Crawford Bay Elementary-Secondary School
Crawford Bay (SD #8), British Columbia

First LEED® Gold school to open in BC

Awards:
2009 SAB Canadian Green Building Awards

Crawford Bay Elementary-Secondary School is designed to accommodate up to 200 students from Kindergarten to Grade 12, and replaces the existing school, which was built in various stages beginning in 1946. Additionally, the community raised $850,000 to add to the school’s program with a community fitness centre, a pre-school/daycare facility, and a number of multi-purpose rooms.

Located on the shores of Kootenay Lake in the southeastern corner of British Columbia, the new school serves the East Shore communities, a population of approximately 1500. Crawford Bay is a small rural community and with the exception of electricity has no municipal services. Hence the new school had to be almost completely self-sufficient (off the grid).

The new community school is designed to achieve LEED® Gold Certification, and incorporates leading-edge sustainable design strategies. As a true community based project, the construction was carried out almost entirely by local labour.