By James Biehle
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September 24th, 2010
[ December 10, 2010; 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. December 11, 2010; 8:00 am to 9:00 am. ] James Biehle will present Science Facilities 101 – “So You Want New Science Facilities” and Science Facilities 102 – “The Architects Have Started Without Me: What Do I Do Now?” at the NSTA Baltimore Area Conference on Friday and Saturday, December 10 and 11, 2010. Science Facilities 101 begins [...]
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By James Biehle
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August 19th, 2009
Parkway School District High School Science Upgrades
PARKWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT, St. Louis County, MO
Scope: Science facility consulting and peer review of proposed renovations and additions to Parkway Central, Parkway West and Parkway South High Schools. Projects include gut renovations and additions to provide flexible science lab/classrooms and prep and storage spaces for inquiry-based science education.
Credit: Parsons [...]
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By James Biehle
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December 2nd, 2008
Ryland Hall Renovation
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Richmond, VA
Scope: Complete gutting and renovation of three story classroom building; entire demolition and reconstruction effort accomplished during 3 month summer vacation.
Boatwright Library Expansion
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Richmond, VA
Scope: Multi-story addition to Gothic library structure.
By James Biehle
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May 16th, 2004
On several recent projects I’ve had the opportunity to review ed specs prepared by several well-respected educational facilities consultants and have noted that spaces proposed for science education are often inadequate, incomplete and ill-defined. Since science learning space is unlike other classroom space, both in terms of area and cost, such program inadequacies hamper the [...]
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By Michael Fickes
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January 17th, 2001
Changes in the way teachers teach science have given rise to a new generation of designs for science classrooms and new approaches to furnishing those classrooms.
An increasing preference for hands-on science instruction has created the need for science laboratories in middle schools, as well as K-5 classrooms.
While the lower grades have begun to employ more [...]
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By James Biehle
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January 1st, 2000
A significant portion of the middle school science curriculum should be inquiry based, and the facilities provided to serve this curriculum must support this approach.
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By James Biehle
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September 9th, 1999
A major principle of good science facilities planning is to avoid building for a single curricular model. Since continued change in educational trends is inevitable, any plans for science space should allow as much flexibility as possible to avoid the expense and considerable inconvenience of reconfiguring the space later.
Traditionally, the high school program, served [...]
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By James Biehle
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November 1st, 1995
“America will rank first in science and mathematics by the year 2000.”
These lofty-sounding words are part of Goals 2000, the federal Educate America Act. The turn of the century is fast approaching, but we’ve barely made a start in responding to this mandate. Though science supervisors, district officials and architects are scrambling to create better [...]
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Designing Science Facilities for the New Science Standards – key concepts in improving today’s K-12 teaching spaces.
