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Coming Back to Community While the threat of COVID-19 remains, architects are working to modify communal facilities and areas for safe social interaction.

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Reuse, Adapt As cities densify—and now with COVID-19 requiring social distancing—architects and engineers must maximize real estate opportunities, such as the bones of an old highway bridge, now turned park in Providence, R.I., thanks to inFORM Studio and Buro Happold.

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Trend Lines // by Mindi Zissman Re-entering the Reimagined Office. Offices are rethinking design, products and wayfinding as employees return to the office community.

Form // by Mindi Zissman The Keller Center is the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy’s new LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge Certified home.

Function // by John Mesenbrink The Bioscience Research Laboratories building provides the University of Arizona Health Science Center with a highly efficient, state-of-the-art lab.

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The Spaces in Between: Just When to Double Down What is a rainscreen? A news release I received, posed this question, which triggered a similar query in the back of my mind—what is a double skin? For that matter, what’s a Trombe wall? Why am I pondering this now? To the latter question, there is a confluence of reasons, but given -like concerns moving forward, the main reason is that it’s a means to satisfy the desire for more natural ventilation.

Prior to the  outbreak, I had the chance to encounter the technology up close—one on a trip to London, the other closer to home. I’ve been meaning to explore the system ever since, but have just never had the chance to put anything into words prior to a cool net-zero project popping into my inbox that triggered dormant memories—more on that in our forthcoming year in review/innovations issue. The first double skin I chanced by total serendipity, just

Twin-skin systems have the potential to coordinate multiple building systems, which can hardly be obtained at once, by any single-layer façade. popping out for some fresh air upon visiting London’s Natural History Museum. Anchoring its nature garden was HOK’s 2002 expansion that added research and sample storage facilities. Skins were on my mind as I was visiting the institution after reading Kirk Wallace Johnson’s excellent The Feather Thief, a tale about the real-life theft of hundreds of rare bird skins and feathers from the UK institution.

Actually, the London branch was not where the infamous 2009 crime took place, but it did house a number of similar artifacts. Even though I was on vacation, I couldn’t help but get sucked into exploring the addition’s east façade, which featured an outer solar wall attached by monkey-like “zoomorphic” brackets, and sun-tracking metal louvers within.

Back in the States not long after, on a tour of insurance giant Zurich’s new suburban Chicago offices, I spied another such assembly, constituting the southern wall of the company’s enormous lunch room. I’m doing this area a disservice, as it is a grandiose, multipurpose event space, more ballroom than cafeteria. Since it is an event space, comfort mattered. Beyond a controlled means to introduce more outside, in winter, comfort is maintained via the solar-heated dual-skin cavity, which acts as a thermos—Holy Trombe wall Batman! Glare is controlled via internal Venetian shades.

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zoological specimen storage within, as denoted by the bracket attachments. While cool architecturally, in this tight  financial environment, the question becomes can such tech still be incorporated without breaking the bank? This brings me full circle to the Trombe wall. The answer—yes, although it may not always involve glass. A number of years back in a story we published in our sister publication, Net Zero Buildings, we covered a double-skin system that involved rattan as its outer layer: “The separation of the façade system into two layers provides the exterior layer a chance to exceed the conventional limitations,” noted Professor Song Yehao, Sun Jingfen and Lin Zhenghao, of School of Architecture, Tsinghua University and SUP Atelier. He added it evokes a total reconsideration of materials and construction methods—which in turn—can lead to new comprehensive design logic and strategies. In developing countries, for instance, he says the outer skin may adopt more local or relative cheaper materials while combining indigenous craftsmanship.

If natural materials are not an option, justifying a double skin requires making a business case.

According to Jeff Vaglio, director, Advanced Technology Studio with Enclos, factors like energy, and familiarity with the technology will help decrease costs, but a final consideration may close the deal: In this  market, renovation of older buildings is hot, particularly as  is bringing a lot of unexpected real estate to the fore. Frankly, he says, adding over an existing skin is an effective way to now only create a new look, but avert the landfill.

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Developed in partnership with Urban Projects Collaborative—in addition to Gensler, PBDW, PSF Projects, SITU and WXY—Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools has developed a 100-page “Back to School Facilities Tool Kit.” This comprehensive resource offers a visual guide for schools preparing to reopen in the aftermath of COVID-19 closures. Prioritizing health and safety, the Tool Kit is a resource to help schools around the country initiate important conversations about how to protect the well-being of students, teachers, staff and their families. Design suggestions include how to set up the arrival and entry process and how to upgrade classrooms to comply with social-distancing requirements. The Tool Kit is available as a free download. www.equitybydesign.org/the-toolkit

AEC shows, in the wake of the COVID-19 surge, have been postponed. As new dates are announced, we will update.

AT-HOME DAYLIGHTING STUDY

A survey conducted by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center analyzed the effects on sleep and mood from COVID-19 home quarantines/lockdowns. Of the 600 people surveyed, those who work from home or were unemployed and reported a combination of good indoor lighting levels and regularly spent time outside experienced fewer

More daylight means better sleep and moods, even when unemployed. sleep disturbances, felt less anxiety and depression, felt less tired or less irritable, were generally happier and more positive, and experienced less sleep-related impairment. “Our results show that just one hour spent outdoors each day can help you feel your best, and can help you sleep better at night,” says LRC Director Dr. Mariana Figueiro, a leading experts in the area of light and health. www.lrc.rpi.edu GUIDES AND WHITE PAPERS

The Metal Construction Assn, (MCA), has published three new technical resources: “Best Practices: Metal Building Sealant Types and Application Guidelines;” the white paper “Is My Exterior Wall Material Truly Noncombustible?,” and an update to its “Fastener Compatibility with Profiled Metal Roof and Wall Panels” white paper. www.metalconstruction.org

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In the July-Aug. issue, a pair of websites were incorrect: the site for the UniQuad System that appeared on p. 57 was given as its former company CPI; it should have been listed as www.kingspan.com, as it is now Kingspan Light and Air; similarly, the product that appeared on p. 20—a custom shading panel created by a European division of Hunter Douglas—was noted as coming from Certainteed. However, it was not a division the latter company acquired from the former.

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In the meantime, check out The Continuing Architect (TCA), and other online CEU resources.

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Major Industries’ “Designing with Translucent Panel Daylighting Systems Climate Resilient Buildings: Design for Change” course explores numerous benefits of daylighting to humans, its impact on energy reduction and common myths. The features and benefits of Fiberglass Reinforced Polymer (FRP) daylighting systems, as well as load capabilities and code requirements for such systems, are covered.

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Zurn’s “Fundamentals of Trench Drain Systems” course provides a comprehensive overview–applications and benefits, basic components, and varieties available, including: castin-place, precast, and economical preengineered trench drain systems made from HDPE. Students explore new possibilities for blending trench drains into surrounding environments for improved aesthetics and explore interesting applications.

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ASI Group’s “Getting to Privacy-Intent to Installation” course addresses how privacy has always been an important objective in restroom design, but too often design intent went unrealized, leaving occupants with gaping sightlines feeling exposed and undervalued. Tips and features are presented to help designers ensure the private spaces they intend are the private spaces people get.

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Great Lakes Center for the Arts In Harmony with the Local Environment When the Great Lakes Center for the Arts opened last year in Michigan, the $25 million facility featured state-of-the-art equipment, including digital sound technology that is found in only a few theaters across the country.

Further enhancing the sound quality are acoustical smoke vents manufactured by The BILCO Company. The facility, which is located in Petoskey, includes five smoke vents with both an STC and OITC sound rating that block outside noise to maintain the quality of the sophisticated sound system.

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The acoustical vents are commonly used at concert halls, theaters and other venues that require limited noise from the outside. The vents also protect property and aid firefighters in bringing a fire under control by removing smoke, heat and gases from a burning building. The vents allow air quality and visibility to be maintained so that guests can safely exit the building and firefighters can enter.

“With the potential for more than 500 visitors for larger events, our team knew we would have a need for a dependable smoke ventilation system,’’ said Jason Novotny, the lead architect for TowerPinkster, the firm that designed the building. “With this being a high-performing acoustical environment, we designed a separate structure for the performance hall from the remainder of the building. This was solely for acoustical isolation of building elements. The BILCO acoustical smoke vents became a part of this ‘shell within a shell’ with their acoustical sound reducing characteristics.”

The Great Lakes Center for the arts is a 525-seat, 40,000-square-foot facility that is steps away from Little Traverse Bay, an offshoot of Lake Michigan. The Center will host audiences attending performances for classical music, ballet, intellectual dialogue, comedy, country music, jazz, cinema, and more.

Novotny said the architectural team went to great lengths to develop a theme for the space that was highly influenced by local colors and textures. “We included aged copper, Petoskey stone, natural sedimentary rock, and of course, the beautiful blue waters of Lake

Michigan,’’ Novotny said.

There is also a curvilinear wood ceiling which resembles waves and echoes the flow of the lake. There is also a large rooftop terrace with stunning views of Lake Michigan.

“The color palette and design features intentionally reflect the beauty of Northern Michigan, with blues, sands, grays, copper and patterns and textures that evoke the water of Lake Michigan,” said Jill O’Neill, Executive Director of the Center.

Besides the architectural splendor, technical components also distinguish the center. The theater designers, Fisher Dachs Associates and TowerPinkster, identified solutions that make the venue enticing for performers and patrons.

The multi-channel sound reinforcement system includes loudspeakers that meet the requirements of celebrity performers’ technical requirements, and electronic architecture that allows acoustics of the venue to be optimized to meet the varied requirements of the wide range of programming.

This building adds a space for world-class performers to stop that did not exist in Northern Michigan,’’ Novotny said. “It adds to the valuation of the performing arts community that was intended by the clients.”

