Our values
Educational facilities impact the learning, development and behavior of their users while expressing the predominant ideas and principles of their creators.
Adequate learning spaces enrich the educational experience.
Evidence based planning and community consensus improves design and reduces investment and operational costs.
The quality of the planning process is the foundation for the accuracy, acceptance and economy of the final result.

Our work

We specialize in providing better build environments for students, teachers and communities using unique planning and design techniques. Our work contributes to the improvement of educational results, and a more rational use of resources.  We start with the most difficult initial steps where the project vision may still be blurry, where the size, location and characteristics of the building may not yet have been defined.  The central part of our work is to bridge the gap between educational needs and expectations within a planning framework.  We produce and finance educational, cultural and community use facilities, which are appropriate for the intended use, healthy, safe, durable and economical.

Our services
- Master planning
- Strategic visioning
- Needs assessments
- Educational adequacy
- Population growth
- Enrollment projections
- Site selection 
- Real estate assessments  
- Feasibility studies
- Capital investment plans 
- Operational cost analysis
- Design specifications
- Educational specifications
- Educational technology integration 
- Client representation
- Program management
- Science labs, design
- Vocational education workshops design
- Music and art rooms design
- Special education rooms design
- Facilities for students with disabilities
- Project sustainability
- Community consultation
- Technical assistance
- Training of professional staff
- Financial analysis of investment and operational costs
- Energy consumption audits
- Real estate backed loans for new construction, additions and renovation projects

 Our work

- Proposal for Facilities Master Plan review with yearly updates. Educational facilities planning policy and administrative procedures. Draft plan of action for reviewing attendance zones and boundaries. Administrative and professional goals for OFM-PDC .  High School Planning Project focused on district wide issues impacting all the high schools as a whole with the purpose of creating a framework for campus specific and area planning.  Multi school use of specialized facilities like: specialized libraries, auditoriums, vocational education workshops, swimming pools, and athletic facilities.  Programming and reassignment of special education facilities. For District of Columbia Public Schools.

- Comprehensive planning model for educational facilities, including all the steps necessary to provide the project architect, with all the programmatic information, site information, community input, standards, specifications and local regulations to improve efficiency in design phase.  Educational, socio-economical, and geographical information review to validate architectural program for elementary, middle and high schools in Stafford, Culpepper, and Augusta Counties in Virginia and Oklahoma City in Oklahoma . For Fanning/ Howey Associates Inc.

- Space Distribution for US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, for Jo Anne Murray.

- International Cooperation strategy and implementation for Council of Educational Facility Planners International.  Presentations to World Bank, Interamerican Development Bank and awareness missions to Chile , Argentina and Brazil .

- Educational Adequacy Study for Dorchester Co. Public Schools, Maryland.

- Facilities Master Planning for US Department of Defense Schools in Fort Knox Kentucky, and Fort Bragg North Carolina for DODEA as a subcontractor for Baker

- Design review and specifications for Multilevel School in Guargon, India. As a subcontractor for BPLW

- Planning and design evaluation of 23 new educational buildings, plus over 100 school rehabilitations, furniture and equipment projects in Sierra Leone, West Africa, for the African Development Bank.