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School Business Affairs, 1984
An agreement between Johnson Controls and a Maryland school district provided financing for the initial capital expenditure to upgrade and control the heating, ventilating, and air conditioning equipment at a high school and guaranteed savings during the 5-year contract. (MLF)
Descriptors: Climate Control, Contracts, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Facilities Improvement
Peer reviewedDinse, David H. – ASHRAE Journal, 1998
Describes an award-winning school heating and cooling system in which two energy-efficient technologies, variable-flow pumping and geothermal heat pumps, were combined. The basic system schematic and annual energy use and cost savings statistics are provided. (GR)
Descriptors: Air Conditioning, Climate Control, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Facilities
American School and University, 1974
By tying into a computerized building-automation network, Schaumburg High School, Illinois, slashed its energy consumption by one-third. The remotely connected computer controls the mechanical system for the high school as well as other buildings in the community, with the cost being shared by all. (Author)
Descriptors: Automation, Climate Control, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs
Modern Schools, 1976
The William Fremd High School in Palatine, Illinois, scheduled to open in 1977, is being built with energy conservation uppermost in mind. In this system, 70 heat pumps will heat and cool 300,000 square feet of educational facilities. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Air Conditioning Equipment, Climate Control, Educational Facilities Design, Electrical Systems
Hunt, Margaret – Nation's Schools, 1974
Describes the main features of four experimental solar heating plans to be installed in four different schools in Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Virginia. (Author/DN)
Descriptors: Climate Control, Elementary Schools, Energy Conservation, Fuel Consumption
Freeman, Laurie – School Planning and Management, 1997
After 20 years of inadequate heating and cooling, an Indiana school district took advantage of a 1994 state law that allows school districts to bypass the "low-bidder wins" restriction. The district established a guaranteed energy-saving contract for a climate-control-improvements package to retrofit the junior-senior high school. (MLF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Climate Control, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Facilities Improvement
Download full textIndiana State Dept. of Public Instruction, Indianapolis. Div. of Curriculum. – 1982
Energy education units (consisting of a general teacher's guide and nine units containing a wide variety of energy lessons, resources, learning aids, and bibliography) were developed for the Indiana Energy Education Program from existing energy education materials. The units were designed to serve as an entire curriculum, resource document,…
Descriptors: Climate Control, Conservation Education, Design Requirements, Energy
