Hubble Middle School - The New Hubble

The New Hubble

The new Hubble is located on Galusha Road, and is now closer to the students it serves in Warrenville.

There is extended classroom space so that teachers can let their students work in the halls. The teachers can supervise the students due to the large glass windows. The cafeteria seats up to 340 students at a time, and the hot lunch lines are carefully organized so that students can easily reach everything. There are regular lunch tables, as well as high tables for two next to the windows. The recycling, composting, and garbage system is efficient and very green.

The new Hubble is one of the few schools to meet the LEED (leadership in energy and environmental design) qualifications. Some of the sustainable features are: the mechanical system is 20% more efficient than the standard systems; the landscaping is drought-resistant, with permeable asphalt that reduces water runoff and "bioswales" that filter the run-off before it enters the storm water system and a 5-acre (20,000 m2) drainage ditch with wetland plants to clean and soak up the water, a green roof that can be used as a classroom, a white "cool roof" which will reflect sunlight and be more an efficient source for air conditioning utilized,low-flow plumbing fixtures, enhanced lighting controls, which will utilize as much natural light as possible, a daylight harvesting system which uses sunlight instead of artificial light, preferred parking for the teachers with the most fuel-efficient vehicles, building material content is mostly recycled, a nature observatory in the center of the school,and environmental issue displays throughout the school. The gym and other classrooms are equipped with sound-absorbing holes in the wall so that the acoustics have been enhanced. Many classrooms have large windows or skylights, which lighten allow natural light. The orchestra and band rooms are equipped with lockers for all instruments and music. The room is almost double the size of the old Hubble facility. Although this is all efficient we are worried the students may get used to the high technology of their school and not be used to the lower class technology when they exceed to high school, colleges, other schools.