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November 4, 2020Panel Discussion on School Lunch and Energy Consumption
For many NYC school children, lunch in their public school cafeteria may be the only nutritious, hot meal they receive each day. The importance of this meal on mental wellbeing has been reinforced, as schools closed due to COVID-19 restrictions but continued to deliver meals to students in need. At odds with the essential nature of this issue is the fact that providing a hot meal through a commercial kitchen has been identified as a barrier for designers to drastically reduce energy consumption in school facilities.
This panel discussed the delivery of school lunches and how designers can balance the need for energy consumption reductions in schools while supporting nutrition and mental health for students through programming, policy, and design.
Event Recording –> Reducing Energy Consumption in School Cafeterias While Supporting NYC Students
Speakers:
Karen Karp, President, Karen Karp & Partners
Jeffery Rios, PE, LEED AP, Partner, AKF
Elizabeth Liu, MPA
Dina Sorensen, Assoc AIA, LEED AP BD + C, Co-Chair, AIA Committee on Architecture for Education, Research Subcommittee
Architecture for Education
The AIANY Architecture for Education Committee is the local affiliate of AIA National’s CAE. The committee provides and organizes events where architects, educators, educational administrators, and the public can meet and exchange ideas to promote better educational facilities of all kinds. We provide opportunities where the design community can meet the people who administrate the various agencies that control design and construction budgets and discuss mutual concerns and interests. Our goals include maintaining ties to other committees and affiliated organizations for events of mutual interest at both the local and national level. Our meetings are free and open to all.