Last week, 25 of our students from years 7 to 11 put their heads together with 10 architects and engineers from Elementa Consulting to come up with ideas and solutions on how to make our new building project (science laboratories and refectory) as sustainable and eco-friendly as possible.
Lots of forward-thinking designs where shared and investigated such as a zero-waste canteen, a food-growing roof top garden, rain-water recycling and the use of energy harvesting systems powered by solar and wind.
Oliver (Year 9) describes how his group came up with ideas to use data from the building to inspire learning and reduce our carbon footprint: “Our group thought about how we could make the building a ‘living laboratory’, including collecting data from a weather station positioned on the second floor. We also want to use seaweed-based wrapping materials in the canteen below. Furthermore, we thought about the ways our food is wasted and how to reuse that as biomass fuels, composting or combusting this to generate energy for the building”.
Ms. Hawkridge (Teacher of Biology)
