Presents specific ideas on designing, planning, and staffing a training facility for industrial technicians. Facilities should be designed in relation to curriculum, traffic control, and safety. Trainer success is often based on both skills and attitudes. Presents case study at Commonwealth Edison; also reviews process by which various maintenance…

For a woods curriculum project, senior high students designed and built a tool cart needed in the elementary school industrial arts classes. Photographs of two carts of different design, diagrams, and list of materials are included. (MF)

As energy costs rise so will concern for energy savings in institutions. In achieving these savings it will be necessary to consider health and safety criteria. Special needs for several types of institutional facilities are discussed. (RE)

Takes a look at the need for students to have multivariant problem solving abilities in order to meet the monumental changes happening in society and the world. (RK)

An Open University counselor wrote to disabled students to discover why they failed to continue their studies. Difficulties indicated by the replies include costs; physical impediments like toilets, stairs, desks and chairs; lack of understanding of deaf peoples' deprivation; illness; and meeting time requirements. (SW)

Presents two contemporary definitions of urban design which incorporate spatial and time scales, man-environment relations, and multi-professional associations. (MA)

Presents 39 questions concerning urban design educational programs to be discussed at a workshop. The questions represent five groups: schools with programs, schools wanting to establish programs, practitioners, students, and the AIA committee on urban planning and design. (MA)

Explores research needs in urban design. Presents models for research design. (MA)

A music education and performance facility for students, 90 percent of whom are legally blind, demonstrates that it is possible to produce exciting design for the handicapped. (Author/MLF)

Social, psychological, and physiological factors all impinge on the awareness of the handicapped, the elderly, and the rest of us in experiencing architecture. (Author)

A review of design criteria for playgrounds that will be used by handicapped children as well as their normal peers. (Author/MLF)

United Kingdom norms for libraries are reviewed and the effect they would have on Australian university libraries is examined. Focus is on book storage, future growth provision, reader places, administration, reserve storage, and special collections. (LBH)

At UC Berkeley, 106 undergraduates in an architectural design studio were given an 11-week task of working in teams to design an environment for a population that included elderly and physically disabled individuals. The effect of student attitudes and assumptions, and changes in them, are discussed. (LBH)

Energy conservation measures in building design and use are advocated as the most cost-effective and available option to reduce national energy supply requirements. For journal availability see HE 508 931. (LBH)

Prince George's bookstore targets community as well as student needs and gives high priority to quality merchandise. Its layout, operating methods, and successes are described. (LBH)