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Workshop: Energy Efficiency and Environmental Integration for K-14 Learning Environments
Monday September 15
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
This workshop focused on architectural design strategies that reduce
the need for active heating, cooling, ventilation, and lighting
in learning environments spanning kindergarten through community
college, or K-14. Design strategies that take advantage of climate
and environmental conditions while reducing energy consumption were
presented. Additional topics that were discussed included understanding
building demand, role of the enclosure as an integrated system,
daylighting and lighting, integration of active solar and photovoltaic
systems, water reduction and rainwater harvesting, indoor air quality,
ventilation, and HVAC system integration. Both design rules-of-thumb
and case study examples were presented.
Open Forum to Discuss Environmental Performance Criteria for Learning Laboratories
Following this workshop, I2SL and the Virginia Polytechnic
and State University (Virginia Tech) conducted a half-day, interactive
session to bring together local school architects and engineering
firms, furniture and lab system manufacturers, school administrators,
and other professionals to address energy conservation and sustainability
opportunities and challenges, with a focus on connecting sustainable
practices for the school with laboratory education for a new generation
of potential scientists. Virginia Tech and I2SL facilitated
this working session as the initial step in a series of anticipated
communications to produce learning laboratory-specific environmental
performance criteria.
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