£350,000 classroom

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£350,000 classroom

according to the telegraph ... Accrington Academy has spent £350,000 on a carbon neutral classroom ...

Accrington eco classroom praised in California (From Lancashire Telegraph)

the kids who designed this have just been given a special award in california and they went out there to receive it and to give a speech to the architects ... which i say good on them and well done ..

The £350,000 classroom incorporates a wind turbine and photovoltaic cells for electricity, solar panels for hot water, a rainwater harvesting system for minimal water waste and a pond to attract wildlife, which can be observed in a ‘hide’.

It also has reclaimed timber beams and locally sourced chipboard flooring, walls insulated with straw bales and a grass roof.
Building on the classroom is due to begin shortly.

what will happen to the electricity generated in the summer when the school is on holiday ..

now surely a classroom shouldnt cost £350,000 to build .. could you imagine building a school .. how much would it cost .. with all the classrooms, labs, a couple of art rooms, a gym, etc.
 
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The cells generating the electricity will if the system is fitted correctly, be connected to the national grid and the Electricity company will buy any extra
Electricity they don't use themselves.

I was surprised when I read the cost of the classroom, but I suppose if it had been an art class, would probably have cost 3 times as much and would be full of little wanna be's pretending to generate electricity.:D
 
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State of the art, or a draughty old shed, as many of my own classrooms were, let's just hope the pupils will leave school being able to spell 'photovoltaic cells'.

:D
 
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It might well have a carbon free footprint, but how big was the carbon footprint building the dammed thing, probably take a 100 years before it pays for itself.

Retlaw.
 
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Does seem a tad expensive, at least the kids are doing summat creative though,bet none of them are flashmobbing down broadway.;)
 
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The article seems a bit ambiguous, does it mean that the £350.000 has allready been spent and the materials are in transit, Architect and Surveyor fees paid, does it include the cost of labour to do the work ?
Not knocking the project, seems a worthwhile exercise as these kids are well on their way to being qualified 'Chartered Quantity Surveyors" with none of the fuss or expense of any extra further education :confused: :confused:
 
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I sometimes wonder what planet the people who come up with these ideas are in orbit around. The figure of £350,000 has been tossed into the equation with gay abandon at a time of national stringency and we're supposed to applaud it?

Looks like another case for The Rishton Avenger.
 
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Alison Watson

Company Website

In another very popular thread I mentioned that the emphasis should be put on Engineering & Sciences, I think this company goes a long way to making a start.

:)

(Perhaps she will expand and organise a 'Flash-Light Mob', where groups of Children spontaneously turn up in an organised manner, at a local Shopping Centre and Change all the street lighting for more Eco friendly bulbs? I'd turn up to watch that).
:D
 
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Ken Moss said:
I sometimes wonder what planet the people who come up with these ideas are in orbit around. The figure of £350,000 has been tossed into the equation with gay abandon at a time of national stringency and we're supposed to applaud it?

Looks like another case for The Rishton Avenger.
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Oh no not the Rishton Avenger


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all i can say is...well done kids and well done Accrington Academy for encouraging them to work towards something as good as this, i think it's fantastic

how can any of you lot complain about something in Hyndburn that will be there for the kids in years to come, when your own 'leader' spends the towns money like he does?

i think its brilliant and it's a step into the future for the kids



and Ken, i think it's time you buttoned it, just because you won't benefit from anything through Accrington Academy (having no children) doesn't mean it's a bad thing, even i'm getting pee'd off with your rantings now
 
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Maybe they should have had some input on a local town centre refurbishment, they seem to have more ideas.
 
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flashy said:
all i can say is...well done kids and well done Accrington Academy for encouraging them to work towards something as good as this, i think it's fantastic
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You're right.

The pupils involved should be congratulated.

My comment was probably due to jealousy, as for the second year at school my classrooms were wooden sheds.

:D
 
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flashy said:
all i can say is...well done kids and well done Accrington Academy for encouraging them to work towards something as good as this, i think it's fantastic

how can any of you lot complain about something in Hyndburn that will be there for the kids in years to come, when your own 'leader' spends the towns money like he does?

i think its brilliant and it's a step into the future for the kids



and Ken, i think it's time you buttoned it, just because you won't benefit from anything through Accrington Academy (having no children) doesn't mean it's a bad thing, even i'm getting pee'd off with your rantings now
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The kids that will benefit from it, mine or otherwise, are the next generation, the ones who will be looking after the country when I'm long past it. My personal gain from the Academy is neither here nor there.

£350,000 is a huge amount of money. You'll forgive me for thinking that the cumulative benefits of carbon neutrality in building one room compared to wider possible educational possibilities with the same money are not well represented in the price. Rishton Methodist school is screaming for new equipment to replace some pretty shoddy tat and a fraction of that money could have improved an entire school.

Just the miser in me coming out again, I suppose.
 
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Ken, it's called 'progress' yes by all means fight for what you believe in, but fight it in the right way, it all seems to be tit for tat at the moment 'they got this, i didn't get that, they got money, we didn't' thats called life, if we all got the same at the same time life would be rather boring, just because Accrington Academy got the funding doesn't make it a bad place
 
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flashy said:
Ken, it's called 'progress' yes by all means fight for what you believe in, but fight it in the right way, it all seems to be tit for tat at the moment 'they got this, i didn't get that, they got money, we didn't' thats called life, if we all got the same at the same time life would be rather boring, just because Accrington Academy got the funding doesn't make it a bad place
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Nothing to do with 'tit for tat' Shaz, and I am certainly not criticising the value of the Academy, it's simply about getting the best value for money across the borough. On the face of it £350,000 for one single room sounds rather expensive to me although I am willing to be proved wrong as ever. As I understand it, it is a mixture of public and private investment that have come together and it is the public aspect that interests me.

I'm not against progress but it needs to be done in a cost-effective way. Accrington Academy clearly has a big part to play in the future of the borough so it is quite important that things like that are done correctly.

Vast sums of money being spent incorrectly can end up backfiring badly, just look at the Market Hall.
 
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Ken Moss said:
Nothing to do with 'tit for tat' Shaz, and I am certainly not criticising the value of the Academy, it's simply about getting the best value for money across the borough. On the face of it £350,000 for one single room sounds rather expensive to me although I am willing to be proved wrong as ever. As I understand it, it is a mixture of public and private investment that have come together and it is the public aspect that interests me.

I'm not against progress but it needs to be done in a cost-effective way. Accrington Academy clearly has a big part to play in the future of the borough so it is quite important that things like that are done correctly.

Vast sums of money being spent incorrectly can end up backfiring badly, just look at the Market Hall.
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:rolleyes:
 
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