993,400 SF integrated long-range facilities development plan for new 1200 student urban campus.
Renovation of existing gymnasium to provide middle school science lab/classroom designed for inquiry-based learning.
Science is a hands-on subject in which students experience science by carrying out investigations. Generally these investigations require equipment and materials to be set up before a class starts and taken down when the class ends. Planners should determine the appropriate cost of new or renovated science facilities before budgets are set as their costs [...]
A critical space for safe science education is often undersized or poorly designed in today’s new schools: the prep and storage space.
A guide to planning adequate and safe science prep and storage spaces.
Central Prep & Storage Room
While more and more science teaching spaces are designed following the recommendations of the NSTA Guide to Planning School [...]
Programming, planning and design of 25,400 SF renovation and additions to independent school science building for middle and upper school science.
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 [...]
by James T. Biehle, AIA
Growing plants in a controlled environment such as a greenhouse can be a wonderful enhancement to any science program. Thoughtful planning, proper design, and faculty advocates who support the greenhouse as an
Greenhouse with ventilation system
important asset to their curriculums are necessary for a school greenhouse to be successful. This article discusses [...]
Rapid technological advances such as these present a challenge to those renovating or building new classroom spaces. Anything we plan today may be obsolete in the one and a half to two years that it generally takes to get a building designed and built. Those involved with designing the space must know what technology is available, but more importantly, what technology will be available.
The danger of building your budget for school construction upon short-term, as opposed to long-term, costs is not academic theory.
In the early 1990′s many middle and high schools
Typical Tech Lab
began converting their industrial arts shops into “tech labs” in which the power tools, sawdust and grease of the vocational programs were replaced by computers, student work stations, and canned technology courseware. This was based on the rationalization that, since America is moving from an [...]
Designing Science Facilities for the New Science Standards – key concepts in improving today’s K-12 teaching spaces.
Join James T. Biehle, President of Inside/Out Architecture for an informative webinar on project-based learning and the types of spaces that might be appropriate for this exciting mode of science instruction. Watch now »
 
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