We are pleased to announce we have been selected for the School of Public Health Visioning Study at the University of Washington in Seattle. This visioning study will explore strategic facilities programming for a new building for the School of Public Health. The building will enable coordination, streamlining and synergy.
The School of Public Health is a global leader in research, teaching and service. The new building will help generate a cohesive community while respecting individual program identities. The School community includes roughly 250 regular faculty, over 650 adjunct, affiliate, and clinical faculty, over 1200 students, and over 750 staff. Their “extended family” includes partners across the UW campus, and at countless agencies, organizations, and firms throughout the city, state, and beyond. Five departments, and over 30 centers and institutes, carry out a range of research and service activities, and offer several dozen undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degrees.
Payette is partnered with the Seattle-based firm, Miller Hull.
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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