Green School Retrofits
Sometimes the Greenest School is the One You Already Have
Just because you aren’t building green schools doesn’t mean you can’t make an existing school facility green.
Green schools don’t have to be new schools. By improving the operational efficiency and environmental performance of existing facilities, you can make the most of your school buildings and ensure that every student, teacher and staff member in your district can enjoy the health and performance benefits of a green school.
Read More Department of Energy
Releases Efficiency Publication
Districts with energy-efficiency maintenance and operations programs can save as much as 20 percent on energy bills — one of their most costly expenditures — without significant capital investment. That is money that can be spent on teachers, textbooks and technology.
New Facility Boosts Military Teaching Model
CHARLESTON, SC — Typical high schools and middle schools don’t have Huey helicopters landing in the schoolyard to celebrate Veterans Day. But, North Charleston’s Military Magnet Academy is no typical campus.
Read More It’s the first campus in the United States to incorporate military-style training methods into a public school academic program as a means of fostering discipline, leadership, loyalty, respect and teamwork.
Q&A: Erin Rae Hoffer, Autodesk Manager
Building information modeling, a technology that allows architects, engineers and contractors to create integrated, three-dimensional digital design documents, is at once a catalyst for tremendous change within the design/construction community and a source of confusion among design professionals and project owners.
Lance Josal
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RTKL Associates Inc. named Lance Josal, FAIA, president and CEO. Josal, who joined the Baltimore-based international architecture and engineering firm in 1979, previously served as director of RTKL’s commercial practice group. He succeeds the David Hudson, AIA, who is retiring.