A Growing School
Imagine a school built solely to address and improve the quality of life for at-risk children from lower-income families. Imagine these third, fourth, and fifth graders, seeing their school grow…
December 2005
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Equal Access
Stephen McCarthy is co-partner and president of Equal Access ADA Consulting Architects Inc. in San Diego. He says that many people think it’s a given he’s in this field because…
Security Evolution
Bill Sewell is vice president and general manager of DMJM Technology, having joined the company in September 2000. He has worked in the field of electronic systems-which evolved into IT…
Review Team Roundtable
Review team member Rodolfo Almeida talking to review team member Prakash Nair about schools in developing nations, but the underlying ideas – flexibility, classroom size, schools as centers of the…
Purchasing Power
Hollie Chancey is coordinator, physical plant stores at the University of South Florida in Tampa, the second largest university in the southeast. She started working at the university 12 years…
Working Together
The new Mary Stuart Rogers Gateway Building signals the opening of California State University’s new Palm Desert, California, campus. Designed by the Santa Monica architecture firm Lee, Burkhart, Liu Inc.,…
Urban Myths
BordwellRaymond Bordwell, director of facilities planning at the architecture and interior design firm Perkins & Will, and an authority on urban school planning and design, has been a practicing architect…
The Business of Learning
Students at the Academy of Irving ISD are as active as those in any public high school, but they walk with a businesslike demeanor. There is a hum rather than…
The Business of Making Over an Old School
When the Queen’s School of Business held its opening day ceremonies for Goodes Hall on Sept 12, 2002, three of the invited guests were former honor roll students who, in…
Meeting the Challenge
It’s challenging enough being a middle school student; the last thing teenagers want is to be singled out as different. And, the last thing officials at The Florida School for…