Addressing Our Nation’s Toxic School Infrastructure in the Wake of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 0013189X2110628
Author(s):  
Erika M. Kitzmiller ◽  
Akira Drake Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Federal Funding ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
School Building ◽  
School Facility

The commentary argues that we need to address the wide variance in school building quality under and after COVID-19. Evidence suggests that historical underinvestment in school facility capital and maintenance has created unhealthy school buildings across the nation. Federal funding and research is necessary to ensure that schools are healthy places for educators, families, and youth even after the pandemic ends.

scholarly journals Sustainable Development of School Buildings Management in the Exploratory Schools in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Rawia Khalil Hasan Al Shboul
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
School Principals ◽  
T Test ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
School Building ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Administrative Practices ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Type Of School

The management and sustainability of school buildings is one of the primary challenges facing school administrations in the twenty-first century, especially after the increasing demand for education and seeking to increase the absorptive capacity of the increasing numbers of students, in addition to increasing the number of days of the school year and the fact that students are staying for a period of more than six hours a day in the school. This requires studying the reality of sustainable development to manage school buildings and its ability to meet the future needs of the teaching and learning processes. From here, the objective of the study was to reveal the administrative practices necessary to achieve sustainable development of school buildings in the exploratory schools (technology schools in Jordan) by answering the following questions:1) What administrative needs are required to achieve sustainable development practices in the management of exploratory schools in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from the point of view of school principals, their assistants and Main Teachers in these schools?2) Do the sustainable development practices in the management of exploratory school buildings in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan differ at the level (α = 0.05) according to gender, type of school, job?To achieve the objective of the study and answer its questions, a questionnaire was prepared consisting of (47) items, each reflecting the school management practices necessary to achieve the sustainable development of the school building. The coefficient of reliability and validity of the instrument was verified with alpha-Cronbach (0.96) for the instrument as a whole. The study sample included (623) individuals. For data analysis, the arithmetical means, standard deviations, T test, and mono-variance analysis were used.The results of the study showed that the management of the exploratory schools needs administrative practices to achieve the sustainable development of the school building to a high degree in the field of school and service facilities. The responses of the sample members of the study recorded the highest mean of 4.13, while the lowest need was recorded for the field of management of the site of the school building with a mean of 3.67. The results of the T-test analysis showed that there were statistically significant differences (α = 0.05) between the responses of the sample of the study in the management of the site of the school building in favor of the Main Teacher with a mean of 3.81 compared with the responses of school principals and their assistants. The results of the study also showed that there were statistically significant differences between the responses of the sample of the study in the field of school building site due to the type of school in favor of basic education schools (first and second cycle ) compared to primary schools (1-10). As for the gender variable, the results of the T-test analysis showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the arithmetical means of the responses of the sample of the study in all fields of study.

scholarly journals System Dynamics Model for the Improvement Planning of School Building Conditions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 4235
Author(s):  
Suhyun Kang ◽  
Sangyong Kim ◽  
Seungho Kim ◽  
Dongeun Lee
Keyword(s):  
System Dynamics ◽  
Performance Improvement ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
Investment Efficiency ◽  
School Building ◽  
Effect Analysis ◽  
Sd Model

As the number of aged infrastructures increases every year, a systematic and effective asset management strategy is required. One of the most common analysis methods for preparing an asset management strategy is life cycle cost analysis (LCCA). Most LCCA-related studies have focused on traffic and energy; however, few studies have focused on school buildings. Therefore, an approach should be developed to increase the investment efficiency for the performance improvement of school buildings. Planning and securing budgets for the performance improvement of school building is a complex task that involves various factors, such as current conditions, deterioration behavior and maintenance effect. Therefore, this study proposes a system dynamics (SD) model for the performance improvement of school buildings by using the SD method. In this study, an SD model is used to support efficient decision-making through policy effect analysis, from a macro-perspective, for the performance improvement of school buildings.

scholarly journals Experience in inspection of operated rural school buildings

2021 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 09037
Author(s):  
Nina Buzalo ◽  
Irina Platonova ◽  
Nadezhda Tsaritova ◽  
Igor Kosogov
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
High School ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Technical Condition ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
School Building ◽  
Regulatory Documents ◽  
Rostov Region ◽  
The Village ◽  
Resistance To Heat

