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Click here for latest wins by FNI including projects in Brunei, Tanzania, Oman and Texas.

Tomorrow’s School – Beyond Yesterday’s Classroom
Check out these inspiring images of 21st century schools compiled by Prakash Nair

“Exploring Six Principles of Sustainable School Design” – Randy Fielding for WISE

First two of 100 schools Master Planned and Designed by FNI opens in Puerto Rico

FNI Selected by Nationally Acclaimed American School of Bombay, India

FNI Selected by Prestigious Al-Batinah International School, Oman

FNI Selected as Master Planners for Cleveland-Heights-University Heights School District in Ohio

FNI Selected as Planners and Design Architects for STEAM Middle School in Greenville, S. Carolina

FNI Completes Visioning Work for School Districts in Montana and Ontario

EXCITING NEW PROJECT WINS BY FNI!

FNI selected by Bloomfield Hills Schools (MI) to lead the community through Facilitation, Planning and Design for their New High School.

Prakash Nair Featured in “Education World Magazine” for his Dedication in Transforming India’s Education Landscape

FNI’s Senior Designer, Mariana Boctor, featured in “Cocotte Design”: Designing the NextGen Schools — Just Like Home

FNI Appointed as Master Planners for $800 Million Puerto Rico School Modernization Program

FNI Projects Win Two International Awards

FNI’s innovative approach to school design featured in North American Design Magazine

FNI’s Arcola Community School design featured in Regina Leader-Post.

FNI Selected to serve as Planning and Design Consultant for TJHSST – America’s #1 High School.

Fully Revised 2nd Edition of Language of School Design is now available.

Sinarmas World Academy by FNI Awarded Prestigious Project of Distinction Award in Washington DC.

FNI to partner with India’s Yash Birla Group in a venture that will develop 300+ new schools

Designing Schools for 21st Century Learners
In this film, architect Randall Fielding demonstrates the connection between where and how students learn in the 21st century.

Don’t Just Rebuild Schools—Reinvent Them
“If we simply repair broken structures, we will ignore the real problems with American education while giving renewed life to a model of teaching and learning that has been obsolete since the end of the industrial era.”.

FNI’s Scotch Oakburn College Middle School Project in Launceston, Tasmania has Opened. Details

Randy Fielding interviewed Phorecast: “We need to teach our kids skills, not subjects!” Click here to listen to podcast

End-of-Year News: Several Exciting New Project Wins in Canada, USA, Malaysia and Abu Dhabi. Details

Mid-Year News Update: New projects, EFEI launch and publications. Details

The Cristo Rey Jesuit High School & Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center has been awarded. Details

Randall Fielding awarded CEFPI International Planner of the Year Details

Microsoft Taps FNI For Key Role in Global Innovative Schools Program Details

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School and Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center in operation in Minneapolis. Details

Health and Fitness Centre Opens at Scotch Oakburn College. Details

Groundbreakings on Cayman Islands.Details

A Comfortable Truth – 8 Truths about Comfort in Schools. Click here for link to new article.

FNI Adds several new consultants and expands service offerings.
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Building Futures – Video Interview with Prakash Nair
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Randall Fielding Interviewed on Charlotte Radio
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Randy Fielding interviewed on WCCO radio: “Human Rights and Design for Learning”
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New Project Wins
in 7 American states, and 6 countries. Details

The Language of School Design – New book by Nair and Fielding.
Available Now

Fielding Returns from Sri Lanka and Heads to Azerbaijan and Australia Details

Dr. Lackney criss-crosses land to lead design efforts on behalf of FNI – Details

Nair’s Latest trip covers 5 Australian States, Thailand and Singapore Details

Nair Returns from Planning & Design Consultation Workshops in 4 Australian States and Singapore Details

Nair in Australia – Nair to Keynote Australian Conference in April 2005. Details

Fielding in Singapore and Australia Details

Nair in Alaska Details

Fielding at NAF – Randy Fielding addresses National Audience at NAF Conference in New York. Details

Better Schools for Ohio – State of Ohio hires FNI to conduct detailed study of school designs. Details

FNI Wins MacConnell Award – Reece School in Tasmania Australia by FNI is MacConnell Award winner! Details
About Fielding Nair International
School Architects and Change Agents for Education

Here is the complete range of educational facilities planning services Fielding Nair International offers to develop world-class international schools and school facilities. Each client will develop a customized Scope of Services with us based upon their unique needs. Regardless of how narrow or wide-ranging our scope is, we see the big picture so please talk to us first!