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Hurricane-Resistant Walls for Extreme Environments June 1 marks the official beginning of the hurricane season for the Atlantic Basin. During the last four seasons, a new record was established as the U.S. experienced the greatest number of consecutive years ever that featured at least one Category 5 hurricane.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center classifies Category 5 hurricanes as those with sustained wind speeds greater than 157 mph on the Saffir-Simpson scale. On average, Category 5 hurricanes occur once every three years. In fact, only 36 officially recognized Category 5 hurricanes have ever occurred in this region of the world.

During the last four seasons, a new record was established as the U.S. experienced the greatest number of consecutive years ever that featured at least one Category 5 hurricane.

However, six storms reached Category 5 in the Atlantic from 2016 through 2019: Matthew, Irma, Maria, Michael, Dorian and Lorenzo. Four of these directly impacted the U.S., including Hurricane Dorian in 2019, with wind speeds exceeding 185 mph. Together, these four hurricanes resulted in well over $100 billion in damage to the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts and other locations throughout the Atlantic—ranking them among the costliest Atlantic hurricanes ever.

It has never been more important to incorporate resilient, sustainable building products and methods to help communities avoid or reduce losses in similar natural events going forward. Since Southern Florida is an especially active hurricane zone, its newest building code (2017) aims to mitigate these catastrophic losses through strict requirements for building exteriors, and serves as the highest mandatory code in the nation.

After rigorous testing with the Miami-Dade Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources, a new exterior cladding system has met the 6th Edition (2017) Florida Building Code. Thin-clad adhered calcium silicate masonry veneer units are certified for use in residential, commercial and institutional building projects in areas with wind speeds up to 202.5 mph.

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either moderate-weathering or severe-weathering, depending on the material’s tested physical properties of compressive strength and 24-hour absorption. Thin-clad adhered calcium silicate units meet and exceed the requirements necessary to comply with the severe-weathering classification.

Calcium silicate stone is well suited for extreme environments because of its superior inherent strength. A proprietary manufacturing process combines sand and lime, which bind through a natural chemical process, making the product stronger than other manufactured stone that uses artificial binding agents. Calcium silicate units contain no Portland cement, but are pressure-formed and autoclave cured, resulting in high-density, severe weathering modular units.

To meet the Florida building code, the assembly must be constructed with the following products, which also provide an opportunity for a system

warranty: thin-clad calcium silicate stone and a steel/wood stud (with 0.5-in. concrete backer board) or concrete wall (poured or CMU).

When using the steel or wood stud assembly, 0.75-in. plywood must be used in lieu of exterior wall sheathing to achieve impact resistance required by the building code. Concrete backer board must also be used in lieu of a metal lath and mortar bed. In addition, 1.25-in.-diameter washers should be used along with the screws when installing the concrete backer board in order to resist wind loads. With both the steel/wood or concrete wall assembly, the stone must also be bonded directly to an air and water barrier.

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8 Tips for Healthcare Fixtures That Reduce Spreads of Infectious Diseases and Increase Patient Safety Spread of COVID-19 and Legionnaries’ disease can be reduced with better fixture selection. Hospitals, outpatient centers, senior living facilities and medical offices are at an increased risk for spreading viruses like COVID-19 and bacteria that can lead to illnesses like Legionnaries’ disease.

Transmitted through a building’s water stream, these bacteria can result in major liability when immunocompromised patients like the elderly and young children are exposed. The result is increased costs and claims for healthcare facility owners and operators who have a responsibility to eliminate or reduce the possibility of bacteria growth in facilities.

Fixture selection is a critical piece of prevention and maintaining patient safety. Consider the following tips for fixture selection in all healthcare facilities.

Keep Faucet Selection Simple Choose heavy-duty, chrome-plated faucets made by the same manufacturer when possible to streamline maintenance and repairs. Because patients can’t be in a room when you’re fixing a faucet, stocking one brand of components can minimize disruption and maximize revenue. Keep faucets—especially those in heavy traffic areas—as simple as possible. Applications that employ photovoltaic technology or mini turbines to recharge batteries while water flows through the control box have more delicate features with the potential to break down the line. An outpatient facility can have as many as 50 to 60 faucets and without a dedicated plumber or facilities professional to conduct daily repairs, sinks can be left outof-order for too long.

Coordinate Faucet and Sink Size To minimize splashing that leaves water on countertops and sends droplets into the air, specify faucets that amply cover the sink, sending water into a straight line in the sink. Consider angled surfaces, the shape of the countertop and faucet dimensions during design and construction.

When selecting faucets, select the sink bowl at the same time to make sure splashing can be controlled effectively. Work with the architect and patient room designer.

Eliminate Aerators When water is infected with bacteria and then mixed with air at a point-of-use aerator, bacteria can easily spread into the air and onto the sink. By design, aerators have a screen at the spout, which pulls air in, mixing it with the water stream in order to make users feel like they are receiving more water. Mixing

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Infectious disease control teams across the country are eliminating aerators from their design standard and instead selecting laminar flow faucets that have a plain spout that will dry completely after each use. A dry surface doesn’t support the growth of bacteria. In a laminar flow fixture, the flow control device that limits the amount of water coming out of the faucet is in the base of the faucet and it doesn’t mix air with the water stream, effectively reducing the possibility of bacteria growth in the fixture spout. Eliminating aerators reduces the ability for bacteria to grow in the fixture.

Staff Sinks While still mandated by most local codes, staff sinks in patient rooms often go unused. The need for the staff sink is eliminated as most healthcare facilities utilize antimicrobial gel dispensers in each room.

When in-room staff sinks aren’t used, it causes water stagnation at the faucet, which can lead to bacterial growth in the piping system and faucet spout. Challenge your local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) to reconsider their position and eliminate the requirement for staff sinks in patient rooms.

This will similarly eliminate additional capital costs for the hospital and reduce the spread of bacteria.

Consider Wall-Hung Vs. Floor-Mounted Toilets With today’s increasing number of bariatric patients, hospitals and outpatient facilities are looking to specify a more heavy-duty toilet. Traditional vitreous china wall-hung toilets are rated for 500 lbs. to meet ASME A112.19.2-2005/CSA B4 5.1-05. A wallhung bariatric toilet rated to hold 1000 lbs. is made of stainless steel and must be paired with an appropriately rated in-wall support system.

Because stainless steel, wall-mounted bariatric toilets are extremely costly, more and more healthcare facilities are considering floor-mounted

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vitreous china applications rated by manufacturers for the same 1000 lbs. While wall-hung fixtures are easier to clean, many facilities are now turning to floor-mounted toilets in vitreous china to reduce costs.

Specify Antimicrobial Materials Select elements with antimicrobial agents to serve as another firewall to kill bacteria. An antimicrobial finish can be found on just about any vitreous china products, including wall hung lavatories, toilet seats, countertops, some copper sink bowls and more.

Optimize patient room drain locations. To minimize water ponding and patient slippage, specify linear drains in patient bathrooms. Linear drains, which are often 3-ft. long × 2-in. wide, are typically found in high-end bathrooms and can be constructed using a kit to precisely pitch the floor. Pitching the floor in a circular shape is hard to do effectively, as it must be done by hand. For this reason, many hospitals have made linear drains their go-to standard. While they are more costly, linear drains virtually eliminate pooling water around the drain.

Coordinate Eye/Face Wash Equipment In outpatient facilities or in pharmacies, emergency eye and face wash equipment fixtures are required by the ANSI Z358.1 standard to be tested weekly. It is important to be diligent when specifying these fixtures because of the way they operate—they either swing down or across the sink. When installed, they should discharge over the sink and not the countertop and floor. If not specified and installed correctly, they can cause unnecessary pooling of water on the floor and someone can easily slip and fall.

Start Preventing Spread of Bacteria Early There is more to preventive healthcare than wearing a mask and washing your hands. Avoiding the spread of infection starts early in the design phase and continues through construction. Specifying the proper fixtures is the first step.

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Clear Visibility The push for higher performance standards for elements of the building envelope continues, creating new sets of rules for architects, designers and building owners. Building codes change on a regular basis, setting the bar higher by implementing even stricter benchmarks.

When it comes to windows that are to be installed in a commercial building, individual municipalities and governments across the country choose to adopt and enforce the standards of one of two organizations—the International Energy Conservation Code

Ultimately, the tenor of the conversation is changing when it comes to glass and energy efficiency.

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(IECC), or the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).

In both cases, these organizations set the standards for two key performance indicators for glass.

One is U-factor, which measures the heat gain or heat loss because of temperature differences in the interior and exterior.

The second is solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC), or the level of solar radiation admitted into the building through the glass pane. A lower  rating means the glass transmits less solar heat and has greater ability to shade an inside environment. This has direct impact on the thermal efficiency of the building and on energy costs to operate  units to keep occupants warmer in the winter and cooler in the hotter months.

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For windows installed in commercial buildings, individual municipalities and governments in the Unites States choose to adopt and enforce standards of one of two organizations— IECC or ASHRAE. Pictured are installations at the Thompson Hotel in Nashville (upper left), and the Univ. of Kentucky student residence in Lexington (upper right).

What’s Next?

Mission Accomplished Over the past two decades, glass manufacturers have risen to the challenge. Through research and innovation, they have brought products to market that meet the highest and most stringent standards for both U-factor and . In turn, these innovations have helped key decision makers to meet or exceed energy and performance standards for a building by specifying windows made of high-performance glass.

Consider the notion that architects can specify certain low-emissivity (low-) glass product on the market right now that are 98% effective in driving down U-Factor in standard insulated glass products.

These products have truly changed the paradigm.

At the same time, the evolution of the technology for such advancements has reached a tipping point.

As the push to drive better U-factors or SGHCs intensifies, current products may produce diminished

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returns on other fronts.

In effect, key decisions makers have to trade one benefit for another. For instance, the transmission of available natural light into an indoor environment—a key priority—can be negatively impacted, a trade-off few consider to be desirable.

In effect, the next level of innovation is necessary to achieve higher levels of performance from the glass products specified for commercial construction.

The leading edge of these new innovations is visible, and emerging technologies promise to pave the way.

This may come in the form of dynamic windows.

