This document provides an overview of the Sustainable Urban Science Center at Germantown Friends School. It discusses key sustainability strategies used in the center's design including stormwater management through rain gardens and swales, an energy-efficient geothermal system, use of sustainable and recycled materials, and features to promote daylighting and natural ventilation. The design aims to make sustainability visible through these strategies and science-focused spaces to spark students' interests in environmental stewardship.

1. A Case Study:
The Sustainable
Urban Science Center
at Germantown
Friends School

2. Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit 2009
Sustainability in Sight
Sustainable Urban Science Center
Germantown Friends School
David Ade, AIA, LEED A.P.
Principal
Scott Ritchie
Associate

3. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats as quoted by Dick Wade, Head of School

7. Key Sustainability Strategies
Stormwater Management
Energy
Materials
Science in Sight

9. north
slide by Viridian Landscape Studio

10. GERMANTOWN AVE.

11. Rain gardens and swales
landscape design by Viridian Landscape Studio

12. Rain gardens and swales
landscape design by Viridian Landscape Studio

13. high vegetated roof

14. low vegetated roof

16. Geo-exchange wells

17. Geo-exchange wells

18. Photovoltaic array

19. Daylighting and Natural Ventilation

21. Exposed Structure

22. Agrifiber

23. Recycled Content (& Recycling)

24. Recycling Program

25. Rubber Flooring

26. Zinc and Fiber Cement

34. Sustainability in Sight
Sustainable Urban Science Center
Germantown Friends School

35. Please complete the survey being
distributed by the volunteers.
Surveys may be returned to the
volunteers or at the Registration
Desk in Ballroom A.

36. Thank you to our sponsors