Payette was well represented at the 33rd J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge as nine Payette runners competed in the annual event. Our 2016 team ran the 3.5 mile course in a sold-out crowd of 9,475 runners and walkers from 324 companies in Boston. The Boston course starts and finishes in the Commons, winding through Kenmore Square and Back-Bay. Our runners enjoyed the scenery, enthusiastic atmosphere and the refreshing mid-60 degree evening weather. This year J.P. Morgan will make a donation on behalf of all participants to City Year, which unites young leaders to serve as tutors, mentors and role models to students in the Boston area.
Keeping with tradition, Payette’s Young Designers Core held an internal pancake and waffle breakfast fundraiser prior to the race with proceeds helping to offset entry fee costs for the Payette Corporate Challenge Team. The Payette runners prepared and cooked the breakfast; flipping stacks of flap-jacks and topping plenty of Belgium waffles for everyone to enjoy. The firm’s healthy appetite for pancakes and waffles raised enough money to reimburse our runners for half of this year’s entry fee.
2016 Payette Corporate Challenge Runners:
Andrea Love
Lynn Petermann
Amanda Tripodi
Susan Blomquist
Casey Mahoney
Adam Wagner
Timothy Cooke
Mark Oldham
Mike Quinn
This Earth Week, we’ll be covering five landmark buildings exemplifying new approaches to building performance and sustainability.
The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Klarman Building is the first hospital in the northeast to implement chilled beams in an inpatient setting. Early energy analysis demonstrated that the use of chilled beams would be the best way to reduce building energy use.
For this strategy to work, however, the peak thermal loads of the façades could not exceed the capacity of the chilled beams. An integrated design approach and in-house modeling allowed for constant tuning of the façade to optimize glazing, solar exposure and massing. The building orients glazing to face true north and south to minimize heat gain and maximize occupant comfort, resulting in a 15% reduction in peak solar load.
Beyond performance, the distinctive serrated terracotta façade reflects the scale and cadence of individual patient rooms, providing a delicate scale and texture to the façade.
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