchasing the center's furniture. Contains a series of questions that directors should ask related to purchasing furniture, based on advice from manufacturers and dealers. Summarizes the key factors needed to consider when purchasing classroom furniture and includes tips on buying from catalogs…

Energy conservation can be achieved in schools. It can be profitable both in prolonging our sources of energy and in operating economy. (Author/MLF)

Eight institutions are now in the process of encapsulating all or part of their campuses under lightweight structures. (Author)

A Seattle architectural firm is providing clients with market studies, financial feasibility analyses, and management systems that can be incorporated into long-range economic planning. (Author)

Recent developments made preengineered buildings attractive -- both aesthetically and from a cost standpoint. (Author)

This study attempts to establish empirically the significance of the cost of time as part of the price of recreational pursuits. (RC)

When food prices skyrocketed last summer and fall, food service directors met the challenge with a variety of strategies from meatless meals to selling students on the concept of food conservation. (Author)

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)

The article is concerned with developing the Whitehead and Eldars algorithm for problems on more than one floor and an algorithm for the definition of circulation routes in computer-developed building plan arrangements. (Author)

In times of tight money, many school districts are learning that renovation can add years of life to a building at a fraction of the cost of a new building. (Author)

Describes how one crowded elementary school was able to double its size and modernize its facility at low cost. (Author/DN)