Rather than used solely to transmit light, dynamic windows are made to operate more like a household appliance. They are engineered to include shading systems that can change based on the climate or on the person occupying the room or space. Such windows can be adjusted to dramatically reduce sun glare or heat gain.

One of the other frontiers is vacuum insulated glass. With such an application, manufacturers create a very small space between two panes of glass, ensuring that no gas enters the space. This can dramatically improve thermal efficiency.

Ultimately, the tenor of the conversation is changing when it comes to glass and energy efficiency. Where that conversation is headed will require everyone in the value chain to change their thinking.

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The Future of Sustainability As I write this, Hurricane Isaias was bearing down upon the east coast with wind gusting over 100 miles. In its early days, there had already been at least 21 reported tornadoes from North Carolina to New Jersey. It is the latest super-damaging storm to assault the United States in a series of bad weather events that have battered the country consecutively for the past five years. Let’s face it, “resiliency” is not just a life-style for Boy Scouts or the anal-retentive. It’s now table stakes if you simply wish to survive. Don’t take my word for it. In our report on roofing, check out the second, of what now is an annual report on resiliency from the EPDM Roofing Assn. on p. 26.

How, however, in a world of financial crisis, do you find funds for such measures? And what about sustainable measures as a whole? Are they out the window? In another report from the organizers of the now-virtual Greenbuild conference, Sustainability: Yesterday vs. Tomorrow, key movers and shakers give their outlook:

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Sustainability Outlooks “In the short-term, I think environmental sustainability will take a back seat to health and wellness in the built environment. I think we’ll see larger strides in the electrification of buildings, renewable energy and energy efficiency as more new buildings move toward net-zero goals and have carbon neutrality goals.”

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Instead of acting like a brace and transferring damaging forces back to the building, the stair system flexes and accommodates building movement without impacting the stairs or its surrounding components.

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“There will be a huge focus on people and the impacts of all actions that affect people’s lives, quality, accessibility, equality, health, etc... We will see a major shift in how all stakeholders approach corporate sustainability. In the longterm, there really needs to be a better plan for infrastructure in cities and overall public transportation.” —Rami Vagal, Senior Manager of Sustainability, Mohawk Industries

“Solar photovoltaic technology, battery storage and the use of electric vehicles will be at the forefront of commercial energy storage. National energy codes and local state financial incentives will recognize and mandate the implementation of solar-ready infrastructure and electric vehicle charging infrastructure.”

—Farah Ahmad, Architect, Sustainable Design

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Flexible in Movement Construction Specialties (CS) has engineered DriftReady Stairs, a solution for occupants’ and first responders’ egress and ingress during and after a seismic event. Architects can now confidently specify a tested, safe and resilient stairs solution that can reduce building repair cost and recovery time after a seismic event. In trying to develop a safe and resilient stair system, CS thought of the human backbone—it provides strong support, but also flexes with the movement of the body. Patent-pending technology keeps stairs stable at rest, yet flexible when a building moves. Stairs have a positive connection system that prevents the stairs from locking up in rotation or transverse movements and move with the building, so instead of acting like a brace and transferring damaging forces back to the building, the system flexes and accommodates the movement without impacting the stairs or its surrounding components. www.c-sgroup.com CIRCLE 394

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In the UK, UKGBC has developed national frameworks for netzero carbon buildings.

In the U.S., WELL and Fitwell remain the foremost certifications.

The GBCA, in Australia, has developed national frameworks for net-zero carbon buildings.

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France and Australia have taken the global lead on sustainability transparency and been among the first adopters of new sustainability initiatives, such as water-efficiency standards or net-zero carbon frameworks.

A New Focus on Zero Carbon Buildings There is a rising expectation that the real estate industry will deliver zero-carbon buildings and, in response, the  survey now covers initiatives relating to net-zero carbon building frameworks. Leading the charge are a number of Green Building Councils, such as  in the  and  in Australia, that have developed national frameworks for net-zero carbon buildings.

Health and Wellness Take Center Stage The -19 pandemic has brought the health agenda to the fore, and health and wellness building certification has been included in the Transparency Survey for the first time, although adoption is not currently widespread. WELL Building Standard and Fitwel, both originating from the U.S., remain the foremost certification systems internationally.

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The restrooms are outfitted with vitreous china floor-mounted, pressure-assisted water closets and vitreous china waterfree urinals, along with vitreous china drop-in lavatories, Optima faucets and deck-mounted foam soap dispensers.

Sloan has developed fully-equipped Mobile Restrooms to support communities affected by natural disasters, emergencies, and other catastrophic incidents like the COVID-19 pandemic. The deluxe restrooms combine comfortable and customizable hardware with easy-to-maintain design to deliver guests with a hygienic, clean and welcoming experience. Sloan’s Mobile Restrooms are designed for universal accessibility, with each unit split into men’s and women’s areas featuring ADA-compliant modifications.

“Sloan’s new Mobile Restrooms offer first responders, healthcare facilities, FEMA workers in natural disaster recovery areas and communities in need with a restroom environment that is clean, comfortable, safe and hygienic,” says Parthiv Amin, chief sales and marketing officer, Sloan. www.sloan.com CIRCLE 392

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The impact of climate risks on physical assets is of increasing concern and has been outlined by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (). In response to these growing risks, the real estate industry is starting to develop its approach to resilience, and the Transparency Survey has put a stake in the ground by including building resilience codes in this year’s edition. The real estate industry is under pressure to transform to a net-zero carbon and resilient future.

Health and Wellness Come to the Fore The pandemic is leading to elevated awareness of personal and environmental hygiene, health, work-life balance and social relations. Building owners and operators will need to adjust to keep workers and building users safe and healthy.

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ENERGY EFFICIENCY

Window into Smarter Daylight Harvesting California Code changes may result in the largest concentration of energy-efficient buildings in the world.

Similar to designers, policy makers also look for success stories in different municipalities to adopt and improve upon.

California Not Dreaming The Golden State is leading the charge on tougher energy requirements. As of this year, all new low-rise residential construction, as well as half of all new government buildings, are required to meet the state’s Zero Net Energy requirements.

The 2019 updates addressed this goal, which is expected to drive a significant concentration of energy-efficient buildings on the planet. Gensler’s Nermine Zahran and Anthony Brower, in a recent edition of the firm’s newsletter, Dialogue, tackled this subject, including comparisons to changes they are helping institute in Australia, a country also getting tough on codes. Maximizing natural lighting and incorporating automatic lighting systems, in fact, helped the Gensler-designed Yahoo7 workplace in Sydney achieve a 5-Star Green Star Interiors rating. That said, note the designers, California has moved beyond “fancy terms” to actionable measures. Daylighting and automated lighting are two such areas, where California additionally integrates operational requirements into the design of systems to encourage realtime conservation in the form of strategies like half-off automation in irregularly used spaces, and daylight responsive controls in all side-lit spaces.

These requirements, according to the Gensler designers, are not only in place for new work but also for renovations—10% fixture or lamping replacement alteration trigger these requirements.

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Aggressive daylighting measures in most new building projects are becoming as common as doors and windows. That said, designers worth their salt, just doesn’t haphazardly place said openings in just any old spot, nor do they choose the kind, size and placement of fenestration without discerning the impact of those choices.

With toughening energy codes, a desire to provide healthier, biophilically connected spaces, and a need to address climate change, good daylighting practices are essential, and, in some cases, the law.

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The orientation of all the buildings are done with a view of generating large north-facing garden areas overlooking a playground toward the north. In addition, each room is punctuated with a wedge-shaped bay window oriented toward the north. The linear buildings create small breakout spaces at each bending point, allowing natural light into the internal circulation spaces. These factors create an energyefficient building, minimizing heat gain in response to the climate which has average temperature in excess of 30°C for eight months of the year.

During the winter, when the sun is in the Northern Hemisphere, direct sunlight is facilitated by the windows to prevent rooms from becoming cold. Each of the public spaces at the ends of the building are large volumes with 20-ft.-high ceilings. Each block has a different bright color along with the internal face of the bay windows to create an identity.

Project: The Street, Hostel at GLA University, Mathura, India Architect: Sanjay Puri Architects Designers: Sanjay Puri, Ishveen Bhasin

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Sky No Limit The replacement and restoration of the historic skylight within the landmark Manhattan Surrogate’s Courthouse has received a 2020 Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award from the New York Landmarks Conservancy.

The team for this highly complex project included Urbahn Architects and historic conservator Jablonski Building Conservation. Based on Urbahn’s design, the renovation team removed the entire outer monitor system and replaced it with a new copper-anodized aluminum frame to emulate the original copper frame cladding. The leaded glass daylight panels were removed and crated for restoration by Bovard Studio, who added new reinforcement and new lead caming. As far as the glass block panels, the original intent was to salvage as many glass block units as possible and install replicas. Extensive corrosion of the cast iron frames, however, made it impossible to remove without breaking. Instead, molds were taken and new hexagonal blocks were cast by Gillinder Bros. to match the originals, including the embossed snowflake pattern. Wemco Casting fabricated new cast iron frames.

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The Gensler designers note a number of California municipalities are going further down the trench of ingrained resilience by preparing for future code iterations. A strategy identified as “load disaggregation,” they note, is intended to separate building loads across lighting, equipment and systems. This may result in larger electrical rooms with more panels than common today— but the designers argue future use of such segregation will allow municipalities to turn off 15% of a commercial building’s lighting in the event of impending brownouts during high-use seasons.

While this seems invasive, note the Gensler designers, several of its clients have implemented this in a manner that connects decorative lighting to this “switch,” so business operations remain uninterrupted.

Next in Store? A Little Help Bigger picture, on-site renewable energy will also be a requirement in future codes as the current version of CALGreen requires wiring for future solar and dedicated rooftop space allocation.

These represent just a few of the resilience strategies baked into California building codes, and other U.S. municipalities are looking to California as a model to follow.

New groups, for example, have started to emerge, such as the Sustainable Development Code (SDC), whose outreach-based mission is to help “local governments build more resilient, environmentally conscious, economically secure and socially equitable communities.”

