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- Acoustics: Schools Facing the Acoustics Challenge
- This paper studies the cases of two schools, which faced the acoustics challenges and how it was overcome. Cesar Chavez Education Center faced steep acoustics challenges. Thorburn Associates and VBN Architects met the challenges using environmentally safe acoustic products. In 2001, Elkhorn Village Elementary School launched a modernization project, which...
- Case studies 2003-10-15
- Indoor Air Quality in Schools
- Public schools are particularly vulnerable to IAQ problems and less able to deal with them than other entities. Characteristics such as occupant density, pollutant sources, and poor construction, building renovations, use of portable buildings, tight budgets, and difficult political climates contribute to the greater potential for schools to develop IAQ...
- White papers 2000-06-01
- Causes of Indoor Air Quality Problems in Schools
- According to the U.S. government's General Accounting Office, one in five schools in the United States?representing 8.4 million students?has problems with indoor air quality IAQ (GAO 1995, 1996). According to the same studies, 36% of the schools surveyed listed HVAC systems as a "less-than-adequate building feature." The reports also suggested...
- White papers 2000-05-01
- Fort Smith Public Schools: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Modernizing Older School Buildings With PACT
- The Fort Smith School System has a stable enrollment and schools that date from 1908 to the 1980s. Many of the older schools have boiler heating systems and window air conditioners. The goal of this project was to bring contemporary standards of comfort and efficiency to school buildings. The new...
- Case studies
- PACT Rockwood Schools-Eureka, Missouri: Trane Provides Quieter Classrooms and More Efficient Facility Management at Rockwood Schools
- Rockwood School District is the largest school district in St. Louis County with 17 elementary schools, five middle schools, four high schools and four miscellaneous buildings. The project objective is to create a solution that maximizes available energy conservation funds and dramatically reduces maintenance expenses. Develop and manage a construction...
- Case studies
- Great Bridge Middle School South: Chesapeake, Virginia
- When Great Bridge Middle School South was ready for a complete building upgrade, one thing that was certainly considered was the added worth and cost of an air conditioning system. The purpose of the HVAC upgrade was to replace the original steam boiler system and the few window air conditioners...
- Case studies
- John W. North High School Riverside, California
- The John W. North High School 20-ton GeoExchange, or ground source heat pump project, is located in the Riverside Unified School District, Riverside, California. The school is an existing high school where a major modernization project was undertaken in 2002. Some changes included updating the building to current fire, life...
- Case studies
- Red Wing High School: Getting Better, Not Older - Red Wing, Minnesota
- When Red Wing High School opened, it was equipped with the latest-technology HVAC equipment and systems to achieve high efficiency and excellent indoor air quality. For nearly 10 years, the school has provided an outstanding learning environment for approximately 1,200 high school students each year. And the school isn't getting...
- Case studies
- PACT Rockwood Schools: Eureka, Missouri - Trane Provides Quieter Classrooms and More Efficient Facility Management At Rockwood Schools
- Rockwood School District is the largest school district in St. Louis County with 17 elementary schools, five middle schools, four high schools and four miscellaneous buildings. The main objective was to create a solution that maximizes available energy conservation funds and dramatically reduces maintenance expenses. Develop and manage a construction...
- Case studies
- Energy Savings Create a Bright Future for Cedarburg School District
- Cedarburg Public School District operates three elementary schools, a middle school and a high school. It covers 437,504 square feet of space and serves 2,500 students. Maximize the operating and energy efficiency of all five district school buildings. Improve the way the school district tracks monthly energy usage. Implement a...
- Case studies
- Goal of University HVAC System: High Comfort, Low Profile
- Located in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, Santa Clara University provides an oasis of calm beauty and traditional academic achievement. The school has also achieved a reputation for its beautiful and functional campus. The university places high priority on the function of the campus as a safe and comfortable...
- Case studies
- Heat Pumps at St Augustine Catholic School
- St Augustine Catholic School is located at Toronto, Ontario. A ground-source heat pump system in St. Augustine school provides individual water-to-air heat pumps to heat or cool individual classrooms, with a ground-loop under the school's football field. The system offers higher flexibility than a conventional system by allowing occupants to...
- Case studies
- High School Renovates Air Handlers and Chilled Water Piping
- A large high school planned to renovate the school's air handlers and chilled water piping system during the summer months. The school district had a few major issued that needed to be addressed: one would be electrical power for the temporary system and the second concern would be the humidity...
- Case studies
- High School Replaces Boilersá
- A planned project to replace an existing high school boiler was postponed for several extenuating circumstances. The original goal was to begin and end the project during the summer break. The school needed an immediate solution for temporary heating. HPSI was called in to design the temporary system for the...
- Case studies
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- School abuzz in reading, writing, math
- PROVO -- School's been out for two hours, but Provo's Sunset View Elementary is still buzzing with activity. In one room, kindergartners are making caterpillars out of construction paper. In another, second-graders are practicing their reading skills. "I don't mind staying after school," said one 8-year-old, who...
- Articles 2008-10-01
- Middle-classness and whiteness in parents' responses to multiculturalism: a study of one school
- Since its founding in 1941 until the 1980s, "Pinecrest" School was dominated by children from "Baywoods," an economically privileged and largely Jewish neighbourhood. In the late 1980s, the population of the school changed to include children of immigrants in an adjacent neighbourhood, "Kerrydale." Seeking to protect their children's cultural capital...
- Articles 2008-10-01
- Baltimore City Community College scholarships will address BRAC
- Baltimore City Community College is directing $500,000 to new scholarship programs targeting job skills that Maryland says it needs as the region braces to absorb thousands of jobs associated with the U.S. military's Base Realignment and Closure process. The school on Monday announced it had created more...
- Articles 2008-09-30
- Hensel Phelps Accepts Awards for Superior Performance
- LOS ANGELES -- On Thursday September 25, the Los Angeles Unified School District celebrated the hard work and achievement of its contractors. LAUSD recognized contractors of varying size and levels who demonstrated exceptional commitment to on time and on budget projects. The District also embraced the outreach efforts of those...
- Articles 2008-09-29
- Fitch Rates New York City TFA $700MM Building Aid Revs 'A+'
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'A+' rating to the New York City Transitional Finance Authority's TFA $700 million building aid revenue bonds, fiscal 2009 series S-1. The bonds are scheduled to sell through negotiation this week. Fitch has also affirmed the 'A+' rating of $2 billion outstanding...
- Articles 2008-09-29
- City begins mulling SunCal plans for Alameda Point
- City leaders are about to start looking at the plans SunCal Companies have for developing Alameda Point -- a proposal that calls for some 4,200 new homes, a new elementary school and other changes. The city's Historical Advisory Board will begin reviewing the company's draft proposal when...
- Articles 2008-09-29
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