Public school projects are a highly visible commitment from a community towards future generations, serve a wide range of students from diverse backgrounds, and are a valuable resource to the surrounding community. This case study will show three projects that aimed to fit within the goals and budget of a public institution while focusing equally on energy, carbon, water, and waste. Linking the strategies for each goal to impacts on the health and well-being of students provides a new framework for evaluating the impacts of design.
Track
Boston 2023 Areas of Focus
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1
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Harbor 1
Learning Objectives
Facilitate a visioning charrette to gather input from stakeholders and community members about their priorities regarding health and wellbeing, and then translate these goals to targets with trackable metrics.
Explain the links between water use, carbon and material health to human health and wellbeing.
Examine project specific data on water use, embodied and operational carbon and material health and use this information to design lower impact buildings.
Adopt an approach to designing budget conscious buildings which are a demonstration of both community values and sustainability goals.
CEU Information
Approved for 1.5 credit hours toward AIA (LU|HSW), BOC, BPI, GBCI (BD+C, WELL), and NARI certification. Credit is offered for each full conference day toward MA CSL, PHI, Phius, and RESNET certification.
Session ID
BOS23-104
Session Documents
104_commitment_to_learning.pdf
(4.37 MB)
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