About
Charles H. Warner, AIA, REFP

Mr. Warner is a registered architect with 30 years of architectural and facility planning experience.

Charles H. Warner, RA, ALEP, NCARB

Mr. Warner is a registered architect with architectural, strategic, and educational facility planning experience. With an extensive background in architectural design, school facility master planning, 21st century visioning, educational planning, community engagement, consensus building, demographic studies, and programming, Mr. Warner is committed to positioning school districts for the future.

As President of Warner Concepts, LLC., Mr. Warner has authored statewide and district-wide educational standards and guidelines for construction of K-12 school facilities in the state of Ohio, Arkansas, and Connecticut as well as small and large school districts throughout the United States and Central America.  He has co-authored a new chapter on 21st-century learning environments for the Ohio School Design Manual titled “High-Performance Learning Environments”.  For more than 24 years, Mr. Warner has led the effort to transform standard classrooms into flexible student learning areas that allow current and future instructional programs to embrace 21st-century learning concepts.

Mr. Warner has led the strategic planning, facilities master planning activities, facility assessment, capacity studies, standards and guidelines, educational specifications, and community engagement processes for all sized school districts throughout the state of Ohio and the United States.  The results of these processes have led to consensus support by the community of the facility master plan and a transformation of its students, staff, administrators, and community.

Professional Experience

Warner Concepts, LLC., Dublin, Ohio [2005-Present]

  • Developing State-wide School Construction Standards and Guidelines
  • Strategic Planning for School Districts and Business Organizations
  • Performing Educational Master Planning
  • Facilitating Education Planning Charrettes
  • Leading Educational Visioning Workshops
  • Facility Condition Assessments
  • Analyzing Enrollment Projection Data
  • Developing Program of Requirements
  • Successful planning, design, and construction of 21st Century Learning Environments
  • Knowledge of Student Centered Learning Environments
  • Knowledge of School Facilities Agencies processes
  • Knowledge of Funding Strategies

DeJONG, Inc., Dublin, Ohio [1994-2005]

  • Vice-President, Strategic and Master Planning
  • K-12 Long-Range Strategic Planning, Educational Master Planning
  • Demographic & Feasibility Studies
  • Developed State-wide K-12 Educational Standards for Ohio and Arkansas

State Architect’s Office, State of Ohio [1990-1994]

  • K-12 & Post-Secondary Strategic Planning

Education 

  • The University of Oklahoma, Masters in Architecture, 1975
  • The University of Oklahoma, Bachelor of Architecture, 1974
  • The University of Oklahoma, Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design, 1974

Professional Organizations

Awards

  • Accredited Learning Environment Planner [ALEP]
  • Certified Educational Facility Planner [CEFP]
  • Recognized Educational Facility Planner [REFP]
  • Reynolds Aluminum Design Award
  • Americans with Disabilities Accessibility Design Award

Training & Presentations

  • American Institute of Architects, Annual Conference, Ohio, “Planning Spaces for Accessibility: The ADA and More”
  • Career and Adult Technical Education workshops:
      • Canton City Schools, OH
      • Great Oaks, OH
      • Ohio School Facilities Commission, OH
      • Dayton Public Schools, OH
      • Lenawee Intermediate CT School District, MI
      • Arkansas Division of Public Schools, AR
  • University of Wisconsin lecture series, “Transformations and Trends Affecting 
  • Education and Educational Facility Planning and Design”
  • Harvard University lecture series, “Planning and Design of Public Schools” 
  • American Institute of Architects, “Designing and Developing Schools in Honduras” 
  • Ohio School Facilities Commission, state-wide implementation workshops for the Ohio School Facilities Design Manual
  • Ohio School Facilities Commission, Students with Disabilities 
  • Association for Learning Environments – Previously the Council of Educational Facility Planners, International [CEFPI], training seminars at regional and international conferences
  • The state of Arkansas, Facilities Committee workshop on State Standards
  • The state of Connecticut, State Facilities Committee workshops on State School Standards