Attending SCUP-50 in Chicago this July? Check out our discussion with clients about addressing aging facilities.
Colleges and Universities are challenged with limited space for new buildings, shrinking funding, and a generation of aging “Sputnik Era” science and engineering facilities. Renovating, repurposing or adding onto existing facilities can be efficient, cost effective and sustainable solutions for next generation science and engineering. A lively panel discussion with project examples and tales from the trenches will address how these institutions reinterpreted perceived constraints into programmatic synergies and design opportunities, and proper planning and analysis led to maximizing return-on-investment.
Details:
Monday, July 13 | 1:45pm–3:15pm
Speakers:
Christopher E. Baylow, AIA
Associate Principal, Payette
Sharalee M. Field
Senior Planner for Science, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Thayer Donham, AIA, LEED AP
Senior Campus Planner, Office of Campus Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Barbara Stein
Strategic Capital Programs Director, Tufts University
Cape Cod Community College’s Frank and Maureen Wilkens Science and Engineering Center is a net-positive energy building designed to transform the heart of campus.
The project approaches sustainability through a holistic and global approach, implementing a range of moves including passive solar shading overhangs, air-source heat pumps, high performance materials with low embodied carbon and the expansion of the range of thermal comfort and lighting power density. Combined with on-site photovoltaics, the project achieves net-positive energy use.
The project’s thermally modified wood rainscreen façade is a study of the modern expression of vernacular Cape Cod architecture while reducing embodied carbon. Early lifecycle assessments identified the immense carbon savings of wood over fiber cement. The design team did not stop there, furthering reductions by peeling back unnecessary finishes like carpet and ceilings. Together, these decisions enabled a 19% reduction in embodied carbon.
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