Similar to designers, policymakers, note the Gensler architects, look to success stories in different municipalities to adopt and improve upon. SDC brings these various success stories together in a manner that celebrates why each strategy is imperative to support positive climate action, while delivering examples on how to do it.

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A Nod to Sustainability Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) has broken ground on Platform 16, a new 1.2-million-sq.-ft. office and commercial complex slated for a site next door to Google’s forthcoming transit-oriented village in downtown San Jose, Calif. The building’s highly articulated façades are crafted to “create a sense of depth and texture with a faceted expression that modulates their scale and evokes an organic composition,” a design that, according to the architects, reflects “a nod to the project’s sustainability” attributes.

Those sustainability approaches add up, and the project is slated to outperform current AIA 2030 Commitment goals, which call for an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions for a typical building of this type and size.

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Building Resilience: The Roofing Perspective The roof is a building’s first line of defense so any discussion of resilience must include roofing considerations.

According to a new report from the  Roofing Association (ERA)—the second of what will be an annual report—2019 was the fifth consecutive year in which 10 or more billion-dollar weather and climate disaster events impacted the United States.

While there may be debate about the cause, global statistics, notes the  report, confirm the increasing frequency of more extreme weather:

Extreme weather events are assaulting the built environment … creating an urgent need for more resilient structures. intense tornado outbreaks, record-setting heat, catastrophic wildfires, heavy downpours, longer droughts and more frequent hurricanes. These extreme weather events are assaulting the built environment with record-setting strength and intensity, creating an urgent need for more resilient structures. “Historic weather patterns can no longer be a guide for building codes and standards, since the past is not a reliable guide for what can be expected

from future threats” notes the report. Since the roof of a building is a first line of defense, any discussion of resilience, the organization argues, must include careful consideration of roofing systems.

While resilient systems usually incorporate durability, energy efficiency and sustainability, resilience has a broader meaning than any of these terms when applied to the built environment. Buildings that house critical services and are also essential to the recovery of a community, such as hospitals and fire and police stations, must be able to withstand the initial force of a cataclysmic event and return to fullfunctioning as quickly as possible.

There are critical aspects of a roofing installation that require special attention to ensure resilience in the roofing system:  Application of a roofing membrane should be carefully planned so that it can be completed in one phase, lasting over as short a period as possible. One of the greatest hazards of roof construction is the application of a roofing system in “phases,” where a partially completed roof system is left exposed to weather for a period of time, even overnight, and the remainder of the roofing system is installed later.  One of the most vulnerable points of a roof is

where the low-slope roof terminates at the exterior wall. Most low-slope and flat roofs are designed so that the membrane terminates under the edge flashing system. A best practice is to take the flashing up and over the roof edge and down onto the exterior wall, or to tie it into the air barrier.  Securing the roof metal edge flashing is critical to keeping the roof cover intact during high winds and should be done so in compliance with - . Loose flashing will allow wind and rain to get driven underneath the roof cover where the wind action will add to uplift pressure on the roof system.

In addition, water entry due to loose flashing can create moisture problems within the roof cover system and inside the building.  In addition to the point where the membrane terminates with the exterior walls, any penetrations of the roof surface, such as pipes, vents, skylights, heating and air conditioning equipment and drains, create potential opportunities for water to seep into the roofing system and damage the building interior.

Creating a strong and effective waterproof seal on these roof penetrations is essential to maintaining the integrity of a roof.

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The Great Northern Way Pavilion is relatively small in stature but it makes a huge statement in the city of Vancouver, Canada. The building is formed by a series of curving petals that cascade from an oculus at the roof, down to the pedestrian level. The inner set of petals contain the glazing and the outer set of petals are freestanding to the ground.

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Snapshot of EPDM Systems With any roofing material, the proper application of the membrane is as important to the satisfactory performance of the roofing system as the materials themselves. Meticulous application processes are especially important if a roofing system is resilient when threatened by extreme weather events.

The first and most basic decision to be made before application begins is, “How will the roofing membrane be secured to the layers that support it?”

Here, for instance, there are three options for : mechanically attached, adhered and ballasted. Mechanically fastened roofs secure the membrane to the roof with fasteners and plates, which vary depending on the roof deck material. In any adhered roofing system, the membrane is bonded to the layer below with adhesive. And ballasted roofing systems rely on the weight of aggregate—usually stones or pavers, or a combination of both—to hold the membrane in place.

SOLAR NOW AN EXPECTED PART OF AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURE (Above) Quest Renewables’ QuadPod solar canopies, installed on a parking facility at the Univ. of Maryland, is an example of solar becoming quite the norm. Similarly, at its U.S. Corporate Technology headquarters in Princeton, N.J., Siemens USA launched an advanced microgrid research and demonstration project. The living lab will validate the latest technologies in order to provide the market with a comprehensive blueprint of how microgrids can be flexibly operated in similar applications such as universities, office parks and industrial sites while reducing the adverse impacts of energy uncertainty. The microgrid integrates technologies across Siemen’s Smart Infrastructure portfolio.

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With these additions to the existing line of 3- and 4-in. drains, the company now offers a full-range of SpeedTite Drains to accommodate most roofing applications. Drains are installed from the rooftop so the installation process will not disrupt building occupants.

Each Approach Has Benefits In an adhered system, the roofing membrane is glued to the surface beneath it, using specially formulated adhesives. Adhered systems are suitable for flat roofs, contoured roofs, roofs with an irregular shape and any roof with limited load bearing capacity because they are lightweight and flexible. In addition, adhered roof systems also have a high wind uplift performance rating, which makes them a good choice to enhance the resilience of a structure.

Mechanically attached roofs are secured to the insulation and roof deck below with fasteners, usually screws, concrete nails or augers, varying with the material used in the deck. This can be the fastest, and least expensive, method of installation especially on steel or wood decks.

Ballasted roofing systems use a layer of stones or pavers to anchor the roofing membrane in place. The stones are substantial enough and applied in a thick enough layer to hold the membrane in place even during high winds. The installation of a ballasted roof is fairly straightforward and relatively quick if contractors have the right equipment to handle moving ballast. These systems can be installed during almost any kind of weather, and offer cooling energy savings for warmer southern markets without reflecting heat energy back up into the atmosphere like reflective roofing.

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SOLAR INSTALLATION MADE SIMPLE GAF Energy has launched an upgraded version of its solar roof product, DecoTech 2.0. The redesigned product delivers the same end user value and gives installers a fast, easy and durable solar solution. It maintains the same aesthetic appeal, while simplifying the installation process. The upgraded system features wiring improvements for durability and safety. It also boasts fewer points of attachment and new fastener hardware for quicker and simpler installation. High-efficiency solar panels optimize power output and maximize aesthetic appeal, combined with a robust flashing and a sleek black perimeter shield to help reduce the risk of leaks and animal intrusion.

A BREATHABLE SHIELD Hunter Panels fortifies its polyiso wall products portfolio with the addition of the Xci VP-SA WRB, a membrane for use in above-grade wall assemblies. Designed to be adhered directly to Hunter Xci Polyiso products, this weather resistive barrier provides critical defense against air and water. Moreover, the breathable, self-adhering rolls provide building professionals with a simple, efficient way to bolster building envelope performance and provide maximum protection. The specially engineered WRB is fully coated on one side with a permeable adhesive protected with a silicone release liner. The self-adhering membrane is quickly and easily applied to Hunter Xci Polyiso products. Once adhered to the substrate, it protects vulnerable points such as seams between polyiso panels and fastener penetrations.

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The Future of Building: Modular Construction Due to economic and other market factors, modular construction is taking center stage. According to the Dodge Data & Analytics’ SmartMarket Report “Prefabrication and Modular Construction 2020,” prefabrication and modular construction are poised to affect several sectors of the construction industry.

The report shows that architects, engineers and contractors that have used these methods plan to significantly increase their engagement with them, especially for healthcare facilities, hotels and motels, multifamily projects, college buildings and dormitories. Critical trends in the construction industry, such as shorter project schedules and workforce shortages, are several drivers of wider use of these methods, and technology is enabling increased use. Growth is seen among those doing modular construction in the

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New York’s citizenM Hotel is touted as the tallest modular hotel in the world.

use of full volumetric approach, in which entire parts of buildings—such as bathrooms or hotel and hospital rooms—are delivered preconstructed onsite and assembled together.

“Modular construction is ideal in buildings where a high degree of repetition is implemented, such as hospitals and hotels,” says Stephen B. Jacobs, president and founder, Stephens B. Jacobs Group, designer of New York’s citizenM Bowery Hotel, the tallest modular hotel in the world.

According to Tom Hardiman, executive director of the Modular Building Institute, co-supporter of the Dodge report, “It comes as no surprise to us that more developers and GCs plan to use modular construction over the next few years. The lack of adequate housing and the shortage of skilled labor, coupled with chronic cost and schedule overruns are leading more people toward this process.”

McKinsey and Co., a management consulting firm, projects that modular construction could claim $130 billion of the market by 2030 in the United States and Europe at moderate penetration, delivering annual cost savings of $225 billion. Furthermore, modular construction could scale to an industry that represents more than $100 billion in U.S. and European real estate, delivering $20 billion in annual savings.

“We have seen an increase growth in the modular industry over the last eight years. Healthcare has been one of the largest contributors to this increase along with the data centers. As more owners understand the benefits, more of the industry is looking for modular opportunities on each project,” says Kari Holtz, project manager, Hill Mechanical. The following are a pair of case studies highlighting the modular movement.

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“Modular construction is ideal in buildings where a high degree of repetition is implemented: hospitals and hotels.”

The property fits in about one third more guest rooms than what a typical hotel with the same square footage would achieve.

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Stephen B. Jacobs Group, executive architect at the newly built, 19-story citizenM Bowery Hotel, located on the lower east side of Manhattan, has built the world’s tallest modular hotel.

Originally designed as a conventional pouredin-place concrete building, citizenM decided to have the building redesigned using modular construction using imported steel boxes.

