This newsletter focuses primarily on the educational facility building systems of Boston and Detroit, and incorporates a brief progress report on the Montreal building project. In addition, the results of ten years of involvement by Educational Facilities Laboratories in exploring the feasibility of developing and applying building systems for…

An econometric model was developed for use in measuring the impact of the Louisiana State University (LSU) upon the Louisiana economy. Emphasis is placed on measuring the effects of enrollment changes, salary and wage expenditures, and campus construction activity. The results show that, overall, each dollar spent by the LSU System creates another…

To identify the need for construction and to estimate the cost of meeting existing and future capital outlay needs of Florida's 67 school districts, this paper attempts to provide a broad overview of the Florida system. More specifically, the paper describes how the State system of public schools is organized, the history of capital outlay survey…