Professional-grade audio-visual equipment, a plethora of screening rooms and theaters, and an earthquake-resilient design — all set against the backdrop of old Hollywood — are just a few of the reasons students and faculty at the School of Cinematic Arts are embracing the future, and the past, at the University of Southern California.
When the Episcopal Academy decided it was time to consolidate its lower, middle and upper schools into a single, unified campus, it set out to create a family of buildings related by materials and basic design details, yet distinguished by purpose and architectural style.
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| The Rosa Parks school in Portland, Ore., and two schools in Springfield recently received awards. |
Virco’s PlanSCAPE was designed to assist buyers with large-scale furniture and equipment purchases. The PlanSCAPE team has worked with several school districts to create bid packages for a variety of settings, including classrooms, computer and science labs, and administrative areas and meeting rooms.
Just because you aren’t building green schools doesn’t mean you can’t make an existing school facility green.
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.
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.
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.
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