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Summary
With an influx of young families to the western communities of Greater Victoria, the local Sooke School District needed to build more schools to accommodate some 1,200 elementary- and middle-school age students.
The new adjacent schools were seamlessly integrated into the existing landscape and were designed to be earth-friendly in every way. This included optimizing energy efficiency by targeting LEED v4 Gold certification.
To achieve this goal, the project incorporated elements such as photovoltaic panels on the roof, strategically positioned and designed windows and a geothermally-boosted HVAC system. As the schools are in close proximity, the planners decided upon a district heating model, with a central plant collecting and distributing energy between the two schools. Heating and cooling can be produced simultaneously by the central water source heat pump, with additional heating provided by electric boilers as needed.
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