Award Winning School Designs
 
 
Heritage Middle School   Durant Road Middle School   Roy Lee Walker Elementary School
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Designing better learning environments...

 
  Heritage Middle School, Raleigh, NC
  The U.S. Enviromental Protection Agency has recognized the new Heritage Middle School as an SEDI building, "Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR" rating. It has also been awarded the "School of Excellence" for 2004 by the State of North Carolina and named one of the top 25 Most Improved K-8 Schools. Heritage Middle School incorporates extensive sustainable design elements.  

In 2005, the Heritage Middle School was selected by the Sustainable Building Industry Council (SBIC)
as the 'Nation's Top Exemplary Sustainable Building'.

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  Durant Road Middle School, Raleigh, NC
  Durant Road Middle School has received considerable worldwide attention, both for the exceptional daylighting as well as the overall sustainable design concept. 

In 1997, the American Institute of Architects selected the Durant Road Middle School as one of the top ten most environmentally friendly buildings in the United States.

Durant was also chosen as one of only five projects from the United States, and one of only three schools worldwide to be highlighted at the inaugural International Green Building Challenge in Vancouver, British Columbia. CNN featured the school's daylighting and its positive impact on the students in their weekly special, Science and Technology Week.

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  Roy Lee Walker Elementary School, McKinney, TX
  Roy Lee Walker Elementary School has also been selected, in 1999, by the American Institute of Architects as one of the top ten most environmentally friendly buildings in the United States. Innovative Design was contracted by the McKinney Independant School System as the sustainable design consultant for the design of the school.

Since its construction in 1998, the school has been used nationaly and internationally as a schowcase of green design for schools.

"The design of this building is supposed to create questions, thinking. There is something about this building that generates exitement. It generates questions aout why we are here and what we want to save today that have for the future" Windol Fry, Assistant Superintendant - McKinney ISD

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