Greening Your Existing School

Greening your existing school not only saves you money, but can potentially pay for itself.  One of the requirements for achieving the physical attributes of a green building deals with building renewal – meaning building repairs, upgrades, and systems replacements.  Such projects generally result in lower utility costs.  Any project that can generate savings possesses a unique opportunity to include and pay for a broad range of sustainability initiatives as part of the project.  Moreover, the reduction in utility costs (from renewal efforts) may be able to pay for the entire greening project.

Greening Your New School

Green schools do not cost more to build than a conventional school. Green schools cost significantly less money to operate and use less water and energy, freeing up resources to focus on improving student education.    A typical green school saves $100,000 per year in direct costs. If all new school construction and school renovations went green starting today, energy savings alone would total $20 billion over the next 10 years.