Carrboro High School in Chapel Hill, N.C., designed by Richmond-based Moseley Architects, is the first high school in the Tarheel state to win silver LEED certification.

The high school has solar-heated hot water, and it has installed high-efficiency lighting and glazing, extra wall insulation, more efficient chillers and boilers, and sensors that turn off electric lights when natural light is sufficient – enough to reduce energy costs by 35 percent.  

Moseley also installed three 30,000-gallon cisterns that collect rainwater for use in toilet flushing, resulting in a 41 percent reduction in water use, and designed rain gardens to collect stormwater runoff and remove pollutants. More.