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Cleaning Locker Rooms

What's That Smell?

A cleaning contractor comes clean about locker room odors, and explains how to control them.

Acoustics

Acoustics Alert

Raise your hand if you can't hear me.

Understanding technology, controls and systems integration

Where's the Owner's Manual?

Understanding technology, controls and systems integration

Winter Maintenance

Winter Wonderland

Budgeting for cold weather care and maintenance that involves planning ahead for key seasonal product and service purchases can lead to steep discounts and reduced operating costs.

integrating classroom technologies

Putting IT Together

When integrating classroom technologies and controls, what's the best option? Ensuring you have on-campus staff to handle the task, or calling on outside consultants? Advice from the experts explores the pros and cons of each approach.

Acoustics

As Good as It Sounds

Acoustics impact student learning. Plans for physical spaces — walls, ceilings, flooring and more — made with good acoustics in mind at design and construction phases will result in high-performance, effective facilities.

Fire Safety

Strategic Planning for Fire Safety

Developing and implementing a strategic plan for fire safety on campus will contribute to improved operations across the spectrum and will educate staff, faculty and students about their roles in the process.

College and University Transportation and Parking

Park It

Driving alone? That's so passé. Today's colleges and universities think differently about transportation and parking. Is your school ahead of the curve?

Fire Safety in our Schools

Fire Safety School

What we've learned about protecting people and school buildings from fire.

Campus Interior Design Value

More Than Skin Deep: The Value of Interior Design

Colleges and universities that don't have historic identities to direct interior design choices can still develop and furnish modern, desirable interior spaces where students want to study, be and stay.

Designing for Research

Designing for Research

Selecting the right materials in order to deliver a safe, efficient and technology-laden facility that can adapt to changing research directions can be a daunting task.

Comfortable Learning Environments

A "Kit of Parts"

Providing high-quality, comfortable learning environments.

Safe, Efficient, School Transportation

Transportation's Key Words: Safety, Efficiency and Service

Here's how two transportation directors are using GPS, routing and other systems to increase student and fleet safety while making operations more efficient.

Restroom Etiquette Care Health

Restrooms Around the World

Students participate in gathering about restroom etiquette, care and health issues.

Choosing the Right Roof

Choosing the Right Roof

Here's what school administrators need to know about choosing the right roof and ensuring it performs effectively.

Digital Video Schools

Digital Video Schools

Teachers are figuring out how to use video in the classroom. At the same time, school boards are figuring out technology budgets.

Healthy Sustainable Campus

Healthy Campus, Healthy Community

Sustainability has becomes a way of life at Michigan's Kalamazoo Valley Community College. Their new Healthy Living Campus is a testament to that.

Student Dining Facility

The WOW! Factor

64 Degrees, a reimagined student dining facility, has opened at the University of California, San Diego.

classroom and lecture hall presentation technologies

Show and Tell in the Digital Age

Today's classroom and lecture hall presentation technologies provide accessibility to a variety of materials both to presenters and students, in the classroom or remotely.

LEED Sustainability Architecture

ObsoLEED?

Connecticut's high-performance school building standards show that the sustainability conversation needn't start or end with LEED.