School design utilizing integrated architectural and structural precast and prestressed concrete components has gained greater acceptance recently for numerous reasons, including increasingly sophisticated owners and improved learning environments based on material benefits such as: sustainability, energy efficiency, indoor air quality, storm resistance, cost effectiveness (initial and life-cycle), durability and low maintenance. Safe, high performance, sustainable school design provides physical facilities that improve learning environments while offering shelter from the storm, saving energy and resources, and delivering improved life cycle cost value. (Contains 9 footnotes.)