There’s no shortage of research about the role proper lighting, acoustics and air quality play in creating a learning-conducive educational environment. Moreover, COVID-19 has inserted indoor air quality—minimizing exposure to airborne contaminants, viruses and bacteria—at the top of the list.

Florida’s Pinellas County Schools celebrated the reopening of its updated and expanded St. Petersburg High School. The original school, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, opened in 1926 and was most recently renovated in the 1980s.

LEARN Charter School Network and Gilbane Building Company recently achieved a significant milestone for the LEARN 9 Waukegan Charter School. The topping-out milestone marks the completion of the steel structure for the new classroom addition in Waukegan, Illinois.

GMS Inc. announced that the company has added several newly developed material handling trucks equipped with battery-powered hydraulic cranes to its distribution fleet and plans to add approximately 20 additional units in the next two years as they become available.

Following years of fundraising, design and construction to implement the first phase of a new master plan, the sanctuary renovation of a beloved synagogue in Scarsdale, New York, is finally complete, welcoming worshippers back to regular services in a completely reimagined sunlit sanctuary.

Dyer Brown & Associates has announced the completion of a reimagined setting for building the cities of tomorrow: the Civil and Environmental Engineering Innovation Studio at Northeastern University.

The ALL Family of Companies is once again an authorized dealer for Maeda mini cranes. ALL is also adding 13 Maeda spider cranes to its own fleet.

As part of a bond to improve and expand the San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District facilities, De Zavala Elementary School completed a transformative renovation. The original elementary school, built in 1985, nearly doubled in size to the current 168,479-square-foot, two-story facility.

In a successful, sustainable addition and classroom reorganization for a leading Bay Area independent school, the Office of Charles F. Bloszies FAIA has completed a strategic expansion recently unveiled by the Cathedral School for Boys in San Francisco.

Students, teachers and staff of the newly renovated and expanded Heritage E-STEM Magnet School in West St. Paul, Minnesota, are experiencing brighter, quieter, more modern learning spaces created with Rockfon’s acoustic stone wool ceiling systems.