Milton Union Exempted Village Schools
Heapy Engineering is designing the Mechanical-Electrical systems and providing LEED® Program Management for the new 217,000 SF K-12 school. The new building will consolidate the districts Elementary, Middle and High School into one building. The project will include classrooms, cafeteria, gymnasium, library, media center and stage.
Some of the green initiatives include:
- The campus will use LED lighting outside and fluorescent lighting with reduce wattage on the inside. Classrooms will have large windows to utilize natural lighting with a system that automatically dims inside lighting when it’s bright outside.
- Water tubes located inside solar panels on the roof will absorb the sun's heat, reducing or eliminating the need for hot water heaters.
- Solar panels will also collect the sun’s heat to be converted into electricity
- 120-foot wind turbine
- A 75,000-gallon reservoir will collect rainwater that can be used in restrooms, showers and for watering the fields
- High efficiency chillers will make ice inside storage tanks during the night (when the energy required to run them is less costly) and the thermal energy will be used during the day to cool the water that circulates through the building’s air conditioning system
- Energy management monitoring will be used in all four of the building’s wings allowing for location specific adjustments.
The current anticipated completion date is spring of 2012.
This project is registered under the LEED® green building certification program.