At the October 7 meeting of the Board of Directors of the national Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS), NEEP's, Senior Program Manager for High Performance Schools, Carolyn Sarno was unanimously elected as the group's next Vice-Chairman.
Based in San Francisco, CHPS is a non-profit organization founded in 1999 that is dedicated to making schools better places to learn by providing resources to schools, school districts and professionals about all aspects of high performance school design, construction and operation.
Currently, there are 46 completed CHPS schools across America, with another approximately 300 schools seeking CHPS recognition. Some 35 school districts, with over 1.5 million total students enrolled, have committed to building new schools or modernizing to the CHPS high performance building standard, or using CHPS resources, while 11 states - California, Washington, New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Texas and Colorado - use CHPS as the basis for state- or region-specific high performance school building criteria.
NEEP is an official CHPS partner and provides education and outreach to school districts and design firms on high performance school building. Find out mroe about NEEPs High Performance Schools Exchange.
CHPS counts as its members over 225 organizations, including utility companies, professional design and construction firms, product manufacturers, non-profit organizations, schools and school districts, and professional societies.