This 8-minute video discusses carpet's benefits and proper maintenance
in the educational environment. The basis for the video includes educators
and well-known designers who emphasize the benefits of carpet in educational
design as an advantage to building high performance schools. It includes
facts about carpet care and cost-efficiency, and demonstrates how interior
design solutions create beautiful spaces for children to learn.
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the video, Beautiful
Spaces for Children: Building High Performance Schools - Windows Media
Format (20.89 MB). To order a CD of this video call 706-428-2114.
References
- Committee Seeks
Stakeholders to Develop Pile-Yarn Floor Standard (ASTM Standard
2003)
(PDF 471 KB)
- Allergy
Claims “Unproved” (Professor Roshan L. Sishoo, Alf Borgesson,
and Swedish Institute for Fibre and Polymer Research, 1996)
(PDF 1 MB)
- Carpet
and High Performance Schools (CRI Technical Services 2003)
(PDF 206 KB)
- Carpets
in Schools Don't Compromise Indoor Air Quality, Says Cornell Researcher
(Susan S. Lang 2001)
(PDF 851 KB)
- Cleaning
and Foot Traffic Emissions Analysis (Gary Asbury, Professional Testing
Laboratory, Inc., Dalton, GA. 2002)
(PDF 226 KB)
- CFD Analysis
of the Behavior of Airborne Allergens in Carpeted and Uncarpeted Dwellings
(Cicciarelli, Davidson, Hart, and Peoples, 2002)
(PDF 1.24 MB)
- Healthy School Environment and
Enhanced Educational Performance. The Case of Charles Young Elementary
School in Washinton, DC. (Michael A. Berry, Ph.D., 2002)
- Collaborative
for High Performance Schools (Volume IV, Criteria Scorecard and
Specification Section 01350, 2004)
- Cornell University, Department of
Design & Environmental Analysis, Loraine Maxwell, Ph.D.
- Explore,
“Acoustics Vital to Effective Learning” (Harmel 2000)
(PDF 2.79 MB)
- Final
Report of the Hydrolab Project 2001, Flooring, Humidity, and Mold Growth
(Berry 2002d)
(PDF 58 KB)
- Condition of America’s Schools (U.S. GAO
1995)
(PDF 446 KB)
- America’s Schools Reporting Differing Conditions
(U. S. GAO 1996)
(PDF 744 KB)
- Healthy
School Environment and Enhanced Educational Performance: The Case of
Charles Young Elementary School (Berry 2002c)
(PDF 223 KB)
- Healthy
Schools are Clean, Dry, and Productive (Berry 2002a)
(PDF 171 KB)
- Humidity
as a Factor Regulating Feeding and Water Balance of the House Dust Mites
Dermatophagoides Farinae and D. Pteronussinus (Arlian 1977)
(PDF 959 KB)
- Importance
of Interior Design Elements as they Relate to Student Outcomes (University
of Georgia, Part 2) (Tanner 2002)
(PDF 7.14 MB)
- Increasing Office
Productivity Through Integrated Acoustic Planning and Noise Reduction
Strategies (ASID 1996)
(PDF 51 KB)
- Indoor
Environment Characterization of a non-problem building: Assessment of
Cleaning Effectiveness (Research Triangle Institute, March 1994)
(PDF 54 KB)
- Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design (LEED 2002)
(PDF 54 KB)
- A Life-Cycle
Cost Analysis for Floor Coverings in School Facilities (IICRC 2002)
(PDF 359 KB)
- Mold
Remediation in Schools and Commercial Buildings (U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency 2001)
(PDF 587 KB)
- National
Survey of Public School Teachers (Beth Schapiro & Associates,
2001)
(PDF 53 KB)
- Perceptions
of Middle School Principals Regarding Carpet’s Function in the
School’s Physical Environment and a Comparison of Middle School
Student’s Performance with Sound Intensity Levels in the Classroom
(University of Georgia, Part 1) (Folden 2002)
(PDF 5.11 MB)
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of Asthma in Swedish Population: Factors Contributing in the Rise of
Asthma 1955 – 1995. (National Institutes of Public Health,
Dr. Hans Formgren, 1995)
(PDF 1.09 MB)
- Relationship
of Reported Allergy Symptoms, Relative Humidity and Airborne Biologicals
in Thirteen Florida Classrooms (Bates 1996)
(PDF 2.01 MB)
- Shaw Industries, Inc., Dalton,
Georgia
- University of New Mexico, School
Architecture, Ann Taylor, Ph.D.
- Westwood Elementary School, Dalton, Georgia
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