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In most cases the energy bill is a public school's second largest annual expense. In this section we are compiling information about everything from performance contracting to lighting retrofit to help schools reduce their energy costs.
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Energy use in The School
By: Chris Dunlap - Monday, November 23, 2009
Source: SchoolFacilities.com
As energy costs continue to rise school districts around the nation are turning to conservation methods to keep energy costs at a reasonable level. While energy is usually referred to as a “fixed charge” in most district budgets it is an area where conservation methods can have a big effect.
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Energy Efficiency & Facility Improvement Projects New
By: Tracy Southers - Monday, November 23, 2009
Source: DMI Entegral Solutions
For decades, building owners and managers have been forced to choose between price and performance in their facility upgrade projects. Limited budgets, ineffective procurement options, and premiums for energy efficient solutions have made high-performing buildings an elusive goal. This is no longer the case with Entegral Solutions Group...
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Alabama Schools Make $2.9 Million Green Commitment
By: Keith Hobbs - Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Source: Schneider Electric
The Florence City Schools in Florence, Ala., are implementing $2.9 million in facility enhancements designed to improve operations, comfort and efficiency at nine district buildings totaling more than 925,000 square feet. Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management, will complete the work as a performance contract with the district. Schneider Electric guarantees that Florence City Schools will reduce its utility costs by at least $207,000 annually when the project is completed in October 2010.
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Book - Advanced Lighting Controls: Energy Savings, Productivity, Technology & Applications
Written for engineers, architects, lighting designers, electrical contractors, distributors, and building owners and managers, this important guide to advanced lighting controls will bring you up to speed on the latest trends, technologies, codes and design techniques which are shaping the selection and implementation of lighting control systems today.
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Book - Energy Conservation Guidebook
This reference covers the full scope of energy management techniques and applications for new and existing buildings, with emphasis on the "systems" approach to energy management.
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Book - ENERGY MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK, Sixth Edition
Newly revised and edited, this comprehensive handbook has become recognized as the definitive stand-alone energy manager's desk reference, used by thousands of professionals throughout the industry. The sixth edition includes new chapters on ground-source heat pumps, sustainability, and high performance green buildings, plus an in-depth revision of sections on control systems.
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Additional Content
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Efficient Plumbing for Schools
By: Susan Kennedy - Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Source: Sloan Valve Company
Sloan Valve Company explains how schools can reduce water usage and operating costs in its new brochure, "Does Your School Stand Out?"
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Follansbee(R) Contributes to New Jersey School’s LEED(R) Platinum Certification
By: Lauren Ban - Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Source: Follansbee Steel
A Follansbee TCS II® roof lends a combination of sustainable attributes and unique visual appeal to the newest addition to the Willow School, a K-8 private elementary school in Gladstone, NJ, which recently attained USGBC® LEED® Platinum Certification.
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A School Gymnasium surrounded by nature
By: Marcela Casas, Architect - Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Source: iGreenBuild.com
This gymnasium complex for a K-12 school, located in the outskirts of Colombia’s capital, uses passive strategies and local materials offering an innovative, bright and multipurpose space for the students as well as a smart and considerate solution to the client.
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Insuring your construction projects today and for the future
By: Sharon Iburg - Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Source: Keenan & Associates
What is the measure of a successful project?
Is it that the project was completed on time? The project stayed under budget? There were no serious incidents that occurred during construction? Punch list items were at an all time low? The community is pleased and with the new facility, its design, cost, and delivery, and can’t wait for their children to use it? The board has needed little intervention as to the building of the project?
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Draper Receives Community Environmental Award
By: Terry Coffey - Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Source: SchoolFacilities.com
Draper, Inc., a leading manufacturer of gymnasium equipment, projection screens, window shades and lifts and mounts for flatscreens and video projectors, has been recognized for its environmental efforts.
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Recycling Fluorescent Lamps
By: Bruce Boyers - Monday, August 10, 2009
Source: SchoolFacilities.com
Does your facility have fluorescent lights? Because they contain mercury, spent fluorescent lamps increasingly cannot be trashed in dumpsters as a solid waste. This is a major challenge for facilities across the country since nearly every facility uses them and more than 650 million lamps are disposed each year.
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