PAYETTE Receives Three 2016 BSA Awards

Three recent PAYETTE projects received awards from two different BSA Awards programs; both the Biosciences Research Building at National University of Ireland, Galway and the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University earned recognition for Sustainable Design. The Hardiman Research Building at the National University of Ireland, Galway earned recognition in the Education Facilities program.

In the Education Facilities Award program, the judging criterion is design excellence while the Sustainable Design Award program assesses projects based on design excellence as manifested by contributions to environmental balance and energy efficiency. The BSA will announce the tier of the award recipients at the annual Gala in January 2017. We are honored to have three of our projects included in these programs.

Biosciences Research Building | National University of Ireland, Galway
(Sustainable Design)

The design of the building embraces the moderate climate of Ireland. By locating low-load spaces along the perimeter of the building, the project takes advantage of natural ventilation as the sole conditioning strategy and is mechanical ventilation. This is an extremely simple, yet radical approach, rarely implemented to even a modest extent in similar laboratories in comparable U.S. climates.

Milken Institute School of Public Health | George Washington University
(Sustainable Design)

For this LEED Platinum-rated new school of public health, the design team successfully exploited numerous planning, organizational and technical execution strategies – from the very outset of design – to make this building a powerful vehicle for communicating sustainable design intent. As such, many of the building’s most sustainable solutions are so deliberately integrated and embedded as to be nearly indistinguishable from the its accommodation of programmatic requirements, manifestation of wellness and healthy living, and expression of institutional vision.

Hardiman Research Building | National University of Ireland, Galway
(Education Facilities)

Located at the heart of the University’s campus, the new Hardiman Research Building houses next generation graduate, post-graduate and faculty library space dedicated to academic research in the humanities and social sciences. The Hardiman Research Building brings together the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies and the Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change. The Moore Institute is a leading voice in digital humanities, Medieval and early modern history and literature, and travel and cultural encounter. The Whitaker Institute is Ireland’s largest national business and social science institute. In addition, the building is now the new home for Archives and special collections, digitization, research support and other library services.