Workshop: Energy Efficiency and Environmental Integration for K-14 Learning Environments
Presented by:
Jim Jones Ph.D.
Director – Center for High Performance Learning Environments,
College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech
This workshop focuses on architectural design strategies that reduce the need for active heating, cooling, ventilation, and lighting in learning environments spanning kindergarten through community college, or K-14. Design strategies that take advantage of climate and environmental conditions while reducing energy consumption will be presented. Topics to be discussed include understanding building demand, role of the enclosure as an integrated system, daylighting and lighting, integration of active solar and photovoltaic systems, water reduction and rainwater harvesting, indoor air quality, ventilation, and HVAC system integration. Both design rules-of-thumb and case study examples will be presented.
Open Forum to Discuss Environmental Performance Criteria for Learning Laboratories
Following this workshop, I2SL and Virginia Tech will conduct a half-day, interactive session to bring local school architects and engineering firms, furniture and lab system manufacturers, school administrators, and other professionals together to address energy conservation and sustainability opportunities and challenges, with a focus on connecting sustainable practices for the school with laboratory education for a new generation of potential scientists. Virginia Tech and I2SL will facilitate this working session as the initial step in a series of anticipated communications to produce learning laboratory-specific environmental performance criteria.