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High-Profile: Educational Facilities News
Wakefield, MA - Recently, Beverly High School and the Abraham Lincoln Elementary School were honored at the State House with Outstanding Green School Awards. These were two of five schools in the commonwealth honored by the Green Schools Organization for transforming their learning environments. The Green School organization commended both of these schools for their green initiatives. This is the fourth year that the Green Schools organization has recognized outstanding schools and environmental leadership in schools and communities. Awards were given to schools, leaders, projects, environmental education, and efforts to improve waste management. Robin Organ, executive director and founder of Green Schools, highlighted each school’s sustainable green design elements. Originally built in 1965, Beverly High School was the picture of classic Californian style academic campus. Sprawling over five acres, the two-story school building had three academic wings, a field house and auditorium jutting off like spokes from a central corridor. At the time of its construction there was little consideration as to its energy efficiency, utilization of physical space, or of percentage of impervious surface. As the years passed, the school started to decay, the roof was deteriorating, and the school was no longer a building of which the community could be proud nor could it deliver top-quality education to its students. Under the threat of losing accreditation due solely to the deteriorating school
Schools Honored with Green Awards
Abraham Lincoln School proximately 160,000sf and media center, classroom spaces, and a recrenovations to the main reation area including a synthetic turf field core facilities, including and resilient track. The new facility conthe field house, cafeteria, tains high-efficiency systems and meets or auditorium, and music exceeds all Massachusetts CHPS requirespaces. Breaking ground ments. in January 2009, Beverly The Abraham Lincoln School has High School was complet- been designated a “Model School” by the ed on-time, under-budget, Commonwealth of MSBA’s Model School and targeted 41 points un- Program. This program was established Beverly High School Photovoltaic Roof der the Collaborative for to allow communities to reuse the design High Performance School of a successful, recently constructed elbuilding, Mayor William Scanlon took the ementary, middle, and high school. Model necessary steps to transform the Beverly Verification Program. Beverly High School is now a high schools contain optimal classroom space High School campus. He formed a “Green and are chosen by the MSBA for their efTeam,” comprised of Al Calcagno, proj- performance school. Abraham Lincoln Elementary ficiency, ease of maintenance, ability to ect manager, Heery International, Ricardo Anderson, assistant project manager, CTA/ School was completed in 2010. The city accommodate lower or higher enrollments Konover Construction, Arnel Catalan, asso- of New Bedford worked with Daedalus and the incorporation of sustainable green ciate principal, MVG Architects, and Paul Projects Inc., MVG Architects and its con- design elements. Districts in the state can Banks, principal, B2Q Associates; to ensure sultant team to design and develop a new now use the Abraham Lincoln Elementary that the new Beverly High School would re- facility that would provide the commu- School as a model for their new elementary flect today’s principles of energy efficiency, nity with a 21st century learning environ- school, modifying space and floor plans to ment. The new 93,833sf elementary school suit the goals and needs of their communisustainability, and smart growth. The school underwent a significant serves 600 students from kindergarten to ty. When communities use a model school transformation. Construction included a fifth grade. The building features an au- they can reduce both projects costs and new four-story academic addition of ap- ditorium, gymnasium, cafeteria, library/ completion time. Beverly High School
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