Traces factors that have helped influence the current concern for preservation of college and university buildings and explains the problems and the solutions achieved on a number of campuses. (MLF)

Describes past efforts to conserve energy in Topeka, Kansas, schools and advocates that all school capital improvements contain as many conservation components as financially possible. (MLF)

Outlines the budgeting problems involved in renovating the interiors of older college buildings and claims a comprehensive space planning program supported by structured funding is essential to preserve the usable life of existing facilities. (MLF)

Interior parts of educational buildings deteriorate or become obsolete as programs change and facilities get reassigned. Space realignment, renewal, and replacement (SR3) is a concept for budgeting the necessary funds to prevent deterioration of physical facilities. (Author/MLF)

Guidelines are offered for carrying out a long-range campus improvement plan. (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)

Drawings and suggestions from students were influential in the renovation of the New Market Elementary School in New Market, Maryland. (Author/MLF)

A roofing project of any substantial size should involve an architect, an engineer, or a roof consultant. Careful planning and design, diligent construction, and quality inspection, offer owners a quality roof job. (MLF)

The analysis of a building from an energy conservation and passive solar potential has three aspects: building envelope, landscaping, and room utilization. Typical conservation and solar control modifications are listed. (Author/MLF)

Energy performance contractors provide services and equipment for administrators with innovative financing that requires no upfront costs to the clients. The range of tasks that facility managers must do to negotiate such contracts is, however, extensive. (MD)

A compilation of innovative school energy conservation practices that have appeared in the literature since 1977. (Author/MLF)

Hand Middle School, Columbia, South Carolina, provides an example of what may be the extreme in making an old school building maximally energy efficient. (Author)

Outlines the role of the architect under design-build-bid arrangements. (MLF)

Ben Graves, director of the New Life for Old Schools study in the 1960s, takes a look at contemporary currents in school rehabilitation. (Author)

A school district's organization of facility needs assessment instruments and generic education facility specifications coupled with the computer capabilities of a South Carolina architectural firm shortened a school building project by over one year. (MLF)