Features


School Emergency Communications Systems

This Is An Emergency: Listen Up

Are you using mass notification and emergency communications systems to clearly instruct students, parents, faculty and staff?

Collaborative Learning Spaces

A Challenge and Opportunity

Three strategies are essential when creating successful classrooms and collaborative spaces.

Facilities Management and Maintenance

Back to the Chalk Board

School systems can benefit from a holistic approach to facilities management and maintenance.

Campus transformation and growth

Transforming a Campus

In just over a decade, Nashville's Belmont University has undergone measured and successful change and growth.

Shared Services Support Technology Infrastructure

Yours, Mine and Ours

The concept of shared services has become a popular topic of discussion as colleges and universities strive for increased efficiency.

Managing Access Control

Managing Access Control

How much access control is enough for a college or university campus? Do you need electronic access control in the first place?

Sustainable Grounds

What Grows Here?

Healthy, sustainable grounds can greatly impact the overall quality of campus life for everyone. The best ways to create such a landscape however are as varied as the plants that inhabit them.

Tight As a Drum

School safety can often evoke images of cold cement buildings. Many schools are now trying to strike a balance that allows students and staff to be safe, but also one that is warm and welcoming.

Sensory Garden

Vibrant Opportunities for Learning

The entire Fullerton community had reason to celebrate when the new Sensory Garden was installed at Commonwealth Elementary School. Both its great opportunities for learning and its incredible story make the garden a truly special place.

How To Stop Deferring Maintenance

Deferred Maintenance can cost schools many times what the initial repair charges might’ve been. With school infrastructures growing older and budgets slimmer, the question of when to defer maintenance costs is critical.

Spring Preventive Maintenance

Spring Preventive Maintenance: Achieving Excellence

Spring preventive maintenance is so much more than crossing items off a checklist. Here, three facility managers share their perspectives on delivering preventive maintenance excellence.

Cloud Based Services

What Kind of Cloud Are You Getting?

When planning any change in classroom technology, the details can make all the difference. This is especially true for schools installing cloud-based services. Knowing what you’re getting now can save headaches later.

Designing Solutions

In a world dominated by smartphones and Google, students are relying on a new host of tools to find the answers to some of life’s biggest questions.

Energy Management

Energy Management

Chipping away at energy costs.

Finding Some Common Ground: Can it Last for the Next Session of Congress?

The Bipartisan Budget Act passed the House and will pass the Senate and become law before adjourning. There was no interest by the conference committee to a long-term grand bargain that could have included reforms to entitlement programs and taxes. The agreement addresses short-term spending or immediate budget needs.

Food Service Exhaust Systems

After a recent fire sprinkler activation on a food-service line, there was a review of what caused the sprinkler to activate. The activation was not due to a fire or a problem with the sprinkler head. It was determined that the sprinkler activated due to misplaced equipment under the hood.

Safe School Checklist

Safe School Checklist

Round one: Checklists. Round two: Scenarios

Higher-Ed Marketing and the Disadvantaged Student

Higher education marketing encourages some students to make decisions that don’t match their goals, aptitudes and finances.

Managed Print

Toning It Down