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CASE STUDY NO. 13
LA ESCUELITA EDUCATION CENTER
This was partially the result of energy-intensive program uses such as the Data Center and the TV studio, but also the relatively high occupant load in the collection of spaces. The conclusion by the design team was that it was not feasible to have the entire campus achieve a ZNE perfor- mance with on-site renewable energy sources alone. OUSD leaders indicated that it was prefer- able to set an achievable objective of some sort so that a ZNE benchmark would be established for the District’s future building projects.
The design team therefore proposed a subset of the Phase 1 building program that might collec- tively achieve ZNE performance through the application of aggressive energy-efficiency design
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