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Schools across the country are rapidly switching to solar power to meet their energy needs while gaining significant cost-savings, boosting climate resilience, and supporting workforce development, according to a new report from clean energy nonprofit Generation180.

Poettker Construction served as the construction manager and BLDD worked as the architect for the new 67,000-square-foot two-story elementary school, which replaces the outdated elementary space formerly located in two separate buildings.

Increasingly, our schools need to be well-appointed places of modern learning and also durable structures in the event of natural disasters such as Florida’s seasonal hurricanes.

Serving 750 students in grades 5 and 6, Azle Elementary School features several Tubelite aluminum framing systems for resilient, continuous use in the warm Texas climate.

Emerald Elementary School in Broomfield, Colorado is a net-zero-ready, public school serving students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. Designed and constructed to meet the highest green building standards, the new school supports the district’s aggressive sustainability and energy efficiency goals.

The main design concept for the lower school building was to reinforce the school’s collegiate atmosphere, while interweaving a fun, creative, and colorful whimsy into the facility, as depicted by the bright blue metal and brick facade with red, almond, and bronze trim.

This month, Edwin Forrest Elementary School is celebrating the completion of a successful first academic year in its newly renovated K-5 learning environment, which underwent a $22 million transformation designed by DIGroup Architecture (DIG).

DIGroup Architecture has completed its first New York City School project – P.S. 748, The Albee Square Campus in Brooklyn, N.Y. The new school is part of the city’s commitment to add 45,000 seats across the city as scheduled in the New York City School Construction Authority’s (NYC SCA) 2020-24 Capital Plan.

The reborn Smith Elementary is a near-twin of a second K-5 school, also recently opened, to replace a 70-year-old facility elsewhere in the region. Both schools feature identical floorplans, but designers with Pfluger Architects’ Austin office wanted to give each exterior unique identities, and metal wall panels offered a great option given the profile and color options now available.

Along with its space saving properties, the masonry system’s design improved efficiency on the job site. The pre-assembled blocks eliminated the multiple passes that would have been necessary to construct standard cavity walls.