The project goal was to make available to higher education the advantages of the system developed for English school construction. This bulletin describes the various stages in the project. Differences between building system and single building design are discussed; results of investigations into user needs and general performance specifications…

A basic multipurpose module 100 feet by 124 feet is proposed for college physical education and recreation facilities. (Author/MLF)

To hold down construction costs of student housing, Brockport College decided on a fixed-cost competition, in which architects had to team up with contractors. The winning firm used a French industrialized building system and exterior panels of weathered steel to construct a village of 27 four-story buildings. (JG)

Systems design, modularity, and prefabrication help speed construction of a megastructure for 8,000 students. (Author)

Architects for a new student-housing project at the State University of New York at Brockport used System III, a French industrialized building system, to create a humanistic, low-rise apartment village, while shortening project delivery time and markedly cutting construction costs. (JG)

A 19-story building on the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus houses the College of Dentistry and basic science teaching facilities. It is both the focal point of an expansion of the university's health sciences complex and a prototype for other buildings that are part of the expansion. (Author/MLF)

This newsletter details the efforts of the University of Alaska to develop a systems approach that will provide facilities for higher education in a State with an area more than three and one half times that of New Jersey, Florida, and Oregon combined. The problem involved in providing appropriate facilities in a State such as Alaska are…