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WILSON
and WASHINGTON 2000 SITE VISIT
February
10 and 11, 1999
Committee
members attending the site visit were: Guy Cahill, Ken
Memken, Rick Butler, Colleen Gibson, Bill Link, Bev
Waters, Barbara Tidaback, Linda Harris, PSA Representatives
(Tom Wilson, Clark Brenner, Will Helmick)
Health Bridge
Fitness Center
- Cement
formed exterior panels (matched accent bricks)
- Lower
wall cover (vinyl)
- Corner
guards
- Ok moveable
walls (it took two people to move)
- Carpet
squares
- Use of
color accents in floor
- Entry
tiles
- Drape
around therapy table
- Recessed
canned lighting that dimmed and egg carton lighting
Prairie Ridge
High School
- Glass-walled
cornered stairwells
- Textured
non-slip steps
- Auditorium
(textured walls)
- Turn around
bus drop-off in rear
Westfield
School (K-8)
- Stage
with ramp
- Space
for a stage between the gym and all-purpose room
- Great
moveable walls (seal or stabilizer at the bottom,
moved easily by a teacher)
- Glass-walled
cornered stairwells
- Vestibule
in entryway to provide security through office
- Glass
panels on side of door
Schaumberg
Township Library
- Bowl light
fixture reflecting light up and down
- Terrazzo
floor in entry and "lobby"
- Great
student area with storybook character setting life-size.
Molded plastic sets. Many places to sit
- Computers
- Recessed
lighting outside under canopy
- Wooden
benches
- Indirect
lighting
Barrington
North Elementary School
- Locker
system we liked
- Pod arrangement
of classrooms
- Front
door security arrange with doors locking after bell
and all traffic through office
- Bathrooms
set up outside pods
- Tile in
hallway and carpeting in classrooms
- Poor acoustics
in gym and great room
- Glassed
hallways at the end of the corridors
- Acoustics
ignored - very obvious
Clearmont
Elementary School
- Great
ideas for use of space (bright colors red, yellow,
blue)
- Four
or five computers arranged around a built-in unit
- Glassed
rooms around the library part for the lab
- Sitting
space designed for students to read together (wood
and mesh-like material?)
- Moveable
walls - EMCO acceptable quality
Lincoln Way
East High School
- Auditorium
- Name plates
- Great
sound room
Zion Nuclear
Power Plant
- Interesting
use of displays for electricity
- Some exposed
piping
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