Advancing Clean Energy Schools

The Advancing Clean Energy Schools programme is one of Australia's largest school-sector solar rollouts, aimed at reducing energy costs across more than 800 state schools while contributing roughly 61.4 megawatts of new solar capacity to the network.

RECOR's role was to conduct structural assessments of each existing school building, providing details of the most effective racking layout and fixtures for the site-specific roof conditions encountered. Across a programme of this scale, no two schools present identical engineering challenges, so the assessment methodology had to be both rigorous and efficient.

For each PV panel system, RECOR certified the structural adequacy of the installation against the building's existing load capacity and condition. Programme-scale certification work means the engineering judgments made early carry forward across hundreds of subsequent assessments, so the standardisation of method is what makes the rollout deliverable.

Solar work on operational school buildings sits at the intersection of compliance, durability, and student safety. The engineering response respected each of those constraints across every school in the programme.