U.S. Schools Push for Platinum
School districts and architectural firms nationwide are pushing the envelope in green school design, seeking out new and efficient HVAC systems, lighting methods, water and irrigation tools, and other ways to make academic buildings lean and green.
Rachel Gutter, director of the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council, says that just building a green school is no longer enough, and that achieving LEED certification is increasingly becoming a hallmark of sustainable design to a building’s constituents, as well as to the greater community.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — With its flat planes and grass-covered courtyard, the Wolfe Center for the Arts, presently under construction at Bowling Green State University, will remind some of Ohio’s far-stretching prairies and voluminous skies when completed in the fall of next year.
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