The United States has over 26 million students in primary and secondary schools
nationwide. The result of such a large school-aged population, in combination with an
increasingly environmentally conscious culture, has been a national effort towards green
and sustainable school design. In theory, high performance school design utilizes a
combination of key technologies in order to improve the learning environment while
saving money, resources, and energy. An abundance of literature supports the lofty
promises of this design strategy, but in an industry that has only recently begun to gain
widespread support, very little substantive research of case studies has been documented.
This report explores the history and characteristics of green schools, followed by a case
study of Pickle Elementary School, located in Austin, Texas. Through the use of
quantitative, qualitative and anecdotal research, this report begins to unveil the reality of
this ever-growing movement towards greening America’s schools. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/22532 |
| Date | 04 December 2013 |
| Creators | Lanini, Lucia Diane |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | electronic |
| Rights | Copyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works., Restricted |
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