Kenilworth Junior High School was designed with continuous input by school staff, community, parents and students to create a campus that supports the Educational Program and provides a sustainably designed high performance, state of the art facility. The design provides a learning environment that is both beneficial to the curriculum and effective as a living teaching tool. Elements such as daylight, energy efficiency, storm water runoff controls, and indoor air quality become real world examples of sustainable living.

Kenilworth Junior High School is the first California public school use of “cool towers” which provide virtually free cooling to the three largest spaces on campus (Gymnasium, Multi-Use and Library). State of the art daylight harvesting controls provide energy saving continuous dimming to all classroom spaces. A variety of skylight and window locations were modeled at the UC Berkeley Sky Simulator, insuring optimum size and location in the prototypical classroom space.