[SustainableNC] NC K-12 school first gold LEED certified in US

[Sharron Rogers]

First Elementary School in the Nation Receives LEED Green Building Gold
Certification 
                        -- and its in North Carolina
 
http://www.iss.k12.nc.us/greenschool.htm
<http://www.iss.k12.nc.us/greenschool.htm>  
 
Third Creek Elementary School in Statesville, N.C. is the first K-12 school
in the nation to be certified by the US
Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED) Green Building Rating System(TM)
at the Gold level. The LEED Green Building Rating System is a voluntary,
consensus-based national standard for developing
high-performance, sustainable buildings. The school green features include:

*	a significant percentage of recycled materials, 
*	low- flow plumbing & waterless urinals, 
*	a functioning wetland that also serves as a student learning lab, 
*	building orientation and daylighting,
*	low VOC paints and surfaces
*	and much more.

The construction process was planned very carefully to ensure that it also
contributed to the overall goals of Third Creek
Elementary School. More than 50% of construction waste was diverted from
local landfills and sent, rather, to local
recyclers. 
 
A Construction Indoor Air Quality Management Plan was also adopted on the
construction site to ensure that the
construction process did not compromise the future quality of indoor air in
the occupied building. 
 
For a press release
http://prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104
<http://prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-22-20
02/0001847047&EDATE> &STORY=/www/story/11-22-2002/0001847047&EDATE=

Sharron Rogers
Environmental Sustainability Coordinator
NC Division of Pollution Prevention
919.715.6526
 <mailto:sharron.rogers at ncmail.net> sharron.rogers at ncmail.net     
 <http://www.sustainablenc.org/> www.SustainableNC.org   
 



 
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