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New Golden Spike Elementary designed to be near net‑zero, district says
Summary
District facilities staff and the architect presented Golden Spike Elementary’s design, highlighting a 90% energy-efficiency target using building-envelope improvements, a photovoltaic array and a geothermal well field; projected PV payoff ~13 years.
Box Elder School District’s facilities team and the project's architect provided a technical briefing on Golden Spike Elementary’s energy-efficiency features at the board meeting on May 7.
Architect Dave Cox (VCBO Architects) described the near net‑zero goal: a combination of a tightly built envelope (insulation and spray-foam detailing), a photovoltaic (PV) array sized to meet roughly 85–90% of annual energy demand and a geothermal well field (about 34 wells, ~300 feet deep) that supplies heating and cooling via…
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