She took an interest in school design while growing up in the St. “Collectively, we can all work together to really make change in our communities.”
“No one building is going to solve this problem,” Grandstaff-Rice said. Architects recognize the environmental benefits of reusing existing structures, too, in the construction process.
The profession is no longer focusing just on a building’s operational efficiency to consider the environmental impacts. Her portfolio there included the Hildreth Elementary School in the town of Harvard, which features rooftop solar panels, and the Douglas & Gates elementary schools in Acton, where solar panels are in use as well as rooftop rainwater collection systems to flush toilets and heat comes from geothermal wells. That’s not to say Grandstaff-Rice wasn’t involved in climate-resilient projects while at Arrowstreet.
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