Physical Facilities Administration and Supervision

Physical Facilities also known as Physical Plant for education comprises land
building, and furniture. It also includes physical facilities for teaching spaces
and for ancillary rooms.
The management of school facilities falls within the key duties of the school
administrator. Administrators need to embrace this responsibility as they gain
greater control and are held more accountable. Aging school buildings often
create barriers that impede effective teaching and learning. This has resulted in
escalating school infrastructure costs. A case can be made to renovate or build
new facilities that maximize an optimal learning environment. Such a choice
will necessitate financing school construction.
Facilities management is an integral part of the overall management of the
school. The actualization of the goals and objectives of education require the
provision, maximum utilization and appropriate management of the facilities.
School Mapping - is a dynamic process of planning the distribution, size and
spacing of schools and physical facilities requirements for optimum utilization
and benefit. It is a process of identifying current inadequacies in distribution
and of providing appropriate types and patterns of school plant. It is a
continuous process involving the uninterrupted recording of basic information
required for analysis of the school map at any given point in time.
The different components that constitute educational facilities are categorized
as follows:
Site
Campus
Buildings
Classrooms
Offices,

Staff

and

Assembly

and

Medical

and

Food Services/Canteen

Function
Athletic
Dental

Rooms
Facilities
Clinic