Because of the change in structural system, the double-height mechanical room, originally located on the 18th floor, was moved to the third floor, and a 3-ft.thick concrete mat was poured on the fourth floor, on which the modules are stacked.

For this project, a number of complicating factors meant that modular advantages did not pan out. For example, the decision to use a manufacturing facility in Poland— which had built the modules for the client’s hotels in Europe—added shipping and customs to the schedule.

Quality control may be the primary advantage of modular construction that this project was able to realize. With work being conducted out of the weather, at workbench height, and with assembly-line production methods, modular construction takes the pressure off the back end of the construction schedule.

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David Baker Architect’s interlocking modular units increase efficiencies of craning and setting modules and streamlining factory production methods.

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Modular Apartments Designed by San Francisco-based David Baker Architects (DBA),  Platinum Union Flats, a mid-rise housing development southeast of San Francisco, pioneered large-scale modular construction while achieving exemplary environmental performance. The development consists of 388 wood-framed modules, shipped from Idaho and craned into place—either onto a foundation, atop a Type I podium, or wrapping a Type I concrete parking garage. Cladding materials include wood, stucco and strips of fiber-cement panels. The massing is self-shading: at the southwest façade, balconies are recessed; at the northwest and southeast, bays are articulated to provide shade while opening up to daylight and views of nearby hills.

The project’s parallel achievements—in pioneering large-scale modular development and attaining  Platinum certification—stand as a milestone for the multifamily sector. They demonstrate how modular construction’s schedule and labor market advantages can help get an environmentally and socially progressive project built and contribute to sustainability’s triple bottom line.

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 WASHROOM ACCESSORIES Bradley Corp.’s full line of washroom accessories, including grab bars, mirrors, dispensers for soap, towels and toilet paper, provide versatility, durability and ease of installation for modular building projects. With multiple models and styles available, Bradley’s stainless steel washroom accessories present builders many options—even in large quantities—for equipping restrooms in these applications.

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ECOncrete’s team is composed of marine biologists, coastal/marine engineers, and product designers, who together are revitalizing coastlines across the globe with projects in New York, Georgia, Florida, London and in the Netherlands.

The Biomimicry Institute and the Ray C. Anderson Foundation have announced this year’s Ray of Hope Prize has been awarded to ECOncrete Tech., a science-based company that develops environmentally sensitive concrete products for coastal and marine infrastructure projects.

Inspired by beach rock formations, coral polyps, oyster shells, mangrove roots, and other marine habitats and life forms, the proprietary technology is based on three sciencebased elements that work in synergy: Bioenhancing concrete admix, rough surface texture, and locally attuned 3D design that fosters the growth of native plants and facilitate the growth and regeneration of local marine species, while strengthening the structures, themselves, over time.

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Power Abuser to Power Producer Industrial efficiency practices can lead to greater municipal water and electricity management, facilitating 2030 goals.

According to “Impact By Design 2020,” by The Gensler Research Institute, using less water is essential, and recycling water is even more vital. A large amount of energy is required to source, clean, move, heat and cool water. In fact, according to the , wastewater management and drinking water treatment plants are the largest consumers of energy in many American cities—accounting for 30% to 40% of total energy consumed, and adding over 45 million tons of greenhouse gases every year. In the U.S., large commercial buildings alone, use nearly a billion gallons of water a day. In all commercial buildings, 95% of water demands are for non-drinkable uses, yet potable water tends to be used for these purposes.

Yet, we may learn some lessons from the industrial practices of the Danes. Since 2010, Denmark’s Marselisborg wastewater treatment plant, near Aarhus, has transformed its focus beyond minimizing energy consumed, to maximizing net-energy surplus. The facility has net production of both electricity and heat, supplying district heating in Denmark’s

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second-largest municipality. Its carbon footprint, in fact, has been reduced by 35 %, accordingly.

Water and wastewater treatment facilities are normally the single largest electricity consumer for a municipality—25% to 40% of a city’s electricity consumption. Aarhus implemented many solutions, including installation of combined heat and power (CHP) for energy production. On the product side, frequency converters from Danfoss (right) are installed on almost all rotating equipment, notably pumps. The converters allow the plant to adapt to load variations, with maximum flexibility. These changes have increased electricity production by 130% and 30% excess electricity; similarly, excess heat production is about 2.5 GWh/year.

The vision for Aarhus City is to extend energy generation even further, achieving surplus energy so high, from its wastewater treatment plants, that it can also meet the energy requirement of the city’s potable water supply, transforming the largest power consumer into an energy-neutral entity.

Wastewater management and drinking water treatment plants are the largest consumers of energy in many American cities—accounting for 30% to 40% of total energy consumed.

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RE-ENTERING THE REIMAGINED OFFICE Offices are rethinking design, products and wayfinding as employees return to the office community.

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Regardless of when you return to the office, one thing is certain—the office won’t be the same as the one you left.

Despite the “reopened” economy, many businesses remain in a “waitand-see mode,” with remote work still the norm. In fact, according to Karen Bala, ,  , director of design at Boston-based Dyer Brown Architects,

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many businesses are waiting until January 2021 to make their move.

That said, they are reimagining their floor plans now, a task that can be a guessing game for interior designers, architects and business operators alike. The worry, according to Elizabeth von Goeler, principal at Sasaki, a Watertown, Mass.-based

architecture and planning firm, is that if dividers and cubicles are placed everywhere, all the work done to create collaboration and openness over the past few years will be ruined, “and there will still be an increase in work from home. I think instead, we are going to have to start using offices differently.”

According to the designers, three big trends are emerging: 1) more activitybased design; 2) an influx of products addressing wellness; and 3) greater social distancing measures that factor wayfinding.

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Trend 1: Activity-Based Design In all likelihood, the office won’t be one’s main workspace anymore. Instead, employees, likely, will come in for collaboration, but stay home for singular work and email. This means desk size, or even a door, will no longer be a status symbol. Instead, Goeler says activity-based design, or the idea of designing space to most suit each type of office activity, will take center stage in the new office.

Imagine, she says, you get to the office 20 minutes ahead of a scheduled meeting. What matters?

You need a place to plop down with your laptop and talk to coworkers in a more social environment.

After the meeting, what matters is a quiet, and somewhat private place, to get quiet work done.

“Based on the cost of real estate, you have to be able to let go of the desk as your primary work spot,” said Goeler, who works off the premise that no more than 70% of workers are ever in the office at any one time, even before -19. “Why put 30%

extra desks in an office and tie them up to be ‘owned’ by someone if our teams can work another way?”

Bala agrees, noting high-performing, productive spaces are possible—but only when the positive behavior of a space is planned. Flexible furniture will play a large part. For example, a team of 20 may come in and move furniture around to make it work for their collaboration. Later, a team of five can reconfigure the space for their needs. That said, a cleaning program is also critical. After putting two sofas together and working for an hour in one space, who will prepare the area before the next group of coworkers reconfigures it?

“The future office is a combination of concierge services that includes a team going in and prepping that space, including cleaning it after, etc., and making sure the technology is there that we need,” said Bala.

“The furniture and architecture of the future office needs to be super flexible.”

COLLABORATION SPACES Create a room within a room for open-office environments. The Brooks Pavilion by Casala creates an intimate, consultation or collaboration space wherever you need it. Available in circular or square formats and colors that are adaptable to the environment, the pavilion comes standard equipped with an LED downlight and a black, wooden plinth of 4-cm high and plastic glides. It can also feature electrification and a table.

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HIGH-BACKED SEMI PRIVATE BOOTHS Aspect elegant high-back sofa solution by Steelcase is designed to provide private places in any busy workspace. Aspect can be configured alone as an intimate high-back sofa, or enclosed as a semi-private booth, allowing for integration of work surfaces, power and panel-mounted monitors. Contrasting seam detail allows designers a subtle play with color contrast, and two-tone upholstery is available.

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WORK STATIONS The Brody Desk by Steelcase allows employees to focus even in high-traffic surroundings. This high-performance workstation was designed specifically for the in-between spaces in corporate environments. Regardless of the floor plan, the desk can be used as a stand-alone, or a series of desks can be put together. The desk offers a mini LED task light and integrated desk power is accessible via two Type A USB ports.

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VALUE ENGINEERING? When the concept of value engineering was first conceived in the 1940s, the aim was to find real value through careful analysis of products and components. This was accomplished by either improving performance without increasing cost or reducing cost without sacrificing performance.

It was understood that value could only be created if functionality and durability remained the priority.

Today, value engineering in construction has fallen far from its origins, with products being chosen and changed out simply because they are cheaper, many times sacrificing performance and longevity. This new process is no longer about creating actual value. Acknowledging that budget is always a concern, there must still be a better way.

With the introduction of EN-V we aim to restore the true meaning of value. We haven’t cheapened anything about the EN-V metal panel system, but rather optimized the process to find cost savings without sacrificing performance. EN-V is a fully tested, architectural, dry joint, pressure equalized rainscreen system which starts at an uncommonly low price in this sector. The panels are singleskin, so there are no worries of delamination and they are non-combustible. Available in a nearly endless palette of custom colors, EN-V doesn’t compromise on aesthetics either.

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(Above) At the headquarters of technology company Akamai, in Cambridge, Mass., Sasaki incorporated stadium seating on stairs for quick collaboration or private work; downstairs, the dining/café doubles as private work or meeting space.

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Common areas, with small pods for different types of collaboration or private work, offer employees the opportunity to properly social distance without a need for major reconfiguration. Part of this solution is cultural, meaning people must learn to live without a traditional or permanent workstation.

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Trend 2: Infusion of New Products “Touchless” is a buzzword getting a lot of attention when it comes to new office products and equipment. It’s good that many touchless products are already on the market, such as door openers like those from StepNpull or Grainger with its Essex door. But there are also touchless faucets, lighting controls, and even  Robotics telepresence robots, which provide a physical presence for remote team members. “For businesses that have gone back to the office already, the first thing we are doing is helping them create space—to use the square footage they to create social distancing,” says Bala, which may mean companies have to start placing people in workstations that might not be theirs. “But today it’s theirs, because it’s 6-ft. away from the next employee,” says Bala.

