Examines the energy crisis and its effect on school operation, facilities planning, and student transportation. Specific recommendations are made regarding ways in which the school plant and the school transportation program can conserve fuel. (DN)

Examines how rising energy costs will affect school planning in general and urban school planning in particular. It discusses the energy crisis, the energy consumption by schools, and the potential for energy conservation in education. Also describes a project to be undertaken in New York City to determine ways of conserving energy in that city's…

Declining enrollments and the current economic recession in higher education have forced colleges and universities to suspend or cutback plans for new construction and consider re-use of existing buildings. One candidate for rehabilitation is the campus chapel. (Author)

Local school superintendents -- one representing a large and affluent district and one from a smaller, more rural district -- present their views on full State funding of school construction in Maryland. (Author/JN)

Presents examples of remodeling on educational institutions to solve facility space problems. (PG)

College planners turned to the use of systems building, fast-track planning, and construction management to produce a 1,000-student, first-phase campus in 20 months. (Author)

New developments in the building industry meet the cost-time-quality challenge. (Author)

Suggests alternatives to the traditional school building. (MF)

Describes the Lottie M. Schmidt Elementary School in New Baltimore, Michigan, completed in 154 days. Designed to a price rather than priced to a design, the school was built at considerable savings over modular approaches -- and the modest price also covered furniture, electric heating/cooling, carpeting, full masonry construction, concrete slab…

Conflicts between superintendents and architects about planning school facilities can be avoided by written educational specifications and an understanding that preliminary cost estimates are not binding. However, the owner may impose a fixed budget limitation that is legally binding if all parties agree in writing. (MLF)

The reasons for the University of Michigan's decision to end development of a health maintenance organization are outlined from its different perspectives as an employer, health care provider, and medical school. Among the considerations were employee attitudes, insurance costs, competition, and revenue sources of the medical school. (MSE)

A series of pertinent questions regarding the development of a production facility for instructional materials. Levels of service, user needs, facility design, and costs are discussed. (Author/JJD)

New energy-responsible buildings will not only use less energy, but will be more comfortable, more closely attuned to nature, and will create a better learning and living environment. The most cost-effective planning decisions have to do with good passive solar design and sensible operations. (MLW)

The new Civil/Mineral Engineering Building on the University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus is a demonstration design in energy conservation and innovation in active and passive solar energy applications. Its antecedents at the university represent contributory steps in the identification of issues and the development of design principles. (MLW)