Design for K-12 Education
Most designers understand that educational environments need to be durable, but our definition of a high-performing facility means more than that. Working with teachers and administrators, we’ve made a conscious commitment to furthering our understanding of learning.
Our team of architects, engineers, and interior designers specialize in the design of 21st century classrooms through the integration of furniture and your district’s technology standards. The results create active learning environments that promote engagement, collaboration, and safe environments for both educators and modern learners.
Our process includes interactive working sessions with faculty, staff, and students to understand current challenges while collaboratively developing solutions that enhance student instruction, enable learning space management, and provide flexible choices.
Once the design is complete, our services include coordination and oversight of procurement, on-site coordination of furniture delivery, and review of furniture features with staff.
Design can reinforce existing behaviors or spark new ones. In schools, we’re working with teachers to transform learning.
In some cases, educators lead the charge towards new modes of instruction, and we help districts retrofit their classrooms to support new programs. In other cases, changing the classroom first is necessary to enable instructional changes.
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New furniture options can provide classrooms with integrated technology and the ability to experiment with new pedagogies. Our interiors team works with districts to identify how technology should be integrated into the classroom, and sample and test furniture, fixtures, and equipment (FF&E) that support that culture.
Today, it’s not just “smart boards” that are smart. We’ll transform the simplest bookshelf into the most advanced display system.
ff&E & Technology
Acoustics
LaBella has in-house acoustical consultants to help our clients address acoustics at every stage of a project. There are many factors that contribute to a school’s acoustic environment, including reverberation time, background noise, and sound transmission from adjoining areas – all of which can interrupt learning. Our teams work collaboratively to ensure acoustic discussions aren’t limited to the music suite.
Studies demonstrate that acoustics impact test performance, and that students with hearing, language, speech, attention deficit, or other learning disabilities are even more susceptible.
Districts have more options than ever when it comes to athletic facilities for their student athletes. We educate our clients on differences in maintenance, price, longevity, and injury risk.
Our experience includes tracks, tennis courts, and single or multipurpose fields. We balance your vision with the opportunities and constraints of the site, determining the optimal layout for athletes, coaches, spectators, and facility staff.
, Building performance
LaBella’s K-12 engineering team specializes in the design of energyefficient, highperformance educational facilities.
We provide full-service engineering and energy design services and understand the many challenges faced by school districts with respect to energy savings, operations, and continued maintenance of their campus facilities.
Our team of experts are wellversed in the latest NYSERDA and utility rebate programs and can help school districts weigh those important decisions with respect
to infrastructure upgrades and/ or system selections. LaBella has performed numerous building condition studies and commissioning projects, as well as assisted in the execution of energy performance contracts (EPCs) for many of our districts.
Working closely with the project architects and school district, our engineering teams design utilities distribution, central plants, classrooms, natatoriums, and gymnasiums, as well as other specialty spaces found in today’s schools. Our team has the technical engineering expertise required to design high-performance educational facilities that keep pace with the latest classroom and educational trends.
Health & safety
We don’t design a project and then add locks and cameras. Designing secure schools starts with detailed security planning as part of a holistic approach to the school’s operation.
We understand the interplay of vehicular, pedestrian, and asset movements along with storage, security, and other operational considerations.
Integrated security design doesn’t look like a prison. It includes areas of high visibility and strategic sight lines, as well as consideration of audible emergency management systems that are heard and not seen.
In addition to designing for prevention of crime, vandalism, or crisis situations, we have assisted school districts with health and safety concerns. Lead in drinking water, asbestos-containing materials, or other indoor air quality issues can be addressed by our in-house environmental team.
Whether your project requires new systems or the maintenance and retro-fitting of existing, our engineers have the technical know-how to improve building performance.
At LaBella Associates, our job is to create—structures, plans, ideas, results. As a nationally recognized Design Professional Corporation, that’s a given, right? But here’s what really drives us: creating partnership between our team and our clients. So much so that we become one team, unified in the unrelenting pursuit of exceptional performance on each and every project. Reliability. Accountability. Collaboration. Respect. Not skills we went to school for, but innate in LaBella team members.
The pursuit of partnership is embedded in our culture—has been since our inception in 1978. And it affects client outcomes in profound ways. It means we’re built to expertly execute projects from start to finish. That we have the talent and resources to take on any challenge. That projects are completed on time, on budget, and beyond expectations. And that we win awards—not just for our talent, but also for our ethics, employee culture, and growth.
Today, our wheelhouse is broad, with four key service offerings: Buildings, Energy, Infrastructure, and Environmental. Our reach is widespread with staff located throughout the country and Europe. We’re headquartered in Rochester, NY—but our impact is seen, felt, and experienced around the world.
Visit us at www.labellapc.com to get a glimpse of some of the things we’re working on right now. But don’t let us do all the talking— tell us about your goals by calling (877) 626-6606.
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