In such cases, Bala suggests thinking out of the box to specify uniquely shaped furniture, such as a curving conference room table, where team members can be close enough to collaborate, but don’t directly face each other.

When a divider panel is necessary, Bala says to keep it light. She’s been specifying either green panels from the Sage Green Life, or 3Form’s Frameless Suspended Partition to keep it “inviting and soothing.” Bala, however, cautions offices not to use dividers as a permanent solution without extensive planing to avoid creating feelings of isolation among employees.

Goeler specifies screens by Yellow Goat Design to create beautiful, but separate and socially distanced spaces, which can be permanent office fixtures. “If you’re going to come back with a few years left of your lease term, it’s okay to put up dividers,” said Goeler. “But, if you have a 10-year lease left, you’re going to want to come back to the collaborative environment eventually.”

She encourages businesses to think about how long they plan to be in the space before making any permanent changes, especially now that many clients are currently considering downsizing or leasing a smaller space.

ELBOW SHAKE? The Cuff Door Handle from Mockett offers a hygienic approach to opening any traditional interior door to prevent the spread of bacteria and other germs. The users rests their forearm on the cuff and presses down on the handle to push or pull to open the door.

The easy-to-install forearm shield slips over the handle and is easily screwed into place.

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Many specify antimicrobial materials for new furniture, hoping it will help slow the spread of COVID-19 in the office.

However, antimicrobial materials were created to prevent or slow the growth of bacteria, mold and algae on the material itself. They don’t actually kill viruses either in the air or for those that touch the materials.

FUTURE NOW With the Ava Telepresence robot, remote users can easily and safely navigate the robot through large workspaces, event spaces and retail spaces. Enterprise-grade videoconferencing makes interacting with people on-site perfectly natural—and offers a crystal-clear view of the facility.

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SANITIZER STATIONS High-volume sanitizer stations hold a full gallon of ready-to-use hand sanitizer, featuring a locked door that houses another, back-up gallon for easy engaging. Seven powder colors or a client’s custom graphics or branding are available. The station is finished with a UV-stable powdercoat and is 7.21-in. wide × 9.85-in. deep × 48-in. high.

A FOOT UP StepNpull mountings can help improve the experience for customers and employees by providing a hand-free door opener, a possible way to mitigate the spread of germs in addition to its handsfree convenience.

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Trend 3: Increased Wayfinding Addressing Social Distancing Reconfiguring space, while achieving social distancing all day, is possible with the right wayfinding and signage. Dyer Brown collaborates with BluEdge to create wayfinding signs that bring awareness to the space, but not alarm.

“Signs shouldn’t be yellow or red—just informative—and in the colors that are pleasing to your space and brand. Workers shouldn’t feel like it’s a virus zone, like it’s not a good idea to be here.

Instead, use wayfinding in a way that makes the office more welcoming,” says Bala.

Signage should coordinate employees so they are moving and circulating appropriately in the space.

In areas that are tight, Bala suggests creating “stepaside” zones where employees used to congregate in order for them to still promote spontaneous conversations—just in a safer way. Step-aside zones will feature 6-ft. or more of space for employees to maintain a distance, but still connect naturally.

WAYFINDING Preconfigured wayfinding solutions from Tarkett make specification easy. Die-cut shapes are available through the company’s IMAGINATIONS program in a wide variety of materials from modular soft surface to heterogeneous sheet vinyl. Designs include 24-in. × 24-in. arrow or footprint tiles that can easily be dropped into an existing floor to integrate clear distancing markets. Modular 18-in. circles are another way to mark appropriate distancing, while larger 6-ft. diameter circles help delineate individual workspaces or zones.

Dyer Brown practices what it preaches in its own Boston office by incorporating custom signage in entry and coffee break areas to maintain proper social distancing.

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In the Office We Trust While there is so much still that is unknown about the future of workplaces, some things are certain. Technology and touchless equipment will play a big role moving forward, long after the COVID19 pandemic—and partly in fear of another one.

Flexibility and innovation of products like furniture, and architecture systems, will be critical. At the same time there will be a return to the basics— fundamental design principles everyone holds true will be resurrected.

“In my crystal ball, the future of workspace is less about architecture and more about technology—AV and other tech services. Soon, technology is going to be a one-stop app. Each piece of equipment or network entity will speak to each other, and it will bring the entire office together,” said Bala. “People are going to want their space to be highly flexible and minimal. In-office meetings are going to be very rare.

There are going to be summit meetings, important interviews, client meetings.”

Looking through the same crystal ball, Goeler takes this idea global. She believes the biggest office amenity during the pandemic isn’t a piece of furniture or design principle—it is trust.

“If I’m in an office and someone else comes in, I have to trust that they have done everything they can to come to the office healthy. That’s something no building can give you. And in many ways, something your company can’t even give you. Have meaningful conversations and talk to each other openly and honestly about where you’ve been and make sure you’re treating each other well. That is the way to keep offices open and viable during a pandemic.”

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Coming Back to Community While the threat of COVID-19 remains, architects are working to modify communal facilities and areas for safe social interactions.

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that life must go on, albeit cautiously and safely. Architects, designers and engineers are rising to the challenge in reanalyzing our communal facilities

and public spaces, and implementing strategies to enable communities to interact and socialize in a hygienic and safe manner. What follows is a selection

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Limited to nine participants and a trainer, early morning outdoor fitness classes are held in McLean, Va. MOVIE NIGHTS

In a return of the drive-in movie theater, the summer saw pop-up parks using parking lots for movie nights in Tysons, Va. © LAFlicks/The Meridian Group

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At The Boro Tysons, in Tysons, Va., consumers can safely shop for produce and other eats at weekly outdoor farmer’s market.

Project: The Boro in Tysons, Tysons, Va. Architect: LandDesign, Washington, D.C.

Embracing a Pop-Up Park Defined as open spaces that can accelerate real estate development, activate emerging neighborhoods and support businesses while creating safe pedestrian zones, pop-up parks are a growing trend, particularly at this time.

“At the beginning of COVID-19, we experienced an influx of people finding respite in open space as one of the few places we could experience togetherness, alone,” explains Stephanie Pankiewicz, , , partner, LandDesign, Washington D.C. “The sudden surge of people taking advantage of public, open space amenities—whether daily walks down the center of neighborhood streets to allow for more space to spread out than a narrow sidewalk might have accommodated, cycling through a greenway as break from working from home or having a socially-distant picnic in a park— has reinforced the importance and value of open space in our communities,” she relates.

Since open-air areas can support the safe gathering of more people, communities are actively relocating activities and services to the great outdoors.

For example, plazas, squares, parks and streets are being utilized for farmer’s markets, outdoor fitness classes, drive-in movies and outdoor counter-serve restaurants.

“While reimagining the future of open space post-, pop-up parks allow us to test immediate solutions, such as reclaiming the streetscape, surface parking lots and on-street parking for public open space, as well as indoor retail and entertainment uses not previously imagined in those spaces,” Pankiewicz explains.

These pop-up parks are also providing communities with the opportunity to react more quickly to this new normal.

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Case in Point The Boro in Tysons, a community in Tysons, Va., is actively utilizing a 10,000-sq.-ft. “pop-up parklet” designed by LandDesign. Outdoor dining has been set up in parking spots; streets have been cordoned off for foot traffic and small group gatherings two evenings per week; fitness classes are held early in the morning; an outdoor farmer’s market is held on Thursday afternoons; and summer evenings featured the return of the drivein move theater.

Whereas parks and open spaces have traditionally been viewed as amenities or extra perks, their contribution to health, wellness and safety at this unprecedented time has upgraded their need. A unique challenge now facing designers is that flexibility and mobility

was previously incorporated into these spaces so that users could easily reconfigure spaces for larger groups. “Now with social distancing recommendations in place for all activities, designers are considering how we incorporate a mix of mobile and permanent structures that will discourage larger gatherings while still creating a vibrant and welcoming public realm.”

Another developing area is considering how to bring touchless doors and other self-sanitizing materials such as handrails and doorknobs to the exterior environment such as play equipment and site furnishings.

For instance, there are currently a number of parks in California where self-cleaning park restrooms facilities are being tested.

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Community-BLOC Urban Design To assist communities with creating “Corona-safe” zones, the folks at HKS Architects have innovated a Community-BLOC concept, described as equitable, accessible and inclusive design able to withstand pandemic situations. Designed as two modes, communities would be set up to switch back and forth from times of good health to a health crisis and vice versa. The six design principles are as follows:

Net-Positive Design Communities are designed with healthy buildings with ample ventilation and daylight, urban park networks, local food production, 0.5-mile access to parks, groceries and primary health and amenities promoting health and wellness. During a pandemic, this makes the community self-reliant, able to support local businesses while protecting the physical and mental needs of the community.

isolate a spread and protect those vulnerable to an environmental or health threat.

Flexible and Mobile Infrastructure Creates Agility During a pandemic, this allows rapid repurposing of spaces and social distancing without social isolation or business interruption. Flexible design and mobile pods can be deployed to offer essential services such as health, food and education when access to the wider community is limited.

Mixed-Use, Intergenerational and Inclusive Environment Leveraging the unique strengths and resources of different social groups within mixed-use programming, multifamily living, intergenerational zoning, co-locating schools and senior living facilities enable a seamless share of resources during a pandemic.

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Scaled levels of mobility, the ability to manage access and flow, and thresholds allow for seamless physical separation while maintaining social connection during a pandemic via balconies and small pocket spaces/parks.

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Circuits and Circuit-Breakers Enable Containment and Continuity

Schools educate students about health, which is then implemented in nearby homes, neighborhoods and community resources such as urban farms and local food sourcing. Additionally, schools function as 24/7 learning centers that serve school-aged children during the day and adult and community education in the evenings.

