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There is a growing awareness that addressing the needs of housing-insecure students may be crucial to the mission of a community college.

Less than a third of community colleges provide some sort of housing support, why is that?

The National Buildings Institute's Zero Buildings List magazine features four Sherman Carter Barnhart Projects and highlights one of our zero energy schools on the cover: Jennings Creek Elementary, which is part of Warren County schools.

For the second time since the beginning of the Covid-19 epidemic, one of Sherman Carter’s projects beat cost expectations.

I am taking a stab at a snapshot of where we are right now with regard to the effect the COVID-19 pandemic is having on student housing. All I really know is that this is an evolving subject and a moving target, but clearly certain issues, concerns, problems, and potential solutions are beginning to become clear.

As the Director of Higher Education and a former University Architect, I am frequently researching the current trends and issues affecting today's colleges and universities. What prominently comes to focus is how campuses are planning to create a "new normal" amidst COVID-19. This is an evolving subject and a moving target, but clearly certain issues, concerns, problems, and potential solutions are beginning to become clear.

Sherman Carter Barnhart received a national award this month for its zero energy design of Jennings Creek Elementary in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The award, 2020 Heavy Commercial 1st Runner-Up, was highlighted along with a profile in the May issue of Insulating Concrete Forms Magazine.

Sherman Carter Barnhart’s Kenny Stanfield, Principal, AIA, LEED AP, spoke recently about designing Zero Energy Schools with Insulated Concrete Forms, and we’re pleased to share the presentation with you. Below is a slideshow of Kenny’s presentation. You can also log in on the National Ready Mix Concrete Association’s site and listen to the audio that goes with this slideshow.

Warren County Schools Board Chair Kerry Young and Sherman Carter Barnhart’s Kenny Stanfield, Principal, AIA, LEED AP, will be speaking at the Kentucky School Board Association conference Saturday on how school design can have an impact on student achievement. Those who attend the session will learn to establish the “right” design priorities in a 21st Century Education and Energy School. Those priorities include design that helps engage students and inspire learning in a safe, healthy, sustainable environment while also dramatically reducing or even eliminating energy costs.

Sherman Carter Barnhart’s Jennifer Cash, AIA, Associate Principal, will be speaking with Chris McIntyre, CFO/Treasurer of Warren County Public Schools, and Chad Riggs of CMTA about saving money now and in the future through modern technology and school design.

Lexington, KY: Sherman Carter Barnhart’s Kenny Stanfield, AIA, LEED AP, will be speaking about the benefits of sustainable Zero Energy school design and Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF) starting this week at conferences at Yale University and in Mississippi, South Carolina and Kentucky.

Lexington, KY: Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects, a leading regional architecture firm with offices in Lexington, Louisville and Paducah, announced today the promotion of Kevin Matthews to Principal and seven other professionals to Associate Principal.