Educational & Institutional
Cambridge School of Weston Weston, MA, 2005
GRT provided green design consulting and eco-charrette facilitation for institutional strategy and a new green building on the Cambridge School campus. Scope involved conducting workshops with the clients and design teams to set goals and craft an implementation plan.
Concord Academy -Concord, MA
GRT worked with staff, faculty, parents and students of this grade 9-12 day/boarding school in goal-setting, data collection and creation of an implementation plan to create a baseline of the campus energy, water and indoor air quality. We then formulated a comprehensive recommendations document for a campus-wide sustainability master plan.
Northfield Mount Hermon School Gill, MA, Arts Center & Admissions Building
GRT served as LEED Consultant for two buildings at NMH, an independent, co-educational boarding school in western Massachusetts. The new Arts Center comprises 63,000 square feet on three levels, including three performance spaces, practice rooms and visual arts production and display space. Through a high-performing envelope and mechanical system, the project was able to apply for 7 out of 10 “Optimize Energy Performance” points. We are providing similar services for the NMH Admissions Building.
Falmouth High School- Falmouth, MA
GRT served as the consultant on this project with the goal of achieving Massachusetts Green Schools Certification. GRT staff has assisted the design team in identifying and analyzing sustainable strategy opportunities for the project, specifically opportunities for pursuing alternative energy sources.
Franklin D. Roosevelt School- Boston, MA
GRT assisted the Boston Public Schools Department with the green renovation of this K-8 school, enabling it to become the City of Boston’s first LEED registered public building. The school’s new addition, which is seeking LEED Silver certification, consists of six new classrooms, a computer room, a cafeteria and a new outdoor play area. Environmental features of the addition include a green roof, solar panels, super-insulated building envelope, water-saving sinks and toilets, daylighting controls, porous pavement and renewable materials such as bamboo.
The Park School- Brookline, MA
GRT worked with the institution to create a baseline of its environmental footprint and then created a feasibility study to make recommendations for sustainability strategies for different scales of this K-12 school campus. The goal was to provide site, building, user activities to improve sustainable practices and operational performance as well as provide an aesthetic ‘touch and feel’ to sustainability.
Woburn Memorial High School- Woburn, MA
GRT was the green design consultant to the community and design team on their new high school, which also serves as a community center. The City of Woburn became highly sensitive to issues of environmental health since its tragic experience with the after-effects of industrial pollution that were portrayed in the book and movie, Civil Action. This facility is a 340,000 s.f. building on a 48 acre site with extensive athletic fields. GRT helped the City secure $625,000 in additional funding for additional design services and energy efficiency strategies and renewable energy systems. The design exceeds building energy code by 27%, all flushing and irrigation water is provided by a collection system that is fed by rooftop rainwater and construction and demolition waste (including the demise of the existing school) was largely recycled. GRT's approach was to use the site as a generative 'filter' for the surrounding neighborhoods and provide a positive image of what the built environment can be to a community.
Institutional
Boston College Master Plan-Chestnut Hill, MA
GRT provided two areas of support during BC’s master planning effort. GRT worked with the owner and design team to integrate sustainable design strategies into the master plan. At the same time, GRT worked with BC to create and facilitate an internal institutional leadership entity, the Boston College Sustainability Committee, to establish sustainable design and operations guidelines for all future development. The guidelines and standards address infrastructure including water, energy, and transportation systems, phasing in new buildings and their basic green design guidelines, and assessing baseline measurement and metrics to monitor systems in the future.
Bridgewater State College, Marshall Conant Science Center- Bridgewater, MA
The new 200,000 s.f. science center will house the expanded and modernized labs, classrooms and offices for the chemistry, biology, and physics departments at Bridgewater State College. The design team is committed to optimizing the energy performance of this project to exceed 20% through such means as: reduction in number of fume hoods, reduction in ventilation rates, enthalpy recovery, chilled beams, and ground-source heat pumps. GRT is supporting these efforts through team coordination, promotion and analysis of sustainable strategies, LEED calculations, and overall sustainability consulting and LEED administration.
Emerson College Colonial Theater Dormitory- Boston, MA
GRT is providing LEED strategy and project management services.
The project includes renovation of floors 2-10 (above the retail/theater space) into residence hall space, replacing windows, adding insulation and upgrading the interiors.
Fitchburg State Mara Village Residential Expansion - Fitchburg, MA
GRT is serving as LEED consultant for the construction of a 120-bed residence hall. The materials used for construction are low VOC in order to provide a healthy indoor air quality. Recycled and regional materials were used, and 76 percent of demolition and construction waste was diverted from the waste stream. The design of the Mara Village Residential Expansion provides natural lighting for all of the building’s occupants, and all occupants have operable windows. More than 95 percent of all regularly occupied spaces have access to views of the outdoors. The lighting system employs passive infrared and ultrasonic occupancy sensors that detect temperature change and motion.