A connected system for transport, food delivery, technology transfer and social health includes clearly defined circuit breakers that can quickly

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A flexible infrastructure enables a seamless repurposing of spaces and social distancing without social isolation or business interruption.

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The footprint refers to distinctive activity zones and the cloudprint includes geo-aware apps that promote healthy behaviors and connect individuals to health resources in the community, e-leaning, telehealth and remote working.

Project: The Six, Los Angeles Architect: Brooks + Scarpa

A Covered Floating Outdoor Lobby A 2020 COTE Top Ten and AIA Housing Award winner, The Six is a 52-unit affordable apartment building for previously homeless and disabled veterans in Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park area.

Breaking the traditional shelter mode with unique public and private zones, Brooks + Scarpa’s LEED Platinum design features a floating, protected outdoor lobby. The innovative atrium-in-a-box design makes a striking architectural statement and provides a sheltered, comfortable place for residents to safely congregate.

The design is a departure from a reclusive, isolating layout toward a much more communityoriented, interactive space. At a density of 152 units/ acre, The Six’s roof also provides a quiet refuge for tenants, incorporating landscaping with trees, seating and panoramic views of the neighborhood.

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Generous outdoor plazas and landscaping, and welldesigned communal areas, allow women in the facility to safely interact with each other.

Project: YWCA Hub, Calgary Architect: Kasian Architecture, Calgary

Women’s Support Center Provides Safe Environment

Each resident has her own room, personal storage space and private bathroom, and the facility offers plenty of space to accommodate social distancing and isolation measures, as needed. havens, which comply with social distancing and hygienic requirements, the design of Calgary’s new YWCA Hub offers a successful formula for delivering these services. The 120,000-sq.-ft. facility provides transitional housing for 100 women and offers a full offering of community services, including daycare, a trauma center, community kitchen, medical facilities, ample outdoor space, and employment resource and language instruction classrooms. Each resident is provided with her own room, personal storage space and private bathroom, and the facility offers plenty of space to accommodate social distancing and isolation measures, as needed.

“Shelter occupants are separated into smaller neighborhood units of no more than 20 occupants, which reduces unnecessary contact or contamination, should that occur,” explains Meghan Lawray,

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senior project architect, Kasian Architecture, Calgary. “To allow for maximum flexibility, access within and to the facility is done by remote keycard, wireless and hands-free controls, which also reduces the number of high-touch surfaces.”

Similarly, the community support spaces are large and flexible, and incorporate antimicrobial, easy-to-clean surfaces and materials such as corian countertops, resilient vinyl flooring with integrated covered bases, exposed concrete and luxury vinyl tile flooring. The architects also incorporated handwash sinks and proper ventilation through operable windows and mechanical systems, particularly in

areas where food is prepared.

The YW Hub’s multiple public plazas, wide pedestrian walkways and defined street edges, landscaped with flowering trees, plant containers, and native grasses and shrubs, offer a welcoming space where women and their children can enjoy the outdoors while interacting with one another in a safe manner.

“Optimal sight lines, intuitive wayfinding and strategic signage allow users to easily navigate and flow through the Hub and around the site, assisting in promoting feelings of safety and security,” adds Lawray.

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The communal kitchen at Calgary’s YWCA Hub for women incorporates resilient, hygienic materials, ventilation, daylighting and ample space.

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Beyond simply creating ways to mitigate health issues, COVID-19, with its lockdowns and quarantines, is creating an unfortunate increase in domestic violence. As a result, it’s changing communities in the way women’s support facilities are designed and operated. As communities struggle to provide safe

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Metal Makers While not a reaction to -19 or creating safe public gathering places, California’s Barlow project represents a novel trend in community development: transforming former industrial areas into “maker communities.” In a great example of adaptive reuse— in this case an old apple canning and processing facility—developer Barney Aldridge transformed an old, 12.5-acre canning facility into a hip, mixed-use space development. Initially, Sebastopol, in California wine country, rejected a residentially heavy proposal, but were intrigued by a “makers market.” With some input and guidance from the city, the industrial-chic outdoor marketplace exists today.

The architectural twist on the project is that it’s inspired by the development’s original metal buildings. In fact, six original buildings on the campus were refurbished, and integrated with 12 new buildings—also metal—a solution that proved perfect, as besides fitting in with the light industrial nature of the project, they were a hip, flexible and cost-effective solution. “What makes The Barlow so unique is that a majority of our square footage is dedicated to food and beverage production,” says Aldridge. “Metal buildings are what makes that structurally possible and brings it all to life.”

To transform the site, the developer enlisted architect Thad Geldert and landscape designer Sandra Reed to develop the original renderings. Once the Design Review Board approved it, Mitch Conner of architectural firm ArchiLOGIX, was brought onto the team as the architect-of-record responsible for the new metal buildings and the refurbishing of the older buildings on site. “Connectivity is important and I wanted to use these metal buildings to create interactive spaces as a logical extension of the town, and not separate from it,” says Conner.

Metal buildings facilitated construction. The community was built in the span of just two years.

“It was all about having a flexible building environment to bring together different businesses of scale and complexity, in which case the metal building was very accommodating. In short, you need to do your homework and you need the right team.”

Part of that team was Kevin O’Malley from O’Malley Wilson Westphal Architects, who brought 20 years of expertise with metal buildings, which helped move the conceptual work, entitlement process and industrial zoning requirements along.

“We really had to walk that line between retail and construction space,” O’Malley reflects, noting that the city would not change its zoning to the former.

“That’s when we determined that 80% of The Barlow would be dedicated to food and beverage production.”

He echoes Conner’s lessons learned, and emphasizes that a key piece lies in between the architectural design on paper, and the actual capabilities of the supplier or manufacturer that provides the system.

“You can’t always just stamp out a prescriptive metal building, so you need to understand the constraints you’re working with on these systems,” he says.

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Rhode Island’s new Providence River Pedestrian Bridge features curved wooden surfaces, reused infrastructure foundations and an attractive public area.

Bridge Doubles as a Public Space Similarly, many designers are thinking differently about making new community spaces from real estate never remotely considered for such a purpose.

Take Providence, R.I.’s new bridge. In addition to connecting new green spaces on the east and west sides of the city’s riverfront, the new curved and stepped wood-covered 394-ft. pedestrian bridge serves as an attractive public gathering area. The project reuses abandoned public infrastructure, namely foundations from the former eight-lane interstate I-195 bridge.

“This project is emblematic of the increasing trend of adaptive reuse of stranded assets, or underutilized and under-performing infrastructure,” reports Alice Shay, a member of Buro Happold Cities team, whose firm designed the bridge with inFORM Studio.

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“Our vision initially focused on ecological restoration,” says REA Principal Kevin Osburn. “We needed to restore wetlands, daylight streams that had been buried, remove hazardous materials and invasive species, and restore the floodplain as much as possible.” While the challenges were significant, city leaders also saw the potential of Switchyard Park to become a signature destination urban park for the city and region.

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Custom shade structures (several with swings), long communal tables with benches, amphitheater seating, and benches of various lengths are “functional and character defining elements, both artful and whimsical,” says REA Principal Cecil Penland.

Hsuing Marler notes the popularity of the shade structures with swings, which “give adults a piece of their childhoods

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“People love to sit on a porch swing,” Osburn says. “They are a nostalgic design feature hidden within the park’s contemporary design.”

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frequently when describing Switchyard Park. The landscape design emphasizes native landscaping, a daylighted stream now visible, and the pavilion features a green roof and LEED Silver certification. “The B Line Trail is a straight line,” explains Marler, “but the rest of the park meanders in different ways to create movement throughout the park.”

The site elements, architecture, and choice of materials reflect the park’s organic character and its history. REA did not want to replicate railroad themes, but instead pay homage to the site’s railroad heritage through design and materials.

“We selected stone, wood, and steel, the kinds of raw materials you’d see transported along the rail lines,” says Penland. “The bleachers near the game courts are reminiscent of stacked lumber and the communal tables in plan view carry a subtle design of a railroad track.” A palette features several bright, cheerful colors in the plaza and area with custom communal tables that add pop and contrast to the browns and grays.

Opened since November 2019, the park has been popular with the Bloomington community. “A park helps create a sense of community and improves mental and physical health,” explains Marler. “And we see that it is helping revitalize the southern end of the city.”

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New specs offer new perspective to these tired, old eyes—at least where opportunities lie is retail-related design.

I caught up recently with a former colleague who’s a lighting expert. We hadn’t conversed in quite awhile, so our discourse was wide ranging, to say the least. One of the topics discussed was whether there’s a need to ever leave one’s domicile, at least for work or shopping. My friend is very content in this new remote-working world, and in making most transactions—including those for his business—in some digital fashion.

I’m a more social animal—much to the chagrin of my library-quiet-loving wife, who’s been overwhelmed by long-term captivity with my big personality. Anyway, the day some of the

To fulfill the brief, Nulty focused on integrating light into joinery, walls, feature display cases, shelving and mirrors.

The geometric-shaped display cases feature indirect lighting details that emphasise the features’ forms and draw attention to the glasses. They have a big impact on the space along with the bespoke circular mirrors, which are surrounded by a delicate line of light that provides the perfect amount of vertical illumination onto the face, without creating shadows. Away from the retail floor, the luxurious experience continues in the optical and consultation rooms, which have a calm, relaxing feel, some with a stylish, completely blue interior.

Shopping goes beyond transactions.

It entails a personal connection between the brand and consumer.

The difference is customers—not brands—are now driving what that connection means. It’s up to retailers to exceed those expectations. shelter-in-place limitations were lifted in our state, my spouse was out to re-engage with her other major love: shopping. My friend could not quite understand this, especially since, in his opinion, most retailers really offer the same old thing.

