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High-Performance School Buildings Resource and Strategy Guide^©

Second Edition
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This nationally vetted and easy-to-read guidebook describes the characteristics and benefits of high-performance school buildings and details the process to help school planners ask the right questions of their design professionals to ensure the best school design possible.

New features in the second edition include:

A new Building Block on Durability
Updated Building Blocks on Acoustics and Safety/Security
New Case Studies on Clearview Elementary School (an SBIC "Exemplary Sustainable Building" 2004 Awards Winner) and the North Syracuse Central School District
New photographs, resources, and Web links

Price:
$55.00 (Standard Pricing (paperback)); $46.75 (SBIC members (paperback)); $50.00; $42.50 (SBIC members (coil bound)); $25.00 (School board members, superintendents, and facility managers)

Volume Pricing: $40.00 (100 or more); $15.00 (100 or more for School board members, superintendents, and facility managers)

Contents

Section 1 - Overview
Introduction
What Is a High-Performance School Building?
Why Is a High-Performance School Building Valuable? view this page

Section 2 - Process Guide
Introduction view this page
Site Analysis
Selecting the A/E Team view this page
Programming and Goal Setting
Schematic Design
Design Development
Construction Documents
Bidding and Negotiation
Construction Administration

Section 3 - Building Blocks
Introduction
1. Acoustic Comfort
2. Commissioning
3. Daylighting
4. Durability
5. Energy Analysis Tools
6. Energy-Efficient Building Shell
7. Environmentally Preferable Materials and Products
8. Environmentally Responsive Site Planning
9. High-Performance HVAC (Heating/Ventilating/Air Conditioning)
10. High-Performance Electric Lighting
11. Life Cycle Cost Analysis
12. Renewable Energy view this page
13. Safety and Security
14. Superior Indoor Air Quality
15. Thermal Comfort
16. Visual Comfort
17. Water Efficiency

Section 4 - Case Studies
Foreword
1. Boscawen Elementary School, Boscawen, New Hampshire
    Boscawen Elementary Q&A
    The Building Blocks of Boscawen Elementary
2. North Syracuse Central School District, North Syracuse, New York
3. Clearview Elementary School, Hanover, Pennsylvania
    The Building Blocks of Clearview Elementary

Section 5: Additional Resources

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CD-ROM

High Performance
School Buildings
CD-Rom

The CD-ROM showcases 10 successful examples of high-performance schools for communities to consider when they commission a new school or improve an older one and is accompanied by a comprehensive PowerPoint presentation.

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