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High-Performance School Design
High-performance schools are facilities that improve the learning environment while saving energy, resources, and money. The key is understanding the lifetime value of high-performance schools and effectively managing priorities, time, and budget during the design and construction process.
LAI Engineering encourages school districts to embrace the concept of designing High Performance Schools, an integrated, “whole building” approach to addressing a myriad of important – and sometimes competing – priorities, such as energy efficiency, indoor air quality, day-lighting, materials efficiency and safety... doing so in the context of tight budgets and limited staff.
Our solutions by project type:
- Higher education and K-12 site development
- ADA / Universal design compliance audits
- High performance (green) site development
- Eco-charettes
- Land selection and use planning
- Sustainable site development
- Landscaping / water efficiency / heat island reduction
- Outdoor classrooms / learning centers
- Bike paths, nature trails
- Stormwater management / erosion control
- Runoff treatment or reduction
- Transportation and traffic planning
- Traffic analysis
- Signal warrants & wayfinding
- Traffic signal systems design & implementation
- Parking design
- Neighborhood traffic management
- Traffic calming
- Congestion management
- Roadway projects & thoroughfare design
- Private developments
- Public works projects
- Retail and commercial projects
- Industrial developments
- Survey & mapping
- Mixed-use planning
- Planning and zoning representation
- Residential / multi-family
- Landfill design & implementation
- Development of Regional Impact studies (DRIs)
High-Performance (or sustainable, or green) school facilities boost student health and productivity, conserve energy and water and other natural resources, and save communities money. Our High Performance School Facilities program focuses our resources on this particular, and very important, building type, and educating non-technical audiences about the benefits of holistically designed school facilities.
We’d like you to help us spread the word that “high performance” should be the STANDARD quality of facility for educating our children and that High-Performance School Facilities are obtainable by any community, within any budget, as long as you know how to ask for them. A School Administrator’s briefing on High Performance facilities is available by contacting Matt Rice at 770.423.0807.
To download a PDF on High-Performance School Design here.
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Matt Rice, High-Performance School Engineer: 770.423.0807
E-mail us: info@LAIengineering.com
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