This paper describes the background, rationale, design, and evaluation of a workshop for architecture and planning students in which concepts from the applied behavioral sciences were used to illustrate and explore the dynamics of team collaboration in design professions. (Author)

One example of how to adapt an old school to a new program that is based on new uses of space and equipment. (Author)

Amid controversy, a former Paris slaughterhouse is being converted into one of the world's largest science museums. The museum will be organized into four major sectors corresponding to different levels at which science and technology touch human lives: exploring, using/producing, living/inhabitating, and communications. The controversy related to…

A description of managing community involvement in the school planning process. (MLF)

Discusses strategic planning in higher education and describes an integrated institutional planning system developed by a planning firm that guides administrators in developing, implementing, and monitoring a strategic plan. The system process uses an orderly sequence of activities assembled into five phases, from defining purpose through…

Details the $1 billion in facilities projects being undertaken by Georgia Institute of Technology, including the 8-acre Technology Square, which involve partnerships with its neighbors to accomplish urban revitalization. (EV)

Describes the planning and design of a new school for an Aboriginal community in Australia, which replaced their previously transient school services. (EV)

Based on experiences in Berkeley, California, offers observations about community-based design of schools: welcome the community into the school, fit the school into its community, be resolutely honest about cost, and empower and inspire rather than direct. (EV)

Presents an interview with a floor company's marketing director discussing a seminar on LEED 2.0 (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards offered by the firm. (EV)

Explains the design-build approach and discusses it as a way for colleges and universities to address their space needs more quickly. (EV)

Discusses how to develop confident budgets for school facilities construction at the master planning stage with limited information. (EV)

Discusses the advantages of "bridging," a hybrid project delivery approach that uses an owner's design architect and program manager to prepare preliminary design and specification documents, and then has this team closely supervise the contractor's architect and engineers in finalizing the construction documents. (EV)

Lists aspects of planning for nonpublic schools that are not normally part of public school planning. (MLF)