This book establishes guidelines for the construction and maintenance of tracks by providing information for building new tracks or upgrading existing tracks. Subjects covered include running track planning and construction, physical layout, available surfaces, and maintenance. General track requirements and construction specifications are…

The State of Alaska Department of Education has created a handbook to give assistance and direction to its school districts and communities in determining the suitability of various building sites for educational facilities planning. This handbook establishes a set of basic site selection elements and offers suggested evaluation criteria for…

School administrators in South Dakota and throughout the United States, in order to fund educational facility replacement and renovation projects, initiate school bond elections that they often have difficulty planning to successful conclusions. This study uses an exploratory data analysis to determine the factors within a community and within the…

This guide contains suggested criteria for planning, designing, and renovating Head Start centers so that they are safe, child-oriented, developmentally appropriate, beautiful, environmentally sensitive, and functional. The content is based on the U.S. General Services Administration's Child Care Center Design Guide, PBS-P140, which was intended…

Recreational facility plans for Greater Peterborough as it grows from 80,000 to 180,000 persons consider the needs of both the casual and long-term user. Local center and city center meeting places, swimming pools, children's play areas, facilities for the arts, and facilities for indoor and outdoor sports are planned. (AG)

Describes how one crowded elementary school was able to double its size and modernize its facility at low cost. (Author/DN)

Planning a photojournalism laboratory is simplified by following the outlined steps for determining what needs must be met, what the space offers, and what costs will be. Equipment selection follows guidelines of curricular and economic suitability, compatibility, and service quality. Carefully written specifications help ensure equipment quality…

The general purpose of the faculty club should be to promote unity and effectiveness among the teaching, administrative and professional forces of the university and to provide opportunities for informal exchange of academic problems. (Author)

Buying time on a computer can frequently eliminate the need for direct acquisition of expensive hardware and a supporting staff, while still providing the required data processing support. (Author)

A manager of a university book shop in New Zealand offers his impressions of American bookselling on campus. (PG)

Preplanning buildings for easy upkeep may cost more not but cut custodial costs later. (Author/JN)

Explains, theoretically, how a nonutilized chapel could be remodeled into audiovisual facilities. Provides specific space utilization information. (Author/MF)

An old U.S. Mint building is the answer to a college's search for downtown space and the nucleus of a future 8-acre campus area near the city center. (Author)

Business and professional sectors have initiated some functional and useful planning and design for continuing education facilities in direct response to the needs of users as students and as individuals. Provides several examples of facilities designed to lessen the impact of transplant on students, allow social mingling as well as classroom…

Describes Mount Royal College in Calgary, Canada, a 3-level all-weather enclosed campus housing up to 5,000 students. (Author/PG)