This design case describes the process by which a private office was renovated using the Working Labs model, which engages students, faculty, and staff in hands-on engagement from project conception through completion and beyond into ongoing evaluation of everyday use. The spaces that follow the Working Labs model are intended to provide students…

Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) have become like hospitals where there are multiple offices in centralized locations. One of the areas that need further study is how to integrate these services effectively and efficiently to service students. Healthcare has developed the triage model and IHEs are starting to bring this model into the…

There are many articles about space management, including those that discuss space calculations, metrics, and categories. Fewer articles discuss the space budgeting processes used by administrators to allocate space. The author attempts to fill this void by discussing her administrative experiences with Middle Tennessee State University's (MTSU)…

Discusses a multiphase renovation project at the University of Medicine and Dentistry (New Jersey) that created new administrative offices and instructional spaces along with a state-of-the-art multi use laboratory from its former hospital building. The design establishes a sense of collegiality and interaction for students and faculty. Photos and…

This compilation of authoritive practices and standards is offered as a means of obtaining guidelines for those involved in planning and construction of permanent campus facilities for community colleges in Massachusetts for full-time day students. Comparative criteria based on these studies are cited in the following areas--room and station…

This document presents two kinds of data, gathered from several State reports, that pertain to higher education facilities. The first type of data reflects the standards and space utilization forecast used in planning higher education facilities; the second provides information about the utilization of existing facilities. Planning standards are…

This manual describes the techniques for evaluating the capacities of and projecting the requirements for office and research facilities. The procedures and techniques presented and illustrated constitute the core of a valid process to which must be added the unique elements of the institution or agency putting them to use. (For related documents,…

School safety is a human concern, one that every school and community must take seriously and strive continually to achieve. It is also a legal concern; schools can be held liable if they do not make good-faith efforts to provide a safe and secure school environment. How schools are built and maintained is an integral part of school safety and…

Questions about design, construction and special facilities needs of the community college are discussed by two experts on junior colleges. The content of the questions include use of the high school and/or the four-year college as a model for a community college. Academic, library, shop, technical-vocational, athletic, auditorium, student…

This report presents findings, conclusions, and recommendations from a study of capital planning space standards and guidelines for classrooms, academic offices, research laboratories, and teaching laboratories in California. The report addresses the second and third of the study's three key objectives which were accomplished through three…

Inventories of space characteristics and utilization evolved into college space planning guidelines. Several approaches and methods for calculating space needs are described. The guidelines that an institution selects depends on its organization, the availability of the data the models call for, and the amount of work that one wants to do.…

The process used by California to revamp its college and university space and utilization standards is described. It involved establishing four space utilization and planning principles (simplicity, flexibility, accountability, consensus) and developed square footage formulas for four space types (classrooms, teaching laboratories, research space,…

A review of space and utilization standards in California public higher education culminated in several principles that should govern the changes in space and utilization standards generally. These principles were as follows: (1) changes should be conceputally simple, consolidating various formulaic elements into single standards wherever…

This publication presents information and suggestions for providing adequate buildings and facilities for vocational agriculture/agribusiness education programs. Parts 1 and 2 are devoted to effective need assessment and long-range planning of the facilities on the basis of local comprehensive instructional programs. Part 3 addresses factors to…

This publication is designed to assist school administrators, architects, boards of education, and others in Missouri in planning and providing facilities for departments of vocational agriculture. The first part of the guide provides information on characteristics of vocational agriculture related to facility needs; general considerations;…