Learning & use
What activities must the spaces support, and which adjacencies matter to students and staff?
Savoie Studios / School districts & education
Define what the school needs.
Then shape the project.
A facility project must support learning and daily operations long after construction ends. Savoie Studios helps education owners develop the vision, establish the program, evaluate delivery options, and turn those needs into a useful basis for project decisions.
Bring the right needs into the brief
District leadership, educators, facilities staff, and building users often see different parts of the same problem. Criteria development creates a place to resolve those needs before they become competing assumptions in a proposal.
For a school district considering design-build, the starting questions may concern enrollment, program changes, aging facilities, occupied buildings, or the timing of essential improvements.
Questions worth answering early
Occupied facilities
How should access, temporary arrangements, and phasing support the school’s operation?
Operations & maintenance
What durability, serviceability, and system expectations should teams address?
Scope & priorities
Which needs are essential, which are options, and what decisions require leadership or board input?
Support for leadership and facilities teams
We help develop design criteria, support the technical portions of procurement and selection, and provide owner technical advisory as the project takes shape.
The engagement can begin with a defined planning question. You do not need a finished project brief to discuss what information and decisions should come next.
A starting resource for your team
Our owner’s starting guide offers a practical checklist for organizing priorities, project boundaries, and evaluation questions before a solicitation is developed.
From Owner Resources
The School Board's Capital Project Briefing
A discussion guide for the decisions leadership should make visible before a school facility project moves into solicitation and selection.
Read & download the resourceAn owner’s perspective / K–12 education
District priorities. Practical solutions.
“Steve listens carefully to district leaders and stakeholders, understands what matters most to them, and finds practical solutions to complicated challenges.”
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Bring the idea, the space that is not working, or the decision you need to make. Let’s explore a design direction and the support that fits your project.
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Schematic design · Owner advisory & design criteria · Architect-led design-build