Summarizing the experience of examining school buildings built in rural areas in 1950 - 1990, the article draws conclusions about their technical condition and compliance with the requirements of modern regulatory documents. All surveyed school buildings do not meet the requirements for resistance to heat transfer of enclosing structures, accessibility for all categories of low-mobile groups of the population. The article presents the results of a survey of a high school building in the Oblivsky district of the Rostov region and a high school building in the village of Karaichevskaya in the Rostov region, high school building in the Kuibyshev district of the Rostov region. A number of defects and damages were found in the buildings under investigation. The analysis of the experience of survey of school buildings located in rural areas of the Rostov region.

scholarly journals Using the Fuzzy Delphi Method to Study the Construction Needs of an Elementary Campus and Achieve Sustainability

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen Chun Wang ◽  
Kuo-Tsang Huang ◽  
Meng Yun Ko
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Delphi Method ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Building Design ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
School Building ◽  
Fuzzy Delphi Method ◽  
Fuzzy Delphi ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Athletic Fields

One of the crucial concerns for achieving a campus’s sustainable development is that the school buildings should meet the needs of students and teachers. The design of school buildings should not only facilitate teaching activities but also provide a teaching environment that stimulates or encourages autonomous learning in students. School buildings are the site of classroom instruction and also serve as a teaching tool that helps in achieving educational objectives and providing compulsory education. They must consider modern ideas before construction, since education is constantly reformed and updated using new policies. Elementary school teachers and students are the most frequent users of school buildings, and their needs must be prioritized vis-à-vis elementary school building construction. We invited a total of 29 scholars, experts, and school managers to help create questionnaires to assess user level of need for each item of school building design, employing the fuzzy Delphi method. Questionnaires were divided into four major dimensions, namely campus buildings, campus environment, athletic fields, and auxiliary facilities, and the dimensions were composed of 33 items. The targets of the survey were teachers and students at a school located in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. The results suggest that teachers and students both most highly value improved athletic fields; in particular, an indoor stadium was the most highly desired construction project. For safety reasons, replacing school walls with dwarf hedges was the least desirable item among teachers and students. Our objective was to provide a school building design reference for school administrative authorities and architects.

How related are technical and subjective measures of building conditions?

Facilities ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 295-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnt O. Hopland
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Physical Work ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
School Building ◽  
Subjective Measures ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Building Conditions ◽  
School Building Conditions

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the link between technical school building conditions and student satisfaction with the school buildings. Learning more about the relationship between the measures will be useful for researchers who are studying the effect from physical work conditions on student achievement. Design/methodology/approach – The paper aims to study the correlation between technical condition and user satisfaction with school buildings using two different data sources. The first source is administrative data, where the local governments have reported the condition of their school buildings to a national investigation of school building conditions. The second source is survey data where students in Norwegian primary schools report their satisfaction with their learning environment, including the school buildings. Combining the two data sources provides a unique data set for a large number of Norwegian primary schools. Findings – The measures of technical and subjective condition are significantly correlated, but the correlation is far from 100 percent. Hence, it will be of great interest for researchers to look more into potential effects from subjective measures of building condition. Originality/value – The paper provides an investigation of the link between two different measures of building conditions that can both be relevant to use in studies of how school buildings affect student performance.

Architectural Formation of School Buildings in the Conditions of Education Continuity: General-Higher

2018 ◽  
Vol 931 ◽  
pp. 810-816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena V. Pimenova ◽  
Evgeniya V. Irmanova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
General System ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
School Building ◽  
State Technical ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Main Component

The article deals with the relevance of the formation of educational institutions buildings in cooperation with higher education institutions. On the basis of modern tendencies of the education development the basic typological groups of the educational organisations are revealed which are basic elements in the general system of the higher education. The necessity of architectural formation of the school as the main component in the system of school-University interaction is determined. On the basis of the conducted researches are revealed the main directions and methods of architectural formation of buildings of the General educational organisations, namely schools in the structure of higher educational institutions (universities). The basic architectural and planning principles of designing school buildings in the structure of university complexes are defined. The conceptual model of architectural formation of a school building in the conditions of education continuity is developed: general-higher, on the example of Don State Technical University.

scholarly journals “A Nation Depends on Its Children”: School Buildings and Citizenship in England and Wales, 1900–1939

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 406-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Hulme
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
School Building ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
Sensory Environment ◽  
Good Citizenship ◽  
Medical Discourses ◽  
The Creation

AbstractCalls for a renewed sense of “good citizenship” in the early twentieth century were loud and persistent. Especially important in the citizenship quest was the creation of healthy and efficient children, cured of urban maladies and loyal to a wide notion of community. Such attributes were seen as vital in an economically and militarily competitive world. Historians have already examined the sorts of political and bodily education that arose from these concerns. This article instead looks at how the focus on the body and citizenship was realized in the actual processes of school building. From the medical discourses that underpinned the design of heating, lighting, and ventilation systems, to the emerging focus on the sensory environment of the classroom, the materiality of the school was essential to creating the “good citizen”—physically fit, economically productive, and loyal to the nation.

