The Washington & Jefferson College Center for Energy and the Built Environment will host a free August 12 webinar on the state of America's K-12 school buildings as part of its Energy Lecture Series. "Built to Last? Understanding America's School Building Crisis" will be presented at 11 a.m. Wednesday, August 12. The webinar brings together three presenters who approach the same set of questions from different vantage points. Mary Filardo, Executive Director of the 21st Centu

A new analysis in Cogent Education by Dr. Corey Young, executive director of the Center for Energy and the Built Environment at Washington & Jefferson College, reveals widespread deterioration, uneven modernization, and significant regional disparities in investment in K–12 school buildings across the United States. The paper, “Built to last? An examination of deteriorating US school buildings and regional disparities” uses data from the 2018 Commercial Buildings Energy Consu