When students at Forest Hill Elementary School went back to class on Aug. 20, they may have noticed that the lunch line was moving faster. And they no doubt noted that it was being served in a new multi-use building.

Forest Hill faculty, staff and parents got to check out the new net-zero energy building at a ribbon cutting on Friday, Aug. 22. It’s the fifth “grid neutral” building that has been built in the Campbell Union School District since 2013. Others are at Blackford, Castlemont and Lynhaven Elementary and Sherman Oaks Charter schools. Construction was funded by the district’s 2010 Measure G school bond.

All the buildings are designed to use less energy than they produce, helping the district move toward its goal of reducing its overall energy consumption by 60 percent.

Designed

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