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Lifetime Costs of Real Capital Ownership

By James Biehle | December 1st, 2006

A major responsibility of a school board is management of the district’s real capital budget. Paul A. Samuelson, in his classic textbook Economics, defines real capital as “equipment, buildings, and inventories.” Any item of real capital has both a first and a life-cycle cost. The car you drive has a life-cycle cost, and the local [...]

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Facility Planning: Invest Now or Pay Later

By James Biehle | April 12th, 2000

I recently was struck by the size of the General Accounting Office’s estimate of the financial need of school districts to renovate and modernize their existing building stock. I wondered why the numbers were so high, what types of repairs and modernizations they represented, and how architects and school districts could learn from the past [...]

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A New Approach to Campus Construction

By James Biehle | June 16th, 1997

About 30 years ago, a new kind of player began to appear in American architectural practice. Traditionally, most architects supervised the construction of the buildings they had designed, as idealized in Ayn Rand’s 1943 popular novel, The Fountainhead. But by the early 1970s a new kind of professional, often an architect, appeared to handle the [...]

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- Watch Your Waste
  College and university science programs generate hazardous waste that must be dealt with and disposed of in accordance with state and federal regulations. During a recent renovation and addition project for the State University of New York at Plattsburgh (SUNY Plattsburgh), James Biehle was contracted to analyze existing regulations, research best practices at similar institutions, [...]
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  Safe Science and Small Learning Communities Schools that are designed to serve students in small learning communities, or pods, can provide safer science areas and save considerable costs, both initially and in the future, by centralizing those facilities. And, most students and faculty seem to prefer this type of arrangement. This article, from the May [...]

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