Why Should I Join CHPS?

Besides the multitude of direct benefits that CHPS members receive, CHPS members also become part of the CHPS community of greener, healthier school buildings. CHPS is respected across the nation as being the first green building rating program for schools, and for making high performance building affordable and feasible, while also achieving the highest standards of health and environmental efficiency.

When you join CHPS, you are becoming part of a collaborative that is:

• visionary - CHPS was the first high performance design criteria developed specifically for K-12 schools.
• established - thirty-five schools have met the CHPS Criteria. Over 300 more CHPS school projects are underway.
• influential – New York, Massachusetts, Washington, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Connecticut have adapted the CHPS criteria for use in their school building practices.
• the standard – of the eight states that have adapted CHPS, four have special funding set aside for CHPS schools.
• necessary – of the 53 million children attending school each day in the US, over half of them learn in “unhealthy” school facilities (Healthy Schools Network, Inc.).
• respected – twenty-seven school districts have made CHPS a mandatory design standard for all new schools.
• useful – CHPS offers flexible recognition programs and the tools to be able to meet CHPS rigorous high performance building standards.

Who Joins CHPS?

CHPS membership is a diverse group of school districts, schools, county offices of education, design and building professionals, trade associations, non-profits, product manufacturers, utility companies and municipalities and government entities, all unified by the goal of increasing the quality of education for our nation's students. To view the complete member directory, click here.

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