High Performance School Characteristics
To those of us in the design and construction industry, a high those of us in the design and onstruction industry, a high performance school is synonymous with a sustainable school building. However, talk to educators, and they see a high performance school as a school where students excel in their studies. The physical facility and educational outcomes, such as teacher productivity and test scores, certainly are linked. So in a sense, the design professional and the educator have the same goalsthey just see them from a different vantage point.Citation: ASHRAE Journal, vol. 48, no. 5, May 2006