NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Safe and Sound, a nonprofit organization founded by families directly affected by the Dec. 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., recently gained the backing of door safety and security solutions firm Assa Abloy.
LEWISVILLE, Texas — Dallas-based PBK Architects designed two ninth-grade centers at Flower Mound High School and Marcus High School in the Lewisville Independent School District, which opened earlier this year.
PASADENA, Calif. — The two-day Green California Schools Conference kicks off in Pasadena Nov. 5, bringing together teachers, administrators, architects, engineers, facility managers and others to share knowledge about a variety of sustainability issues facing the state’s schools and universities. The summit is the largest annual event focused on green programs in the nation’s largest K-12 and higher education systems.
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Montgomery County’s schools continue to fight for school construction funding as student enrollment increases in Maryland’s fastest-growing school district.
Michael Craig Smith, AIA, will serve as director of Hastings+Chivetta Architects’ new California office in Irvine, bringing with him 25 years of design and construction experience at California universities. Smith comes to Hastings+Chivetta from California State University at Fullerton where he completed more than 20 major capital projects worth a combined $500 million as the director of Design and Construction.
Varco Pruden Building has added Utility Built, a new micro-building product, to its line of steel building solutions. Varco Pruden partnered with Parkline Inc. to produce the Utility Built line of small, multipurpose, specialized enclosures developed to be cost-competitive and modular in construction, allowing for simple installation.
