Public Building Commission- Engine Company 109 Firehouse
Under Mayor Richard M. Daley’s Neighborhoods Alive program the Chicago Fire Department and the Chicago Public Building Commission are jointly bringing advanced new fire houses to every part of Chicago.
Engine Company 109 Firehouse is a new, a new one-story, 14,670 SF facility consisting of steel framing with exterior brick veneer, a burnished block interior, and terrazzo flooring replaces a station that dates back to 1907.
Certified LEED Gold, examples of sustainable features include:
- A green roof that reduces storm water runoff.
- On-site storm water retention system repurposes water for washing fire trucks and irrigation Permeable paver parking lot aids in the management of storm water on site.
- Drought tolerant landscaping
- Geothermal heat pump mechanical system
Engine Company 109 offers accommodations for up to 20 firefighters, which includes four officer quarters. An apparatus bay with three inbound and outbound doors service all fire vehicles. Also part of the site development is fenced parking for 23 vehicles and site landscaping.
Patterson Technology Center
Effingham, Illinois
Patterson Technologies is a national company providing software solutions, equipment, and supplies to the health care profession. The start-of-the-art building enables Patterson to simulate dental, veterinary, and rehabilitation environments that showcase the newest technology and seamless integration capabilities to its clients. A software usability lab allows developers to observe direct participant feedback and how users interface with the software in real-time simulations. The 100,000 square foot facility includes food service and fitness amenities and is designed to house 540 employees.
Patterson Technology Center sits at the edge of a natural birch forest and the building is tucked into a natural slope. There is continuous glazing from desktop to ceiling to provide views to the forest. The ecologically restorative landscaping concept utilizes low-maintenance buffalo grass and native prairie plantings with bioswales for storm water run-off.
On the exterior, a high-performance fiber-cement rain screen reflects Patterson’s technology ethos while imparting richness through variegated color and texture. The building is designed for flexibility with column-free spans from the core to perimeter walls. The project’s main entrance, training rooms, and cafeteria are offset to take advantage of views and create a hinge point for future expansion that aligns with the existing natural contours of the site.
DLR Group Names Two Senior Principals
Seven integrated design professionals also named as principals
(DLR Group – Nov. 12, 2011) — DLR Group has appointed J. C. “Andy” Anderson Jr., AIA, LEED AP, and Pamela Touschner, FAIA, as Senior Principals.
Anderson joined the Kansas City office of DLR Group in 1995. He is the firm’s Southeast Regional Leader, managing operations across 15 states and mentoring staff in Kansas City and Orlando. Anderson has led the strategic development of the firm’s Corporate, Higher Education, Justice+Civic, K-12, and Sports practices in the Southeast. He leads integrated design teams to create innovative, functional buildings that meet the needs and reflect the values of his clients.
“Andy is the epitome of a collaborative leader,” said DLR Group Managing Principal Griff Davenport, AIA. “He is a talented architect with the ability to truly make those around him better, carefully challenging when appropriate, and lending a hand when needed. Andy is a cornerstone of our firm.”
Touschner leads DLR Group’s Practice Forum. In this key leadership role she champions integrated design, ensures the firm’s course to achieve Architecture 2030 benchmarks, directs the implementation and mastery of BIM and other technology, and oversees quality assurance. She joined DLR Group in 1993 and works from the firm’s Riverside location. Touschner is past president of the AIA California Council and the AIA Inland California Chapter, and is a past AIA Regional Director.
“Pam is a strategic thinker and a creative problem solver,” said DLR Group Managing Principal Jon Pettit, AIA. “It is with incredible pride that we welcome Pam as a Senior Principal. As Practice Forum leader she is a passionate champion for integrated design, and her love of architecture is an inspiration to her clients and teams.”
DLR Group also named seven new Principals:
- John Badami, AIA, architect – Lincoln, Neb.
- Bryan Jehling, PE, electrical engineer – Phoenix
- Brad Kiehl, AIA, LEED AP, architect – Kansas City
- Julianne Laue, PE, , LEED AP BD+C, mechanical engineer – Minneapolis
- Todd Orr, AIA, architect – Orlando, Fla.
- James Torres, AIA, architect – Omaha, Neb.
- Lawrence Yuan, AIA, architect, Asia Region Leader –Shanghai
“A DLR Group Principal is a leader who proactively and ethically carries DLR Group forward to attain the firm’s mission and live its values,” said Pettit. “As invested employee-owners, each of our new Principals demonstrate these traits every day and represent DLR Group, our clients, and the practice of architecture with professionalism.”
About DLR Group DLR Group is an integrated design firm providing architecture, engineering, planning, and interior design from offices coast-to-coast and in China. We are ranked #1 in the United States by ARCHITECT, the official publication of the AIA, in its 2012 ARCHITECT 50 ranking of U.S. firms. Our promise is to elevate the human experience through design. This promise inspires sustainable design for a diverse group of public and private sector clients, local communities, and our planet. DLR Group fully supports the initiatives and goals of the 2030 Challenge and is an initial signatory to the AIA 2030 Commitment. Visit dlrgroup.com and follow us at LinkedIn and Twitter. # # #
On May 22, 2011, one of the deadliest tornadoes in the history of the United States ripped through Joplin, Missouri. On the ground for 13 miles, in 20 minutes it claimed 161 lives and caused $151 million in damage. Ten schools were damaged and Joplin High School was a total loss.
In response to this tragedy, DLR Group led an integrated design team to transform a 96,000 SF vacant big box retail space into a comprehensive 21st Century high school – design to construction – in just 55 business days.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan proclaimed the school a model for the nation following an onsite tour.
The Council for Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI) recognized Joplin Interim High School as the recipient of its 2012 James D. MacConnell Award. The MacConnell Award is the most prestigious award for K-12 education design. It recognizes a comprehensive planning process that results in educational facilities that serve the community and enhance the educational program.
MacConnell Award Jurors commented “the well planned engagement with the community on such a tight timeframe has given opportunities for rethinking learning spaces and stretching the vision of what learning environments can be.”
DLR Group is the first architecture firm to receive the MacConnell Award two years in a row. Its design for the Marysville (Wash.) Getchell Campus received the 2011 MacConnell Award.
Google
Kirkland, Washington
For the renovation of the second floor of Building A on its Kirkland campus, Google sought to quickly effect a paint-and-carpet refresh of workplace spaces to accommodate expanding teams.
DLR Group’s design for this project capitalizes on additional opportunities to make significant spatial impacts within the original schedule and budget parameters.
By removing a significant number of existing interior walls, the design dramatically opens spaces and creates a fluid connection across the open office environment, both around and through the secure building core. While the scope of work included preserving existing workstations, perimeter offices and conference spaces using DIRTT wall systems, the team took opportunities to re-plan collaboration areas, social spaces and privacy rooms for improved accessibility, visibility and experience of space.
New FF&E in these shared areas not only provide wayfinding cues, but also create a fun, funky, energetic workplace atmosphere relating to Google’s region-based building theme of “Northwest Music Scene.”
New Football Stadium for Houston Cougars
DLR Group and PageSoutherlandPage will team to design new football stadium for Houston Cougars
(HOUSTON – June 12, 2012) – Game Day on the University of Houston campus will be better for fans and student-athletes in 2014. DLR Group and PageSoutherlandPage have been selected to design a new football stadium for the Houston Cougars football program to elevate the fan and student-athlete experience.
The new stadium design will have 40,000 seats, 22 luxury suites, 200 loge box seats, club seating for 650 fans, and enhanced press facilities for the 2014 season. Fan amenities will include signature shaded areas and breezeways, expanded concessions, and upgraded scoreboards and sound system. Succeeding phases will increase seating to 50,000, and ultimately 60,000. The total project budget is $105 million.
The new stadium will be constructed on the site of 71-year-old Robertson Stadium, which will be demolished after the 2012 season.
“The vision is to create a new venue that is captivating on game days and also an iconic, vibrant building on the campus 365 days a year,” said DLR Group Principal Don Barnum. “The integrated PageSoutherlandPage | DLR Group design team looks forward to designing a stadium that will raise the profile of Houston football in the city, in Texas, and across the country.”
“This project isn’t just about replacing a stadium with a more modern facility; it’s about creating a venue that showcases the football team’s on-field accomplishments while providing a spectacular view of the downtown skyline,” said PageSoutherlandPage Principal in Charge Jeffrey Bricker. “As Houstonians, we’ve seen the University of Houston become a bigger and bigger part what makes the city a great place to live, work and now, receive a Tier One education.”
Improving the student-athlete experience is a focus of the master plan for Houston Cougar football. The new football complex will feature state-of-the-art locker facilities, including a locker room suite for Houston football and three visitor locker rooms; brand new playing surface; a 20,000 SF academic services building; a marching band rehearsal facility; and dedicated tailgating areas.
Larry Speck, Design Principal of PageSoutherlandPage, said, “This building will attract more visitors to the University of Houston campus—from loyal alumni and major donors to neighborhood kids with collegiate dreams—than any other. It will create a critical outreach to the community and a conspicuous window for Houstonians into their primary hometown academic institution.”
About DLR Group
DLR Group is an interdisciplinary design firm providing architecture, engineering, planning, and interior design from offices coast-to-coast and in China. Our promise is to elevate the human experience through design. This promise inspires sustainable design for a diverse group of public and private sector clients; local communities; and our planet. DLR Group fully supports the initiatives and goals of the 2030 Challenge and is an initial signatory to the AIA 2030 Commitment. Visit dlrgroup.com and follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
About PageSoutherlandPage
With roots extending back to 1898, PageSoutherlandPage has more than 425 employees and offices in Austin, Dallas, Denver, Houston and Washington, D.C. PageSoutherlandPage provides architecture, interiors, consulting and engineering services throughout the United States and around the world. The firm’s diverse, international portfolio includes projects in the academic, student housing, healthcare, government, science and technology, corporate and urban housing sectors. Learn more about the firm at www.pspaec.com.
Contact:
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aernsting@dlrgroup.com
DLR Group
913.378.4622
Diné College Library
Shiprock, New Mexco
Diné College, located in Tsaile, Ariz., serves residents of the 26,000 square-mile Navajo Nation across Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Founded in 1968, Diné College has two main campuses and six community centers serving approximately 2,000 students.
The new Diné College Library on the Shiprock, N.M., campus respects the vital connection between the Diné and the natural world. The library honors the built form of the sacred hogan and echoes the curving representation of the Navajo world-view.
Arched forms and curved walls present a gentle and welcoming spirit. Spaces created between the large curved forms align to special landforms, sacred directions, and celestial relationships that surround and define the world of the Navajo.
A long slit cut in the east wall of the library allows the rising sun to penetrate deep into the interior twice annually, corresponding with the beginning and ending of the school year. As the rays pierce the interior, they glance along a long stone wall and enter the Storytelling Room.
The family hogan, the center of Navajo life, is placed at the very center of the library as the Storytelling Room. It features a dramatic blue translucent enclosure rising like a prayer through the roof of the library. Lights and fiber optics in the ceiling surrounding the Story Telling Room display the Big Dipper, the North Star, and other constellations important to the storytelling tradition of the Diné.
DLR Group is designing an integrated sustainable energy solution for NRG that will make Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Philadelphia Eagles, among the greenest major sports facilities in the U.S. and in the world.
“The future of sustainable system design at public venues is to seamlessly integrate the renewable energy systems into the architecture of the stadium and adjacent facilities,” said DLR Group Principal Scott Shively, AIA. “The actual onsite power generation system will be an aesthetic part of Lincoln Financial Field to enhance the fan experience and raise awareness of the Eagles’ commitment to sustainable power.”
DLR Group also is designing renewable energy production systems for NRG at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, FedExField in Washington DC, and at Gillette Stadium and Patriot Place in Foxborough, Mass.
Joint NRG - Philadelphia Eagles Press Release
NRG Partnership Advances Eagles as Green Leaders in American Sports
Unique renewable power installation at Lincoln Financial Field
will be largest in the NFL
PHILADELPHIA, PA and PRINCETON, NJ; Mar 1, 2012 – NRG (NYSE: NRG) and the Philadelphia Eagles today announced a new sustainable energy partnership to make the Eagles’ vision of clean power for Lincoln Financial Field a reality. When construction is completed late in December 2012 the Eagles’ home in Philadelphia will be among the greenest major sports facilities in the U.S. and in the world. NRG will design, build and operate a unique, integrated sustainable energy solution including solar panels and micro wind-turbines that together will provide annually about six times the power used during all Eagles home games. In addition, NRG will be the official supplier of grid power to Lincoln Financial Field and a major sponsor of the Eagles.
“The Eagles were pioneers in embracing sustainability when they launched their Go Green! campaign back in 2003, now we are pleased to be their partner in making on-site renewable energy the centerpiece of their commitment to a sustainable future,” said David Crane, President and Chief Executive Officer of Princeton, N.J.-based NRG. “The new clean energy facilities in and around Lincoln Financial Field will make it clear to all that renewable energy makes sense, economically, aesthetically and environmentally, for businesses and individuals in and around Philadelphia.”
“The Philadelphia Eagles are proud to announce this new partnership with NRG, a respected leader in the energy field,” said Eagles Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Lurie. “We believe that companies everywhere can find ways to Go Green with business practices that help the environment and the bottom line. Together with NRG, we’re eager to use this project at Lincoln Financial Field to continue our leadership role on environmental issues.”
Added Christina Weiss Lurie, “This is another example of our comprehensive, integrated approach to running the greenest business we can. Adding clean energy sources to our existing recycling and energy conservation efforts is the right way for the Eagles to go.”
The comprehensive system includes the largest solar power system in the NFL and in the Philadelphia area, with more than 11,000 solar panels and three megawatts (MW) of generating capacity. Solar panels along 11th Street and the south façade of Lincoln Financial Field will generate power and visually demonstrate the Eagles’ and NRG’s commitment to renewable power. Fixed solar panels in the parking lot will generate the bulk of the clean, renewable power that will help run the stadium all year long.
Fourteen micro wind-turbines will be placed along the top of the stadium on the north and south sides. The new clean power equipment is positioned in a way that will not interfere with the fans’ enjoyment of the Eagles’ home games.
The renewable energy installation was designed by the DLR Group, which has designed custom solar and wind installations for NRG at several other NFL venues. “The future of sustainable system design at public venues is to seamlessly integrate the renewable energy systems into the architecture of the stadium and adjacent facilities,” said DLR Group Principal Scott Shively, AIA. “The actual onsite power generation system will be an aesthetic part of the design to enhance the fan experience and raise awareness the Eagles’ commitment to sustainable power.”
