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| Project Title | Architect/s | General Contractor / Construction Manager | City | LEED Rating System | Certification Level | Project Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brownleigh Building | BBH Design PA | Basie Construction, LLC / Robert West - (Design-Build) | Raleigh | Gold | LEED NC 2.2 | Multi-Use |
| Building D, Northern Wake Campus Wake Technical Community College |
Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee Architecture | JM Thompson | Raleigh | Gold | LEED NC 2.2 | Higher Ed |
| Courthouse Bay Enlisted Dining Facility, Camp Lejeune | Clark Nexsen Architecture & Engineering |
The Whiting Turner Contracting Company | Jacksonville | Certified | LEED NC 2.1 | Military Base |
| Carrington Hall, School of Nursing UNC-Chapel Hill |
Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee Architecture | Clancy & Theys | Chapel Hill | Certified | LEED NC 2.0 | Higher Ed |
| Criminal Justice Resource Center: Third Floor Renovation - Durham County |
MHA Works, PA | Gleeson Snyder Constructors, Inc. | Durham | Silver | LEED-CI 2.0 | Commercial Office |
| Freidl Humanities Building Adaptive Re-Use, Duke University | Clark Nexsen Architecture & Engineering |
LeChase Construction Services, LLC | Durham | Silver | LEED NC 2.1 | Higher Ed |
| French Creek Bachelor Enlisted Quarters, Camp Lejeune | Clark Nexsen Architecture & Engineering |
The Whiting Turner Contracting Company | Jacksonville | Certified | LEED NC 2.1 | Military Base |
| Phase 1A, Northern Wake Campus Wake Technical Community College |
Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee Architecture | J.M Thompson | Raleigh | Certified | LEED NC 2.1 | Higher Ed |
| O'Brien/Atkins Associates in association with Clearscapes (associate architect) and TVS Design (design architect) | Skanska/Barnhill Joint Venture | Raleigh | Silver | LEED NC 2.1 | Other | |
| Seahawk Crossing Student Housing Complex & East Parking Deck, UNC Wilmington | Clark Nexsen Architecture & Engineering |
Weaver Cooke Construction | Wilmington | Silver | LEED NC 2.2 | Higher Ed |
| U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Computer Center | O'Brien/Atkins | Skanska USA Building | Morrisville | Silver | LEED NC 2.0 | Commercial Office |
Criminal Justice Resource Center: Third Floor Renovation
Written by Cat Brutvan
Project Description
The 40,600 square foot renovation of the existing Criminal Justice Resource Building included the upfit of the third floor from an abandoned jail annex for Durham County to high-efficiency office space for the Criminal Justice Resource Center, who occupied the lower two floors. The third floor of this project achieved LEED-Silver in March of 2011 through the LEED for Commercial Interiors category. It is Durham County’s first LEED-CI certified project. Renovations include selective demolition, addition of new offices, renovation and addition of rest rooms, and the complete replacement of all electrical, HVAC, and plumbing systems. Thermal and waterproofing improvements consist of the replacement of all exterior glazing with insulated glazing panels, historic steel sash frame rehabilitation, paint removal, and installation of a waterproofing finish surface on the concrete building exterior.
Sustainable Features
• Sustainable Features of this project included:
• Furring of exterior walls with added insulation to increase the efficiency of the building envelope
• Restoration of overhead skylight lights
• Reglazing of historic steel sash windows with high-efficiency (low U-factor) glass with window shades for glare control
• Zero VOC finishes
• Ultra-touch demin wall insulation in all new walls
• Large interior windows in all occupied spaces to increase the transmittance of natural light throughout the space
• High level of thermal control
• Occupancy sensors in all occupied spaces
Project Description
Wake Technical Community College’s Northern Wake Campus is a new commuter campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee developed the master plan for the 121 acre campus, which is the first all-LEED multi-building community college campus in the United States. Set amid pine forests and bordered by the Neuse River, the campus master plan employs a planning strategy that layers the site from the outside in so that automobiles remain isolated along the perimeter while pedestrian pathways engage open spaces and lush wetlands and forests in the site’s inner core. Two existing academic buildings sit on the western-most portion of the site, with Building D located just to their east and above a landscaped wetland area. Together, the three bar-shaped buildings create a continuous built perimeter around a landscaped pedestrian realm of hardscape and elm trees fronting a terraced lawn that slopes down toward a pond and wetlands.
