This paper describes general educational facility improvement planing principles and how factors peculiar to Massachusetts affect the planning process, including a description of the roles of the owner, architect, and other building professionals. Chapters examine the first steps in school planning, the role of the architect in preliminary…

Explains, theoretically, how a nonutilized chapel could be remodeled into audiovisual facilities. Provides specific space utilization information. (Author/MF)

Describes how Highland Park, Illinois, school administrators and board members convinced their community that the Elm Place School -- the oldest school and the most symbolic of the community's cultural and social heritage -- needed facility upgrading and program improvements. Provides the procedures in acquiring their 68,000 square foot addition…

Additions transformed a junior high school in Fulton (Missouri) into a high school over twice as large, yet it uses no more gas for heating than it did before. (Author)

Text and tables provide information on school construction costs and kinds of projects: new buildings; additions to existing buildings; and upgrades of existing buildings. Organized by 12 regions of the country, estimates show construction completed in 1995, construction expected to be completed in 1996, and construction projected to start in…

More money was spent on school construction in 1996 than in any other single year. Text and tables provide information on construction costs and kinds of projects: new buildings, additions to existing buildings, and upgrades of existing buildings. Organized by 12 regions of the country, estimates show construction completed in 1996, expected to be…

Discusses how Bowdoin College built a new science building around an existing one, without destroying the unity of the campus and while preserving a vital green area. Examines architectural design features intended to encourage interdisciplinary learning. Floor plans are included. (GR)

Describes the minimalistic design features of a new addition to a suburban New Jersey elementary/middle school that expanded classroom space and created better traffic flow. Photos and a floorplan are included. (GR)

Discusses the emotional costs for day care center directors who expand their business by opening another center. Notes problems for staff, families, and directors on an emotional level that resulted from the expansion. (JPB)

Discusses why expanding to compete with public institutions makes no economic sense for small private colleges and may lower their rankings in the national collegiate pecking order. (EV)

An annual survey of college construction finds that more than $11 billion in projects is expected to be completed, and another $11 billion started, in 2002. Just $6.6 billion is being invested in new structures; the rest is earmarked for renovating and expanding existing facilities. Includes several data tables. (EV)

Examines differences in the public-policy objectives and financing of school expansion efforts in North and South Korea. Institutionalizing credentialism and reliance on financing private education dominates South Korean school expansion, while the financing of public schools and greater government control of education dominates North Korean…

Two schools solve the need for more classroom space -- one by renovating an existing but outdated facility and the other by building with an eye for future expansions. (Author)

On a limited site, Grand Rapids transforms a 750-student junior high into a 3000-student senior high school. (Author)