Published August 3, 2016 on labdesignnews.com.
Lab Design News recently spoke with Payette’s Jeff DeGregorio featuring his career as an architect. The Q&A session highlights a range of topics including why he was drawn to the profession and what a typical day is like for him at Payette.
Jeff DeGregorio, AIA, LEED AP
Payette, Associate Principal
Jeff is particularly focused on the intersection of education and architecture. During his early years at Payette, Jeff developed the firm’s young designer educational program which ultimately earned Payette the AIA IDP Firm of the Year Award in 2002. Since that time Jeff remains invested in working with young staff to further their understanding of how buildings are made and the potential for innovation that exists within every moment. Recently, Jeff lead our Cornell University Kimball Hall Renovation project which R&D Magazine and Laboratory Design named 2016 Renovation Laboratory of the Year.
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Opening later this year, the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, MA is an essay in the tuning of building façades for performance. The aluminum sunshades that veil the building began as a concept tested by scoring Bristol paper. The team utilized tools from all modalities: paper models, CNC-mills, parametric studies, solar analysis, wind and water simulations and full-scale mock-ups to inform the design and drive energy use down. The ultra-high performance building is tracking a 61% reduction in energy use compared to the 2030 baseline.
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