Taking Stock of School Bonds
For more than six years, Kit Dunn has been involved in specialized communications and information services for educational institutions. She is an equal partner and the vice president of Ellini…
Read More
Design Aesthetics: Creating Warmth with Wood
The Chloe Clark Elementary School in Dupont, Washington, offers an example of design consciously aimed at integrating with the style of houses in the neighborhood. The school’s front entry resembles…
In & Out Privileges
Keith Reid has more than 20 years of experience in the facilities service industry and, for the last three years, has worked at OneSource, where he is vice president of…
A Growing School
Imagine a school built solely to address and improve the quality of life for at-risk children from lower-income families. Imagine these third, fourth, and fifth graders, seeing their school grow…
Equal Access
Stephen McCarthy is co-partner and president of Equal Access ADA Consulting Architects Inc. in San Diego. He says that many people think it’s a given he’s in this field because…
Security Evolution
Bill Sewell is vice president and general manager of DMJM Technology, having joined the company in September 2000. He has worked in the field of electronic systems-which evolved into IT…
Review Team Roundtable
Review team member Rodolfo Almeida talking to review team member Prakash Nair about schools in developing nations, but the underlying ideas – flexibility, classroom size, schools as centers of the…
Purchasing Power
Hollie Chancey is coordinator, physical plant stores at the University of South Florida in Tampa, the second largest university in the southeast. She started working at the university 12 years…
Working Together
The new Mary Stuart Rogers Gateway Building signals the opening of California State University’s new Palm Desert, California, campus. Designed by the Santa Monica architecture firm Lee, Burkhart, Liu Inc.,…
Urban Myths
BordwellRaymond Bordwell, director of facilities planning at the architecture and interior design firm Perkins & Will, and an authority on urban school planning and design, has been a practicing architect…