Fielding Nair International is an award-winning, globally leading planning and architectural design firm. But we are more than planners and architects. We help clients define the future of education in their communities and then provide the services to successfully implement Change Management Strategies as part of their overall School Reform Agenda.

$10 Billion Worth of School Work: We have worked on over $10 billion worth of schools over the last 15 years.

11 International Awards: Schools that we have planned and/or designed have won 11 international planning and design awards for excellence. Our awards recognize not just quality architecture, but vastly improved educational outcomes as well. Click here for a list of our award-winning work.

Global Connections: We have consulted as architects and/or conducted planning workshops or delivered keynote addresses in 19 U.S. states and 26 countries on five continents.

Technology Integration Leaders: We are widely recognized as international leaders in the field of integrating educationally appropriate technologies in school buildings.

High Performance School Specialists: We are noted for our commitment to sustainable, high-performance schools.

World’s Largest Innovative Schools Database: We have created the world’s largest database of innovative schools (nearly 400 schools) from 30 countries at designshare.com. This information is shared freely with practitioners globally.

Change Management Specialists:Our world-renowned Professional Development services (see below) is but one piece of a holistic Change Management process. FNI is able to help clients plan, design and accomplish a Blueprint for School Reform utilizing our trademark 12-pronged model which includes a diverse range of areas as follows: 1) Visioning the Future; 2) Desired Student Outcomes;

3) School Learning Principles; 4) Leadership; 5) Organization/ Management; 6) Standards; 7) Assessments; 8) Staffing; 7) Scheduling; 8) Professional Development/Capacity Building; 9) Youth Development; 10) Curriculum; 11) Community Building; and 12) Facilities. That means, you can hire FNI not only as your architects, but also to usher your community through the entire complex process of managing change.

World-Renowned Professional Development: While FNI are primarily school planners and architects, we have engaged some of the world’s premier Professional Development and Curriculum specialists to help our client communities with the difficult challenge of change management. Please browse our Resumes section to learn more about our people.

Higher Education Partnerships: We partner with higher-education institutions and offer continuing-education courses in a variety of locations throughout the U.S.A and in various countries around the world. FNI also provides long-range planning, master planning and design services to universities. Prakash Nair published an article about planning the future of the American campus in “Connection”, the Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education. Randy Fielding began his career as a project designer at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, where he worked as an architect for an 8,000-student university. He also facilitated a workshop at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, regarding the development of a variety of new facilities.

Research-Focused Practice: We have the strongest research focus of any school architect in the United States. FNI Principal Architects Dr. Jeff Lackney and Prakash Nair worked together to develop our ground-breaking school assessment tool EFEI (Educational Facilities Effectiveness Instrument). Please see our home page at http://fieldingnair.com or for more information about EFEI write to: prakash@fieldingnair.com

Varied Client Base: We have a wide and varied client base from private industry, government agencies, not-for-profit groups and foundations. Click here for sampling of our clients.

Extensively Published: Our work has been extensively published — we have over 40 professional publications to our credit including the landmark, Language of School Design that has sold thousands of copies worldwide. Click here for our publications.