Results of two value engineering studies have shown that a review early in the design process can help save costs in school construction, maintenance, operation, and replacement. The value engineering concepts and technical manual are being presented throughout the state of Washington. (MLF)

Specifications for developing a key controlled security system. (MLF)

A new high school in Morganton, North Carolina, is a modified open plan facility which houses general education and occupational education curriculums designed to meet the diversified needs of young people. (For more information on this facility see American School & University, vol. 46, no. 6, February 1974, pp22-24.) (Author/EA)

A facility completed in 1978 houses all of a central Kansas district's staff and students under one roof, blending conventional energy systems and utilities with solar energy. (Author/MLF)

An accessible interior and an imaginatively developed site allow the Harris Hillman School to further the growth and self-sufficiency of severely involved multiply handicapped students. (Author)

Failure to provide an optimal physical environment ultimately has adverse economic consequences which can be linked directly to stress-induced disorders. The costs of providing optimal physical conditions should be ascertained and related to the potential benfifts for affected individuals. (Author)

Cost-based compensation--the cost to provide quality service with a reasonable profit--is preferred by many architects. This method of equitable compensation for the professional time and talent required to produce a quality product is also to the benefit of owners. (MLF)

Features photographs, floor plans, and building descriptions of eight American educational facilities, three of which are at universities. Also included are plans for one of the six schools funded by the Southern Italy Earthquake Reconstruction Program, authorized by the United States Government after the 1980 earthquake. (MLF)

Alief Independent School District, Texas, has been successful in obtaining energy efficient designs for its new schools by developing energy goals prior to the selection of architects and engineers. Features of four projects designed to conserve energy are described. (Author/MLF)

A panel of six educators react to the questions and challenges raised in a previous special report on new trends in education. They respond to the implications for facilities with the implications for educational change which they feel cannot be overlooked. (Author)

Trends changing from "fad" status to acceptance as the norm for contemporary schools are flexibility, adaptability, a reduction in fenestration, compactness, use of color, carpeting, and many new construction materials. (Author/MLF)

Postoccupancy evaluation is a careful, systematic, and reliable process intended to ensure that findings can be applied to future buildings. Some of the important issues about postoccupancy evaluation are explored using questions that are often asked about this new component in the building delivery system. (MLF)

Project description, design philosophy, and sketches of site and floor plans are provided for six educational facilities presently, or soon to be, under construction in the states of California, Georgia, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Oklahoma. (MLF

First constructed in Alberta in 1974, expandable-contractible core schools contain a permanent structure to which a number of relocatable classrooms may be attached. The facilities can also serve as community centers. Almost 40 percent of the elementary school space constructed in the past seven years is relocatable. (MLF)

Schools must be considered as designed environments where individuals should be given maximum opportunity to engage in task activities with a minimum of adverse influences from elements in the designed surroundings. (Author)