17.03.2014 Armenian Renewable Resources and Energy Efficiency Fund managerial staff visited the construction site of Avedisian High School in Yerevan to see the construction process of the building. Walking throughout the site as well as inside the building, the staff was presented the whole working process, format, details and innovations implementation of which is new to the existing local urban construction standards. The initial goal of this unique building construction in the region is to maintain all environmental standards providing high level of construction by using ecologically cleanbuilding materials and installing energy efficient systems. Implementation of all these staff will give an opportunity to receive an American LEED SILVER certification. Well-known in all over the world and high-ranked LEED certificate is a set of rating systems for the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the building, proving which the building receives a certificate for high quality standards. The part of these point are being implemented nowadays: flat roofs makes it possible to realize the idea of green roof, the use of solar water heaters and PVs significantly reduces the energy consumption of the building and of course there is a high quality HVAC system. We hope that this building will be the beginning of the similar project implementations and their logical development.
