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Environmental committee urges district-wide LED retrofit, controls upgrades and hands-on environmental education
Summary
The Environmental Stewardship Advisory Committee recommended pairing mandated retrocommissioning with controls upgrades, pursuing a district-wide LED conversion (estimated $14'16 million capital, $1.5'$2M annual savings), expanding solar and formalizing experiential environmental curricula with modest stipends for teachers.
The Chesterfield County Public Schools' Environmental Stewardship Advisory Committee (ESAC) presented a package of energy and curriculum recommendations to the school board on Dec. 18 and urged the district to move from study to implementation.
Committee members recommended that the district use the state's new retrocommissioning requirement (four-year inspections focused on outside air) as an opportunity to tune building controls and systems rather than only documenting outside-air compliance. The committee estimated that pairing controls adjustments with the retrocommissioning…
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