Open House & Dedication Set for Waynesfield-Goshen Local Schools  Waynesfield-Goshen Local Schools will be holding an open house and dedication on Sunday, October 12th. The Dedication Ceremony will begin at 2:00 p.m. and take place in the High School gymnasium;public tours of the building will follow. The new K-12 facility is located at the original school site at 500 N. Westminster Street in Waynesfield. The building project renovated approximately 33,725 square foot of the high school building; built in 1997. Approximately 85,587 square foot of new building was added to create the PK-12 building. The new addition includes not only classrooms for high school, middle school and elementary school, but also a state-of-the-art media center, new music suites, modern science and art rooms, a new vocational lab, locker rooms and a new middle school gymnasium. Additional features include a cafetorium with a modern performance stage, terrazzo and porcelain tile flooring, and a community use room. Geothermal heat pumps were installed for increased efficiency in heating and cooling the building.
A section of the original 1989 building remains as a separate facility and will house the district offices as well as pre-school. The site has also been renovated to include new parking areas, sidewalks and playground. The project was achieved as a partnership through the Ohio School Facilities Commission and designed through the offices of Garmann/Miller Architects-Engineers. Construction was managed by Richard L. Bowen & Associates, Inc., Lima, Ohio. |
Students began the 2008-09 school year on September 2nd. |
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| Garmann/Miller Completes Area Schools | German-American Day is celebrated on October 6th; declared by the U.S. Congress and President Ronald Reagan in 1987.Germans are the nation's largest ancestry group, representing about 15 percent of the US population. | Lincolnview Local School District Holds Open House & Dedication
The Lincolnview Local School District held their dedication of the new and renovated K-12 building project on October 5th.
The 165,543 square foot structure is located just east of Van Wert and west of Middle Point on Middle Point Road. The district partnered with the Ohio School Facilities Commission to complete a Classroom Facilities Assistance Program. This included 85,957 of new square footage to build the junior/senior high school. It also renovated the entire K-6 elementary and the high school vocational agriculture and industrial technology area. The entire complex is now a K-12 facility which will provide a modern learning environment for approximately 875 students. Garmann/Miller included ground-source heat pumps in the new design providing increased energy efficiency. Local funds were used for additional classroom space, terrazzo floors, additional gymnasium space, stadium seats in the gym, a free standing weight and wrestling room,and district offices. The design for this project was completed by Garmann/Miller Architects-Engineers. Construction was managed by Richard L. Bowen & Associates, Inc.
The new building replaced two aging structures that previously housed the district junior/senior high school students. The oldest building was a 1919 structure that housed 17 of the 24 classrooms for the junior/senior high. The other building, a 1966 vintage, housed the remaining classrooms, gymnasium, and library. Although the buildings have served the district well, the completion of the new building has been timely and will enhance the overall educational delivery system and makes the facility fully accessible.
The new facility opened to the students on September 8th, 2008.
| What is Geothermal Energy?
An increasing number of schools in the Midwest are using geothermal energy for heating and air conditioning. Geothermal is great for schools because it uses a lot less energy than other types of heating and cooling equipment. What is Geothermal you might ask? If you have ever seen pictures of a volcano or a geyser, then you've seen geothermal energy in action!
"Geo" means "from the earth," and "thermal" means "heat," so this type of energy is found under the earth. The hot lava from a volcano and the hot steam from a geyser both come from underground heat - and we can use that same type of heat in our schools.
Here's how it works: about four feet underground, the temperature of the earth stays the same all year long - about 55 degrees. A geothermal heating system uses pipes buried more than four feet deep in the earth. The system pumps a liquid through the pipes to absorb the heat and brings it back indoors. A device called a "heat exchanger" takes the heat from the liquid and uses it to heat the air inside the building. A geothermal system can cool a building during the summer, too! It just works in reverse, absorbing the heat from the air inside the building and moves it back into the earth. A geothermal heater is also very energy-efficient. Almost none of the energy used is wasted, so it helps keep heating bills very low during the winter.
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