This document establishes the policy for school construction programs and projects to be conducted in Argentina. The first part establishes the bases for construction and defines the policy and its objectives. The second part discusses school construction in view of educational reform and planning and considers analysis of current systems,…

In this report, Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School (TMA) submits its Development Plan for the renovation and improvements to the Nichols Avenue School building and site, which will serve as the future home for their school. Working with an experienced planning, design and construction team, they have prepared a Development Plan…

This bulletin is intended as a resource for school system facility planners and architects who design schools. Ways in which decision makers can incorporate environmental concerns in the design of school buildings are detailed. Focus is on the design of interior partition systems. Partition systems in schools serve several purposes; they define…

The educational specifications included in this document were prepared by the Madison, Connecticut public schools for Connecticut's State Department of Education School Facilities Unit. The result of a school facilities study, the specifications were prepared to serve two purposes: first, to fulfill state requirements regarding reimbursement for…

Describes Thomas Jefferson Junior High School/Community Center, Arlington, Virginia, the first major effort at creating a facility aimed at the total development of the community's intellectual and physical needs. Discusses Stanwood Junior High, the first systems-built school building erected in Pennsylvania; and the Dalhart, Texas, Elementary…

Describes a career center in Michigan, a vocational school in Texas, and a vocational center in Kentucky. Each facility has some unusual feature, such as the quadrant structure of the career center; the consolidation of administration, maintenance, and distribution at the vocational school; and the duo-building arrangement of the vocational…

The challenge confronting colleges and universities in the 1980s is seen as establishing physical planning processes designed to promote and demonstrate the efficiency of reclamation of resources to provide an enhanced physical environment for the academic program. Rehabilitation studies, space use, land use, codes, and regulations are discussed.…

The new student union at George Mason University (Virginia) integrates traditional functions (food services, meeting rooms, offices, study areas, bookstore) with recreational activities (movie theater, dance studios) and academic uses (library, department offices, classrooms). Administrators hope the facility will bring faculty, staff, and…

An annual survey of chief business officers in U.S. public school districts revealed that spending on maintenance and operations (M & O) as a percentage of net current expenditures dropped to a 30-year low of 7.8 percent. Other survey findings are presented in several data tables. (EV)

School design is changing in response to community needs. Today, flexibility is the key word in planning, designing, and renovating schools. Planning teams should consider schools' role as community learning centers. School size, shared space, enrollment changes, security, and parental choice of facilities are important planning elements. (MLH)

As the public becomes more aware of the health and environmental risks pesticides may pose, its interest in seeking the use of equally effective alternative pest control methods increases. School administrators and other persons who have pest control decision-making responsibilities for school buildings and grounds can use this guide to become…

Winner of the first award in the 1970 P/A competition, Pembroke dormitories embody a combination of sources of inspiration pervasive in current design. (Author/MLF)

This article provided another brief account of one of the seventeen NAIS member schools founded in the United States before 1776. (Editor/RK)

Involving the community in the earliest planning of design projects often results in useful suggestions, speeds the design phase, and increases community acceptance of the project. (Author/MLF)