With the Design Museum Boston Urban Innovation Festival just weeks away, the excitement is building at Payette as we are gearing up to compete in the urban hack-a-thon on July 29-31.
The three-day urban hack-a-thon will be tackling challenges surrounding the revitalization of the I-93 overpass, as the ten teams competing will be designing urban solutions in front of the public. The event will give the community an opportunity to observe the design process first-hand and have a voice in the solution by providing feedback to the teams.
Teams competing in the design challenge feature a diverse group of engineers, designers, architects and innovators including Payette, Autodesk, Essential Design, Shepley Bulfinch, Fidelity Labs, Wentworth Institute of Technology, CBT Architects, MassArt, Bose and Stantec.
Here at Payette, we explained to Design Museum Boston why we are very excited to have the opportunity to compete in this event:
Want to learn more about the Urban Innovation design teams competing in the event? Check out the Design Museum Boston website to read all about the participating innovators including what they’re most excited for, similar projects that they’re worked on and why they’re positioned to succeed. We hope to see you at the event July 29-31.
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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