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Download full textNew Brunswick Dept. of Economic Growth, Fredericton. – 1970
In 1968, the Province of New Brunswick initiated a three-phase program to provide for elementary school facilities, employing a component systems approach to their construction. This booklet describes briefly the planning and construction of these schools, and provides graphic and photographic records of the construction in progress as well as of…
Descriptors: Building Systems, Classrooms, Construction Costs, Construction Programs
Ontario Dept. of Education, Toronto. School Planning and Building Research Section. – 1971
This report surveys various ways that physical flexibility (immediate and long term) may be incorporated into the design and construction of college buildings. Because flexibility should encompass every subsystem of construction within a building, this publication draws attention to the wide range of elements that must be considered within modular…
Descriptors: Acoustical Environment, Building Systems, College Buildings, Facility Expansion
Sippel, William; Minnerly, Leander – Amer Sch Univ, 1970
Descriptors: Building Systems, Educational Facilities Design, Flexible Facilities, Modular Building Design
Design and Environment, 1972
Whiz Bang Quick City 2 went up in two days, thrived for seven more, and ecologically speaking, disappeared without a trace. The temporary, experimental community dealt with problems of community life support systems and the role that the physical design of the community plays in regard to meeting social needs of the residents for privacy and…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Architectural Programing, Building Design, Ecology
Murphy, Levy and Wurman, Architects, Philadelphia, PA. – 1968
The Philadelphia Board of Education has begun to consider the purchase and conversion of commercial and industrial structures for use as teaching facilities. One such building, a six-story fireproof loft building, has been purchased for this purpose. This study investigates the possibilities and limitations of conversion and points up the…
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Building Plans, Construction Costs, Design Requirements
Educational Facilities Labs., Inc., New York, NY. – 1964
This document provides baseline information about temporary facilities as alternatives to school construction. More than 40 individual school districts in 18 States cooperated in a review of their units. The study scans the problem of temporary facilities historically, analyzes prevailing conditions at the beginning of the 1960's, makes…
Descriptors: Building Systems, Case Studies, Classrooms, Educational Facilities
Benet, James; And Others – 1967
SCSD, a structurally coordinated school building components system, is a highly automated method of building new schools that creatively meet the needs of the ever changing educational environment through functional and flexible planning. Examples of why SCSD high schools are efficient, flexible, and spatially planned, are cited. Environmental…
Descriptors: Building Plans, Building Systems, Classrooms, Construction Costs
