We assess your school’s current energy and water use, indoor environment quality and waste management. We then provide you with recommendations to assist your school to lessen its environmental impact and improve the quality of indoor environments. These recommendations can also be incorporated into your environmental and climate change curriculum. We benchmark your school against others of similar size and region to provide a context for your efforts and enable you to learn from others.

Our practical advisory service enables you to implement solutions that will make a difference to the quantity of energy and water used and the comfort and utility of your school. In many cases, we have enabled schools to successfully receive grants for the implementation of energy and water efficient measures.

Ecologically Sustainable Design (ESD)

Green your school with ecovantage!

Green buildings use less energy
Green buildings use less water
Green buildings are greenhouse friendly
Green buildings are healthier

Why would you want anything less than this for your child?

Ecologically Sustainable Design or ESD is the process that creates ‘Green Buildings’ by aiming to minimise the impact of a building on the environment whilst maximising comfort of the occupants.The ESD approach encompasses many facets of building design and utilisation, some of which are listed below:

• passive solar design
• water use
• indoor air quality
• energy use
• transport
• waste minimisation
  

School buildings that incorporate ESD principles will not only provide a higher, healthier standard of living for the occupants, they will also be valued more highly by the community.

When are you going to gain the ecovantage and ‘green’ your school building?