Tag: School
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How a Topeka, Kansas high school is raising its technical game
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in #trades, architects, architecture, Construction, design, Featured, Flooring, future of trades, healthcare, hospitality, hotels, HTK Architects, interior design, Kansas Department of Education, labor pool, Magazine Articles, next gen, next generation, Project Management, restaurants, retail, skilled labor, SustainabilityThe new Innovation Center at the Washburn Rural High School (WRHS) in Topeka, Kansas is a cutting-edge addition to the Auburn-Washburn USD 437 District’s educational landscape, designed to serve the needs of the district’s growing Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. The project includes renovation of existing facilities and a new 50,000-square-foot Innovation Center, which…
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Indoor-Outdoor School Spaces Enhance Student Well-Being
The school experience plays an outsize role in students’ lives, shaping mental and physical health as well as academic outcomes. How can school leaders ensure the design of their buildings best supports student wellbeing and success? According to the architect and education design expert Elizabeth Stoel, a leader at nationally recognized architecture and urban design…
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Baxall’s learning curve on Islamic faith school
It’s the unique characteristics like this that have made this project an exceptional one, along with early engagement with the whole project team. By liaising with the DfE, our client, the school and the whole supply chain, we have been able to collaboratively create a project that we can all be proud of, and that…
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Apprentice of the month: ‘At my girls-only school, construction was never offered’
Ava Parnell, assistant estimator at McCarthy Stone, is CIOB’s January apprentice of the month. What was your biggest challenge during your apprenticeship? Going straight from sixth form to a setting that’s highly professional was really quite daunting, especially as a woman. But, after a few weeks, days even, I realised that being thrown in at…
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Miller Architects & Builders Complete Construction on Immanuel Grace Lutheran School
Hutchinson, MN— Miller Architects is excited to partner with Immanuel Lutheran Church and Grace Lutheran Church to complete a new facility for its Immanuel Grace Lutheran school and preschool. In 2007, the churches formed an association to jointly operate the school and preschool, which have been housed in a converted residence near Immanuel Lutheran Church.…
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Back-to-School Shopping Guide for High School Students
Back to school. Just saying those words conjures up memories of excitement and dread. As a parent, there’s also the relief of getting back into routines, and joy at seeing your kids dive into fresh challenges. But before that happens, you need to gear up for the back-to-school rush. It can be bit overwhelming, especially…
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The BIM Summer School – AEC Business
In this interview with Vishal Singh, assistant professor at Aalto University, we discuss the upcoming BIM Summer School. It will start in Otaniemi, Finland, on Monday 29 May and end a week later. What is the Aalto BIM Digital Design and Construction Summer School 2017 all about? The BIM Summer School is an opportunity to…
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The Most Elegant Graduate School Buildings in the World
The Best Master’s Degrees has published an interesting article on the 50 Most Elegant Graduate School Buildings in the World. S.R. Crown Hall in Chicago shown in the photo by Pete Sieger is top on the list. According to the article, “This Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed modernist tour de force has been acclaimed by Time magazine as…