Building D is oriented with its long axis running east-west to maximize interior daylight and to capture views of the gently sloping outdoor spaces. Just as the site master plan is a concentrically layered composition, the building is also layered with private cellular spaces (offices, mechanical, storage) facing outward and larger, more public spaces (classrooms, science labs, lobbies and cafe) focused on the plaza and terraced lawn. Pathways weave in and out of these interior-facing public spaces and their open plan and material transparency eliminate the distinctions between building and site.
The material selection responds to both program and site conditions while also valuing longevity and durability. Concrete masonry units and glass-fiber reinforced concrete panels provide a strong base for the building and anchor it to the site’s undulating topography. The upper levels are comprised of aluminum and glass curtain wall, lending a sense of transparency to the building. An aluminum composite panel structure frames the curtain wall and entry.
Sustainable Features
• The sum of the post consumer recycled content plus half of the pre-consumer content constituted over 40% of the total value of the materials in the project.
• Over 40% of the building materials were harvested and manufactured within 500 miles of the project site.
• Energy usage was reduced by 28% over the ASHRAE baseline by using condensing boilers, high performance chillers, automatic day lighting systems and designing the building envelope to respond to its orientation and environment.
• Daylighting and views to the outside are provided to 90% of the occupied spaces.
• Glazing was eliminated on the east and west facades to minimize summer heat gain. To reduce lighting costs, glazing was maximized on the north and south.
• Heat gain and glare on the southern exposure is controlled via a ten foot roof overhang used in conjunction with horizontal sun screens, high performance glass and sensors that dim or brighten the artificial light in response to the amount of natural light that enters the glass.
Seahawk Crossing Student Housing Complex & East Parking Deck at UNC Wilmington
Written by Cat Brutvan
Project Description
Seahawk Crossing, a residential community consisting of four three-story buildings, provides 667 new student beds for upperclassmen on the University of North Carolina Wilmington campus. To provide an environment conducive to the needs of upperclassmen, the buildings offer four-, six-, and eight-person suite-style housing featuring fully furnished units with private bedrooms, fully equipped kitchens, one bathroom per two students, and in-suite washers and dryers. Other amenities include game rooms, a 100-person meeting room, a music practice room, and a mixed-use building with vendor space for Dunkin’ Donuts, a convenience store, and office space for parking staff. The project also included a 1,000-car parking deck, the first on the UNCW campus that features bicycle parking and plug-in parking for electric vehicles. This project received a LEED Silver Certification for both the housing and parking components of the complex.
Sustainable Features
This project is the first LEED Certified building for UNC Wilmington and the green features included low-flow plumbing devices, air-charged toilet tanks, low-VOC carpets made from 35 percent recycled content, opening windows, ceiling fans, and storm water retention systems underground between the buildings. The parking deck also utilizes 25% less paved area than a parking lot.
French Creek Bachelor Enlisted Quarters at Camp Lejeune
Written by Cat Brutvan
Project Description
This was a Design/Build project between Clark Nexsen and The Whiting Turner Contracting Company. This project consisted of a 288,000 SF multiple award contract which included construction of four Bachelor-Enlisted Quarters for approximately 1,300 soldiers with 650 bedrooms in accordance with UFC-4-721-10. The project involved design and construction of barracks on two independent sites (Project P1150 and P1155) with a total of four barracks buildings, two on each site. Each facility is a 4-story, load-bearing, masonry building with an exterior corridor-style construction. Each building is approximately 72,000 SF and acts as a self-contained building. The buildings have a 2-story lounge with interior laundry and meeting facilities. Each site is approximately 20 acres in size, and has a central mechanical facility to feed utilities to each building. The project incorporated site work with site grading, clearing, water, sanitary sewer, storm water management, parking and recreational facilities that include basketball and volleyball courts along with picnic shelters and grill areas.
Sustainable Features
This project is registered with the US Green Building Council and achieved a LEED® Certified rating. The brick, metal soffits, roofing, CMU and concrete are all recyclable material sources. These products receive LEED credits for recycled content, and are excellent local/regional material selections. Interior material selections specified low VOC content. We specified direct digital controls and equipment with optimum energy performance, and minimum energy consumption (energy recovery, etc.). Low-E glazing was specified as well.
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.
Courthouse Bay Enlisted Dining Facility at Camp LeJeune
Written by Cat Brutvan
Project Description
The P-1130 Enlisted Personnel Dining Facility at Courthouse Bay is a modern, state-ofthe-art, 20,600 SF cafeteria-style dining facility for regular meals, short-order meals, and fast food service to support approximately 2,200 permanent party and student Marines at Courthouse Bay, Camp Lejeune, MCB, Jacksonville, North Carolina.