VISIONING, FACILITY ASSESSMENTS, GIS MAPPING and PLANNING

  • Visioning for 21st Century Community Learning Centers
  • Long-range Facilities Master Planning
  • School Facility Assessments for both Small and Large School Systems
  • Master Planning for Individual Schools
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Mapping
  • Demographic Analyses and Enrollment Projections
  • Redistricting Studies
  • Community Consultations & Workshops for school leaders, teachers, parents, local businesses, political leaders, community residents and all school stakeholders
  • Project and Program Budgeting

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

  • Complete range of architectural services including site selection, master planning, concept design, schematic design, design development, tender documents and on-site supervision.
  • We also offer engineering services in collaboration with our partner firms.
  • FNI is often retained as Design Architects where we are responsible for taking a an educational facility planning project from concept design through schematic design and design development at which point a local Project Architect would assume responsibility with FNI serving in a quality assurance and review role.
  • Sustainable Design. FNI is regarded as one of the world’s leading Sustainable Design Architects. We integrate sustainable and environmentally conscious design in accordance with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) principles.

CURRICULUM

  • Curriculum Review
  • New Curriculum Design
  • Curriculum Implementation Strategies.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Best Practice Workshops and Seminars for Teachers
  • Project Based Learning Training
  • Architecture for IB Programs
  • PD Needs Assessment
  • Design of a Customized PD Program
  • Actual Delivery of PD utilizing an in-class coaching model. This model is more sustainable over the long run since it will develop trained mentors within your community and reduce your dependence on consultants
  • Ongoing Support for Teachers
  • School Tours — we will conduct educational tours of schools that are successfully implementing a student-centered curriculum.
  • Educational Commissioning (training teachers and students to get the maximum teaching and learning value from new and renovated facilities).

FACILITY ASSESSMENT

INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

  • FNI will help you properly integrate educational technologies into your infrastructure plans early in the project lifecycle so that these are not seen as a superficial add-on.
  • We will also provide technology integration training to your teachers.
  • We will assist you with setting up suitable distance learning programs
  • We will provide all the assistance you need to ensure that your students will be fully prepared for Anytime Anywhere Learning.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

To get meaningful results, our communities will often require the development of a comprehensive Blueprint for Change. FNI can help schools and school districts envision and successfully implement system-wide change. Our suggested Blueprint for School Change includes the following categories: 1) Desired Student Outcomes, 2) School Learning Principles, 3) Leadership, 4) Organization/Management, 5) Standards, 6) Assessments, 7) Staffing, 8) Scheduling, 9) Professional Development/Capacity Building, 10) Youth Development, 11) Curriculum, 12) Community & Business Connections.

MARKETING, PUBLIC RELATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE

In a rapidly changing world, communities all over the world are looking for successful exemplars to guide them through the often perilous path of educational reform and change management. FNI is not only able to guide you through this process but we are also able to publicize your success story via our website and via http://DesignShare.com (which we own). DesignShare is the world’s largest forum for innovative schools and school designs and receives over 2 million visitors annually.

FNI will also submit your project for local, national and international awards and publish your story in reputed journals.

Many FNI school architecture projects have become iconic international exemplars helping communities throughout the world implement their own programs for improvement and change.

  Details about the Projects Featured here Available at the Projects Page The classrooms at Millennium High School
The classrooms at Millennium High School in New York City were furnished to accommodate different learning and teaching styles. Tables on casters were selected to accommodate teamwork in large or small group settings and a variety of room configurations. Lounge chairs were incorporated to provide an area for reading and studying. Wood finishes were selected to create a warm, inviting environment. Each room utilizes sliding whiteboard units on at least two walls.
Site plan for Sinarmas World School
Site plan for Sinarmas World School in Indonesia showing how a large campus can be broken down into intimate, caring small learning communities.
Eco Pond at the entrance
Eco Pond at the entrance of the Cristo Rey Jesuit High School and Community Center in Minneapolis that opened in September 2007. This project features student employment in the community and the seamless integration of a school and community center.
Working closely
Working closely with the local stakeholder community in the Cayman Islands, which is represented by a “Core Committee”, FNI led this Discovery Charette for the design of the three new high schools.
Exterior Rendering for Scotch Oakburn College
Exterior Rendering for Scotch Oakburn College in Tasmania, Australia. FNI takes great pains to ensure that our designs reflect the local ethos of the communities in which we work.
George Town Primary School
The Design for George Town Primary School in the Cayman Islands by FNI is significant because it represents the ultimate confluence of the most forward-thinking ideas for a primary school
Cristo Rey Plan
Cristo Rey Plan showing how an innovative design can be accomplished on a tight urban site
Scotch Oakburn College
Many FNI projects are developed within existing buildings. This renovated gymnasium at Scotch Oakburn College done for a very modest cost houses 200 students with modern amenities on par with the most expensive new schools in the world.

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