For excellence in teamwork in building and operating high performance schools
In 2001 LAUSD became the first school district to sign a school board-level resolution committing to building to the CHPS Criteria. Since that time they have completed three CHPS Demonstration Schools – Maywood Academy, High Tech High and Charles H. Kim Elementary – and have over 64 additional projects underway. LAUSD has assisted in development of resources for other districts including the CHPS Best Practices Manual, project scorecard, verification program, implementation roadmap and U.S. EPA’s Healthy SEAT program.
Team members include: Los Angeles USD, Lightolier, SunChiller, Friends of the Children, Optima Group, HMC Architects, MSI, SoCal Gas, Southern California Edison, Geary Pacific, Think Energy, Global Green, DWP, City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Office and Zinner Consultants.
San Diego Unified School District CHPS Oversight Committee
In 2003 SDUSD signed a board level resolution committing to building CHPS, green, high performance schools. Since that time they have completed two CHPS schools – Cherokee Point Elementary and Herbert Ibarra Elementary – and have 16 additional projects underway. SDUSD has assisted in development of resources for other districts including the CHPS Best Practices Manual and verification program.
Team members include: San Diego USD, CA Energy Commission, CA Integrated Waste Management Board, CA Center for Sustainable Energy, San Diego Gas & Electric, Platt/Whitelaw Architects (representing AIA), Drew George & Consultants, and Zinner Consultants.
For excellence in high performance school design and construction
EHDD Architecture
CHPS Score: 57 Points (2002 Edition). Chartwell is the highest scoring CHPS project to date and scored impressively across all CHPS Criteria categories. It has the capability to generate 100% of the school’s energy needs through its solar array. Many rapidly renewable, low-emitting and recycled content materials were chosen and featured prominently in this project. The classrooms boast natural ventilation, and an 8,000-gallon rainwater collection tank supplies half of the school’s toilets with recycled rainwater.
NTDStichler Architecture
CHPS Score: 31 Points (2002 Edition). Heroes Elementary School completed construction in the Fall of 2007. This CHPS Project is awarded a Green Apple for its impressive emphasis on materials selection and waste management. Heroes was a CHPS demonstration school sponsored by the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB). Reused and recycled materials such as tires, windshield glass, newsprint, paint and glass beverage containers were all included in the construction materials used in the school. In addition, the project exceeded Title 24 by 23.8%.
Gelfand Partners Architects
CHPS Score: 28 Points (2002 Edition). Qualifying as a major modernization, Loyola reused a 1948 school building, and earned both Savings by Design and state grants for energy efficiency. Loyola is notable for its daylighting, electric lighting, HVAC efficiency and air quality. Clerestories were placed in each classroom with lighting controls and occupancy sensors and interlocks on doors and windows connected with HVAC. The EMS system opens windows when air temperatures are appropriate. Reconfigured parking lots allow run-off to filter through the landscape. Impermeable surfaces were reduced by replacing asphalt with learning patios and plantings.
LPA, Inc. for Cesar Chavez Elementary School
NTDStichler for Monterey Ridge Elementary School
VBN Architects for Cesar E. Chavez Education & Early Childhood Education Center
WLC Architects, Inc. for Maywood Academy High School
For excellence in progressing, promoting and implementing high performance schools issues
Over the past thirteen years, Healthy Schools Network has transformed the national debate on school buildings — the nation’s, New York State’s and New York City’s single largest form of public construction — and launched a national movement with a constructive reform agenda centered on improving children’s health and learning. Healthy Schools Network has supported CHPS in the pursuit of the most rigorous indoor air quality standards for the CHPS Criteria.
Project FROG
Project FROG™ (the Flexible Response to Ongoing Growth) is an emerging leader in innovative school design. As firm believers that sustainable and health-conscious design breeds productivity and creativity, Project FROG is dedicated to providing schools with stimulating learning environments enhanced by “green” design elements. With CHPS high performance school criteria as an inspiration and planning guide, Project FROG buildings provide abundant natural lighting, non-volatile organic compound (non-VOC) interiors, energy efficient plenum floor systems, and climate controls in each FROG classroom.
Savings By Design, funded by California utility customers and administered by Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Diego Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison Company, Southern California Gas Company and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, encourages high performance nonresidential building design and construction by offering building owners and their design teams design assistance, owner incentives and design team incentives. Their support of energy efficient design throughout the California school system has earned them a Green Apple Award in 2007.
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