Green Architecture
The Henry Stifel Schrader Environmental Education Center - features “green” architecture as well as activities for all ages. Supporting effective stewardship

of the earth as a comprehensive mission, the new structure was built using recycled products and environmentally sensitive building processes which brought the Schrader Center national recognition from organizations which include the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

One of the few structures in the eastern part of the nation built with green architecture plans, the Schrader Center includes:

• recyclable steel product beams, columns, and roofing

• tree products taken from new growth timber

• fiberglass insulation made of 30-60 percent recycled glass

• carpet made from recycled nylon fibers

• rubber flooring made with 95 percent recycled bus & truck tires

• natural cork flooring

• plumbing systems designed for low water consumption

• mechanical reduction of hot water wastage and heat loss

• ventilation system that pre-tempers air through underground inlet pipes and an air-to-air solar collector

• occupancy sensors turn-off lights in unoccupied rooms and photoelectric sensors turn down lights when day lighting is adequate

Supporting environmentally enhancing building projects like these, the EPA encourages the use of green architecture and the recent construction of the Schrader Center in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia.

Built by Wheeling architects, Dennis Madama and Dave Shaeffer, the Schrader Center is a showplace of green design and sustainable architecture.

Visit it today!