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School Name:   Georgina Blach Intermediate School
School District:   Los Altos School District
School Type:   Intermediate, suburban
Number of Students:   455
Size of School:   75,000 square feet
Architecture Firms:   Gelfand RNP Architects
    Landscape Architect:
Miller Company Landscape Architects
High Performance Features:   School exceeds Title 24 requirements by at least 15%; resource efficient materials; adaptive reuse of existing structures; north-facing source of diffuse light in every classroom; lighting controls regulate electric light use with daylight; HVAC units include fresh air cycles; operable windows; north-facing clerestories.
Stats on the School:   Completed Sept. 2002. This one-story part modernization, part new building is sensitive to the existing scale of campus and neighborhood.

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