A County Down primary school has become the first building in the UK to be awarded the top grade in a government energy efficiency scheme.
Victoria Primary School in Ballyhalbert’s ‘A’ in the ‘Energy Performance Certificate’ scheme comes after it was recently rebuilt.
It now boasts toilets which use rainwater and its own biomass boiler.
All buildings will soon be required to have an energy performance certificate before they can be sold or rented.
The certificate explains how energy efficient a building is and the level of its carbon dioxide emissions.
Elsewhere in the UK, they are already a legal requirement, however, the average grade awarded thus far is an ‘E’ on a A-G scale.
It is hoped Victoria Primary School’s ultra green rainwater flushing toilets will save close to half a million litres of water each year.
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