Sustainable Features
This facility was designed and constructed following the U.S. Green Building Council’s guidelines for LEED Certifications, and was self-certified by NAVFAC personnel. The buildings were oriented to reduce solar heat gain and maximize cross breezes. An erosion and sedimentation control plan was designed and implemented during construction. A stormwater management plan was implemented to decrease the rate and quantity of stormwater runoff. The exterior and interior materials are good sustainable design materials for the brick, metal soffits, roofing, CMU, and concrete are all recyclable and local and regional material sources. Interior material selections were specified with low volatile organic compound (VOC) content, in colors chosen to maximize daylighting effectiveness. Low emitting materials were specified for adhesives and sealants, paints, carpet, and composite wood and agrifiber products. The building design provided a high level of thermal, ventilation, and lighting system control by individual occupants in perimeter and non-perimeter spaces.
Project Description
Two organizations, BBH Design and Umstead Park United Church of Christ (UPUCC) joined forces and acquired and co-closed on a 32,000 square foot, second generation industrial park building. The site is centrally located between Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill and adjacent to a national state park.
This environmentally friendly renovation-retrofit originally began with sharing the needs of a growing architectural firm and a church congregation. Both were weary of renting space and were searching for their first home as a step towards implementing their organizational visions. The overall project consisted of transforming the existing facility to create a new presence, a shared entrance-lobby and the renovations for each identity. The design explores aspects of "human-nature" in a way that integrates the interaction of people, nature and the built environment in an environmentally sustainable manner.
Through the reuse of an underutilized existing office building, designers and owners envisioned a dual-purpose facility. The primary goal of this project was to accommodate the unique opportunity of housing a Church and a Professional Architecture Practice Office together in an environmentally responsive manner. On the church's side, the goal was to design facilities and communal spaces for the development of the human spirit in conjunction with nature. On the professional office side the goal was to open the architectural and design environments to the natural world to foster creativity and raise environmental awareness. At the heart of this project was the belief in the power of collaboration and having faith in each other with a common goal of sustainability. Both organizations saw this as an opportunity to avoid consuming the resources that would have been required in constructing two buildings, or developing multiple construction sites. This synergistic approach of project management created exponential benefits far greater than that of a singular group, firm or organization. Equally unique was implementing a design-build approach and process in obtaining LEED certification. The building achieved LEED Gold certification – the first architectural office and church in the southeast to do so.
Sustainable Features
• 57% of the Site Area Restored using Native/Adaptive Planting
• 38% Water Use Reduction
• 16% Energy Savings
• 35% Green Power Usage
• 87% Construction Waste Diverted from Landfill
• 96% Reuse of Existing Envelope and Structural Components
• 57% Reuse of Non-Structural Interior Components
• 50% Usage of Local Materials
• 91% of Regularly Occupied Space Accessible to Outside Views
Project Description
Completed in 2008, the new Raleigh Convention Center, at just over 500,000 sf, is the premiere civic hospitality building in Raleigh and Wake County. With its vast Exhibit Hall, sixteen meeting rooms, and a Grand Ballroom seating 2,400 people, the new facility is estimated to host more than 375,000 visitors per year. Events in the new Convention Center also use the Meeting Rooms and Ballroom of the new 400-room Marriott City Center Hotel located across from the it.
The Convention Center is arranged on three levels with the lowest being the 150,000 square foot Exhibit Hall. Above this, at the Salisbury Street level are 30,000 square feet of Meeting Rooms. The third and uppermost level is for the 32,000 square foot Grand Ballroom. The building occupies a full city block at the street level and rises to a total height of approximately 100 feet. Below the street level, the Exhibit Hall, loading docks and services expand below two adjacent city streets (Cabarrus and Salisbury).
Project Description
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Computer Center demonstrates that a green building can compete financially with a conventional building. Completed within conventional budget constraints, the Computer Center achieved a LEED-NC Silver rating in early 2005.
To offset some of the environmental impact of the building's massive quantity of data-processing equipment, a significant portion of the roof is covered with a photovoltaic array. Besides generating electricity, this "solar roof" also assists in mitigating unwanted radiant heat gain. The remaining roof area is covered by a reflective, white, Energy Star compliant membrane.
