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Download full textMontiel, Isabel; Mayoral, Asunción M.; Navarro Pedreño, José; Maiques, Silvia; Marco Dos Santos, Gema – Education Sciences, 2020
The present paper deals with a wide range of issues related to the environmental quality in learning spaces, such as thermal and visual comfort, as well as energy efficiency. All of these issues fall under the umbrella of the UN Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Upon reviewing publications of past studies, interviews were…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Physical Environment, Lighting, Educational Environment
Direct linkEitland, Erika; Allen, Joseph – State Education Standard, 2019
Improving the school building may well be the most overlooked means of improving student health, safety, and academic performance. Yet in conversations about factors that lead students to academic success, only rarely does the role of the physical environment come to the fore. By downplaying the importance of the building, policymakers and parents…
Descriptors: School Buildings, Physical Environment, Role, Academic Achievement
Alexander, Debbie; Lewis, Laurie – National Center for Education Statistics, 2014
This report provides nationally representative data on the condition of public school facilities. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) previously collected data on this topic in 1999 (Lewis et al. 2000). The study presented in this report collected information about the condition of public school facilities in the 2012-13 school…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Facilities Planning, National Surveys
White, Lawrence – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2015
A principle responsibility of a board member is to understand the environment in which his or her institution operates. Today, that environment includes a host of legal risks that every institution of higher education must be prepared to assess and proactively address. Colleges and universities work to contain and manage those risks through such…
Descriptors: Legal Problems, Sexual Abuse, Student Behavior, Risk
Erickson, Paul W. – American School & University, 2011
The United States is full of schools built in the 1950s and 60s that supported the boomer school-age enrollment increase. These schools, once beacons of the neighborhood, are 50 to 60 years old and susceptible to becoming the community "eyesore." Budgeting for maintenance was fairly systematic for school districts for the first 10 to 20…
Descriptors: School Maintenance, Costs, School Community Relationship, Life Cycle Costing
Healthy Schools Network, Inc., 2012
Air pollution is air pollution, indoors or out. Good indoor air quality (IAQ) contributes to a favorable learning environment for students, protects health, and supports the productivity of school personnel. In schools in poor repair, leaky roofs and crumbling walls have caused additional indoor air quality problems, including contamination with…
Descriptors: Pollution, School Personnel, School Maintenance, Parent Materials
Stanfield, Kenneth – Educational Facility Planner, 2010
From its conception, Richardsville Elementary was designed to be an affordable net zero facility. The design team explored numerous energy saving strategies to dramatically reduce energy consumption. By reducing energy use to 19.31 kBtus annually, the net zero goal could be realized through the implementation of a solar array capable of producing…
Descriptors: Energy Conservation, Costs, Educational Facilities Design, Sustainable Development
Council of the Great City Schools, 2014
In 2002 the "Council of the Great City Schools" and its members set out to develop performance measures that could be used to improve business operations in urban public school districts. The Council launched the "Performance Measurement and Benchmarking Project" to achieve these objectives. The purposes of the project was to:…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, School Districts, Educational Assessment
Carlson, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Colleges have always struggled with deferred maintenance, but several factors might make that struggle especially challenging in the future. Colleges grew rapidly in the postwar years and have a generation of 1960s or 1970s buildings that need major repair or replacement. In the past 10 years, colleges went through another building boom, adding to…
Descriptors: Campuses, School Maintenance, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
Gardner, John C. – American School and University, 1975
The Public Service Commission in New York is studying methods of repricing utility services. The study will try to determine who pays how much of the revenues required to operate a utility efficiently. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Costs, Electricity, Operating Expenses, School Maintenance
American Carpet Inst., New York, NY. – 1963
An analysis of installation and maintenance costs of carpet, tile, and terrazzo in a wide variety of commercial installations is presented. Over 400,000 square feet of carpeted floors and over 1,000,000 square feet of non-carpeted floors were examined and evaluated to provide prospective floor covering buyers with comparative "use cost" data in…
Descriptors: Carpeting, Construction Costs, Costs, Maintenance
National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, 2008
This paper discusses a variety of school safety and security measures that may be implemented at little or no cost and without the use of complex technology. Measures are presented according to these categories: (1) General; (2) Outside the Building; and (3) Inside the Building.
Descriptors: School Safety, Costs, School Buildings, Educational Facilities Planning
Peer reviewedApplegate, Lindsay M. – School Management, 1972
Descriptors: Costs, Flooring, Gymnasiums, Physical Education Facilities
School Progress, 1971
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Costs, School Maintenance, School Vandalism
ZIMMERMAN, WILLIAM J. – 1960
THIS REPORT IS A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INITIAL SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION COSTS AND FUTURE MAINTENANCE COSTS. WHILE THE STUDY IS RESTRICTED TO THE LOS ANGELES CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, THE RESULTS ARE TO SOME EXTENT GENERALIZABLE. THE STUDY SHOWS AN INVERSE RELATIONSHIP IN THESE COSTS--WHERE INITIAL CONSTRUCTION COSTS ARE LOW…
Descriptors: Construction Costs, Costs, Maintenance, Planning
