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Helgesen, C. (2010). 44 (4)

Fast-forward fifty years (from the 1960s) to 2010, and the question becomes, why should we consider renovating the 1960s school era buildings, especially if they maybe lacking culturally, economically and technologically from the present? Isn’t it easier to create the 2010 school model as a new facility and build what is needed from the ground up? The answer in a perfect world might be “yes,” but we don’t live in a perfect world. The cost for building a new school is generally several times more expensive than renovation and the ability to find new land within an established community and outfit that land with new infrastructure only increases the tax burden of its citizens.

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Uline, C., Wolsey, T., Tschannen-Moran, M. & Lin. C. (2010). 20

This study explored the interplay between quality facilities and school climate, charting the effects of facility conditions on student and teacher attitudes, behaviors, and performance within schools slated for renovations in a large metropolitan school district. The research applied a school leadership-building design model to explore how six characteristics of facility quality-movement, aesthetics, play of light, flexible and responsive classrooms, elbow room, and security-interact with four aspects of school climate: academic press, community engagement, teacher professionalism, and collegial leadership. Because the schools were older and participants in the research perceived them as being in great need of maintenance and repair, the school building characteristics were often described as absent qualities. The survey data revealed moderate to strong relationships between the quality of school facilities and school climate. The interviews further explicated these relationships. Two additional themes-counterbalance and equity-emerged as being significant to occupants' interactions with their current facilities. This study used a mixed-methods triangulation design data transformation model. Specifically, school climate surveys, photo interviews with students, walking tours of the school facility, and formal interviews were triangulated to obtain complementary data and a more complete understanding of the educational facility to be renovated and its impact on occupants.

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National Association of School Nurses (2010).

The National Association of School Nurses detailed a brief fact sheet for nurses of green cleaning for schools. Green cleaning for schools protects public health without harming the health of staff, building occupants and the environment. The best way to reduce cleaning chemical exposures for students and staff is to implement a cleaning for healthy schools program.

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Lunenburg, F. C. (2010). 27 (4)

A key responsibility of school administrators is facilities management. School buildings across the nation are aging and becoming a barrier to optimal learning and teaching. This results in escalating school infrastructure costs. A case can be made to renovate or build new facilities that maximize an effective learning environment. This will involve allocation of funds for building renovation or new construction. In this article I discuss these two issues: school infrastructure costs and financing new construction.

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National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (2010).

This report provides concepts on how to evaluate buildings, residences and other built environment for mould, in order to reduce the risk of exposure. The information presented in this report is based on a survey of guidelines and peer-reviewed literature; due to the lack of scientific evidence in this area, most guidelines are based on practical experience and common sense or on risk management principles. The research process and a summary of documents reviewed are presented in the appendix.

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Public Schools of North Carolina, State Board of Education, Department of Instruction (2010).

This document, in accordance with North Carolina's legislation direction, defined and described the educational spaces needed to support a modern, comprehensive educational program and to set minimal guidelines for types of spaces and for sizes of spaces. This resource is also intended: (1) to serve as a guide in evaluating existing facilities for functional adequacy; (2) to determine facility needs; and (3) to develop sound, long-range building plans.

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National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (2010).

This report provides Public Health Inspectors (PHIs) and Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) with a summary of current knowledge about mould remediation. The information is based on Mould Remediation in Indoor Environments – Review of Guidelines & Evidence, a more comprehensive review of available evidence from current research papers and mould assessment guidelines commissioned by the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH).

http://www.ncceh.ca/sites/default/files/Short_Report_Mould_Assessment_Oct_2010.pdf

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Weeks (2010). 76 (6)

Because school business officials are pushed to make difficult decisions quickly when it comes to risk management, they should be aware of the issues associated with environmental safety. School business officials are integral members of the teams that handle crises--big and small--in the school district. A crisis may be as straightforward as the possibility of leeched arsenic all over the playground or polychlorinated biphenyls in the water from the playground's drinking fountain in the Liberty School District or it could be as complex as the sprawling disaster of Hurricane Katrina. This article presents the different teams that school business officials can expect to work with and be a part of when addressing environmental risks. By working with the entire district team, being up to date on legislation, and being proactive, school business officials can manage environmental risk before it turns up in the drinking water or on the playground. [For Part 1, see EJ904678.]

http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ904678.pdf

 

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National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (2010).

This report provides mould remediation recommendations to Public Health Inspectors (PHIs) and Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) with the intention of making living conditions in homes better for the occupants. The mould remediation recommendations are based on available evidence from current research papers and mould assessments guidelines.

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