Our annual Payette Thanksgiving Potluck event brings us together as colleagues and friends, giving us an opportunity to reflect on the many things we are grateful for. This year has been an exciting year at Payette. We have been honored with multiple design awards for some wonderful projects. Students from Virginia Tech and Hampton University spent their fall semester with us, bringing new energy to the office. We have seen several seminal projects completed, which is always an exciting moment. And we have wonderful clients who we get to work with every day, bringing their projects to life.
For this, and so much more, we are grateful. Happy Thanksgiving!
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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