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Our Philosophy
One of our core values as a design firm is the belief that human wellness depends on the health of the environment that surrounds us. We strive to create spaces and places that allow people and nature to thrive simultaneously. Designing from a value foundation allows for more inclusive conversation, and more opportunities to build far-reaching performance goals that conserve and respect resources and health. Our values are embedded in each of our design concepts, providing deeper connections to, and an understanding of, decisions made moving forward. Our Approach As architects, engineers, designers, and planners, it is our professional responsibility to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the people in our buildings and the communities in which they inhabit. Part of that responsibility includes supporting the success and continuation of future generations by reducing waste, energy consumption, and carbon output. The most effective way for us to do this is by utilizing a balance of passive design with exceptional technology solutions combined with a comprehensive resource management strategy. As a firm, we maintain our commitments to sustainability by aligning priorities, developing shared internal resources, and embedding workflows that yield the best possible outcomes.
UPMC East - LEED-NC Silver
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, MSK Bergen- LEED-NC Silver Anne Arundel Community College, Andrew Truxal Library - LEED-NC Gold
Jason is a Principal, mechanical engineer, and energy modeler at EwingCole, a national leader in architecture, engineering, interior design, planning and sustainable design. With twenty-years of experience, he specializes in energy efficient and zero-net energy designs. He is an instrumental participant in EwingCole’s sustainability group and has been involved with several LEED Certified and zero-net energy projects, most notably performing the role of net zero coordinator and energy modeler on the United Therapeutics Unisphere project, the largest, site-powered, commercial zero net energy building in the country. He speaks regularly on LEED certification, energy modeling, zero net energy and building energy use reduction strategies. He works with integrated architecture, engineering, lighting, and interior design project teams.
Maria has 20 years of experience in Architecture, Science, and Education and is EwingCole’s Director of Sustainable Design. She is a registered architect with a Master’s degree in environmental chemistry and an undergraduate degree in biology. Her passion for sustainable design grew from her mutual interest in the built and natural environments. Maria leads EwingCole’s multi-disciplinary team of sustainability experts, Thrive@EC, and she collaborates with leaders firmwide on sustainability commitments and initiatives. She also supports projects throughout the design process, with her efforts focused on optimization of material selection for human health and environmental conservation and performance improvement across all project types. Her portfolio includes science & technology, healthcare, university, and corporate workplace project design. Maria is an adjunct professor at North Carolina State’s College of Design, School of Architecture, and is the 2020 recipient of the Gail Lindsey Award from AIA Triangle for her contributions to the culture of sustainable design within the Triangle.
MARIA PAPIEZ AIA DIRECTOR OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
Don supports the sustainable design efforts on projects, focusing on bringing clients and stakeholders into the creative process so that projects reflect the character and long-term goals of the owners and their stakeholders.
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN LEADERSHIP
JASON FIERKO PE, CEM, LEED AP
DIRECTOR OF ENERGY MANAGEMENT
DON JONES, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C SUSTAINABLE DESIGN PRINCIPAL
Don served as Director of Sustainable Design for more than a decade and as Principal, helps lead EwingCole’s team of multi-disciplinary sustainability experts. As a designer, architect and manager, Don guides the programmatic and planning imperatives of each project with environmentally conscious design solutions that are site-sensitive, cost effective and beautiful.
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By championing health-supporting strategies, resource efficiency and transparency, and a balance of passive design with exceptional technology solutions, we strive to create places and spaces that allow both people and nature to thrive. As stewards of responsible design, we are committed to exploring and designing inventive solutions that have a positive impact and elevate the human experience. We seek to learn from every experience, and each of our integrated disciplines, to ensure best-fit solutions for our clients and communities. We are dedicated to continuous improvement and innovation to build more successful solutions with each new endeavor.
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CASE STUDY
SILVER SPRING, MD Opened in September 2018, the six-story, LEED Zerocertified Unisphere is an expansion of the company’s downtown campus and a direct reflection of United Therapeutics’ values of environmental stewardship. At the time of its opening, it was the largest sitepowered, commercial zero net energy building in the United States, particularly significant due to its dense urban surroundings. In addition to over 100,000 SF of Class A office space, the project features 75,000 SF of structured parking, 10,000 SF of retail space, and a 5,000 SF UNISPHERETHERAPEUTICSUNITEDatrium.
The LEED Platinum certified project consumes approximately half the energy of similar buildings in Silver Spring, and is truly self-sustaining. Through on-site photovoltaic arrays, Unisphere generates enough power each year to offset the energy use of the building.
Unisphere is the result of deliberate coordination between design and engineering from conception through construction. Every element was evaluated for efficiency, function and aesthetic. The team evaluated the building’s solar exposure in Ecotect and PVSyst to determine the most productive locations for solar panels. They designed a sloped solar tray above the roof level that extends to the buildable limits to maximize solar power production. Daylight modeling was completed in DAYSIM and imported into the Carrier HAP energy model. The energy model was created during early design and was updated through construction to ensure accuracy.
PROJECT INTENT
The building’s location on a limited site in an urban environment was also a challenge, especially when it came to the use of geo-exchange wells to increase the building’s efficiency. Geo-exchange wells act as a heat exchanger with the earth, rejecting or absorbing heat used in the HVAC system over the course of the year. By doing this, the efficiency of the HVAC system is increased between 25 and 50 percent and the use of on-site fossil fuels for building heating is eliminated. To fit the 52 required geothermal wells on the tight project site, the design team worked with the state of Maryland to change the current well regulations to permit installation of geo-exchange wells underneath the building footprint.
