Educational Case Studies

Kensington High School for the Creative and Performing Arts

It’s hard to imagine a less desirable site for a school than the one selected for the new Kensington High School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Philadelphia.

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(Magazine Issue/Winter 2013)

Hood River Middle School Music and Science Building

Before construction of the Hood River Middle School Music and Science Building, music students practiced in an old bus barn outbuilding and science students conducted experiments in a lab with outdated equipment.

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(Magazine Issue/Winter 2013)

UC Davis Health and Wellness Center

The daylight-filled three-story UC Davis Health and Wellness Center offers physical and mental health services from dermatology to stress reduction strategies for the campus’ 30,000 students.

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(Magazine Issue/Winter 2013)

Richardsville Elementary School

How do you achieve a net zero school on a public school system budget? Rethink everything.

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(Magazine Issue/Fall 2012)

California State University, Monterey Bay Tanimura and Antle Family Memorial Library

The Tanimura and Antle Family Memorial Library is the academic hub for California State University Monterey Bay, which opened 12 years ago on the site of former military base Fort Ord.

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(Magazine Issue/Fall 2012)

Dr. David Suzuki Public School

Usually school district budgets limit the extent of energy-efficient and renewable energy technologies that can be included in high performing schools.

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(Magazine Issue/Fall 2012)

Kiowa County Schools

After a two-mile wide tornado plowed through Greensburg, Kan., in 2007, the town and school district committed to rebuilding a model green community, focusing on passive building systems and integrated design.

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(Magazine Issue/Summer 2012)

University of La Reunion's ENERPOS

A classroom and office building on the French island of La Reunion, near Madagascar, demonstrates that sustainable design saves significant energy while providing a comfortable environment in an idyllic, yet challenging setting.

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(Magazine Issue/Summer 2012)

High Tech High

High Tech High Chula Vista is organized into neighborhoods to promote team teaching as well as provide a sense of ownership and place.

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(Magazine Issue/Summer 2012)

Evie Garrett Dennis Campus

When Denver Public Schools identified the need for additional schools to serve a growing suburban area, it decided to pursue a net zero energy multi-school campus that teaches students to value sustainability.

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(Magazine Issue/Spring 2012)

University of Florida's William R. Hough Hall

The University of Florida has been incorporating sustainable design in its new construction projects since 2001, but it tried a new approach in 2011 with the construction of a graduate business studies building.

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(Magazine Issue/Spring 2012)

Cold Climate Housing Research Center

The Cold Climate Housing Research Center in Fairbanks, Alaska, is a living lab that researches building techniques and materials, tests heating and energy systems, and designs sustainable prototype houses for rural areas in arctic climates.

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(Magazine Issue/Winter 2012)

The Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center

The largest collection of Civil War artifacts and a cyclorama depicting the Battle of Gettysburg require carefully monitored indoor conditions.

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(Magazine Issue/Summer 2011)

Y2E2

Stanford University’s Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building (Y2E2) is the first element in Stanford’s new Science and Engineering Quad 2.

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(Magazine Issue/Summer 2011)

The Energy Lab at Hawaii Preparatory Academy

K-12 students learn about alternative energy and test their own renewable energy systems at a living lab that last year produced twice as much energy as it used.

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(Magazine Issue/Spring 2011)

Oberlin College's Adam Joseph Lewis Center

Thousands of building professionals, educators and students have toured the facility during its 10 years of operation, gaining a new perspective on the possibilities of sustainable design.

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(Magazine Issue/Winter 2011)

Portland State's Shattuck Hall

Originally built as an elementary school in 1915, Shattuck Hall now provides a learning laboratory for architecture students.

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(Magazine Issue/Winter 2011)

Tyson Living Learning Center

Washington University’s research and education center outside of St. Louis aims to meet goals of net zero energy and net zero water use.

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(Magazine Issue/Fall 2010)

Manassas Park Elementary School and Prekindergarten

This Manassas Park, Va., school engages students to be stewards of their own environment by highlighting sustainable building systems and by bringing the natural environment indoors.

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(Magazine Issue/Fall 2010)

Richard J. Klarchek Information Commons Building

The bookless digital library at Loyola University Chicago uses expansive glass façades and operable windows to create the sense of being outdoors on the shores of Lake Michigan.

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(Magazine Issue/Spring 2010)

Bethke Elementary School

Colorado’s Poudre School District reduces energy use, as well as, construction costs and time by using a prototype design that is progressively improved with each new school.

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(Magazine Issue/Winter 2010)

Ohlone College Newark Center

Ohlone College Newark Center for Health Sciences and Technology demonstrates the affordability of sustainable strategies by dispelling the cost myth.

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(Magazine Issue/Winter 2010)

Twenhofel Middle School

Twenhofel Middle School provides an education in sustainability both inside and outside the classroom.

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(Magazine Issue/Winter 2010)

Plano Elementary School

Warren County, (Ky.), Public Schools have saved more than $4 million in energy costs since 2003.

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(Magazine Issue/Fall 2009)

OHSU Center for Health & Healing

Oregon Health & Science University Center for Health & Healing is one of only 50 buildings in the country to have been awarded U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED® Platinum certification and the largest and most complex building in the country to have achieved it.

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(Magazine Issue/Winter 2009)

Two Harbors High School, Lake Superior School District

Faced with a declining student population, the Lake Superior School District replaced an aging high school and an elementary school with a larger energy-efficient facility.

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(Magazine Issue/Spring 2009)

Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life at Tulane University

In the period prior to Katrina, New Orleans often ignored its rich history of climate-responsive and cost-effective architecture, creating environments that were entirely artificially cooled, even in temperate weather.

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(Magazine Issue/Fall 2008)

NREL Science & Technology Facility

Sustainable buildings often feature photovoltaic applications. But, where does research and development of new photovoltaic technologies take place?

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(Magazine Issue/Summer 2008)

Great Seneca Creek Elementary School

Before the county established high performance design mandates for all new schools, Great Seneca Creek Elementary School was the school system’s pilot project to test the benefits of a third-party certification for a new school.

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(Magazine Issue/Summer 2008)

North Exelon Pavilions

Energy efficiency is more than skin deep in the solar clad North Exelon Pavilions at Chicago’s Millennium Park.

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(Magazine Issue/Summer 2008)

University of Oregon Lillis Business Complex

It started as a simple remodel. The University of Oregon sought to redesign and add to its existing business school because room sizes were not meeting the needs of their teaching models.

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(Magazine Issue/Summer 2008)

Indian Springs Discovery Center

Revealing the thriving ecosystem that exists below the water’s surface is the purpose of Indian Springs Metropark’s Environmental Discovery Center.

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(Magazine Issue/Spring 2008)

Sweetwater Creek

Before entering a 2,549-acre conservation park, visitors are welcomed by a center that, through sustainable design, contributes to the park’s purpose of protecting nature.

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(Magazine Issue/Spring 2008)

Univ. of FL M.E. Rinker, Sr. Hall, School of Building Construction

Rinker Hall at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL helps prove that energy performance can be achieved through superior design, not elevated costs.

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(Magazine Issue/Winter 2008)

Guilford County Schools

A 70 million-year-old Mosasaur fossil, an extinct marine reptile that lived in a sea that existed in central North America, is displayed in the main entry hall of Northern Guilford Middle School.

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(Magazine Issue/Winter 2008)

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