The State of Our Schools 2021

As the global leader of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions, Carrier innovates to address the planet’s most complex challenges, delivering solutions that matter for people and our planet. Through its Healthy Buildings Program, Carrier is optimizing built environments in ways that improve operational efficiency, positively impact occupants and inspire confidence. From ventilation and air filtration technologies to controls, touchless and fire safety products, Carrier is working with school districts across the U.S. to improve indoor environments for students and staff.

Improved indoor environments can also improve thinking and research has shown the potential impact of healthy schools to be great. As we look to keep students healthy and safe, school districts must harness opportunities to drive overall student health, performance and productivity through healthy building strategies. Retrofits, modernizations and upgrades must be done with student health and safety as a top priority, while being smart about costs, budgets and future requirements. Carrier’s experts are here to help – starting with assessments across various aspects of a building. For more information, visit our page dedicated to K-12 solutions and services or follow Carrier on social media at @Carrier.

Delos has been committed to improving health and well-being in indoor spaces for nearly a decade, backed by extensive research and collaborations with world-class institutions including Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic. While schools have always been a priority, the company has sharpened its focus on classroom health and safety since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in an effort to help children, faculty and staff safely return to school.

Delos has been selected by many of the nation’s largest school districts, including New York City, Chicago, Miami-Dade and Baltimore, to provide its “Delos powered by Intellipure” air purification units in response to COVID-19. The company has already provided over 150,000 units to schools across the country, along with evidence-based recommendations on necessary measures for safer school reopening, particularly as it relates to indoor air quality.

Paul Scialla, Delos Founder and CEO and Founder of the International WELL Building Institute, recently testified at the Committees on Education and Health council hearing regarding New York City public school reopening. This testimony underscored the importance of minimizing airborne viral load and the role it can play in schools reopening safely, with the hope of helping enable a safe, effective return to in-person learning for students and faculty.

“Creating opportunities for educational success for all students is critical and that starts with healthier, safer and more equitable learning environments,” said Doug Wright, president and CEO, Honeywell Building Technologies. “Closing gaps in school facility funding should be a top priority. The technology and capability exist; collective action at all levels must follow.”

Honeywell Building Technologies (HBT) is transforming the way every building operates to help improve the quality of life. We are a leading building controls company with operations in more than 75 countries supported by a global channel partner network. Commercial building owners and operators use our hardware, software and analytics to help create safe, efficient and productive facilities.

Our solutions and services are used in more than 10 million buildings worldwide. Honeywell works with schools nationwide to help create healthier, safer, more efficient and more equitable learning environments.

SGS – When you need to be sure.

That isn’t just a tagline but rather the way we feel about what we can offer in our communities, with 93,000 employees in 2,600 offices around the world.
When it comes to our children, nothing could be more important. We are leading the charge in offering relevant data for the health, comfort and safety of students, faculty, administrators, and parents while providing critical environmental data to manage building sustainability in schools across our nation. After all, being able to offer services like air quality monitoring around schools affected by neighboring wildfires, or water and inside air observation and analysis in aging educational facilities is a small price to pay for the safety of those working or learning there.

Our SGS EDGE, including SmartSense monitoring, combines analytical lab data to sensor technology ranging from air, water, and physical comfort sensors to advanced auto sampling technology - all unified into a data management system with simple user interfaces and selected alerts. It’s about providing you with real-time information for your environmental, health and infrastructure needs.

SGS is on the leading EDGE, can come to where you are and is here to help.

Trane® – by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate innovator – is a long-standing educational partner with more than a century of expertise. Trane works with school administrators, facility managers and district leaders to develop building improvement solutions that set schools up for lasting success.

We create healthier, more comfortable learning environments, improved energy efficiency and operating costs, as well as infrastructure and facility improvements to help safeguard the learning environment, keep schools open and future-proof school buildings. Through Wellsphere™, our holistic approach to building wellness, Trane surrounds administrators with a coordinated team of experts in indoor air quality, thermal comfort, lighting, acoustics and building controls. We assess each school’s unique conditions, mitigate building risks and manage indoor environmental quality and infrastructure performance to help schools make the most of their funding and support student and staff well-being.

Trane support for education extends beyond innovative solutions. From our interactive BTU Crew™ STEM curriculum; to our proud sponsorship of NC3; to our Sustainable Futures citizenship strategy focused on enhancing learning environments and providing pathways to green and STEM careers among underrepresented populations, Trane’s educational offerings help address learning loss, prepare students for a bright future and build the workforce of tomorrow. www.trane.com/k12

Cooperative Strategies is a national education consulting firm supporting K-12+ strategic planning and operations. We are a tight knit team with backgrounds in school facility management, educational planning, demography, teaching, finance, GIS, capital planning, and community engagement. Our experienced team members include former state department of education leaders; school superintendents, teachers, and administrators; Association for Learning Environments members; Recognized Educational Facility Planners; and MSRB Series 50 Municipal Advisor Representatives.

Our integrative model—Assess, Plan, Fund, Build—merges demographic information, conditional needs, educational goals, and funding ability to provide states and districts with a holistic perspective of their needs.

Whatever the project, our goal is consistent: equitable access to high-quality learning environments for every student every day.