Georgetown University McDonough School of Business Hariri Building-Washington DC
This 275,000sf educational facility is comprised of classrooms, auditoriums, student lounges and faculty and staff offices. Highlights include: 15% energy cost reduction with integrated daylighting strategies and highly efficient lighting, a 42% reduction in water usage through the use of low-flow fixtures and the extensive use of materials with both recycled and regional content. This project is currently pursuing LEED Silver.Georgetown University New Science Center- Washington DC
This 250,000sf educational center includes lab and classroom spaces. Highlights include chilled beam technology with highly efficient HVAC systems; selection of materials for high recycled content and reduced indoor air quality impacts; >40% water use reduction, including rainwater collection for irrigation and flushing; and integrated stormwater management strategies including permeable pavements, native vegetation, and cistern collection. Under GRT’s consulting services, this project is pursuing LEED Gold.
Grinnell College East Campus Dorms- Grinnell, IA
GRT provided sustainable Process Facilitation & Technical Assistance for the new 126,000 s.f. dormitory facility that includes four buildings linked by a covered walkway on the south side of the buildings. Grinnell College is taking an environmental leadership role with multiple projects pursuing LEED. Strategy Highlights include: water efficiency strategies, High Performance Envelope Connection between HVAC system and operable windows, Emphasis on Indoor Air Quality.Grinnell College Joseph Rosenfield Campus Center- Grinnell, IA
GRT provided LEED Project Management Services for the Center.
The Campus Center functions as the "living room" of the Grinnell campus as well as a centralized dining facility. It also includes several lounges; a multi-purpose room for lectures by visiting speakers; a post office; game rooms; e-mail kiosks; and numerous classrooms that can double as meeting rooms. Sustainable strategies that were focused on in the development of the Campus Center include energy efficiency, construction waste management, water use reduction, use of local/regional materials, and materials with recycled content.
Northern Kentucky University, Griffin Hall, Highland Heights, KY
The new 125,000 s.f. Griffin Hall for NKU’s College of Informatics will provide the campus with a cutting edge facility for aspiring artists, musicians, doctors, entrepreneurs, scientists, and environmentalists to come together to learn about technology and how it is taking their fields to the next level. From an environmental standpoint, Innovation in Education and Outreach will be the cornerstone of the completed project, the team is implementing systems that will offer students the opportunity to learn, interact and re-present the energy-efficiency and sustainability goals achieved by the project on an ongoing and real-time basis.
Penn State University
Hershey Medical Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital - Hershey, PA
GRT is providing LEED coaching for the Cancer Institute and LEED project management for the Children’s Hospital. These two new major additions to the Hershey Medical Center constitute a total of nearly one- half million square feet of new medical programming. These projects require special attention, due to the complex relationships with the campus regarding the sustainable sites strategies and with the central plant regarding the energy and atmosphere strategies.
Suffolk University 10 West Street Dormitory- Boston, MA LEED CI Gold Certification
GRT’s role included extensive LEED coaching and administration for this project consisting of major renovations of the interiors of 10 West Street, converting condominiums to dormitory rooms, with retail on the ground floor and dormitory space above. GRT performed calculations, created diagrams, and narratives. Project carefully selected low emitting furniture and installed a digital dimming control system. Project goals were achieved including reduction of energy use by 25%, 30% water savings over E.P.A. 1992, and 75% construction waste was diverted.
Suffolk University Modern Theater Dormitory- Boston, MA
GRT is performing LEED services on this logistically challenging project. The plan is to take down the façade piece by piece and restore it off site. The rest of the building will be demolished and replaced with a two story theater with a residence hall on top. The historic two story façade will then be reconstructed on the front of the new building. The goal is to achieve a LEED-NC silver rating.
University of Rhode Island Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences- Kingston, RI
The center for Biotechnology & Life Sciences is one of the first buildings to be implemented within the framework of the master plan developed by William McDonough. Strategy highlights include atrium stack ventilation and natural ventilation in the teaching labs. Analysis includes daylighting, LEED calculations and technical peer reviews. GRT provided LEED facilitation & calculations, daylighting analysis and assisted IDC with charrette facilitation. This project is pursuing LEED Silver Certification.
University of Rhode Island, College of Pharmacy- Kingston, RI
This new 157,000 s.f. facility has been designed to provide state of the art facilities for the URI College of Pharmacy to achieve its goal of improving healthcare through pharmaceutical education and research. The project is currently starting construction and is slated to achieve LEED Silver. GRT has provided sustainable project coordination services, LEED administration, LEED calculation review, and technical peer review of the construction documents to ensure achievement of LEED credits through construction.
Wellesley Whitin Observatory, Wellesley, MA
Wellesley College is aiming for LEED Gold Certification for the renovation and addition to this historic observatory. The team has taken care to preserve the integrity and embodied energy of the existing structure, as well as limit the area of disturbance by protecting numerous trees that characterize the Wellesley campus. Also, with no exterior lighting and a curfew system for nearly all perimeter interior lights, this project exemplifies the light pollution reduction credit.