scholarly journals Evaluation of School Building Energy Performance and Classroom Indoor Environment

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 2489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jitka Mohelníková ◽  
Miloslav Novotný ◽  
Pavla Mocová
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
School Building ◽  
Indoor Climate ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Building Envelopes ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
School Renovation

Existing building stock represents potential for energy saving renovations. Energy savings and indoor climate comfort are key demands for sustainable building refurbishment. Especially in schools, indoor comfort is an extremely important issue. A case study of energy consumption in selected school buildings in temperate climatic conditions of Central Europe region was performed. The studied buildings are representatives of various school premises constructed throughout the last century. The evaluation was based on data analysis of energy audits. The goal was aimed at assessment of the school building envelopes and their influence on energy consumption. One of the studied schools was selected for detailed evaluation. The school classroom was monitored for indoor thermal and visual environments. The monitoring was performed to compare the current state and renovation scenarios. Results of the evaluation show that the school buildings are highly inefficient even if renovated. Indoor climate in classrooms is largely influenced by windows. Solar gains affect interior thermal stability and daylighting. Thermal insulation quality of building envelopes and efficient solar shading systems appear to be fundamental tasks of school renovation strategies.

scholarly journals Modeling the Completion Time of Public School Building Projects Using Neural Networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 1266
Author(s):  
Zeyad S. M. Khaled ◽  
Raid S. Abid Ali ◽  
Musaab Falih Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Completion Time ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Back Propagation ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
School Building ◽  
Back Propagation Algorithm ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Financial Status ◽  
Contract Duration ◽  
Work Stoppages

The Ministry of Education in Iraq is confronting a colossal deficiency in school buildings while stakeholders of government funded school buildings projects are experiencing the ill effects of extreme delays caused by many reasons. Those stakeholders are particularly worried to know ahead of time (at contract assignment) the expected completion time of any new school building project. As indicated by a previous research conducted by the authors, taking into account the opinions of Iraqi experts involved with government funded school building projects, nine major causes of delay in school building projects were affirmed through a questionnaire survey specifically are; the contractor's financial status, delay in interim payments, change orders, the contractor rank, work stoppages, the contract value, experience of the supervising engineers, the contract duration and delay penalty. In this research, two prediction models (A and B) were produced to help the concerned decision makers to foresee the expected completion time of typically designed school building projects having (12) and (18) classes separately. The ANN multi-layer feed forward with back-propagation algorithm was utilized to build up the mathematical equations. The created prediction equations demonstrated a high degree of average accuracy of (96.43%) and (96.79%) for schools having (12) and (18) classes, with (R2) for both ANN models of (79.60%) and (85.30%) respectively. It was found that the most influential parameters of both models were the ratio of the sum of work stoppages to the contract duration, the ratio of contractor's financial status to the contract value, the ratio of delay penalty to the total value of contract and the ratio of mean interim payments duration to the contract duration.

scholarly journals Prefabricated Engineered Timber Schools in the United Kingdom: Challenges and Opportunities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12864
Author(s):  
Antiopi Koronaki ◽  
Aurimas Bukauskas ◽  
Aftab Jalia ◽  
Darshil U. Shah ◽  
Michael H. Ramage
Keyword(s):  
School Buildings ◽  
School Building ◽  
Construction Methods ◽  
Timber Construction ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Efficient Construction ◽  
The Government ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Changing Demographics

Due to changing demographics, the UK faces a significant shortage of school places. The UK government aims to build large numbers of new schools to meet this demand. However, legally binding carbon emissions mitigation commitments might limit the ability of the government to adequately meet this demand on-time, on-budget, and within sustainability targets. This paper assesses the opportunity for prefabricated engineered timber construction methods to help meet the demand for new primary and secondary school buildings in the UK within these constraints. Building on a study of past government-led school building programmes and the state-of-the-art developments in engineered timber construction, this paper outlines the benefits that an engineered timber school building programme could have on a sustainability and procurement level. A strategy is then proposed for the wider adoption of engineered timber for the construction of school buildings in the UK, including detailed guidelines for designers and policymakers. The study concludes with recommendations for the adaptation of this strategy in different countries, depending on context-specific requirements, therefore promoting a generalised adoption of sustainable and efficient construction processes.

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