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Buildings
School Specific Resources
- National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, part of the National Institute of Building Sciences, funded by the U.S. Department of Education
- Sustainable Building Industry Council's High Performance School Buildings - resources for high performance green schools
- Collaborative for High Performance Schools, a California program encouraging school districts to build the next generation of schools: facilities that improve the learning environment while saving energy, resources, and money
- Council of Educational Facility Planners International, a professional association whose sole mission is improving the places where children learn. CEFPI members are actively involved in planning, designing, building, equipping and maintaining schools and colleges.
- Energy Design Guidelines (pdf) for High Performance Schools developed under the US Department of Energy's Energy Star program
- Classroom Acoustics Coalition provides important background on the nature and scope of the problems caused by bad acoustics in classrooms, and offers practical planning strategies and methods to avoid or correct bad acoustics in existing or planned educational facilities.
- Heschong Mahone Group's original study on day lighting in California schools
- Design Lights Consortium, a collaboration of community-based utility companies and regional public service organizations, committed to raising commercial awareness of the benefits of efficient lighting. The ”Energy Effective” Lighting For Classrooms: Combining Quality Design And Energy Efficiency (pdf) guide is part of their Lighting Knowhow
- Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP), a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 whose mission is to promote energy efficiency in homes, buildings and industry in the Northeast United States. Their High Performance Schools Exchange serves as an information resource for those who want to learn more about High Performance School design.
- US EPA's Energy Star for K-12 School Districts offers guidelines for school districts in taking control of energy costs, demonstrating sound fiscal management and helping protect the environment.
- BetterBricks is dedicated to raising awareness and demand for energy efficiency by sharing information and resources with the people who design, own and operate them. Their High Performance Schools web page helps achieve sustainable, high performance buildings.
- DesignShare is an international forum for Innovative Schools. On their Project Library, Architects from around the world share projects in the form of detailed plans, narratives, furniture layouts, cost data and photographs of their work in a comprehensive online database of innovative school design.
- Environmentally Preferable School Construction Products maintained by the Office of the California State Architect
- SchoolConstructionNews.com is an online information source for School Design, Construction, Management and Operations.
- Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP), a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 whose mission is to promote energy efficiency in homes, buildings and industry in the Northeast United States. Their High Performance Schools Exchange serves as an information resource for those who want to learn more about High Performance School design.
- Clearview Elementary School (pdf), Hanover, PA case study of an award winning Pennsylvania school.
- Better Places To Learn GGGC’s award-winning seventeen minute video on why it is important for new schools and school renovations to be green.
- Take a tour of Londonderry School's Green School Environment Inside and Out.
- Healthy Schools Network is a national environmental health organization that does research, information, education, coalition-building, and advocacy to ensure that every child has a healthy learning environment that is clean and in good repair.
General Building Resources
- US Green Building Council and its LEED™ rating system, working to promote buildings that are profitable and healthy places to live and work and protect the environment.
- BuildingGreen is a subscription-based online resource for environmentally sensitive design and construction.
- New Buildings Institute, a not-for-profit public benefits corporation, helping to make buildings better for people and the environment.
- Smart Communities Network, web site offering resources, tools, links to articles and publications, and community success stories on a variety of topics from Community Energy, to Green Development, to Sustainable Business
- What Is a Green Building? (pdf) A basic five page summary developed by the GGGC.
Pennsylvania Education Related Organizations
- Pennsylvania Department of Education, leading and serving the educational community to enable each individual to grow into an inspired, productive, fulfilled lifelong learner.
- Pennsylvania's State Public School Building Authority, providing a broad range of low-cost financing options and services to Pennsylvania school districts, career/technical schools, and community colleges in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
- Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools (www.parss.org) whose mission is to promote equal opportunity for quality education for all students in every school and community in Pennsylvania.
- Pennsylvania Association of Intermediate Units, a collaboration of the 29 intermediate units of Pennsylvania providing cost-effective, management-efficient programs to Pennsylvania's 501 public school districts and over 2,400 non-public and private schools.
- Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators, promoting high quality public education systems for all learners through the support and development of professional leaderships.
- Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials, enhancing the quality of public education by providing the most valuable, reliable and responsive business solutions to school operations.
- Pennsylvania Association of Elementary and Secondary School Principals (www.paessp.org)
- Pennsylvania School Boards Association, promoting excellence in school board governance through leadership, service and advocacy for public education.
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