This study applies the methodology of systems dynamics to analyze engineering and engineering technology education systems. A preliminary system analysis is presented relating primary variables and their interaction in the overall system through a series of feedback loops. This is followed by a system structure development and mathematical…

One of the ten buildings chosen to receive 1976 AIA honor awards, the arts center houses the departments of sculpture, painting, graphics, advertising art, photography, and industrial design. (Author/MLF)

The project goal was to make available to higher education the advantages of the system developed for English school construction. This bulletin describes the various stages in the project. Differences between building system and single building design are discussed; results of investigations into user needs and general performance specifications…

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)

A basic multipurpose module 100 feet by 124 feet is proposed for college physical education and recreation facilities. (Author/MLF)

To hold down construction costs of student housing, Brockport College decided on a fixed-cost competition, in which architects had to team up with contractors. The winning firm used a French industrialized building system and exterior panels of weathered steel to construct a village of 27 four-story buildings. (JG)

Systems design, modularity, and prefabrication help speed construction of a megastructure for 8,000 students. (Author)

Architects for a new student-housing project at the State University of New York at Brockport used System III, a French industrialized building system, to create a humanistic, low-rise apartment village, while shortening project delivery time and markedly cutting construction costs. (JG)

Solar energy collector panels are used as a freestanding canopy over walks that will connect an arts complex eventually consisting of five buildings. (Author/MLF)

Describes design and construction of a new physical activities center at Dayton University that utilized a design/build approach and pre-engineered building systems to substantially reduce construction costs. (JG)

The major systems development projects of the 1960's were concerned primarily with facility problems at the elementary and secondary levels. Rapidly increasing enrollments coupled with changes in both curriculum and in teaching methods created a demand for more flexible facilities that could be constructed rapidly and inexpensively. The success of…

Compares the life cycle approach for campus building repair and renovation to the University of California's comprehensive building maintenance formula and advises that formulas be used cautiously as a method of determining appropriate budget levels. (MLF)

Presents a quantitative method developed at Stanford University that allows administrators to accurately assess the future capital requirements necessary for renewal and replacement of campus buildings. (MLF)

This document is an extract of EA 004 095 which reports a yearlong study of possible benefits in cost, time, and facility utilization of a systems building approach for Texas college and university construction. (Photographs on pages 7,8,9, and 13 may reproduce poorly.) (Author)

This document reports a yearlong study of possible benefits in cost, time, and facility utilization of a systems building approach for Texas college and university construction. The first part of the report deals with trends and needs in higher education and the related architectural implications. A subsequent discussion of alternative building…