Planning Educational Facilities
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This book covers the entire planning process educators must employ to adequately administer the planning process for a new or renovated school building. The structure of the book is to follow a sequential planning process for a new school building or renovation project from the beginning of a need for a new school to the final evaluation of the planning product and planning process. In addition to complete chapters describing each planning process, there are auxiliary chapters devoted to topics important to the planning process such as Green Schools, Critical Issues, and Safe Buildings. A unique chapter is the last one dealing with Problem-Based Learning. In this chapter problems from actual experience in the field are presented to students for consideration and discussion.
Dr. Glen I, Earthman has over forty years’ experience in teaching school facility planning at Virginia Tech and in providing consultative work to local school systems. He has authored 6 books on school facility planning and has written extensively in the field. He was the first Director of the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities.