The Northeast Green Building Awards
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Organized by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
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Erie-Ellington
Homes Prize
Winner!
Submitted by:
Stella Tarnay
Hickory Consortium
Green Village Company
129 Mount Auburn Street, 3rd floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-491-1888
An Eclectically Green House Prize Winner!
Submitted by:
Richard Morse, Architect
160 Amherst Road
Sunderland, MA 01375
413-665-1221
This project was designed to accommodate a hierarchy of public to private spaces. This would allow everything from a large social gathering, to a few friends, to an intimate tête-à-tête, to a personal retreat from it all – concurrently. The spaces were also designed to accommodate a wide of ages (children through seniors and their interactions) and activities.
Project Description (rich text file .rtf)
Multi-Family Retrofit Prize Winner!
Submitted by:
Christopher Yule, President
Yule Development Co., Inc.
942 Beacon Street
Newton Center, MA 02459
617-630-8540
Ecological Barn Rehabilitation
Submitted by:
Sandra Vitzthum
Montpelier, VT
This project was an experiment in using local materials and craftsmanship to make a simple and eloquent dwelling. Additionally, the design had to fit the requirements of the National Park Service's Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit. Straw bale and feng shui also influenced the design.
Project Description (rich text file .rtf)
Single Family residence with home office
Submitted by:
Greg Roberts
Design Concepts Co., Inc
Fairport, ME
A practical, energy efficient home with zero greenhouse gas emissions (on site and off), that was ecologically sensitive in its fabrication materials, sensitive to the existing site, aesthetically pleasing, healthy, and economical. A house that others would want to (and could) emulate. The home owner is president of a wind farm development company selling power to large customers initially; residential customers later. The homeowner will later obtain power from wind farms. Efficient homes powered by renewable power plants are economically and environmentally sustainable. Automobile use is significantly reduced as one of the home owners is much closer to work, the other home owner works in the house, and the home is located very close to town. Children bike or take bus to school.
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COMMERCIAL & INSTITUTIONAL BUILDINGS
PNC Bank Prize Winner!
Submitted by:
Elmer B. Burger II
LDA- L.D. Astorino Companies
227 Fort Pitt Boulevard
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
412-209-2811
This facility has obtained LEED Silver Certification from the US Green Building Council under its version 2 requirements. It is the largest building to receive this certification. During design and construction, advice was obtained from USGBC, the Rocky Mountain Institute, Pittsburgh’s Green Building Alliance, Carnegie-Mellon University Intelligent Workplace, and Paladino Associates.
Project Description (rich text format .rtf)
Chewonki Foundation Center for Environmental Education Prize Winner!
Submitted by:
Steven H. Theodore, Partner
Theodore and Theodore Architects
43 Middle Street
Wiscasset, Maine 04578
207-882-8494
CCI Center Prize Winner!
Submitted by:
Ann Jones Gerace, Executive Director
Conservation Consultants, Inc.
64 South 14th Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
412-431-4449 ext. 200
In 1993 an 83-year-old building on Pittsburgh’s historic South Side was purchased to renovate. The building was developed to be a resource hub for environmentally sound strategies, both by modeling green building techniques, and by concentrating several environmental organizations in one building.
Project Description (rich text format .rtf)
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
Submitted by:
J. Gary Gardner
Gardner & Pope Architects, LLC.
Pittsburgh, PA
The
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank’s new headquarters were designed in a
collaborative process to create a building that demonstrates the Food Bank’s
mission of bringing sustenance and hope to residents of the Pittsburgh region,
reducing waste in the food chain, and enhancing the region’s viability.
The design was to serve as a symbol of renewal and hope and display
connections with healthy natural systems, as well as accommodate the building
performance and functional needs of a growing nonprofit organization.
Project Description (rich text file .rtf)
Green Canopy Assisted Living Residence
Submitted by:
Ron Hortsman
Chatham, NJ
703-481-2033
rhortsman@ncsbcs.org
All of the features of this project will result in significant savings and comfort for the occupants and owner over the life of the facility. We have designed and implemented strategies that will achieve an energy savings in the range of 20 percent more than the minimum standards for Chatham , and provide a healthy sustainable environment both indoors and out.
Project Description (rich text file .rtf)
Phantom Laboratory Manufacturing & Office Facility
Submitted by:
Josh Levy
Salem, NY
In relocating from a typical manufacturing space, the new facility more than doubled their size, significantly increased the quantity of fresh outside air, and quadrupled the air-conditioned space. However, electrical consumption only grew by 3% and oil consumption only increased by 16%. Most importantly, the employees are much more comfortable and satisfied in their new work environment.
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Pittsburgh Convention Center
The New David L. Lawrence Convention Center pays homage to Pittsburgh's tradition of engineering excellence and its powerful urban form. The building is a roof structured as a suspension bridge over a column free space. Its section iterates the zoning envelope, which gives the city its characteristic profile. Tethered above the site, the curved surface of the roof characterizes the building’s identity making it a recognizable landmark within the city fabric. At its edge, a cantilevered urban roof terrace reaches the edge of the Allegheny and offers the opportunity of viewing the city as a whole, in its magnificent topographic setting.
Penn Center West Buildings 6 and 8
Submitted by:
J. Gary Gardner
Gardner & Pope Architects, LLC.
Pittsburgh, PA
The architects designed two office buildings based on sustainable design principles that provide high quality work environments and cost no more than a typical speculative office buildings in the region. The buildings were to project a contemporary image using modular facades of metal and glass, exposed structural connections, and a black and white color scheme to fit with the existing buildings in the office park. The sleek image, along with sustainable design features and large, open floor spaces, was to attract corporate and high tech tenants who are concerned with flexibility. In achieving these goals, Buildings 6 and 8 have become nationwide precedents for speculative office buildings by balancing design, sustainability, market demand and budget.
Project Description (rich text file .rtf)
Roth Center for Jewish Life
Submitted by:
R.M. Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects
255 West 26 Street
New York, NY 10001
212-243-7400
The center provides facilities for cultural, spiritual, academic and social activities of Jewish students and faculty at Dartmouth College and for the Upper Valley Jewish Community in the small town of Hanover, New Hampshire. This project focused on sustainable materials, effective ventilation, water efficiency and indoor environmental quality.
Project Description (rich text file .rtf)
Solar Center Project
Submitted by:
Talmage Solar Engineering Inc.
25 Limerick Rd.
Arundel, ME 04046
207-985-0088
The
Solar Center consists of an old farmhouse and barn and a newly constructed three
floor 30’ x 50’ addition. The
facility houses 6 professional offices, an apartment, a retail showroom and a
warehouse. The construction was started in April of 2000 and completed in
September of the same year.
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Westmoreland Technology Park
Submitted by:
Heartbeat Cities Corp.
Sheldon Bogos
800-505-3154
An appraisal was just recently performed on the building, and the appraisal company has reported that “The subject property will have no equal in this park, and few properties of such quality have been constructed in Westmoreland County.”
Project Description (rich text file .rtf)
SCHOOLS & OTHER GOV'T. BUILDINGS
The Burnham Building Prize Winner!
Submitted by:
Jonathan F.P. Rose
Affordable Housing Development Company
33 Katonah Avenue
Katonah, NY 10536
The Burnham Building, an old wood frame and masonry structure built in Irvington, New York in 1881, sits on the corner of Main Street directly across from the railroad station. With the redevelopment of the building, we were able to combine transit-oriented development, main street revitalization, historic preservation and green material and systems in a mixed-use building. The ground floor has been redeveloped into a new Village Library. The upper floors have been developed into affordable and low-income housing.
Sanderson Academy: Ashfield-Plainfield Regional Elementary School Prize Winner!
Submitted by:
Margo Jones
Margo Jones Architects, Inc.
308 Main Street, Suite 3A
Greenfield, MA 01301
413-773-5551
Ashfield and Plainfield are rural hill towns at the eastern edge of the Berkshires, west of the Connecticut River Valley. Increased population and a worn out, cramped schoolhouse led to construction of a new regional elementary school.
Project Description (rich text format .rtf)
Liverpool Central School District Prize Winner!
Submitted by:
Ronald L. Sapio
Director of Operation/Energy Services
Niagara Mohawk Energy
507 Plum Street
Syracuse, NY 13204
315-460-3029
French Creek Office Building
Submitted by:
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
DCNR
400 Market Street
Harrisburg, PA 17101
This
Pennsylvania State Park and Forestry
administrative facility demonstrates environmental sustainability by
utilizing the following: energy efficient office lighting; large operable
windows; water-to-air geothermal zoned HVAC system; and selection of
construction and furniture items that maximize the use of recycled materials.
Project Description (rich text file .rtf)
Heartwood Solar Studio
Submitted by:
Talmage Solar Engineering, Inc.
25 Limerick Rd
Arundel, ME 04046
207-985-0088
Passive and active solar energy, as well as energy efficiency, are the themes of this college dormitory and art studio in Arundel, Maine.
Project Description (rich text file .rtf)
Liverpool Central School District
Submitted by:
Niagara Mohawk Energy Services
This multi-phase project consists of facility energy improvements that will pay for themselves through reduced energy and other operating costs. The design implements a low-emission, quiet, and reliable combined electric power and heat generation system. Included is a 200 kW environmentally “clean” (I.e., zero-emissions), state-of-the-art Fuel Cell system.
Project Description and Poster Board Display
Middlebury College Bicentennial Hall
Submitted
by:
Julie Paquette
Vanderweil Engineers
Boston, MA 02210
617-423-7423
jpaquette@vanderweil.com
Bicentennial Hall is a unique facility in that it incorporates high technology and several energy intensive systems in the most efficient and forward-thinking manner. The building serves as an ultimate model to all organizations developing science teaching and research spaces.
New South Jamaica Branch Library
Submitted by:
Stein White Nelligan Aichitects, LLC
20 West 20 Street
New York, NY 10011
The new South Jamaica Branch Library is an integrated design in which the building’s shell and each of its systems operate together to achieve enhanced conditions for the users; while minimizing the demands made on the natural environment for energy and other resources, both for building construction and operation.
Project Description (rich text file .rtf)
Ricketts Glen State Park Building
Submitted
by:
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
DCNR
400 Market Street
Harrisburg, PA 17101
This project is a single story multi-use Pennsylvania State Park administrative/environmental education facility. Among its goals is to ensure environmental responsibility through the use of energy efficient office lighting; large operable windows, water-to-air geothermal zoned HVAC system; selection of construction and furniture materials that maximize utilization of recycled materials.
Project Description (rich text file .rtf)
Decentralized Renewable Energy Producing Infrastructure for Portland, Maine Prize Winner!
Submitted by:
Laurie A. Griffith
36 W. Hopkinton Road
Henniker, NH 03242
603-428-4217
This project does not fall under the heading ‘type of building’; rather, it is the premise of this project that considering buildings (sustainable or not) as single and autonomous within the built environment is a practice full of redundancies. To counter this practice, it is the intention of this project to consider the built environment as an interconnected, interdependent system of entities that must attempt to produce an equal amount of energy as it consumes.
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Energy Calculations (excel spreadsheet)
Passive Energy House, Phoenix, Arizona Prize Winner!
Submitted by:
Yansong Ma
262 Bradley Street
New Haven, CT 06510
203-773-1478
This project is designed for a home for a professional couple with 1-2 children in southwest area. They have a home-based small business, which is located at the first floor of their house. There is a possibility for one set of parents eventually living with the household for an extended period. The family is actively engaged with frequent entertainment (parties and visiting groups) and numerous outdoor activities
Project
Description & Poster Board Display
Image of Awareness: A Polaroid-Prospect Hill Park Recreation/Education Icon Prize Winner!
Submitted by:
Eric C. Becker
30 Chester Ave.
Waltham, MA 02453
The major architectural program elements include: Prospect Hill Park visitors center, Native plants and nature exhibits, Presentation auditoriums, Nature and technology interactive research library, Class rooms for student and business orientations, Polaroid employee and park visitor cafe, Polaroid Recreational facilities, Waltham park and environmental offices. The major site program includes a pedestrian bridge that provides connection to the park and allows visitors to descend from 120 feet through the treetops into the park.
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Solar Now Farm School
This farm school incorporates a passive solar greenhouse, photovoltaics, geothermal heating (vertical closed loops,) and a biomass biological gasifier. The site has at least 85-90 % natural energy supply. The goal is to use the great location of the base, which includes open fields, flora/fauna wastes, and rich solid and hydrology. The main purpose is to make the farm school as naturalistic as it can be.
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Student Church
The Unitarian Church project allows for flexibility that is responsive to the wide range of activities of its congregation. A main sanctuary is inserted between the east and west wings of classrooms, offices, and service rooms. The resultant space below is the hollowed-out meeting room. The pneumatic-platform floor lets members create their own environment for shows and meetings. A grided ceiling in the meeting rooms facilitates the movement of stage props.
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