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Download full textHeimsath, Clovis B. – 1972
The architecture profession needs to employ systems building design in order to raise the rate of productivity and performance in construction. Changes have been made in architecture educational programs that recognize the shift in the role of the architect from design genius to building production manager. Systems design has led to changes within…
Descriptors: Architects, Architectural Education, Architecture, Building Design
PDF pending restorationBuilding Systems Information Clearinghouse, Menlo Park, CA. – 1972
To qualify for inclusion in this listing, a building must have been constructed with two or more compatible building subsystems, one of which is structure. It is estimated that at least 400 schools that satisfy this definition have been constructed in the U. S. and Canada, about one quarter of which appear in this listing. Beginning with this…
Descriptors: Architects, Building Systems, Construction Costs, Databases
Featherstone, Richard L. – 1972
The Construction Systems Program (CSP) is the management process utilized in the construction of additions to four schools in the Detroit School District. The objectives of CSP were (1) to reduce the time required to plan and construct new buildings and additions, (2) to reduce the cost of new buildings and additions, and (3) to maintain or…
Descriptors: Architects, Bids, Building Systems, Construction Costs
Building Research, 1966
Comprehensive building systems are the result of industry's search for markets, clients' desire for shorter hours and lower costs, and the growing complexity of building technology which requires the architect to depend on industry for research and development. Certain questions are raised by this trend. Will industry dominate architecture? Can…
Descriptors: Architects, Architectural Programing, Building Design, Building Systems
Detroit Public Schools, MI. – 1970
The specifications cover the construction of additions to four schools in the Detroit School District. The Construction Systems Program (CSP) was utilized in an attempt to (1) reduce the cost of school construction and provide improved value for the building dollar in terms of function, environment, first cost, and maintenance cost; (2) accelerate…
Descriptors: Architects, Bids, Building Systems, Construction Management
Clarke, Robin A. – 1969
This report summarizes the findings and recommendations of a feasibility study of industrialized building method utilization in school construction. The 3-part format attempts to define the conditions necessary for the satisfactory operation of an industrialized building system for the benefit of the community; explain the conditions relevant to…
Descriptors: Architects, Bids, Building Design, Building Obsolescence
Building Systems Information Clearinghouse, Menlo Park, CA. – 1973
The main article in this newsletter concerns the adoption by an architectural firm of elements of a systems approach as a means of providing school buildings responsive spatially and environmentally to educational change, and how these activities were later instrumental in facilitating entry by the architectural firm into the construction…
Descriptors: Architects, Architecture, Bids, Building Plans
