UPDATED APRIL 6, 2026: DCPS' Facilities Planning and Design team is moving its website!

• If you can see this sentence, you are currently viewing our legacy website. This legacy website will remain active and updated through Summer 2026. This legacy website will be archived at 5PM on Friday, September 25, 2026. 

  • If the current time/date is BEFORE 5PM on Friday, September 25, 2026, refer to this legacy website for project updates. 

  • If the current time/date is AFTER 5PM on Friday, September 25, 2026, refer to our new website, linked HERE, on the main DCPS website. 

    • NOTE: The new website will not be active until 5PM on Friday, September 25, 2026. 

Our Mission

The Facilities Planning and Design Team (formerly called the Facilities team) is comprised of two sub-teams that work collectively to design, create and maintain modern school facilities to ensure students are prepared to succeed. We adopt human-centered design principles to foster diverse, healthy, sustainable and inspiring learning environments that emphasize equity throughout the District.

1. The Modernizations team (formerly called FPD) is responsible for planning and designing DCPS' modernizations, additions and expansions to ensure public schools are equipped to handle evolving programmatic needs.

• Modernizations 

• Additions & Expansions

• Swing Spaces

  • Swing Space Overview 

2. The Small Capitals Projects (SCP) team is responsible for small renovation projects that solve a specific problem or make a targeted improvement to a DCPS facility. Broadly, the Small Caps team fills the gap between larger FPD projects and routine maintenance work orders. 

• Small Capital Projects