A large amount of south-facing, vertical glass allows daylight into office spaces and provides passive solar gain for winter heating. A central atrium provides direct daylighting in the lobby and indirect daylighting in offices directly facing the lobby. Indoor air quality is monitored by carbon dioxide sensors, and ventilation is adjusted as needed. Printing and copying rooms have dedicated ventilation. The preservation of natural site features was an important priority in determining the building site. In addition, ten acres were designated permanent open space. Approximately 82%, by weight, of all construction waste was sorted and recycled. A design-build approach was adopted as the best method for assuring that the design intent would be achieved. This is particularly important when considering the design's many nontraditional features. Conspicuous barriers were erected during construction to protect site features, such as stands of trees, that were to be preserved.
Sustainable Features
- A "solar roof" covers an area of approximately 15,000 square feet. The solar roof consists of a 94-kilowatt (peak) photovoltaic (PV) array made up of 2,185 individual tiles. Each tile is a stacked composite made up of a layer of rigid polystyrene foam insulation board, a wiring chase and airspace, and a PV module. Each tile interlocks with adjacent tiles and rests on top of the membrane-covered roof deck with no mechanical penetrations.
- The output of the PV array offsets approximately 5% of the building's electricity consumption, which is estimated to be approximately twice that of a conventional office building of equivalent size, due to the large demand from data-processing equipment.
- The flat roof is covered by a highly reflective, Energy Star compliant, white membrane (reinforced thermoplastic polyolefin) that reduces unwanted heat during the cooling season.
- A duct system is installed in the building for heating and cooling distribution and for ventilation. An economizer provides additional cooling efficiency by introducing outside air when conditions are suitable. A building automation system controls all of the heating, cooling, and ventilation functions and it is programmed for nighttime setback of these functions and lighting. Carbon-dioxide sensors control the amount of ventilation, so that the introduction of fresh air and the exhaust of stale air occur when most needed, namely during high levels of building occupancy. Variable-frequency-drive pumps and blowers are used on water and air distribution systems.
- Many of the office spaces are located on the front (south) side of the building to take advantage of passive solar thermal gain and daylighting. An extensive amount of vertical glass is used, and summer shading is provided by externally mounted aluminum shading structures. A central, two-story atrium provides direct daylighting for the lobby and indirect daylighting for those offices directly adjacent to the lobby. The atrium also provides passive solar heating in the winter.
- Space heating is provided by a natural-gas fired boiler that supplies hot water to heating coils. The building has no installed chiller; instead, it is linked, via underground piping, to a central water-chiller system that serves multiple buildings on the Research Triangle Park campus.
- High-efficiency fluorescent lighting is used throughout the building, in combination with occupancy sensors, to prevent lighting empty rooms.
- In 2004, the EPA entered into a three-year agreement with an energy services company for the purchase of 100 million kilowatt hours worth of green power in the form of renewable energy certificates. These certificates support biomass power generation from paper pulp facilities. This agreement offsets all of the electricity used by the entire Research Triangle Park campus.
- A building automation system controls and optimizes heating, cooling, and ventilating functions while also managing fire safety, lighting, and security in the building. The system is also able to track maintenance intervals and provide equipment-malfunction alarms.
Project Description
Carrington Hall was the first LEED certified project in the 16-campus University of North Carolina system.
Working within a campus setting offers a complex set of parameters and challenges. After a series of studies a site on Chapel Hill's campus was selected. While not the easiest or least expensive site for construction, the site supports the implementation of the master plan and becomes an axial focus of the future science complex. Due to pedestrian pathways and an extreme topographical change from one side of the site to the other, the building acts as a portal between the Health Affairs portion of the campus and the new science quad. This allows pedestrians to transverse through the building.
Programmatically, the 69,350 s.f. building is extremely diverse. The seven-story structure offers mixed uses throughout the building including a 175 seat auditorium, laboratory spaces, distance learning facilities, teaching classrooms and office spaces.
Sustainability Features
• A stormwater management plan that will result in at least a 25% decrease in the rate and quantity of stormwater runoff
• The garden area is an approximately 4,475 foot garden that will infiltrate about 698 cubic feet of stormwater
• A site-specific sediment and erosion control plan
• 100% of the roof area covered by either "green" vegetation or high albedo roofing
• Roofing materials complying with the Energy Star label requirements
• Landscaping was designed with drought resistant plants and trees that will reduce potable water consumption by 50% and will not require a permanent irrigation system
• Building water use that is at least 30% less than Baseline Fixture performance requirements of the Energy Policy Act of 1992
• HVAC&R systems that are free of HCFCs and Halons
