Last night, the New England design community came together at SoWa Power Station in the South End to celebrate the 2023 IIDA New England Design Awards.
Payette’s Wachenheim Science Center at Williams College was honored with the Education: Large (over 50,000 SF) Category Award. It also received the prestigious Humanity of Design Award given to the most sustainable, equitable, inclusive and humane project across all of this year’s 118 entries. This was especially exciting because Wachenheim just achieved LEED Platinum!
Many of our colleagues and friends won awards over the 19 categories and it was great to cheer everyone on at such a cool venue.
We share the award with our talented partners including:
- ArtopexAshfield Stone
- Available Light
- Barr & Barr
- BBE Office Interiors
- Bernhardt
- Biofit
- Darran
- FilzFelt
- Forbo
- Geiger Furniture
- Humanscale
- KI
- Leland
- Maharam
- Milliken Carpetv
- Ngoc Doan Photography
- Nitsch Engineering
- W. Sullivan Engineering
- Robert Benson Photography
- Rulon Ceilings
- Sherwin Williams Paint
- Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
- Soden Sustainability
- Vanderweil Engineers
- Warren Jagger Photography
Opening later this year, the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, MA is an essay in the tuning of building façades for performance. The aluminum sunshades that veil the building began as a concept tested by scoring Bristol paper. The team utilized tools from all modalities: paper models, CNC-mills, parametric studies, solar analysis, wind and water simulations and full-scale mock-ups to inform the design and drive energy use down. The ultra-high performance building is tracking a 61% reduction in energy use compared to the 2030 baseline.
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