Saturday, March 12, 2011

Freidl Humanities Building Adaptive Re-Use

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Project Information

  • Owner: Duke University
  • Location: Durham
  • Architect/s: Clark Nexsen Architecture & Engineering
  • Project Team: Clark Nexsen Architecture & Engineering
  • GC/CM: LeChase Construction Services, LLC
  • Square Footage: 53,614
  • Certification Date: April 2010
  • Certification Level: Silver
  • LEED Rating System: LEED NC 2.1
  • Project Type: Higher Education

Project Description

This adaptive re-use of the Old Art Museum created offices, classrooms, and seminar spaces to house three academic departments.  The building, now known as the Freidl Humanities Building, was constructed originally in 1929 to house the Science Classroom for Trinity College, was renovated in 1969 and converted to gallery space.  Clark Nexsen’s design included modifications to the horizontal and vertical circulation throughout the building, removal of exterior stairs, the addition of new restrooms, and wiring the building to meet the University’s current IT standards including technology for videoconferencing.  The exterior façade was restored to its original 1929 appearance.  The interior renovations incorporated new terrazzo floors, wood mouldings, panelled doors, transom panels, reproductions of period lighting, and flat arched openings to replicate a Georgian-Revival classroom building.  The center of the building also incorporated two-story spaces illuminated by an existing skylight.    The project received a LEED Silver Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council.

Sustainable Features

Some of the sustainable features that were incorporated into this project are as followed:
• Over 5% of regular building occupants will have secure bicycle storage slots and adequate changing/shower
facilities within 200 yards of the building.
• Installed carbon dioxide monitoring system with controls/zone that conform to the system.
• Provided a minimum Daylight Factor of 2% in 75% of all spaces occupied.
• 98.93% of regularly occupied spaces have direct lines of site to perimeter glazing.
• A Variable Air Volume (VAV) system utilizing indoor air-handling units with variable frequency drives supplying
conditioned air to single duct terminal units with hot water reheat coils was best suited for the building.
• 94.46% of the structural building was reused and 100% of the shell was reused.
• 5.21% of the building occupants were provided with carpool or vanpool preferred parking.
• 74.501% of construction waste was recycled.

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