Architectural Renderings House-Amazing Zero Energy School in Kentucky

The new LEED Platinum School in Kentucky was the first zero energy school in the nation. It was Richardsville Elementary, Kentucky. The facility is a cornucopia of green building strategies and efficient technologies with a 300 kW thin-film solar array which can reducing the building’s energy consumption to one fourth of a typical school.

The 72,000 square-foot Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects school uses insulating concrete forms (ICF) with a highly insulated roof to reduce reliance upon heating and cooling equipment. The windows are shaded by light shelves that reflect sun into the celestry windows, providing ample daylighting.

Nanogel translucent panels line the celestry window in the main hall. Their ability to provide lots of glare free daylight is paired with super-insulated performance. A ground-source heat-pump helps provide for the building’s heating and cooling needs, and exposed pipes, meters and a floor motif teach the students about the system.


In fact, each hallway showcases an environmental theme or technology — solar panels, heat pumps, recycling, and water conservation. The energy production comes from a huge thin film solar array that is covered the roof top. Green construction materials used include a bamboo floor in the gym and reused building materials from the deconstructed  school that was replaced. The kitchen uses new technologies that eliminate the need for a hood.

The entire project breaks down to less than $200 a square foot, proving that great design and green building don’t require a huge cost burden. Surprisingly this could be the cheapest school to run in America.

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