To avoid understating needs when planning a training center, the article suggests a step-by-step procedure from studying the number of students served for the past two years to arriving at a total dollar estimate. (AG)

Libraries can serve many functions, and the type of library best for a particular school depends on how the library corresponds to the educational curriculum. (Author/MF)

How one planning team solved the problem of getting the utmost out of the square footage and the budget provided for teaching spaces in a medical school. (Author)

Examining the changes occurring in the nation's colleges and universities over the past quarter of a century, the author finds higher education in a crisis that will have deep significance for the academic planner. (Author)

Furniture and furnishings are rapidly losing their institutional look. (Editor)

Mount Holyoke College's art center is designed and built to serve for a century. (Editor)

Guidelines to help decision on whether to modernize or replace a school building. (MF)

Explains the owner-contractor relationship of construction management and the time and budgeting advantages it offers public educational agencies by dealing with only one firm. (MLF)

A five-phase program has revolutionized campus mailing service at the University of Louisville. (Author/MLF)

Offers working principles that lead to more satisfactory outcomes in planning and building new facilities. (EV)

Describes the educational benefits of high-performance schools, buildings that are efficient, healthy, safe, and easy to operate and maintain. Also briefly describes how to create a high-performance school drawn from volume I (Planning) of the three-volume Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) "Best Practices Manual." (For more…

Describes the facility planning process for ensuring school security, addressing influences on security planning, site-specific issues, and necessary knowledge and communication. (EV)

Describes steps schools can take to provide cleaner and safer washrooms. Emphasizes hand-washing to battle germs and asserts that creating a comfortable and user-friendly washroom is a critical and often overlooked aspect for encouraging better hygiene habits. (EV)