Recent Experience with Sustainable Designs
NMH Bolger House achieves LEED Gold!
LEED Gold was achieved on this admissions building, which has a porch covered with rocking chairs offering views across the campus. Primary building materials include brick, granite, wood, slate, and copper roofing, reflecting the houses on Cottage Row.
BHCC Health & Wellness Center achieves LEED Gold!
Bunker Hill Community College’s Health & Wellness Center achieved LEED Gold was achieved in part from use of battery powered, sensor operated flush valves, and lavatory faucets with ultra-low flow fixtures including 1.28 GPF water closets, 0.125 GPF urinals, 0.5 GPM lavatory faucets and automated wash fountain spouts and 1.5 GPM shower heads.
Stoeckel Hall achieves LEED Gold rating
Yale University’s Stoeckel Hall achieves a LEED Gold rating. New fixtures, new ventilation strategies, the reuse of existing materials, and clever construction management strategies all contributed to the building’s rating.
Northfield Mount Hermon Rhodes Art Center
A new facility with concert hall, storage theater, dance studios, ceramics, painting, sculpture, choral music, offices, and practice space. In July of 2009 the Rhodes Art Center was granted LEED Gold Certification.
Bard College Center for Science and Computation
This 42,000 square foot facility contains wet and dry labs, offices, classrooms, and public space. Construction included a Laser Lab, NMR Lab, Instrument Centers, a Fish Facility and Environmental rooms, geothermal heat pump, and solar geo hybrid system. The owner is committed to environmental sustainability but will decline to seek certification.
Bard College Fisher Performing Arts Center
The new landmark theater complex incorporates sophisticated mechanical and acoustical systems. Green design includes an extensive geothermal well system and solar photovoltaic applications.
Dartmouth College Kemeny Hall & Haldeman Center
This project included new construction and tie-ins for academic building, which houses computer studies, mathematics, and humanities. LEED Silver certificate rating received.
Dartmouth College Floren Varsity House
This LEED Silver 41,300 sf three-story Varsity House and Stadium contains strength training, satellite training, and a meeting room for 130 people.
US Federal Courthouse
A new $53 million federal courthouse in Springfield, Massachusetts. Registration is in place to obtain a “certification” level of LEED accreditation.
University of Massachusetts Studio Arts Building
This construction project in Amherst incorporated green technology without formal LEED certification. Work included spaces for all visual art disciplines including ceramics, sculpture, welding, painting, wood, metal, and offices with adjacent meeting areas.
Amherst College Earth Sciences and Museum of Natural History
Classrooms, offices and museum space designed to accommodate the latest in sustainable design without formal certification.
Amherst College North and South Halls
Sitework, interior and exterior renovations of historic buildings including recycling existing chestnut wood framing for use as new flooring in the adaptive reconstruction of historic Williston Hall as well as North and South dormitories. Owner’s policy was to use design as a tool to implement green technology.
MIT Simmons Hall
An award-winning collaboration with Steven Holl Architects, M.I.T., Perry Dean Rogers Partners, and the sustainability consultant to incorporate U.S. Green Building Council standards into design and construction.