Mixed grades for 'green' Spokane school

Jim Camden:

Lincoln Heights Elementary School has lights that turn off when rooms are empty, thermostats that automatically set temperatures back at night and carbon dioxide sensors in the gym to circulate air only when it's occupied.

It was constructed to "green" building standards, which cost Spokane Public Schools nearly $460,000 extra for the South Hill facility.

But the energy savings aren't what the district thought they would be, a discovery that other owners of green buildings are making all over the state, a new report from the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee says. Seven of nine public buildings built to green standards and studied by committee staff fell short of the energy goals they were designed to meet.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 20, 2011 1:24 AM
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