INTRODUCTION AND COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

Your reading in this list should follow the structure of the outlline. In addition to an annotated bibliography and an educator's list of building terms, the main readinglist has three general categories, each with an introduction, main topics (shown with numbers), sub-topics (shown
with bullets), and so forth. Read the introduction of a category before its topics, and read a topic before its sub-topics. Don't worry about the numbering, it's just there to differentiate between topics and sub-topics. Read topics in any order that you want.

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Please feel free to send comments, corrections, suggestions, and other sources to me at ftepfer@darkwing.uoregon.edu. I'm always on the lookout for improvements. For example, if you think making all articles available in Adobe Acrobat format would be easier for you, let me know. If there is some interest out there, I'll make it happen.

Annotated Bibliography

Educator's Dictionary of Building Terms

Building Operation and Management (introduction)

1. Custodial staff management
   
2. Contracting out
   
3. Elementary school transportation dilemma
   
4. Safety in operations (also listed below under Planning and Design)
   
5. Preventive/predictive maintenance systems
6. Evaluation of existing buildings
7. Space management introduction
   - Managing Space at Small Colleges, Facilities Manager Sept/Oct /99 (relevant to school districts)
8. The Strategic Assessment Model (SAM), an assessment tool for facilities management organizations, Association of Physical Plant Administrators

Building Systems: An Introduction

1. Intro to Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
   
• Energy conservation
  - Advanced energy conservation
  
• A (Perhaps) Apocryphal Tale of Two Buildings
  
• Artificial and Natural Lighting
  - CEFPI: Electric Lighting and Day Lighting in Schools
  -Day Lighting and Productivity (PGE) (includes schools)
  - Emerald Public Utility office building: advanced energy case study
• Indoor air quality
  - Indoor Environmental Quality in California Schools: Critical Needs (also discusses issues of indoor air quality problems in portable classrooms)
  
2. Finishes
   
3. A roofing primer
   
4. Computers and networks
   
   • Wireless Local Area Networks (within rooms and buildings)
     
   • Wireless Wide Area Networks (connecting buildings)
     
   • Computers, Power Needs, Energy Conservation, and Cooling
   • Putting technology into old buildings
     
   • Computer Networks, Speculation on the Future
     
5. Acoustics: introduction
   NCEF articles on acoustics:
   • R. Kring Herbert: Poor Marks for Classroom Acoustics
   • ASHRAE panel: Rethinking Classroom Acoustics: Overcoming Barriers to Learning
   • Lubman, David, America's Need for Standards and Guidelines to Ensure Satisfactory Classroom Acoustics
6. Fire engineering, fire detection, and fire suppression
7. Lab Safety, Planning, Design, and Management
   
8. Instructional Technology and Presentation Media
   

School Planning and Design: An Introduction

1. Educational Specifications and Architectural Programs
2. Getting Started: Master Planning and Strategic Facilities Planning
   NCEF article by Day
3. Community , Staff and User Involvment Techniques
4. Advanced User Involvement Techniques
5. Facility Audit: Evaluation of Existing Building (also listed above)
   - NCEF links: Facilities Assessment:
   
6. School Site Selection and Community Planning and Development
   
   • basic concepts: compact growth, growth of facilities on site, athletics & land, outdoor ed (various sorts)
     
   • site size
     
   • proximities
     
   • ties to local goahls, planning
     
   • personal safety
     
   • transportation
     
   • landscape design (&maint. costs)
     
7. School Size
   - NCEF links: School Size
   CEFPI article on school size: Gross Square Feet per Student
8. Design for safety and security (also listed above under Building Maintenance and Operation)
   - Basics of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
   - SAFETY BY DESIGN
9. Spaces for Education: School Space Standards
   Classroom design, building block of a school
   Child development and the design of school environments
   Outdoor environments: classrooms, recreation, athletics
   
10. Build or Renovate? articles at NCEF site
11. Project Cost and Budget Management, intro
    
    • Project Budgets
      
    • Life Cycle Costs
      
    • Value Analysis and Value Engineering
      
12. The Americans with Disabilities Act, Accessibility, and Universal Design
    link to the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (with Tepfer notes)
13. Contracts, contracts, and more contracts
    • Architect/Engineer contracts
    • NCEF: Hiring Design Professionals links
      - "Seeing the Light", B. LePatner, Architecture Magazine, article on architect contracts
    • Construction contracts
      

other interesting links still being incorporated above:

http://www.designshare.com/

http://www.edfacilities.org/ir/irlinks.html#periodicals

http://www.edfacilities.org/ir/irpubs.html (a few in PDF)

NCEF articles: hot topics