1、 2012 年 5 月 外籍文献：外籍文献： Ventilation of Sustainable Schools: Better than Traditional Schools? W. Zeiler G. Boxem SUMMARY During the last decades in the United Kingdom several educational buildings were built with a strong environmental ethos, real icons of a new generation of low-energy sustainable bu
2、ildings. In some of the buildings post occupancy evaluations were held and buildings performance was revealed. Also in the Netherlands during the last years several new concepts were developed for sustainable schools. This is an interesting topic as many of those schools had problems concerning ener
3、gy efficiency, indoor air quality and thermal comfort. In the case of sustainable schools much effort went into the design process of the schools to try to find better solutions to face the problems of the traditional designs. This resulted in different solution concepts, which raises the question w
4、hich are better school concepts. From literature three evaluations from the UK and one overview of 5 sustainable educational buildings from the Netherlands are given, which show that sustainable educational buildings are not always without flaws. In the paper two of the first Dutch sustainable eleme
5、ntary schools are compared with 9 more traditional schools of the Netherlands to conclude whether the sustainable schools perform better than traditional schools. INTRODUCTION Presently sustainability becomes a necessity as effects of Global warming become more clearly. It is important to start earl
6、y with the educational aspects of the necessary change in behavior and thinking, sustainable schools could play an important role. The whole concept of a sustainable school building is based on principles of sustainable development which deal with the limited availability of natural resources, the interdependence with nature, the fundamentals aspects of interdependence with nature, the fundamentals aspects of production and consumption, and the issue of equity within, between and among genera
