Sustainable building improves performance by both students and teachers, which is a huge selling point for school boards and school districts. A book full of tests have shown that people perform better when they work in areas with more windows than walls and where high-quality indoor air powers better work – in offices as well as classrooms.
That is what sustainable building encourages and that is what gets the attention of school boards and school districts, says Terry Hoyle, principal of SHW Group architects in Dallas.