Livable Building Award (02-12-21)
The Center for the Built Environment at the University of California, Berkeley has presented its 2020 Livable Building Award to the renovation and expansion of Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco.
Optimize Learning Outcomes
Noise at School
Sophisticated test of multiple conditions
New Circadian Lighting Resource (01-15-21)
The Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer, has released materials that can support the development of energy efficient circadian lighting n classrooms and hospitals.
Air Pollution and Mental Performance (12-01-20)
Research completed by a Mullen-lead team not only confirms the value of air outside being fresh, but also the advantages of air brought into buildings being “scrubbed.”
Trees and Academic Success (11-19-20)
Research confirms that trees do indeed add value to our lives.
Classroom Conditions and Student Achievement (10-23-20)
Brink and colleagues evaluated links between college/university classroom conditions and student performance.
Nature IN Classrooms (10-16-20)
Van den Bogerd and colleagues studied the effects of having plants in a university and secondary school classrooms.
Using Wood: Design Resource
Wood use implications reported
Creating a Sense of Place in School Environments: How Young Children Construct Place Attachment
Child-focused design decoded
Repeated Sensory Experiences (04-06-20)
Recent research by Gao, Fillmore, and Scullin confirms the value of repeated exposure to the same stimuli during the learning process; it also validates the powerful links between memories and sensory stimuli and the fact that linked memories can be reactivated when stimuli are repeated.