Quality Educational Environments (Feb. 2015)

A recent spate of new school construction and extensive renovations in the Washington Metropolitan-area, the same region where I spent much of my childhood, demonstrates how building technology is also transforming learning environments. Within the past decade, for example, over two thirds of the District of Columbia’s 109 schools have been renovated or fully modernized. The bunker-like aesthetic of baby-boomer schools may have been appropriate to the cold war era. These days, tiled halls, concrete block classrooms and linoleum floors have given way to new wall finishes and far greater attention to sound control.These days, tiled halls, concrete block classrooms and linoleum floors have given way to new wall finishes and far greater attention to sound control. <a href=”https://www.wconline.com/articles/89450-quality-educational-environments”>Read the article.</a>