UPDATED June 1, 2026: DCPS' Facilities Planning and Design (FPD) team has moved its website! 

• All further FPD project updates will be communicated through the main DCPS website, linked here for convenience. 

• If you can see this sentence, you are currently viewing FPD's legacy website. This legacy website will remain publicly accessible through 5PM on Friday, June 26 to guide interested stakeholders towards our new website.

• Please note, as of June 1, 2026, this legacy website is no longer actively monitored or updated. Visit the DCPS website here for project updates.  

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