School construction completed in 2007--including new buildings, additions to existing buildings, and major retrofit of existing buildings--totaled almost $20.8B, a signifi cant increase over the $20.1B spent on construction completed in 2006. This marks the seventh year in the last eight that annual construction exceeded $20B. During the eight…

Schools and universities throughout the United States now appear to be embracing green roofs as one of many environmentally friendly initiatives. However, once a green roof is in place, school managers soon realize they are not the same as typical landscaping. Although they tend to be relatively low-maintenance, the location and highly specialized…

This speech summarizes the recommendations of seven National Governors' Association task forces represented in "Time for Results: The Governors' 1991 Report on Education," highlighting the physical facilities group's concerns. The Task Force on Teaching confronted work force quantity and quality issues and recommended strategies for…

Energy conservation can be achieved in schools. It can be profitable both in prolonging our sources of energy and in operating economy. (Author/MLF)

With careful planning and slight additional cost, a school can be a community facility and deliver a composite of essential services to a broader range of citizens over a greater time period. (Author)

The rise in construction costs and the search for equity in terms of educational opportunity and tax burden are shaping the trends in financing educational facilities. (Author)

Reports on a study of the interaction between the concept of Growth Units (the neighborhood as the building block for future development) and educational needs and the subsequent design criteria development. (Author/EA)

By evening out the rate at which a college uses electricity, the charge for the demand requirement in electricity can be reduced. (PG)

Experience with five pilot career resource centers (CRC) in Pennsylvania has provided the basis for these general guidelines for the successful installation and operation of a CRC. The purpose of a CRC (to provide career information to students, faculty, parents, and the community) is reflected in its objectives, which must reflect the concerns of…

This manual contains the general reference material pertinent to the complete set of manuals: glossary, bibliography, index, and table of contents for all seven documents. (For related documents, see EA 004 224.) (Author)

Guidelines for equipment planning in industrial education programs are presented. (EC)

Methods of delivering vocational education in New Jersey are discussed, emphasizing the designing and planning of educational facilities. (Author/EC)

The most commonly cited resources available to measure the facility requirements of a university and of its divisions are the space standards and entitlement formulas that have been developed by a provincial, state, or federal agency for systemwide application. Standards developed by the Council of Ontario Universities are described. (MLW)

In an effort to depoliticize design-build contracts, the Commonwealth of Virginia created a management review board to determine whether a locality should be authorized to use a design-build contract in lieu of competitive sealed bidding. This paper explains that process. In order to employ a design-build contract for a specific construction…

This checklist serves as a guide during various stages of a library design process to help ensure that all needed spaces and functions are included, to help enable the evaluation of existing library spaces as part of a library's needs assessment process, and to help provide data and support to the library in presentations that might be made to…