Discovery video: Tour from a kid
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- Intro to student tour guides
- Hi welcome to our zero energy school! We'd like to show you around
- Emily and I are tour guides for the school. We've done research projects and do tours pretty regularly.
- And Nancy here, wants to show you the school from her perspective, with this gopro.
- Visual Break
- Weeeee
- How It Started
- They say it all began with a question from the school board
- Running footsteps...
- We asked the architects if we could do a zero-energy ready school--we assumed a full zero energy building would cost too much.
- What Is Net Zero
- That's because to be a zero energy building, the school would have to produce as much energy as it consumes over the course of a year. And solar panels can be expensive!
- Energy consumption
- Renewable production
- But we figured out, that if we maximized the energy efficiency of the school, we would only need a small numbers of panels that would pay for themselves by year seven.
- School board member
- How it was done
- Our school saves so much energy with some pretty cool technologies: ICF walls.
- Wyck Knox, arcitect
- Ground source heat pumps
- How it was done cont.
- Daylighting
- An some smart ventilation
- How it was done cont.
- But the most important thing to making it work was committing to an integrated practice. The whole team had to work together...
- To make a project like this work, you have to be able to share ideas and work together to solve problems.
- How it works for occupants
- The result is that we also got a more comfortable, healthy school for our students to learn in.
- Erin Russo, principal
- It took some getting used to, but now the facilities personnel know how to operate the building.
- John Chadwick, district operations
- How it works for teaching
- We study many of the systems of the school in our classes. This year I did a project on...
- Today we are going to learn about sunshine.
- Greg Rusk, teacher
- Cost and other benefits
- Even with the net zero features, the school was completed for $1 million less than budgeted.
- So that's our school--it's pretty neat, but nothing that others can't do too. If you're looking to build a zero energy school, we encourage you to check out the Zero Energy Schools Resource Hub.
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