Elementary School K-12 Education
Brown Station Elementary School.
Montgomery County, MD
Brown Station Elementary School was originally constructed in 1979 and contained about 60,000 SF. The design team prepared a space needs analysis and found that the school was undersized by about 50%-it required 85,000 SF. A series of 2 and 3-story options were investigated to determine how to expand the school without using too much of the small site. After significant community engagement, stakeholders ultimately chose one of the three-story options.
RRMM completed the design for the new 106,000 SF school and associated sitework, including all parking, bus loop, child drop-off space, and playing fields. In addition, RRMM designed a self-contained County day care facility. The school was delivered using a CM at Risk Delivery method.
Sustainable features included geothermal wells that tap into natural geothermal energy beneath Earth’s crust and an abundance of windows to provide natural light. The school’s lighting controls included occupancy sensors that automatically turn off lighting when the room is not in use and exterior lighting with no uplight to minimize light pollution.
Brown Station Elementary School, certified LEED Gold, features geothermal wells that tap into the natural geothermal energy beneath the Earth’s crust. Other sustainable features include daylighting, occupancy sensors to automatically turn off lighting when not in use, and exterior lighting with no uplight to minimize light pollution.
