Study on Old Construction Renewal of the Rural School Buildings

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 1730-1733
Author(s):  
Fan Li ◽  
Zhi Min Li ◽  
Xiao Min Wang
Keyword(s):  
Care Center ◽  
Northwest China ◽  
Rural School ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
School Building ◽  
Construction Costs ◽  
Site Layout ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Urban Rural

With the construction of the urban-rural integration, Chinese township's structure begins to adjust. The changes of the site layout planning of rural schools bring a large number of vacant rural school buildings. This paper aims to study the possibility and rationality about the rural school building reuse in northwest China. The appropriate retrofitted buildings types are public buildings such as culture building, medical building or welfare building. The construction method is proposed which includes the repair, replacement and increase. Finally, the example that the rural school building transformed into the disabled care center proves the possibility and rationality about the renovation patterns. The use of this kind of renovation patterns will save construction costs, bring economic benefits and a good social effect.

Renewal Patterns of the Administrative Office Buildings

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 67-70
Author(s):  
Fan Li ◽  
Xiao Min Wang
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Office Buildings ◽  
Office Building ◽  
Construction Costs ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Government ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

With the commencement of the integration construction of urban and rural areas, Chinese rural structural adjustment is occurring. The government behaviors about merging townships bring a large number of vacant administrative office buildings. This paper aims to study the possibility and rationality about the administrative office building reuse in this context. How to renovate depends on the original building space characteristics and the new space requirements. The construction method includes the repair, replacement and increase. Finally, the example that the administrative office building transformed into the disabled care center in the Luonan County proves the possibility and rationality about the renewal patterns. This kind of renewal patterns will save construction costs, bring economic benefits and a good social effect.

A review on the prerequisites of Evidence-Based Curriculum as a driver to skills development of the leather value chain in Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Mwinyikione Mwinyihija
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Review Study

The review study closely introspects’ on the prerequisites of evidence-based curriculum within the realms of specialized skills development agenda as pursued through higher education Institutions in Africa. Explicitly, the constraining factors that bedevil the leather sector are identifiable when appropriate research designs tools are applied. As such, in the process of identifying the constraints, renascence themes could, therefore, be beneficial in collecting evidence in support of developing curriculum. Such a developed curriculum stands higher chances of acceptability and aptly mitigates against challenges related to specialized skills development. The review succinctly indicates that in the process of identifying the themes, the scope of collecting evidence becomes attainable, thus, improving curricula that entails a participatory and transformative orientation. Indeed, during the review phase of the study, three main perspectives are depicted to be consequential in attaining a comprehensive, evidence-based curriculum, such as; action research, backward curriculum design perspective and theoretical perspective. Therefore, about this perspective, a reflection based on personal experiences and related to new knowledge with what they already know leads to constructivism. The relevancy of a constructivist strategy is observed to facilitate the observatory and evaluative stance during the development of evidence-based curriculum. Moreover, in consolidating and sustaining the benefit of such a developed curriculum, threshold concept was found during the review that it complements the process and strengthens the collecting evidence for curriculum development. Accordingly, therefore, the result of the review study indicate that Africa would  position itself for initiating transformational changes in aspects of specialized higher education, fruition towards socio-economic benefits (e.g. employment, wealth creation and technology transfer), reversal of urban-rural or inter/intra continental migration flurry.

scholarly journals CONSTRUCTION BUDGET AND ITS IMPACT ON CONSTRUCTION COSTS IN TIMES OF SANITARY CRISIS IN CORPORACION SANTA MARIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (07) ◽  
pp. 112-118
Author(s):  
Dra. Flor Calvanapon Alva ◽  
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Mg. Karina Cardenas Rodriguez ◽  
Silvia Cespedes Esquivel ◽  
Roxana Lujan Rodriguez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Profit Margin ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
Construction Costs ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Record Card ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Santa Maria

In order to determine the impact of the construction budget on the construction costs of the Santa Maria Corporation SAC-2020, an applied research was carried out, qualitative approach, non-experimental design and correlational scope, the sample are works executed in times of health crisis the school buildings No. 81540 San Francisco de Asis and No. 80638 Americo Aguilar Celis, in the province of Viru. Thestudytechniqueused was documentary analysis and the instrument was a record card. The data obtained were processed to evaluate the incidence of the variables by means of statistical tables where it was found that 4.29% additional materials were used for the first work and 4.33% additional for the second, with respect to the budget in the case of direct general expenses, 18.75% and 23.33% respectively, additional to the estimate. It is concluded that the construction budget has a negative impact on the construction costs of Corporacion Santa Maria SAC-2020 in times of sanitary crisis, observing relevant variations between the estimated and executed costs, not obtaining the expected profit margin noting that in the case of the first project the profit margin is only 10% of the estimate and in the second projectitis 0%.

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.

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