{"id":1913,"date":"2014-05-01T14:17:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T14:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2014-05-01T14:19:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T14:19:12","slug":"ocean-lakes-shows-well-in-battle-of-the-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/ocean-lakes-shows-well-in-battle-of-the-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Lakes shows well in Battle of the Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean Lakes High School saved a lot of energy this year \u2013 and it shows!<\/p>\n<p>The school came in 139<sup>th<\/sup> place \u2013 out of the 3,300 buildings competing nationwide \u2013 in Energy Star\u2019s Fourth Annual Battle of the Buildings contest. According to Energy Star, competitors measure and track their buildings\u2019 monthly energy consumption and work over the year to cut energy waste through improvements that range from equipment replacement to changes in occupant behavior.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/5-1-2014-10-16-33-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1914\" alt=\"5-1-2014 10-16-33 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/5-1-2014-10-16-33-AM-300x179.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/5-1-2014-10-16-33-AM-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/5-1-2014-10-16-33-AM-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/5-1-2014-10-16-33-AM.jpg 923w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Among the Virginia entrants, Ocean Lakes was the second-ranked school, with more than 16 percent in energy savings.\u00a0 This led to an estimated $87,000 in avoided costs for the school division.<\/p>\n<p>This year, three Virginia Beach schools competed in the contest. In addition to Ocean Lakes, Birdneck Elementary and Bayside Elementary took part in the competition. Each Virginia Beach school finished in the top third of the competition, with Bayside coming in 718<sup>th<\/sup> place and Birdneck placing 963<sup>rd<\/sup>. All totaled, the greenhouse gas equivalent of emissions prevented by these three schools\u2019 conservation efforts was nearly 550 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n<p>As a division, Virginia Beach City Public Schools had a banner year, with 22 facilities earning the Energy Star designation in 2013, and 2,308,349 square feet of of Energy Star-rated space.\u00a0 This helped Virginia Beach recently earn recognition as having the fourth most Energy Star rated buildings among mid-sized cities in the United States.<i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Way to go, Ocean Lakes, and all the Battle of the Building entrants!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean Lakes High School saved a lot of energy this year \u2013 and it shows! The school came in 139th place \u2013 out of the 3,300 buildings competing nationwide \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}