text: I had the chance to have lunch and take a tour of the Vegas PBS Educational Technology Campus yesterday and the pace is amazing This is the most green PBS building in the USLEED Gold The technology involved in the building is fascinating A concrete parking lot instead of blacktop to reflect the sun and keep the area cooler Medium sized mesh metal screens about feet away from the window glass This allows lots of light to come through but keeps the rays from heating the glass and making cooling of the building harder Louvers on the windows to reflect sun away from the buildingat an angle specifically placed for this latitudeagain allowing light through but helping keep the building coolernnThe building is divided into two sections One side is the Clark County School Districts Educational Media Services EMS Vegas Virtual Online Education and Clark County School Districts Virtual High School The other half of the building is for the Vegas PBS studios and their support for various community programs There is also a section on the PBS side that has a computer center that has all the blueprints for every public school in Clark County so emergency personnel could access that information in a crisis It is a fascinating set upnnThe building was designed to withstand a magnitude or earthquake that comes along every years or so in Las Vegas The studio side is built in four distinct parts and the stairs all have reinforced cables attached in several directions All this is one reason why it took years to plan design and raise the money to build and complete the facility It is fascinatingnnFinally we got into the studios It is one large area with several sets for different programs that originate from Vegas PBS We then went into the control room where all of this comes together and saw the adjacent sound roomnnWhenever I watch programs on PBS I will remember the tour and it will bring back memories of where the program originates nnVegas PBS is outstanding both for the services to the Clark County School District and for its programming Great tour Tom Thanks