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Ventilation Concept Center Earth Labyrinth Center Natural Ventilation Concept Sustainable Features: 52 geothermal wells 2,959 photovoltaic solar panels Dynamic electrochromic window glazing Operablesystem window awnings Earth Automatedlabyrinthbuilding energy systems Atrium pool (heat sink) Automated lighting controls Daylight LEDEnergy200StormwaterVegetatedharvestingroofscatchbasinactivechilledbeamsrecoveryunitslighting Awards: Association of Licensed Architects2019 Gold Award US Green Building Council – 2019 People’s Choice Award US Green Building Council – 2019 Innovative Project of the Year – New Construction Engineering News-Record – Best of the Best Green ContractProjectMagazine – 2020 Interiors –USGBC,SustainabilityMaryland - 2020 Community Leader Award for Innovative Design
EDGEWATER, MD The Charles McC. Mathias Laboratory at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is a LEED Platinum facility that significantly expands SERC’s research and education mission to explore and understand the impact of human behavior on natural ecosystems. Completed in September 2014 and located on the Chesapeake Bay, the $45M, 92,000 SF project replaces substandard, outmoded facilities with both new and renovated labs, offices, classrooms, storage, and social space designed to meet 21st Century
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PROJECT INTENT SERC’s design directive was challenging: underpin world-class environmental science and expand critical educational outreach with up-todate facilities that demonstrate leading practices in energy conservation, sustainable design, and ecological sensitivity. The entire facility is based on an “open lab” concept intended to foster interaction, innovation, and inspiration. Different disciplines and specialties are organized into research “guilds” that share space and equipment. Furniture, systems, and components were designed to be flexible and modular, allowing for growth and innovation as research and technology evolves. Recycled materials provide the foundation of an ethical interior aesthetic that is meant to inspire, while bright finishes facilitate reduced energy use and even allow for interior plantings to inhabit the core of the Mathias Lab, an unorthodox feature in a laboratory environment. The Mathias Lab received LEED Platinum in 2015, making it the first Smithsonian building to do so and setting a new benchmark in energy conservation and sustainable design for this type of facility.
Sustainable Features: Geo-thermal exchange wells Reconstructed wetlands Photovoltaic panels Solar hot water Rain water collection Grey water recycling & on-site treatment Energy Low-VOCSun-shadingDaylightSolarHigh-efficiencyrecapturelightingorientationharvestingdevicesmaterials - Bird-safe glazing Awards: GreenGov Presidential Awards - 2015 Building the Future Award American Institute of Architects, Maryland Chapter - 2015 Honor Award Association of Licensed Architects - 2015 Merit R&DAwardMagazine - 2015 Laboratory of the Year –High Honors
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Building Silver RENOVATIONWORKPLACELENOVOcertification. CASE STUDY
BUILDING 6 - MORRISVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA Lenovo, a Fortune-500 global technology company and world leader in PC, smartphone and tablet innovation believes that sustaining our environment is as important as sustaining the wellness and performance of its employees. Building 6, located at the Lenovo United States headquarters in North Carolina and workplace to over 400 employees, is dually pursuing LEED-CI Platinum WELL New Existing
Lenovo’s new Building 6, a 40,000 SF space at its corporate campus in Perimeter Park, is part of what the company is calling a “reinvention” of the call center for its inside sales team. With a vision of promoting employee satisfaction through mindful, invigorating design, this space uses some of the most stringent sustainability and employee wellness features in the market.
Over 95% Energy Star rated equipment and Occupancyappliancesand daylight sensors
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Business Journal
Circadian lighting design supports worker signage and foods
Design-Build Awards Best Project: Private Sector Less Than $15M - Design Build Institute of America
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Minimal VOC emissions
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Lighting power reduction of over 35%
Water use reduction by more than 45% under baseline
Sit-stand desks and ergonomic
Biophilicarrangementdesign–connecting views to nature, natural patterns space layouts for visibility privacy, collaboration Awards Space Award: Top Sustainable ProjectTriangle
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EwingCole held eco-charrettes during the project—involving the design team, construction team, and key client stakeholders—to put forward goals for water and energy reduction, material contents, and air quality.
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United States Military Academy, West Point United UniversityUniversityTherapeuticsofPennsylvaniaofPittsburghMedical Center
Anne Arundel Community College
Essentia GeisingerEwingColeHealthHealth System
Northwell Health NYU Langone Health
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region
Abington Jefferson Health
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
United States Army Corp of Engineers
CityCiraBucknellBrooklynAtlanticCareMuseumUniversityCenterofHopeNational Medical Center
North Carolina State University
United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Wake Technical Community College WakeMed Health William Penn Charter School
Princeton Theological Seminary
Hamilton College KellerIlluminaArmy Community Hospital
SCA SchoolAmericasDistrict of Philadelphia Smithsonian Institution St. Francis Hospital
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
SUNY Stony Brook
Agnes Irwin School
Navy Operational Support Center, Pittsburgh North Carolina Central University
LincolnLenovo Public Schools
The Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History - Hall of Fossils RenovationLEED-CI Silver
LEED CERTIFIED CLIENTS
USACE, New York District, Keller Army Community Hospital Expansion - LEED-NC Certified University of Pennsylvania, Schattner Center Addition and Renovation - LEED-NC Certified Illumina Manufacturing Building 6 - LEED-CI Gold
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