March 29, 2024
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Panels make wish lists for new Brewer school

BREWER – When residents approved the $39.5 million Brewer Community School in December, work began to learn what teachers, staff and administrators would like to see in the new pre-kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school.

Some of those ideas were presented Monday to the new school building committee, Superintendent Daniel Lee said Tuesday.

Some 36 employees of the school department have been working in subcommittees on everything from classroom layouts, the performance area and physical education to food service, administration and mechanical service, he said.

The subcommittees have “offered ideas on what they’d like to see in the final designs,” Lee said.

The building committee is composed of residents, school and city officials, and parents.

Brewer Community School is designed as a 71-classroom, two-story, 156,350-square-foot building with shared areas in the middle for such things as the cafeteria and media center or library and wings to separate the students by appropriate age groups.

The ideas that work will be incorporated into the plans created by WBRC Architects-Engineers of Bangor.

At the next meeting, scheduled for March 17, the building committee will continue to work with the subcommittees and will hear a presentation on creating a “green building” under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system.

“LEED promotes a whole-building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in five key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality,” the U.S. Green Building Council Web site states.

The building committee will hear the benefits of LEED certification before any decisions are made on whether or not to pursue the endorsement.

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