In an ever-evolving profession, our advancing staff enriches the work and culture at Payette while cultivating the talent, creativity and growth among the very project teams they make up. We’ll feature one staff member each day over the next couple of weeks. We hope you’ll join us in celebrating their achievements.
Wesley Schwartz, AIA
Promoted to Associate
Since joining Payette in 2005, Wes has demonstrated a wide range of design skills on his project work, which has included the Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital at the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and the Advanced Surgical Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Wes is currently leading the development of the envelope design for the Northeastern University Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex. While Wes’s roles in these and other projects spanned all aspects of planning and design, his work has been particularly influential in the design, technical development and graphic documentation of highly complex façade systems as well as the interior detailing of the public spaces. Wes received a B.Arch degree from Syracuse University.
This Earth Week, we’ll be covering five landmark buildings exemplifying new approaches to building performance and sustainability.
The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Klarman Building is the first hospital in the northeast to implement chilled beams in an inpatient setting. Early energy analysis demonstrated that the use of chilled beams would be the best way to reduce building energy use.
For this strategy to work, however, the peak thermal loads of the façades could not exceed the capacity of the chilled beams. An integrated design approach and in-house modeling allowed for constant tuning of the façade to optimize glazing, solar exposure and massing. The building orients glazing to face true north and south to minimize heat gain and maximize occupant comfort, resulting in a 15% reduction in peak solar load.
Beyond performance, the distinctive serrated terracotta façade reflects the scale and cadence of individual patient rooms, providing a delicate scale and texture to the façade.
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