July 09, 2009


American School & University | Facility Planning

Facility Planning: An Eye-Opener 

By James E. Rydeen

Do students and teachers experience the physical environment without realizing what they are seeing?...

WEB EXCLUSIVE: School as a teaching tool | Hawkins Elementary School in Toledo, Ohio 

When the new Hawkins Elementary School, Toledo, Ohio, opens in January 2010, students will be exposed directly to environmentally friendly practices and alternative energy systems....

Housing costs — 10 years of data 

Additional information from the 20th Annual Residence Hall Construction Report, including the cost per square foot to construct a new residence hall....

Carpeting and air conditioning in residence halls 

Additional information from the 20th Annual Residence Hall Construction Report, including the incidence of both carpeting and air conditioning in new residence halls....

Amount of square feet per resident — 10 years of data 

Additional information from the 20th Annual Residence Hall Construction Report, including the average amount of square feet per resident over the past 10 years in new residence halls....

Green wraparound | Eastern View High School in Culpeper, Va. 

The 259,218-square-foot Eastern View High School, Culpeper, Va., was designed to resemble a school wrapped around a community center....

Green challenges | Danforth University Center at Washington University 

The 115,880-square-foot Danforth University Center at Washington University, St. Louis, has achieved LEED gold certification....

Committed to green | Simmons School of Management at Simmons College 

The new Simmons School of Management (SOM), Simmons College, Boston, embodies the college's commitment to sustainable development....

35th Annual Official Education Construction Report 

By Joe Agron (jagron@asumag.com)

Spending on construction by the nation's education institutions increased in 2008, reversing four years of declines in total annual expenditures...

Facility Planning: From the Ground Up 

By James E. Rydeen

One sustainable-energy source with great potential is geothermal power — energy generated from heat stored in the Earth. Installations have been made in schools of all sizes....

How school construction dollars are divided 

Additional information from the 35th Annual Official Education Construction Report, including how the median new K-12 project completed in 2008 divides the cost of a new school....

School enrollment and construction comparison 

Additional information from the 35th Annual Official Education Construction Report, including K-12 construction spending related to student population....

Carpeting and air conditioning usage 

Additional information from the 35th Annual Official Education Construction Report, including the percentage of space carpeted and air-conditioned in new education facilities projects completed in 2008....

Education construction: The past 35 years 

Additional information from the 35th Annual Official Education Construction Report, including education construction spending over the past 35 years by schools and colleges....

State-of-the-art reuse | University Center for the Arts at Colorado State University 

The $45 million University Center for the Arts) at Colorado State University included the transformation of the 1924 Fort Collins High School into a performing-arts center....

A complex transformation | Laboratory and Office Building at Weill Cornell Medical College 

A century-old former Rolls Royce showroom in Manhattan, now is a seven-story, 70,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art laboratory and office building for Weill Cornell Medical College....

WEB EXCLUSIVE: A nurturing renovation | Community School in Ladue, Mo. 

Construction has begun on a $6 million expansion and renovation project at Community School, Ladue, Mo. Work to construct a new leadership wing, expand the kitchen, renovate the main entrance and widen the school's driveway is the largest component of an $8 million capital campaign launched in 2007....

Built to Last 

By Mike Kennedy (mkennedy@asumag.com)

Early proponents of sustainable-design strategies provided facilities that are fulfilling their promise to save energy and improve education....

A collaboration | Library at public elementary school P.S. 58 in Brooklyn 

The library at P.S. 58, a public elementary school in Brooklyn, represents a collaboration among parents and administrators who participated in the project's design and fund-raising activities....

Cutting-edge labs | ICTAS 1 and ICTAS-A at Virginia Tech 

As part of a long-term strategy to bolster and expand research, Virginia Tech wanted to add laboratory, teaching and research space to its campus....

Open to the future | Jefferson Hall-USMA Library and Learning Center at West Point 

Last fall, West Point opened the Jefferson Hall-USMA Library and Learning Center on the U.S. Military Academy's Hudson Valley, N.Y., campus....

Learning at "sea" | Simulation Center at California Maritime Academy 

California Maritime Academy's new $7.2 million, 21,000-square-foot Simulation Center replicates the feel of being at sea and provides cadets with complex situations commonly faced by maritime crews around the world....

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Gateway to campus | Library Media Center and Faculty Administration Building at Peninsula College 

The Library Media Center and Faculty Administration Building at Peninsula College, Port Angeles, Wash., completed in August 2008, creates a gateway to the campus....

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Completing the quad | James E. "Jim" King Jr. Building at Florida State University 

Florida State University's new science quadrangle, home to the University's College of Medicine and Department of Psychology, continues to take shape with the completion of the James E. "Jim" King Jr. Building....

Facility Planning: Focused Goals 

By James E. Rydeen

Architecture 2030 was established by architect Edward Mazria in response to the global-warming crisis. Its 2030 Challenge urges the architecture and building community to adopt the following targets...

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Essential Reading

The Subtle Stuff

Vikas Nagardeolekar and Edwin Merritt

It's hard to win passage of a school construction bond — whether through a citizen referendum or the vote of a town council or general town meeting.

Hear and Now

Michael McKeon and Lincoln Berry

When acoustics are mentioned with regard to schools, many people first think of performing arts.

Making it Readable

Peter Gisolfi

When my daughter was 10 years old, she left the comfort of her elementary school for the unfamiliar territory of the middle/high school building — a crazy quilt of pieces from the 1910s, 1930s, 1960s and 1970s.

Echo Boom Impact

Phillipe Dordai and Joseph Rizzo

Like their baby-boomer parents, the echo-boom generation is reshaping the college and university landscape.

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