The CEED Project

The Center for Energy Efficient Design

The Gereau Center for Applied Technology and Career

Exploration
 History of the Gereau Center
Career Modules
•Arts
•November •Manufacturing
1994
•Architecture &
•$14.7 million Engineering
Referendum •Legal Science
•$1.6 Million •Media Design
Challenge •Environmental
Grant Emphasis on Problem and Natural
Resources
Based Learning and
•Finance
solving real-world
problems in holistic •Health and
Human
learning context Resources
 Real-world problems

 Energy Issues

 Climate Change

 Architecture and Building

The Gereau Center
History of Energy Projects
Photovoltaic Panels

AEP-Million Solar Roofs Project

 Aquaponics

Hydroponics

500 Watt Wind turbine

Honda Grant
$25,000 Biodiesel Production
Solar Hot Water for the entire
school

Solar Hot Water for

Greenhouse

Skystream3.7 Wind
Turbine
Virginia Department of
Mines, Minerals, and
Energy
Solar Crossing Lights Solar Traffic Flashers
$75,000
 Motion Sensor Security Lights

Solar Security Lighting Solar Signage Lighting

Virginia Department of Mines,
Minerals, and Energy
 History of Wind Project
• JMU Anemometer
Loan Program

• Fall 2004
 Air 403

Spring 2005
 Skystream 3.7

Fall 2007
 Mechanics

Applications
 Windspire

Vertical
Axis

Proposed Summer 2010

Architecture and Engineering
Module
 Environmental Science
Module

The Associated Press June 8, 2010, 1:25PM ET

10 eastern states join wind energy

consortium

Report: Renewables revolution to provide 95 per cent of global

electricity by 2050
Greenpeace report argues rollout of existing renewable energy
policies will allow world to decouple economic growth and carbon
emissions
James Murray, BusinessGreen, 08 Jun 2010
Political Comment from a
student 
 NEED

• National Energy Education Development

Project
Wind (by level)
Wind is Energy Teacher Guide and Student Guide
Wonders of Wind Teacher Guide and Student Guide
Energy from the Wind Teacher Guide and Student Guide
Exploring Wind Energy
 The Vision
since 2003

• To create a “zero energy” learning

environment with both residential and
educational applications

• Model “green” techniques and

technologies that will act as a template for
construction in the 21st Century
 Educational Implications
• Training our best and brightest for cutting edge
careers -- i.e..... all students in the Franklin County
Schools

• Shifting the expectations of all county residents to

cost effective and money saving architecture --
including contractors, builders, potential
homeowners

• Teaching the architects, engineers, and technicians

of the future …Learning, thinking, modeling,
creating, and coordinating new innovative
techniques
 On the Cutting Edge
The CEED is truly “one of a kind” with
whole community benefits

The US Department of Energy stated

“There is no place in the United States
that combines green technology and
education in such a way you all have.
This is awesome.”
 Passivhaus Basics
•

Balanced - constant, low velocity, 100% fresh air, with high efficiency heat exchange
August 28th, 2009
Planting the
` CEED…

for the Seventh Generation