Business and professional sectors have initiated some functional and useful planning and design for continuing education facilities in direct response to the needs of users as students and as individuals. Provides several examples of facilities designed to lessen the impact of transplant on students, allow social mingling as well as classroom…

Tells how a community college sifted through the building possibilities on the hot, dry, and windy Mojave desert. (Author)

Describes Mount Royal College in Calgary, Canada, a 3-level all-weather enclosed campus housing up to 5,000 students. (Author/PG)

Lesley College's new complex is a urban academic village'' of residences, library, auditorium, classrooms and supportive facilities. (Editor)

Two major academic lofts on an upper level, an exploratory education loft on the lower level, and five chairless levels rising from a forum's sunken stage area reflect this school's philosophy that a school building must support diverse kinds of activity. (Author/EA)

Trash compactor functions and types are discussed and some hints for compactor selection for schools are provided. Discussed are the horizontal ram, vertical ram, and the horizontal extruder compactor. (DN)

Schools use a variety of new approaches to build future construction craftsmen. (Editor)

Describes how Highland Park, Illinois, school administrators and board members convinced their community that the Elm Place School -- the oldest school and the most symbolic of the community's cultural and social heritage -- needed facility upgrading and program improvements. Provides the procedures in acquiring their 68,000 square foot addition…

School facility appraisal will provide a basis for a careful analysis of the anatomy of a school plant. (Author)

Schools must be considered as designed environments where individuals should be given maximum opportunity to engage in task activities with a minimum of adverse influences from elements in the designed surroundings. (Author)

An alarms system manufacturer redesigned its complete line to offer plantmen an ounce of detection'' that relieves fire and theft worries. (Author)

The trend toward increased lighting has accelerated the acceptance of heat recovery systems. A heating-lighting-cooling system is a responsible and efficient use of energy for future school buildings. (Author/MLF)

Primary influences on a community college building design such as site, educational program, and budget produce building designs that are different in each case. However, because of the community college's unique educational role, these variables are multiplied almost infinitely. The three primary education objectives of most community colleges…