Recycling design plans.(at Hamilton-Wentworth School District)(Brief Article)
American School & University, March, 2005
A few years ago, the Hamilton-Wentworth School District, Hamilton, Ontario, had about 10,000 empty seats. Its 132 schools required a total of $113 million in deferred maintenance to bring them up to standards. Yet, the district was able to eliminate obsolete and underused facilities without resorting to deficit financing.
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The school's revitalization strategy calls for the elimination of the equivalent of 29 350-seat schools by 2008. Nine new community-based facilities will be built on the same sites as the closed schools. Instead of designing new schools piecemeal, the ...
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