U.S. Green Building Council’s Orange County Chapter has declared its proposal about a planned pilot project to furnish a currently existing class room at Costa Mesa-located Davis Magnet School.
The class greening program attempts to bring out a proposal for the school to train students on improved clean energy usages and programs.
The program will include a retrofitted class room and a control class room located next to each other to enable the students to monitor and learn the difference between two environments. The program will collect statistical details concerning the number of important elements involved in the green building process such as quality of air, use of energy and other factors that are important to a green construction procedure.
The various components of the project include educating students on various green practices followed in the classrooms of the school as well as within the community, the details on retrofits such as changes in furnishings, cabinetry, flooring, ventilation, airflow, daylight harvesting and modifications in lighting. The project also involves measurement systems such as monitors at the retrofit class room as well as the control to showcase real time data to enable students to understand the process involved.
A group of volunteers of USGBC OC drawn from various companies from all over the country will collect and document details regarding the operational procedure followed, materials and equipment utilized and the design to enable sharing with other schools for their successful following of involved procedures.
It is expected that every green school will save around $100,000 annually in their operating costs while providing cleaner playgrounds and healthier class rooms to their students. The project is proposed to be completed in different phases complying with needed sanctions and permits to complete the construction elements of the project.
Source: http://www.usgbc-oc.org/