4 High-Impact Ways to Maximize Your Maintenance Budget
Facilities leaders across K–12 school districts and higher education campuses often face a familiar challenge: how to best allocate maintenance dollars before a fiscal year resets.
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More Than a Surface: How the Right Flooring Affects Athlete Health and Performance
Schools are no longer choosing athletic flooring based on performance metrics alone. While performance still plays an important role, facilities are also taking student-athlete health, sustainability and longevity into consideration when planning their build.
Different Zones for Different Learning Styles
One of the most important strides to have been made in recent educational history is the acknowledgment of different learning styles.
Modular Construction: Building the Future of Higher Education Spaces
At the University of the Fraser Valley, a former campus pub was reimagined into a cutting-edge educational hub using modular construction. | Photo Credit: Ed White Photographics By Benjamin Urban As the higher education landscape evolves, traditional…
Student Housing Leads the Industry in Wellness and Sustainable Design by Addressing Student Values
Student housing design leads the industry in wellness and sustainable design strategies because the current generation of college students, primarily members of Gen Z, expect their communities to address those issues.
How The University of Notre Dame Avoids Costly Early Roof Replacements
The stakes of roof failure are high for any building. This is especially true of educational buildings, where the price of failure or roof replacements can result in significant disruption to students’ education.
The New Priorities in School Restroom Design: Hygiene, Inclusion and Maintenance Efficiency
Restrooms may not be the first spaces that come to mind when planning new school construction or renovations, but they leave one of the most lasting impressions.
How Choosing the Right Construction Partner Shapes Campus Success
Driven by a growing need to modernize aging facilities and adapt to shifting enrollment patterns and new models of academic delivery, the higher education construction market is projected to reach $102 billion by 2034.
Designing for Resilient Urban Athletics: Columbia University’s Vertical Tennis Center
When Perkins&Will set out to design the Milstein Family Tennis Center, the firm faced the dual challenge of replacing an aging structure within Columbia University’s Baker Athletics Complex while also reflecting the institution’s commitment to resilient, high-performance design.
Higher Education Facilities: Why Renovations Are Outpacing New Construction
More of today’s funding is being directed toward strategic renovations of existing buildings, either to enhance current functions or adapt spaces to new uses.