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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
Sch Manage, 1969
Descriptors: Building Systems, Construction Costs, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Facilities Design
Simmons, H. Leslie – Building Research, 1974
Architects favor metrication because it should unify the construction industry by eliminating a proliferation of sizes, mismatched uncoordinated products and procedures; and also because it should be economically feasible. (A paper presented at Building Research Institute conference, Washington, D.C., November 27, 1973.) (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Architects, Building Systems, Construction Industry, Cost Effectiveness
Brickert, John T. – Consulting Engineer, 1972
Descriptors: Building Systems, Campus Planning, Construction Programs, Cost Effectiveness
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
New Jersey State Dept. of Higher Education, Trenton. – 1972
The major special feature of a planned college building is the application of Academic Building System (ABS) planning concepts to the building design and construction. The primary feature of this approach is total future flexibility of general academic space by use of movable and compatible subsystems. These subsystems appear in the form of…
Descriptors: Architectural Programing, Building Design, College Buildings, College Planning
