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captivating, stimulating learning environment

It Makes A Difference

Creating a captivating, stimulating learning environment.

Safety Within the Budget

Safety Within the Budget

Low cost security measures for schools.

furniture is stating your brand

Your Furniture, Your Brand

Whether you're aware of it or not, your furniture is stating your brand. In giving it some thought, you’ll see that it’s all in the details.

Campus Security Tailored to a Budget

Campus Security Tailored to a Budget

It is possible to build an affordable, effective safety and security program by replacing some funding with more effort.

Outsource Services

A Tale of Two Auxiliary Departments

Outsource or keep it in house? That’s the question facing many college and university auxiliary departments. CP&M looks at two different schools with two different approaches.

The New Flora Elementary School

A one-of-a-kind, 21st-century learning facility.

renovation

Refining a Classic

The Schneider Center at Wellesley College has undergone a renovation that has restored its value and historic roots.

Flooring

Focus On the Floor

Flooring choices can reflect your institution's identity, mission, commitment to sustainability and more.

Environmental Health and Safety

Breathe Easy

Remediating mold, overseeing the disposal of hazardous materials, responding to IAQ concerns, maintaining laboratory safety — Environmental Health and Safety managers stay abreast of it all via best practices and risk assessments.

CPTED

Safety First

The right products plus CPTED can contribute to a snug campus.

wireless tenants

Good Idea or Bad Idea?

Managing wireless tenants on school properties.

Security Assessments

Security Assessments: Doors, Locks, Lighting, Oh My!

Protecting students from unwanted visitors and predators should be a priority at every K-12 school. Here's how to assess physical security issues.

building envelope

Sealing the Envelope

Whether renovating existing or constructing new facilities, attention must be paid to achieving the end result of a resilient, secure, energy-efficient building envelope.

IAQ management

Healthy Buildings

The essential elements of IAQ management

Building Envelope

Building Envelopes

It's all about energy usage.

tech-savvy learning

Teaching and Learning in a Digital Age

Providing students with the tools to become global leaders.

Greening Schoolyards

Greening Schoolyards

Benefitting students, the community, the schoolyards and beyond.

Transparency in buildings

A Sense of Place

Making schools more transparent builds a communal environment.

successful classroom space

Learning Everywhere

Today's classroom is anything but traditional as learning branches out into unexpected places. Here is what makes for a successful classroom space and what doesn't make the grade.

campus landscape and grounds

Investing in Green

Colleges and universities should invest in and manage their landscaping and grounds as if everyone is watching... because, as it turns out, they are.

Wi-Fi Access

Anytime, Anywhere Access Leads to Fascinating Classrooms

Where leading-edge Wi-Fi deployments have enabled seamless collaboration, regardless of the type of device or location, students and teachers are already developing unique ways to personalize learning and create fascinating classrooms.