One prime consideration in facilities design is physical environment. Author contends that an equal consideration must be the type of instruction that is to take place. Unless the two considerations are integrated, the resulting structure will fall far short of its ultimate potential. (Author)

This practicum effort concentrated on the development and implementation of a renovation/conversion alternative to new school construction at the public high school in Wilmington, Massachusetts. The problem was overcrowded facilities. The strategy utilized to remedy this problem was to convert noninstructional areas of the existing building into…

Describes the approach taken by the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee to budgeting for maintenance of general-assignment classrooms, noting the advantages of this straightforward and transparent model, its limitations, information needs, and the assumptions underlying the renovation model that emerged from this analysis. Technology costs are…

Computers and other new technologies are changing how school buildings must be designed. Introduces full range of building designs that high-tech learning necessitates. Tables present unit costs for many infrastructural and network electronics components of advanced telecommunication systems now being installed in schools. A hypothetical case…

A report on electronic media investigates and reveals the basis for and the use of electronic resource systems on the university campus. Computer system facilities, environments, and equipment guidelines and criteria are given with the what, why and how aspects of the resource systems. The functions and categories of the university electronic…