Wearing Two Hats

Maintaining and operating schools today, as always, remains a daunting task for administrators. Challenges constantly arise in the form of older schools that need to be seriously updated to meet today’s educational needs, new structures with their own unique issues and the overall lack of funding available.


Columbus, Ohio-based architecture firm DesignGroup is designing the city’s first public middle/high school designed for emotionally disturbed students.
BALTIMORE — At the University of Baltimore, the first LEED Platinum-certified law school building in the country is on the way.
NEW YORK — Molloy College in Rockville Centre, N.Y., long known as a commuter college, is trying to position itself as a 24-hour learning community with a new campus center.
It has been decades — four to be exact — since the University of Detroit Mercy has seen a brand new building on its campus, but many will say the wait has been worth it.
RICHARDSON, Texas — Austin-based Hill & Wilkinson has received the top green building award from Education Design Showcase for the LEED Platinum, University of Texas at Dallas Student Services Building. Only three university projects were selected as 2011 Green Judges’ Choice Winners, with submittals throughout the U.S.
Jack Shepherd is the architectural and industrial product manager for Macton, Oxford, Conn. Macton has been engineering, fabricating, and installing high quality moving structures since the 1950s.
HOUSTON — A chrysalis is the term of the pupa stage of a butterfly’s life cycle, named for the hard skin developed once the outer layer of skin comes off for the first time.
Spur of the moment field trip to Rome, the Jurassic Period, or the bottom of the ocean?