Physical facilities for education : what planners need to know / John Beynon.

Contents;

I. Introduction

II. Are physical facilities really necessary?
Shelter
Machines for learning
Quantitative demand

III. Managing qualitative dimensions
Links between the environment and learning
Functional aspects
Physical comfort
Sizing furniture, rooms and school sites
Quality construction

IV. Managing capital investments
Initial capital cost
Cost per place
Area per place
Economies of scale Lifetime costs
etc.

V. Managing change
Internal flexibility
Physical facilities as a real estate asset
Micro planning and inventories
Macro planning

VI. Managing the actors
Standards setting
Sector analysis, project identification and preparation
What is good design?
Project implementation of physical facilities
Enlisting the private sector in buildings
etc.

VII. Summary and conclusions
Towards a systematic model
Where to go from here?

Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-98).