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CHS Students Collaborate with National Grid and BNMC on Planning for Model Energy Home
Posted on January 18th, 2012On Thursday, January 19, students from grades 5, 6 and the IB Environmental Systems and Societies course displayed their proposals from recent participation in a challenge provided by National Grid and the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus related to the model energy home being constructed at BNMC.
Last October, National Grid and the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus unveiled a new partnership to meet the growing and diverse energy needs of the campus. Known as “energize BNMC,” the effort will develop integrated energy innovations that will drive economic growth in the Buffalo Niagara region and position all partners as global energy leaders.
The first initiative of this partnership is the National Grid Model Energy Home, to be located in an existing 6,000 square foot building already on the campus. The partners will renovate and retrofit the two-story, brick structure at 941-945 Washington Street to demonstrate modern, state-of-the-art energy usage and efficiency techniques and showcase new energy innovations. The age of the structure, which was constructed in 1915 as two separate homes and later joined and renovated for use as medical offices, will help illustrate the ability to use the latest technologies in a preservation setting. The National Grid Model Energy Home will provide the WNY community a resource in learning how to incorporate energy efficient products and practices into their own homes.
The partners invited students at City Honors School to take part in the National Grid Model Energy Home Challenge, which welcomed students to research, create and present energy efficient ideas, essays and diagramed proposals that might be installed and utilized in the home. To set the stage for the challenge, teachers taught students in various grades about home energy use, the importance of energy efficiency and the latest energy efficiency tools and concepts. Students were also tasked with performing their own comprehensive research on energy efficiencies for both new and old homes.
Students were asked to research and develop solutions to the following questions: What does the future look like in terms of energy use at the home? How can we conserve energy through energy efficient appliances, electronics, lighting, and other equipment in the home? How can we use technology to help us save energy? How can we reduce the environmental impact of the home? What things could we do in a Model Energy Home that would help community members learn how to save energy and money? What things could we do in a Model Energy Home to showcase the innovation, creative thinking, and other skills and talents of our community?
Senior executives from National Grid and BNMC visited City Honors School to address and thank the students who took part in the National Grid Model Energy Home Challenge and reviewed all of the projects to obtain ideas and innovations to incorporate and utilize in the National Grid Model Energy Home in the coming months. The student projects and essays will be put on display by National Grid and the BNMC, with the potential for some of the student ideas to be implemented in the renovation project on Washington St.
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News coverage of the event:
Buffalo News
http://galleries.buffalonews.com/photo.php?gname=gallery_1327013435.txt&item=6
Business First
WIVB (CBS Affiliate)
http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/buffalo/students-put-their-green-skills-to-work
Buffalo Rising
http://www.buffalorising.com/2012/01/students-present-ideas-for-planned-model-energy-home.html
YNN
http://buffalo.ynn.com/content/top_stories/570728/students-work-on-ideas-for-model-energy-home/
