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Procurement and Resource Management
General Resources
BetterBricks
Helps commercial building professionals use energy efficiency strategies to achieve sustainable high performance buildings.
http://www.betterbricks.com/
California’s Integrated Waste Management Board’s Greenbuilding website
Information on costs and benefits of green building.
http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/greenbuilding/
CHPS (Collaborative for High Performance Schools)
California-based program to facilitate the design of high performance schools, that includes a best practices manual and many resources.
http://www.chps.net/
Center for Innovative School Facilities
http://www.innovationpartnership.org/cisf.html
Learning from others: Sustainability Listserve
There is an active nation-wide listserve for school sustainability efforts. It is primarily focused on institutions of higher education, but much of the discussion is equally relevant for K-12 application, and K-12 folks are welcome to join. The posts tend to be largely, but not exclusively, about facilities and services issues, and involve sustainability coordinators from around the country.
To subscribe, send an email to listserv@listserv.brown.edu. The body of the email should say “subscribe grnsch-l” (without quotes).
National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF)
Extensive resource lists for many aspects of sustainable school facilities including planning, design, IAQ, toxics, resource conservation, operations, case studies, facility impact on learning, community use
http://www.edfacilities.org/rl/index.cfm
Oregon Building Congress
Oregon Department of Energy
Some of the programs accessible from this page are High Performance Schools, Resource Conservation Management, Energy Savings Performance Contracting, High Performance Portable Classrooms, Funding assistance opportunities, Case Studies.
http://egov.oregon.gov/ENERGY/CONS/school/schlhm.shtml
Report: National Review of Green Schools: Costs, Benefits, and Implications for Massachusetts (PDF 814k)
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, 2005
Report: Greening America’s Schools: Costs and Benefits (PDF 1.7MB)
http://www.buildgreenschools.org/documents/pub_Greening_Americas_Schools.pdf
Sustainable Design Guidelines from Poudre School District, Colorado
https://www.psdschools.org/services/operations/planningdesign/
sustainabledesignguidelines.aspx
U.S. Green Building Council
Build Green Schools: http://www.buildgreenschools.org/
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System: A voluntary, national standard for developing high-performance buildings. There are now many LEED standards including LEED for Schools: http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=1586,
http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=222
WSS (Washington Sustainable Schools) (PDF 518k)
Protocol for High Performance School Facilities, partially based on CHPS.
http://www.k12.wa.us/SchFacilities/pubdocs/FinalProtocol-March2004.pdf
Daylighting
Daylighting for Sustainable Design, by Mary Guzowski, McGraw-Hill, 2000
This book provides an overview of daylighting techniques for all buildings. Uses case studies of successful implementations to demonstrate daylighting design principles. To order, call McGraw-Hill: 800-262-4729, ISBN 0070254397
http://arch.cdes.umn.edu/faculty/Roster/MaryGuzowski.html
Lighting Research Center Guide for Daylighting Schools (PDF 603kb)
online guide available as a pdf
http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/programs/daylightdividends/pdf/guidelines.pdf
Study: Student Performance in Day lit Schools (PDF 39k)
By Michael H. Nicklas and Gary B. Bailey Innovative Design, Inc., 1996. Compares student performance in daylit versus non-daylit schools in Raleigh, North Carolina.
http://www.innovativedesign.net/pdf/studentperformance.pdf
Two-part Study: Daylighting in Schools
Heschong Mahone Group, 1999, study of daylight and productivity, available for download
http://www.h-m-g.com/projects/daylighting/projects-PIER.htm
Natural Disasters
Natural disasters pose unique challenges to the sustainability of Oregon's schools. For information about those challenges and ways to mitigate them, see Natural Disasters - Earthquake, Tsunami, & Flooding
Misc. Resources
Environmental Law Institute; state policies on high performance schools
2003 Report: “Building Healthy, High Performance Schools: A Review of Selected State and Local Initiatives”
http://www.elistore.org/reports_detail.asp?ID=10925
Greener Buildings Website, by Green Biz
A comprehensive resource center for environmentally responsible building development.
http://www.greenerbuildings.com/
Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance
Has a complete schools resource website with topics such as Energy, IAQ, Facilities, Education, Landscaping, Water Conservation, Daylighting, Integrated Pest Management and more.
http://www.pca.state.mn.us/oea/greenbuilding/schools.cfm
Power Your Design
A suite of technical resources, trainings and information to improve the way buildings are designed, built and used.
http://www.poweryourdesign.com/
PPRC – Sustainable Design for Schools
Report provided through Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center; Includes practical applications, sustainable design and student performance, case studies and many resource links.
http://www.pprc.org/pubs/schools/index.cfm
Whole Building Design Guide
One-stop access to up-to-date information on a wide range of building-related guidance, criteria and technology from a 'whole buildings' perspective.
http://www.wbdg.org
Training Opportunities
Cascadia Green Building Council Trainings and resources
http://www.cascadiagbc.org/resources
Day lighting in Schools Online Training
A free, web-based resource created to help building professionals – and others interested in the topic – understand and be able to deliver high quality daylighting in schools.
http://www.daylightingtraining.org/index.html
High Performance School Design Online Training
High performance school design integrates daylighting, indoor air quality, and energy efficiency to build a school that runs efficiently, saves money, protects natural resources, and provides superior visual, acoustical, and thermal comfort.
http://www.nyserda.org/hps/default.asp
Case Studies
New High Performance Clackamas High School (PDF 467k)
This article was reprinted, with permission, from the July/August 2002 issue of Solar Today magazine.
http://egov.oregon.gov/ENERGY/CONS/school/docs/clackamas.pdf
Oregon Department of Energy
http://egov.oregon.gov/ENERGY/CONS/school/highperform.shtml
http://egov.oregon.gov/ENERGY/CONS/BUS/comm/bldgcx.shtml
Policies Related to Buildings
Los Angeles Unified School District (PDF 74k)
Resolution on Sustainability and the Design and Construction of High Performance Schools
http://www.chps.net/chps_schools/pdfs/LAUSD-Resolution-102703.pdf