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November 27, 2018
BWBR-designed Brookview Elementary Earns Design Award
Brookview Elementary School, part of the Stillwater (Minn.) Area Public Schools, received AIA Minnesota’s highest recognition for design at the...
August 28, 2018
BWBR-Designed Center Earns Carroll University First LEED Certification
WAUKESHA, Wis. – A nursing and physics/engineering facility at Carroll University has set a new standard for energy efficiency and...
July 16, 2018
Emergency Planning & Design for Higher Education
Colleges and Universities have emergency preparedness plans and update them frequently. These plans contain policies and procedures to manage threats...
June 28, 2018
Designing for Safety: Using Active, Passive Strategies to Mitigate Risks
While summer vacation takes most of our attention away from the school violence dominated the news cycle in the spring,...
June 18, 2018
School Violence Dominates Headlines: Can Architects Alter the Story?
The headlines today paint a stark reality confronting our education system: violent and nonviolent crime is putting the safety of...
April 25, 2018
Blackboards vs. White: The Choice Lies in a Grey Zone
Visual communication of educational content between the instructor and the students is essential to an education. Technology aside, two of...
March 5, 2018
Multi-Purpose Classroom Facility Celebrates Heritage, Earns LEED Gold Certification
SAINT PAUL – The restoration and remodel of a 70-year-old academic center has done more than reimagine a student resource...
November 3, 2017
Building on Success, Second BWBR-designed School for Children with Severe Autism Opens
In 2014, Northeast Metro Intermediate School District 916 in the northern suburbs of Minneapolis-Saint Paul opened the first known primary...
October 26, 2017
NDSU’s A. Glenn Hill Center Receives AIA North Dakota Merit Design Award
An academic destination designed to bring together disciplines in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the A. Glenn Hill Center for...
October 11, 2017
Where Design Fills the Education Gap
In my late teens, I had the opportunity to be a substitute teacher/teacher’s assistant for toddlers at a childcare facility....
January 10, 2017
Harnessing Power of Visible Learning: A Better Classroom Design
How does someone learn to juggle? While many would answer with “practice,” others may describe the perfect technique. What if...
September 13, 2016
5 Questions to Consider When Designing an Active Learning Classroom
Active learning strategies are becoming more and more common in higher education classrooms, and that’s because they’re proven to work....