By James Biehle
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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 [...]
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 Eric Butterfield
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November 1st, 1999
If you go solely on the basis of all the schools that a particular architectural firm has done, then you don’t know whether that particular architectural firm has designed good new science facilities or whether personalitywise they can work with the people in the school district. There are a number of almost equally valid issues that he school district ought to look at.
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By James Biehle
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October 1st, 1998
Fixed, designated-subject science labs may become dinosaurs. Perhaps a large, flexible student project space, somewhat like the example at South Carroll High School in Carroll County, MD could be combined with a number of other support spaces to provide the appropriate learning environment for science.
Posted in Architecture, Articles | Also tagged greenhouse, high school, prep and storage, project space, science, science building design, science building planning, science facilities, science facilities design, science facilities planning, science facility design, science facility planning, science lab design, science lab planning |
By James Biehle
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February 24th, 1997
With proper leadership, network planning, flexibility and old-fashioned know-how, existing buildings can be equipped with computer technology.
Educators and architects discussing technology applications in schools consistently raise the following four points:
Technology leadership must exist at the administrative level.
Network planning should be done before installation of the network.
The system must be flexible.
Old buildings are a special challenge [...]
By James Biehle
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July 24th, 1994
Separate utility lines are often required for new campus buildings because the size and location of existing utilities are unknown, or because their capacity has been reached or exceeded. As a campus grows, the resulting collection of utility lines can gridlock future development and require costly utility relocation as additions are made.
As a campus grows, [...]
By James Biehle
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June 21st, 1991
Master planning in higher education is necessary and widespread, but it is often ritualistic and unsuccessful. Why? How can the master planning process become a more integral part of an institution’s thinking about its changes and future growth?
By James Biehle
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May 24th, 1991
Long-range facilities planning for college and university campuses can be an effective tool for organizing and controlling the orderly growth of the institution.
By James Biehle
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February 1st, 1991
Planning is a process of re-education on the part of the institution and education on the part of the planner.
Designing Science Facilities for the New Science Standards – key concepts in improving today’s K-12 teaching spaces.
