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Download full textUS Department of Energy, 2007
The U.S. Department of Energy's Rebuild America EnergySmart Schools program provides school boards, administrators, and design staff with guidance to help make informed decisions about energy and environmental issues important to school systems and communities. "The National Best Practices Manual for Building High Performance Schools" is a part of…
Descriptors: School Buildings, Educational Facilities Design, Energy Conservation, School Construction
Direct linkAbramson, Paul – School Planning & Management, 2007
School construction completed in 2006 totaled just more than $20 billion, a drop of seven percent from the record $21.6 billion put in place in 2005. Even so, it was the sixth year in the last seven that annual construction exceeded $20 billion. During the seven years of the present century, school districts have completed construction projects…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Planning, School Buildings, School Construction, Surveys
PURCELL, FRANK X. – 1963
A COMPARISON OF FIRE INSURANCE COSTS OF WOOD, MASONRY, STEEL AND CONCRETE STRUCTURES SHOWS FIRE INSURANCE PREMIMUMS ON WOOD STRUCTURES TEND TO BE HIGHER THAN PREMIUMS ON MASONRY, STEEL AND CONCRETE BUILDINGS, HOWEVER, THE INITIAL COST OF THE WOOD BUILDINGS IS LOWER. DATA SHOW THAT THE SAVINGS ACHIEVED IN THE INITIAL COST OF WOOD STRUCTURES OFFSET…
Descriptors: Buildings, Costs, Fire Insurance, Planning
Isler, Norman P. – 1969
Covered are references to documents received and processed to date by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Facilities concerned with temporary, portable, or mobile schools and classrooms. Documents include publications by state departments of education, Educational Facilities Laboratories, the Association of School Business Officials, and the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Classrooms, Flexible Facilities, Mobile Classrooms
Paseur, C. Herbert – 1960
A report is presented of a comparative investigation of a decentralized and a centralized school facility. Comparative data are provided regarding costs of the facilities, amount of educational area provided by the facilities, and types of educational areas provided. Evaluative comments are included regarding cost savings versus educational…
Descriptors: Centralization, Construction Costs, Decentralization, Educational Facilities Design
Keithly, Peter – Council of Educational Facility Planners International, 2005
This "IssueTrak" discusses an increasing interest in verifying the installation and performance of building systems prior to delivery and final acceptance by the building owner. This interest in quality assurance has spawned a new and distinct professional construction discipline referred to as building commissioning. The principal objective of…
Descriptors: School Construction, Quality Control, Construction Industry, School Buildings
Cenziper, Debbie; Grotto, Jason – 2003
This series of articles examines the condition of public schools and public school construction in Florida's Miami and Dade Counties. To prepare the series, the Miami Herald studied thousands of pages of construction records, correspondence, school district reports, and accounting statements over 15 years. It analyzed state and national…
Descriptors: Construction Costs, Educational Facilities, Elementary Secondary Education, School Buildings
Abramson, Paul – College Planning & Management, 2005
This report, and the accompanying tables present the findings of the tenth Annual Survey of college construction prepared College Construction prepared for "College Planning & Management" magazine. Representatives of Market Data Retrieval sent survey forms and made follow-up telephone calls to every college in the U. S. seeking…
Descriptors: Colleges, School Construction, School Buildings, Costs
Architect Rec, 1969
A review of the school building program in Florida's Dade County, for which a great number of forward-looking innovative schools have been constructed. (FS)
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Design Preferences, Educational Facilities Design, School Buildings
Bunzick, John – Construction Specifier, 2002
Discusses planning for phased school construction projects, including effects on occupancy (for example, construction adjacent to occupied space, construction procedure safety zones near occupied areas, and code-complying means of egress), effects on building systems (such as heating and cooling equipment and power distribution), and contract…
Descriptors: Construction Management, Contracts, Educational Facilities Improvement, Planning
Peer reviewedHoneyman, David S. – Clearing House, 1994
Discusses the history of financing school construction, and the condition of America's school buildings, including the age of school buildings, the cost and consequences of deferred maintenance, and the relationship of educational program to facilities. (SR)
Descriptors: Deferred Maintenance, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, School Buildings
Peer reviewedChristensen, Ole – School Management, 1974
Tabulations show additions and remodeling in public elementary and secondary schools for 1973 and estimates for 1974, nationally, by enrollment and by region. Figures are given for the number of projects, total cost per project, and average cost per project. Figures also show schools completed in 1973, those expected to be completed in 1974, and…
Descriptors: Construction Needs, Elementary Schools, Facility Improvement, School Buildings
Nation's Schools, 1974
Describes the advantages of metal building systems in school construction. These advantages include faster occupancy, lower initial costs, reduced maintenance, flexibility, and predictability of cost. (Author/DN)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Facilities Design, Metals, School Buildings
Sch Manage, 1969
Descriptors: Construction Costs, Elementary Schools, Facility Improvement, School Buildings
Peer reviewedAllen, Steven G. – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1986
Examines the difference in productivity between union and nonunion contractors in the construction industry within two samples, one of 83 commercial office buildings completed in 1973-1974 and the other of 68 elementary and secondary schools completed in 1972. The analysis includes controls for differences in capital-labor ratios, observable labor…
Descriptors: Building Trades, Construction Industry, Offices (Facilities), Productivity
