With educational opportunities like Silicon Valley’s Design Tech High School in Redwood Shores sprouting up across the nation, one would be hard pressed to find a student who wouldn’t want in the classroom.
While there are many precautions a school facility manager may take in construction, one of the best precautions is to have solid construction and design contracts.
Given recent news cycles, it might be hard to believe that over the past 20 years, less than three percent of youth-oriented homicides actually occurred on school grounds. This is the among the latest school crime and safety findings of the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
The Northland Innovation Campus — often referred to as the SAGE Center — in Gladstone, Mo., (a suburb of Kansas City, Mo.) provides a truly innovative space that helps foster the exceptional skills of all 950 SAGE students
For this year’s architect roundtable, School Construction News spoke with three women who are leaders in the industry.
By Daedalus Howell PALO ALTO, Calif. — For some, the concept of autonomous devices (or, to invoke common parlance, “drones”) bring to mind footage of our kids’ quadcopter-cam barnstorming the…
DRAPER, Utah — A proposed nine-acre Science Learning Campus expansion to the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium (LLPA) is clawing its way to fruition thanks, literally, to The Claw — a 165-foot…
Designed by Cambridge-based firm Bruner/Cott & Associates, the 17,000-square-foot R.W. Kern Center at Hampshire College has been certified as a Living Building by the International Living Future Institute (ILFI).
The University of Hawaii made an announcement on March 19 that its Maui College campus will soon generate 100 percent of its energy from on-site solar photovoltaic systems.
The following examples highlight common limitations of school facilities and strategies to overcome them to create outdoor and extended learning areas.
