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Whats NEW at The Chesapeake Bay Foundations Brock Environmental Center The 10 th Living Building in the WORLD! Saving the Chesapeake Bay through education, advocacy, litigation, and restoration . CBF Headquarters Annapolis, MD Brock

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What’s NEW at The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s

Brock Environmental Center

The 10th Living Building in the WORLD!

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Saving the Chesapeake Bay through education, advocacy, litigation, and restoration.

CBF Headquarters Annapolis, MD Brock Environmental Center Virgnia Beach, VA

CBF believes that buildings should educate, inspire and reduce pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.

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Pleasure House Point

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Program

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NET POSTIVE ENERGY!

100% ENERGY CREATED IN ONE YEAR + AN ADDITIONAL 45%

SENT TO THE GRID

  • 70% CREATED BY 168 SOLAR PANELS ON THE ROOF
  • 30% CREATED BY 2 – 10KW RESIDENTIAL WIND TURBINES

Photo Credit: Tony Arnold

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Monthly Energy Bill

The Brock Center uses 83% less energy!

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WATER: How is it treated?

Collection areas – sloped (3:12) standing seam galvalume roof

Courtesy of Smithgroup

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Resilient

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Why a Classroom at the Brock Center?

Prakash Patel - Courtesy of Smithgroup

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We take the philosophy that you’re wasting your time with older people; they are set in their ways.

But if you can educate the younger generation, they will grow up to be better older people.

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  • Joan & Macon Brock
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Sustainability Program

Sustainable Economics and Business Innovation Environmental Sustainability and Natural Resource Stewardship

Environmental Studies with a Sustainability Focus

Social Sustainability The goal of the Environmental Studies Program is to empower students in the program to broaden their understanding of sustainability through:

  • Utilizing the natural community as a context for learning about

environmental and sustainability issues.

  • Implementing environmental service learning projects.
  • Integrating interdisciplinary instruction.
  • Incorporating challenge-based, collaborative, and design

thinking learning.

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  • Connecting to a community
  • f learners
  • Empowering students to

lead their own learning

  • Learning in context
  • Investing in deeper

learning

  • Internships and mentoring

Innovative Learning Designs

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Post Secondary Opportunities Connected College Majors

  • Sustainability studies
  • Environmental science
  • Biology
  • Urban planning
  • Marine ecology
  • Law and public policy
  • Natural resources management
  • Human ecology
  • Agricultural management
  • Architecture/Engineering
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Career Opportunities Connected Careers

  • Chief sustainability officer
  • Energy manager
  • Water resource engineer
  • Wetland specialist
  • Educator
  • Lawyer
  • Environmental planner
  • Wildlife biologist
  • Watershed science technician
  • Soil conservation technician
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Longstanding Partnership with CBF Secondary Science:

  • Environmental Literacy Program with CBF
  • Teacher professional development sessions
  • College courses for teachers
  • Unit performance tasks

Elementary Science:

  • We all Live Downstream
  • Grade 4, unit 3: Earth Resources
  • Human impact and care for the environment
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Why the Brock Center?

Brock Environmental Center and Pleasure House Point

  • Living shorelines
  • Habitat restoration
  • Water quality improvement
  • Oyster reefs
  • Largest estuary
  • Approximately 3,600 species of plants and animals
  • Net-zero energy building
  • The 10th living building in the country to achieve full Living

Building Challenge (LBC) certification

  • The first Commercial Building in the Continental US to recei

ve a permit to drink treated rainwater.

  • Best example of off-grid operations in VA
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Schedule Structure

AM PM

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Pre-requisites & Course Structure

Pre-requisites 9th/10th grade

Algebra II English 10 2 Social Studies Credits Chemistry & Biology

11th Grade

On-site: AP Environmental Science Sustainability Natural Resource Management Watershed Hydrology

12th Grade

Topical Research Course Senior Independent Study EcoSummit

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  • Navigating the Journey Night

– October 17, 2019 5:30 – 8:00 p.m. – Virginia Beach Convention Center – Informational sessions about Environmental Studies Program curriculum and application process

More Information

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Conceptual Design

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Conceptual Design Conceptual Design

Modification Condition Use Permit

Courtesy of Micheal Blakenship

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Modification Condition Use Permit

Conceptual Design Conceptual Design

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Will the classroom be as sustainable as the Brock Center?
  • It will be built to the standard of the Brock Center.
  • Will there be additional wind turbines added to

Pleasure House Point?

  • No, the classroom will rely on solar panels.
  • Where will the school buses and students park?
  • Bus drop off on Marlin Bay Drive + street parking
  • How large will the classroom be?
  • Large enough to hold 25-30 students per class.
  • When will the classroom open?
  • Fall 2020
  • Next Steps?
  • We are currently in the conceptual design phase. As

the design comes together we will reach out so you have an opportunity to see it and comment on it.

Additional information can be found by visiting:

www.cbf.org/Brockclassroom

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Questions?

Conceptual Design