Green School design provides an extraordinary cost-effective way to
- Enhance student learning
- Improve student health
- Reduce operational costs
- Reduce student healthcare costs (because of # 2 above)
- Increase school quality and competitiveness
Below are few ways in which green technologies can be deployed in schools.
- Geo-thermal for Cooling / Heating
- Muncipal & Kitchen Solid Waste for Cooking
- Solar / PV for standard power consumption
- Solar tracking lights & solar fiber-optics lights for lights for natural lighting
- Green roofs for rain water retention, harvesting and also cooling the building.
- Fuel cells
- Air-to-water for producing safe drinking water on premises
Net financial benefits could reach upto $71/sq. ft. over a span of 15 years.
PV benefit of reduced energy use over a 15 year period at a 7% discount rate is $5/yr.
Average water use reduction is about 32%.
