Fuel for Thought
Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Joe Agron (jagron@asumag.com)
January marks the relaunch of SchoolDesigns.com.
Besides launching a New Year, January also marks the relaunch of an invaluable tool and resource for anyone building, modernizing, repairing or researching education facilities: SchoolDesigns.com.
As the largest compilation of award-winning and other outstanding school and university construction projects, the relaunched site includes improved search functionality on almost 4,000 projects — the largest online collection of education construction projects.
Now, anyone on the school building team — superintendents, business officials, presidents, board members, facility managers, architects, planners, volunteers and more — have a one-stop resource to peruse recently completed projects for ideas, trends, cost data, plans, pictures, amenities and more that can be mined for current or upcoming projects.
Visitors can review the work of hundreds of education architecture firms; find design professionals and service providers in their area that specialize in the type of work they are looking to do; identify products included in projects that are of interest; view showrooms of companies that supply products to produce more effective learning environments; discover the latest education construction and design news and developments; and much more.
The rich search functionality enables you to transition from perusing unrivaled data on thousands of projects, to identifying concepts that can be used in projects, to finding design professionals that are on the cutting edge, to locating innovative products and seeing how they fit into a facility, to exploring showrooms that include other products and services tailored for education, to linking directly to a company or design professional.
In the near future, SchoolDesigns.com will include additional resources, such as video tours of facilities, as well as interviews with the administrators and architects that brought these projects to life.
Be sure to take advantage of the vast data available at your fingertips — visit the new SchoolDesigns.com today.
Data drive
For almost 40 years, American School & University has been providing you with exclusive data on M&O expenditures and construction spending at education institutions nationwide. We want to continue providing you with the most useful data to benchmark your institution's costs and spending.
Data collection for the upcoming "Maintenance & Operations Cost Study" and "Education Construction" reports are underway — and we need your help to ensure the most reliable information is presented.
Please take a few minutes to complete one or both of the reports at http://asumag.com/research/researchsurvey. Your data will only be used in tabulating final overall data.
All respondents will receive a pdf of the final results and can register for a chance at one of four Amazon.com gift certificates at the completion of the survey.
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