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Design Cost Data Magazine Nov 09 Bethke  In May of 2000, the Poudre School District (PSD) sponsored a design competition for a Prototype three round K-6 elementary school. Along with traditional Education and Technical Specifications, the three competition finalists were given PSD’s "Sustainable Design Guidelines". These Guidelines were the result of 18 months of a comprehensive participatory process involving facility personnel, educators, and administrators. Thus “total District buy-in” was paramount in a fundamental shift away from conventional design. Due to meticulous and prudent management of the Bond funds, PSD was able to fund a 4th elementary school in 2006. The result was Bethke Elementary School, opening in the Fall of 2008. . .
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Bethke Green Building Initiative Poudre School District's new Bethke Elementary School has already scored high marks before even opening its doors -- for achievements in sustainable design and construction. Located in Timath, Colo., this new high-performance structure was the first elementary school in the country to receive a rating of three Green Gloves from the Green Building Initiative, and is among the country's best examples of buildings that teach. . .
- Kinard Living up to Energy Promise Too many buildings fail to deliver the energy performance they were designed for. ENERGY STAR offers a bridge from design to operations. . .
- Energizing Education (May 2008): (439 KB) Growing population and increased secondary educational needs prompted Poudre School District to build Fossil Ridge High School, a new 290,000 square foot high school to serve southeast Fort Collins, Colo. The district wanted the secondary educational facility to provide the community of Fort Collins with a different type of educational space and meet the district's sustainable building goals . . .
- Green Leaders (February 2008: (3 MB) The seeds they planted years ago in support of environmentally friendly education are beginning to blossom. Not so long ago, some derisively called them treehuggers. Education administrators and designers who raised environmental issues would urge schools and universities to adopt more efficient energy use . . .
- Fossil Ridge High School: Case Study from the Case Studies Database provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Building Technology Program, High Performance Buildings (November 2007): Fossil Ridge High School was designed to accommodate 1,800 students. Each of the school's three Learning Communities contains administrative offices, student work areas, computer labs, and student locker areas for 600 students. Core subjects such as mathematics . . .
- The Next Generation: Fossil Ridge High School - Fort Collins Utilities' Integrated Design Case Study: (815 KB) Fossil Ridge High School (FRHS) is the latest evolution in Poudre School District's sustainably designed schools. The design team met the district's challenge and built a school that performs even better than the award-winning Zach and Bacon Elementary Schools . . .
- Project Profile: Sustainability Goes to School - Fossil Ridge High School (January 2005): (2.6 MB) When it was time to build a new high school for the Poudre School District, the District and its design team, led by RB+B Architects, went back to school. Back to Zach Elementary and Bacon Elementary Schools that is. The new Fossil Ridge High School is the prodigy of the previous high performance school . . .
- Optimized Energy Cost Performance at Fossil Ridge High School: (256 KB) This paper describes how we optimized energy cost performance under Credit 1 in the Energy and Atmosphere section to earn the full 10 points available towards LEED certification for Fossil Ridge High School. Fossil Ridge is a new 290,000 square foot high school currently under construction, scheduled for completion in 2004 . . .
- LEED at Fossil Ridge High School: (1.8 MB) A typical high school in Colorado costs about $1.00 per square foot per year to heat. Could a comparable school be designed and built that could be heated and cooled for half the typical cost? Could such a school also become an outstanding place for teaching and learning? Those questions were among the significant challenges . . .
- Challenging Designers: Zach and Bacon Elementary - An Integrated Design Success Story (January 2005): (74 KB) Poudre School District issued a challenge: Take the best performing school in the district and beat it. Make it a place that students and teachers want to spend their days, with more daylighting and low toxicity paints and materials. Add air conditioning, but don't increase . . .
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