Honor Awards
Peel Education and TAFE Campus, Mandurah, Australia Spowers Architects and Jones Coulter Young Architects This project, built on the site of an existing Tertiary and Further Education (TAFE) campus, is…
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Optimizing Roof Performance
The roof, a seemingly simple structure whose purpose is to protect the structure beneath it, can be one of the most problematic and difficult parts of a building. However, optimizing…
No Blanket Security Measures
Jack Swanzy, AIA, REFP, joined Jefferson County, Colo., Public Schools in 1992 as coordinating architect, managing a $325 million bond program. In 1998, Swanzy became director of planning and design;…
Merit Awards
Cragmont Elementary, Berkeley, Calif. ELS Architecture and Urban Design An urban setting did not prevent designers from emphasizing the importance of the environment on education. Landscaping, which includes student plantings,…
A School for Complex Needs
For more than thirty years, the private League School in Massachusetts, served individuals with autism in a building built in 1934. In 1997, Executive Director Dr. Herman Fishbein learned that…
School Daze
Andrea McLean, program director for Heery International, works in the company’s Seattle office guiding school administrators and staff through the process of selecting school furniture, fixtures, and equipment. She also…
Commemorating School Building Day
Students from five D.C. public schools participated in School Building Day. School facilities-an important but often overlooked part of education-were the focus of the 2nd annual School Building Day celebration,…
Furnishing a High School for Collaborative, Project-based Learning
Collaboration and project-based learning are often listed as key objectives in the planning of a learning environment; these methods foster creative connections and synthesis, skills that students need to succeed….
Sensitive Issues
The windmill produces useable power. The familiar saying, “If you’re going to do something, do it right,” may sound old-fashioned, but its meaning is always relevant. To Dallas architects SHW…
Maintaining the Continuity of Supply
King Henderson, CPM, MBA, began working at the University of California at Riverside in 1978 as a buyer and is now director of materiel management, a department that includes purchasing…