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50 Green Strategies that Cost Less With the experience that comes from being involved in the design of 90+ green schools, InnovativeDesign has learned many important lessons - none more important than the fact that green doesn’t always have to cost more. In fact, Innovative Design has been able to integrate many sustainable design strategies and still keep our projects 5% under budget. There are several overall design strategies that are responsible for this remarkable track record. Mike Nicklas, President of Innovative Design has compiled a list of 50 green strategies that are cost-effective.
The Daylighting Guide A well-integrated daylighting design has a greater positive impact on a school than any other sustainable design strategy. The Guide for Daylighting Schools was developed in 2004 by Innovative Design for the Daylight Dividends Program. The guideline is based upon practical experiences in designing and constructing over 40 daylit schools throughout the country. • Consider human factors Download the complete guide as a ready-to-print PDF document:
The Smith Middle School: A Daylight Dividends Case Study Daylight Dividends promotes the effective use of daylighting in non-residential buildings. Part of this effort focuses on impartially evaluating the use of daylighting in different builing types, reporting those results so that others considering daylighting can see what works and what does not. In 2004, the Daylight Dividends studied the effectiveness of the daylighting stategy implemented at Smith Middle School, Chapel Hill, NC. The data, results and conclusions of this study are featured in a Case Study published by the Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Click here to download the complete Smith Middle School Case Study
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In conjunction with Harshad Padia, while he was at the Wooten Company, Innovative Design developed an energy guideline for new and existing county facilities in Wake County, North Carolina. The 1993 guideline focused on providing the designer with information on practical energy saving strategies. Included were easy-to-use forms that enabled the owner to track key energy related decisions during each phase of the project. |
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Sustainable School Design Guidelines Energy Conservation Office, State of Texas In 1998-1999, the team of Innovative Design, Padia Consulting, and Building Green served as consultants to the State of Texas in developing sustainable school design guidelines, appropriate for the varying climatic conditions in Texas. During this process our team simultaneously served as sustainable design consultants to SHW in developing a prototype sustainable school for the McKinney Independent School District in Texas. Many people associated with the process have attributed the success of the guidelines to the fact that these efforts were coordinated and served as a means to assess the practicality of particular green options. The format of the guideline was an extended checklist of sustainable design features to considered by the A&E team within each phase of design. Subsequent to the sustainable school being built, McKinney Independent School District has repeated the prototype design three additional times. |
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Guidelines
for Energy Efficient Sustainable Schools Clark County School District, Las Vegas, Nevada The Clark County School District is the fastest growing school district in our country. In an effort to minimize the energy and environmental impact of the more than a hundred schools that will be built within the next few years, the school system contracted with Innovative Design and Padia Consulting to develop school guidelines that were similar to those that we developed for Texas. The main differences were driven by climate and the fact that the school system wanted more emphasis placed on the energy related suggestions. The document addresses fourteen areas of sustainable school design by project design phase. These guidelines now serve as the basis for a related initiative being carried out by Innovative Design and Padia Consulting for Clark County Schools, in which we utilize the guidelines and a subsequently developed checklist to assist the school system in their evaluation of architectural and engineering school plans and specifications being submitted by numerous firms on new and renovated schools within the county. |
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Sustainable
Schools ? Supporting your Educational Mission
This document is much different than the others listed above in that it is specifically written for school administrators and school board members. The document has six segments that address different reasons why a school system should consider designing a sustainable school: Reducing Operating Costs; Buildings that Teach Sustainability; Improving Academic Performance; Protecting our Environment; Designing for Health, Safety and Comfort; and Supporting Community Values The Innovative Design "Sustainable Schools Guidelines," may be downloaded as Adobe® Portable Document (PDF) files from this page. The Guidelines are organized in 7 chapters:
User Note: These files are fairly large, ranging from 680KB to 1.8 MB |
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Energy
Design Guidelines for High Performance Schools US Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Lab These climatically customized sustainable school design guidelines have been developed for seven regions throughout the country. They focus on practical sustainable design features that should be considered by school architects and engineers and are written in a language common to both designers and school staff involved in school planning. Extensive checklists are provided that easily identify the top sustainable features that should be evaluated. The guidelines have been thoroughly reviewed by teams of experts, knowledgeable about the various components of sustainable school design, and now serve as one of the best resources for sustainable school design in the country. The format of the document is structured around the following categories of design consideration: Site Design Daylighting and Windows Energy-Efficient Building Shell Lighting and Electrical Systems Mechanical and Ventilation Systems Renewable Energy Systems Water Conservation Recycling Systems and Waste Management Transportation Resource-Efficient Building Products Checklist of Key Design Issues Case Studies |
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Performance Guidelines: Modification of LEED for NC
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North Carolina, the Triangle J Council of Governments undertook an effort
to develop a regionally appropriate version of LEED. This effort involved
numerous building and design professionals and took over a year to develop.
Michael Nicklas, acting in a volunteer capacity, took the lead in developing
a methodology for modifying the LEED rating system to more appropriately
value environmental concerns in North Carolina. This rating system has
now been accepted by the State of North Carolina as a measure of evaluation
for a new state construction pilot program, Wake County Schools, and other
governmental agencies throughout the state.
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Building Design Components to the Greenville County Architectural Design
Guide Institutional Resources - Schools District of Greenville County In
2002, Innovative Design was contracted by Institutional Resources to assist
them in implementing Green Architectural and Engineering Consulting Services
for the upcoming new and renovated Greenville County schools.
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