The Greater Victoria School District is offering our community an official first-look inside the new Cedar Hill Middle School replacement building as progress continues to provide students and staff with a safer, seismically upgraded learning site. The current school was built nearly 100 years ago and has an H-1 seismic ranking, the highest level of vulnerability, and must be replaced.
The video celebrates the progress for the new seismically safe school, which is being purposefully built to foster greater student engagement, collaboration, and connection to Indigenous Education and the traditional territories of the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations.
The new school will also be the greenest building in the School District, providing a 90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions versus a baseline school model. The school will include air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps, a geothermal field, and solar panels (100kW photovoltaic system). As well, windows in each classroom provide natural daylight for health benefits and reduction in energy costs. Efficient heat pumps are also included to help reduce the school's carbon footprint.
For more information
556 Boleskine Road
Victoria British Columbia
Canada V8Z 1E8
www.sd61.bc.ca
