A Guide to the Planning of Educational Facilities (3 Revised edition)

Finally a handbook is available that provides both information and assistance to local school districts during the planning and development process of a school building.

Holcomb works to alleviate the difficulties often associated with building programs of this sort by carefully walking the non-expert school planner through the details, phases, and mind-sets necessary to do effective and efficient school plant planning.

Contents: Introduction; The Thinking and Needs Assessment Phase; The Planning and Commitment Phase; The Design Phase; The 'Selling' Phase; The Financing Phase; The Construction Phase; The Occupation and In-Service Orientation Phase; The Evaluation Phase; Do We Build New Facilities or Remodel?; Summary.