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High-Profile: Educational Facilities Development News
Residence Hall Project at U. of MD Design-Build Team KBE and Newman Architects
Steel erecting is well under way for the new multi-purpose building.
North Branch Erects Steel
Baltimore - KBE Building Corporation has contracted for a design-build addition to Patapsco Hall, a residence hall on the campus of the University of Maryland. KBE is the design-builder and prime contractor for the 183-bed project, with Newman Architects of New Haven, Conn. leading the design team. The project will be managed through KBE’s mid-Atlantic regional office in Columbia, Md. The Patapsco Hall addition will include four stories and a limited basement. There will be 68 double rooms, eight triples, 24 singles, and three studio apartments for graduate resident staff that will include a kitchen and bathroom in each unit. This building will be the first LEED
certified residence facility at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The additions will be connected to the west end of Patapsco Hall. Construction on the renovation portion of the project is expected to start in June, 2010. Some of the project highlights include a new basketball court with tiered seating and the creation of a courtyard. The existing residence hall will be upgraded, including a new lobby and a new elevator and stair on the north corner of the east wing. Existing residence showers and toilet rooms in each wing will be renovated, including replacing the existing showers with new solid surface shower pans.
NECHPS Standard at Governor Wentworth School Wolfeboro, NH - Steel-erecting is well under way for the new multipurpose building on the campus of the Kingswood Regional High School for the Governor Wentworth School in Wolfeboro by North Branch Construction of Concord. When complete, the new 51,000sf multipurpose building will include a 900seat auditorium, classrooms, and locker rooms. The project also includes new synthetic and natural turf athletic fields as well as a geothermal ground heat exchanger piping system to serve the entire campus.
More than 300 wells are being drilled for the geothermal system. Sitework began in late November 2009. The new multipurpose building is being built on the site which formerly held the athletic fields. The new athletic fields are being moved to another location on campus. The project is being built to meet the energy efficiency and environmental standards of the Northeast Collaborative for High Performance Schools (NECHPS) State Funding for School Construction. Rendering of University of Maryland Patapsco Hall, courtesy of Newman Architects.
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JM Coull Project Earns LEED Silver Gorman Richardson Architects Lawrence, MA - The new United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (CIS) facility in Lawrence has achieved Silver level certification under the LEED program, design-builder JM Coull has announced. The project faced some hurdles on the road to certification, including the discovery—during construction—of undocumented sewer and water lines running through the center of the construction site. The challenges, coupled with the team’s achievements in the area of sustainable design and construction, compelled the local chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) to recognize the project with its highest Excellence in Construction
Award, as well as a Green Award. JM Coull teamed with Gorman Richardson Architects of Hopkinton to design and build the 62,000sf facility, which houses offices, specialty areas for naturalization services, and an underground parking garage below the building. The demolition of the former Lincoln Foods building to make way for the new facility created a considerable amount of construction debris, more than 98% of which was recycled or reused. A portion of these same materials were used in the construction of the new CIS facility, while timbers, planks, and bricks were cleaned and sold for use in other projects. In the end, 13,000 tons of materials were diverted from landfills.
EPA Recognizes Preotle, Lane & Assoc. Medford, MA - Preotle, Lane & Associates, developer of River’s Edge in Medford, has been recognized by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as one the nation’s Green Power purchasers. Preotle, Lane & Associates has committed to purchase 4.0 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of Renewable Energy Credits generated by wind farms across America. Renewable Energy Credits help to address the environmental footprint of electrical consumption. This purchase offsets 100% of the base building electricity for 200 Riv-
er’s Edge Drive over the next three years. The EPA estimates that the purchase, which is equivalent to the amount of electricity needed to power more than 100 average American homes per year, saves the same amount of CO2 emissions produced by nearly 200 passenger vehicles annually. VERs are sold to help finance projects that reduce the emission of carbon and other greenhouse gases, and this purchase helps prevent up to 300,000 pounds of CO2 from entering the atmosphere annually.