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School Planning and Management, 2015

Transparency in buildings is quite literal. It involves seeing from one space to another, in various ways. The most obvious transparency we seek in designing schools is to see from one interior space to another, for example, from a corridor to a classroom. Often, it is possible to create transparency between an interior space, such as a corridor, and an exterior space, such as a courtyard or quadrangle. If we establish transparency between a classroom and a corridor, and the corridor is also transparent to the exterior, we create layers of transparency.

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School Planning and Management, 2015

Washington, D.C., – Green Seal™, the nation’s first independent nonprofit certifier of sustainable products and services, has introduced a revised version of its GS-11 Standard that is expanded to cover most types of architectural coatings on the market today.

This new edition of GS-11, a compilation of the previous edition of GS-11 and the GS-47 Standard for Stains and Finishes, includes floor coatings, concrete and masonry sealers, and fire resistive coatings, in addition to the paints, primers, anti-corrosive coatings, and reflective coatings previously covered. Clear and transparent coatings are also included in the 24 product categories that are now eligible for certification.

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Shideh Parto & Neda Ziabakhsh, 2015

Nowadays, on the one hand with rising crime statistics, especially in the urban environments and awareness of crime prevention before the outbreak on the other hand, is expected to experts of environmental design and architecture have special attention to approaches that focused on reducing and deterring crimes through the interdisciplinary and communicative nature among various sciences which are involved in the town and its management. Accordingly, crimes prevention approaches throughout environmental designing have been considered by planners and designers of the field of architecture and urban planning. This paper is pointed the main and base role of designers and architectures in reducing and deterring urban crimes in CPTED approach after noted that introduction of theoretical motivation and necessity in the field of urban public safety, and is briefly mentioned the concepts, principals, paradigms, and strategies of this approach. Methodology of present research is analytical and attributive which will focus on content explanation and efficiency mechanism of this approach in our current urban environments. Finally, results indicate that can be emphasized on this point which is reduced the rate of urban crime occurrence through environmental design and architecture. This point will be discussed in terms of strategic and operational approaches.

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School Planning and Management Article

Whether outfitting a single classroom or entire campus, selecting the right desks, chairs, tables and storage is essential. Countless studies show that quality furniture improves student learning and student health.

Before investing, prioritize which features best fit your students, curriculum, space and budget.

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School Planning and Management Article

Studies have shown that natural sunlight helps students feel more engaged, optimistic, and perform better overall. In addition to gymnasiums, daylighting can also be utilized in traditional classroom settings. Solatube’s SolaMaster Series is ideally suited to the classroom, providing clear, natural daylight to increase student engagement and responsiveness.

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School Planning and Management Whitepaper

One of the best approaches to shrink peak demand is to reduce the heat load on a building, especially the solar load that drives the need for air conditioning. Few heat reduction strategies can match the energy-savings potential of modern cool roofing technology.

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