Here’s where the project to the right comes into play: While I agree most of our shopping can be done online, what can’t be delivered by Amazon or the USPS, is an experience. Shopping is very much my wife’s hobby—as well as an escape from your’s truly—but I think what she, and many others, are seeking is a unique experience. Smart retailers, such as London’s Selfridges (right), have realized this, and have made the mundane, including visits for new eye glasses, a major thing—a curated thing. Some retailers are even making sure there are opportunities for one-on-one interactions catered to a customer’s personal needs and tastes. I, for one, confess spending about two hours chatting with my optometrist in getting new glasses! This more personally focused concept is called broadcast selling, and it may include coffee and pastries— even in a yoga store.

Check out the October edition of our sister publication Architectural SSL, for a look at how places like Lululemon are doing exactly this. The right accent can make all the difference.

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“This project is a prime example of how interior design can transport a vision beyond the confines of the space that it occupies,” says David Wick. “We’re proud to have pushed the boundaries of traditional design to deliver something truly distinct and remarkable.”

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CLASSICAL PAVILION Combining old-world Roman influence and classical pavilion architecture with highperformance glazing and modern energy efficiency, Charlotte’s Capitol Towers features concrete pillars and a prominent glass façade, glazed with Vitro’s Solarban R100 on bronze glass. Tracking LEED Gold, the façade utilizes a 60/40 glass-to-solid-wall and delivers a high solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC) of 0.23 with visible light transmittance of 42%.

Vitro Architectural Glass Solarban R100 www.vitro.com

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VANITY COLLECTION Balancing open and closed storage, the multifaceted Underground vanity collection elevates and lightens the powder room. Available in distinctive styles and configurations, they are unified by asymmetry and slim, matte black metal structural frames. Each design is available in three sizes and five styles in a dozen wood finishes, one cement-look finish and 36 matte lacquered finishes.

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TERRAZZO IN ME Terassa Porcelain by Architectural Systems Inc. comes in 13 colors and a range of sizes and finishes reminiscent of the art deco and modern styling terrazzo from the 1920s to the 1940s. The collection is GREENGUARD Gold Certified. It is comprised of aggregate chips embedded in a matrix. A proprietary antimicrobial and anti-pollution coating is available with a 5,000-sq.-ft. minimum.

The flooring is nonporous and able to clean with industrial grade products.

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CHOOSE THE ORIGINAL We could tell you about the numerous benefits of Aquatherm large-diameter pipe for district energy and mechanical applications: lightweight, durable, and long-lasting, plus so much more...

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FURNITURE WITH FREE SPIRIT 2007APNEWMZ08 The Spirit Collection is made out of a variety of lines—Spirit, Spirit Lite (shown), Spirit Lounge and Spirit Tables. Made by Indiana Furniture, the Collection features a variety of seat, back and base options, along with a list of single or contrasting graded-in and contract upholsteries.

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The entire Spirit Collection—Spirit, Spirit Lite, Spirit Lounge and Spirit Tables—provides a refined and inviting design, and capitalizes on versatility and comfort.

FREE SPIRIT FURNITURE The Spirit Collection is made out of a variety of lines—Spirit, Spirit Lite (shown), Spirit Lounge and Spirit Tables. Made by Indiana Furniture, the Collection features a variety of seat, back and base options, along with a list of single or contrasting graded-in and contract upholsteries.

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ENVELOPE A ROOM Porcelain floor and ceramic wall tile brings the luxury of understated elegance to everyday life. Evocative of natural stone, Stark by Florida Tile, features a simple color scheme of white and gray, offering two rectified size formats: 24-in. × 24-in. glazed porcelain floor and wall tile and a modern 14-in. × 39-in. ceramic wall tile that can work in tandem. Bullnose trims are available in both 3-in. × 24-in. and 3-in. × 14-in. sizes. Ideal for standard residential and commercial wall and backsplash applications.

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LET IT ROLL The Extreme 300 Series MicroCoil Grille reduces headroom for rolling grilles by 50% while providing building safety. The door decreases angles through patented curved vertical links, reducing the number of voids and headroom required and tightening coils in the process. Meeting ADA Standards for Accessible Design, the door is wind loaded and can withstand up to 20 psf static design pressure standard—up to 40 psf optional.

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Extreme 300 Series MicroCoil Grille www.cornellcookson.com

WHO SAYS CARPET ISN’T MATHEMATICAL? With bold geometric patterns created using innovative custom technology, Tarkett’s new Blockade & Soundblock sustainable carpet features softsurface styles in Power-bond and modular platforms for offices, education and hospitality spaces.

Designer Jhane Barnes used mathematical patterns to guide her design with a unique geometric pattern that seems random but really is not. The Blockade pattern features 12 colors with seven modern neutrals and five branding accents. Eight of those colors are repeated in the Soundblock series. Both flooring patterns are available in Powerbond as well as 9-in. × 36-in. and 18-in. × 36-in. and 24-in. × 2-in. tiles.

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DRYING OFF Drying the body in just a minute and a half, the Valiryo Body Dryer eliminates towels and reduces detergent costs. Waterproof and antimicrobial, with hot and cool temperature control, the product can be installed in or out of the shower or outdoors, and can also be used to cool down after a workout or poolside.

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Highest Acoustical Rating—up to STC 52 Krieger’s Acoustical Door and Window Wall Assembly underwent rigorous lab testing—in multiple configurations, testing higher than any other wall unit on the market.

Lowest Frequency Loss The NVLAP accredited laboratory acoustical test reports demonstrate that our designs have industry leading transmission loss between the 63HZ to 125Hz frequencies, with no deficiencies measured at greater than 95% confidence in dB. The performance is best-in-class, making it the ideal choice for locations exposed to noise.

NEW ANGLE ON ACOUSTICS DESIGNFlex for Formations Acoustical Clouds allow designers to incorporate acoustical control with desired aesthetics into their ceiling design. Available in nine standard patterns and 18 easy-to-order installation kits that create unique geometric cloud visuals, it is available in Armstrong’s popular Calla, Lyra PB, Ultima and Optima panels in a variety of geometric shapes and sizes. Panels absorb sound from both the front and the back to help reduce noise.

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Fully Customizable Configuration Configured to your exact specifications of size, number and placement of doors and windows and acoustical needs.

The construction makes it possible to swap out the doors, panels, transoms, and side light components in case your needs change.

ENHANCED HYGIENE In these times of highly heightened hygienic concerns, the VOLA faucet is available as a hands-free version with an advanced motion sensor. Each water-resistant unit is equipped with water-tight seals and the ability to adjust the flow rate from the standard 1.3 gpm to 0.5 gpm, and the flow time to 3, 10 or 20 seconds, making it one of the most efficient faucets on the market. An enhanced rinse feature runs the water for 20 seconds every 24 hours to keep fresh water moving in the lines when the unit is not in use.

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Build-In Basin Tap www.vola.com

ELITE CABINET HARDWARE Designed, forged and precision-machined in Italy, Elite solid brass cabinet and appliance/door pulls by Omnia are impactful to the eye with crisp details. This new collection comes in a wide assortment of lengths and popular finishes for any cabinet application.

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Tarkett HAPPY DAY In expanding its Happy D.2 Plus series by sieger design, Duravit’s C-shaped technology guarantees that the ceramic washbasin and furniture run in perfectly parallel lines with no overhang or recess. Offering the DuraCeram benefits of a ceramic glaze, such as ease of cleaning and robustness, the extended line offers a number of new features such as wall-mounted vanity units with two drawers available in luxury wood or matte surfaces in light or dark.

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LIGHT THE WAY DOWN Drawing inspiration from light waves and frequencies, as well as man-made phenomena like light trails and reflections, the Light Shift Collection features three distinct carpet patterns as well as a coordinating luxury vinyl tile.

The latest modular collection from Tarkett was developed in partnership with Suzanne Tick for communal spaces.

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Happ D.2 Plus www.duravit.us

STUCK ON SURFACES 3M DI-NOC self-adhesive film has the ability to conform to a variety of flat or curved surfaces, enabling just about any to get a refresh—walls, doors, panels, ceilings, furniture and more. With more than 800 patterns, including decorative metals, sophisticated stones, luxurious woods, pure solids and abstract designs, it features an advanced ultra-matte top coating. Available for both indoor and exterior applications.

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new & improved TASTY WAVES Surfrider, part of the Point Dume collection, designed by Jeffrey Alan Marks, was inspired by a traditional English look, with tiers of metal curves reminiscent of louvered shutters found in an English country homes. Marks interpreted these details into a modern-minded pendant and sconce grouping that is versatile enough to go anywhere.

Oversized hooks, suspended from a simple orb, surround a floating braided metal cable, marrying form and function for an industrial meets modern-minded point of view.

Galvanized finish of neutral silver-gray creates an environment that feels equally soothing and inviting.

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History. Engineering. Style. | AIROLITE HYGIENIC PROTECTION Serving as a protective shield between customers and employees in retail and food service settings, Window Film Depot’s RetailShields delivers hygienic protection sought in a new COVID-19 environment. For enhanced protection, Pure Zone antimicrobial film can be added to the film.

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100 years after the first Airolite louver was installed in a hotel, Airolite remains the most trusted, reliable brand of architectural louvers, sun controls, screens and grilles in America. In fact, our three U.S. manufacturing centers produce more AMCA Licensed, Miami-Dade County Qualified and Florida Product Approved products than any other manufacturer in our industry.

Specify Airolite for the look — and performance — you know will work.

STOP SOUND MOVEMENT With today’s open office floor plans, the need for quiet in enclosed spaces is greater than ever. Armstrong’s Calla PrivAssure ceiling panels absorb 75 to 80% of the sound that strikes them. With a CAC of 45 to 50, they act as a sound barrier between spaces. With a drywall-like visual, the panels are ideal for hospitals, doctor offices, human resources spaces or where legal and financial discussions take place.

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Calla PrivAssure www.armstrongceilings.com

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BLACKENED LINENLIKE STONE Antolini’s Exclusive Stone: Black Ice, features a linenlike texture to create calm spaces without boundaries. With a myriad of lines cutting through the backdrop, the tile creates a three-dimensional and dynamic ambiance.

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The sofa’s smooth horizontal lines are accentuated with a row of eight button tufts on the inside back and tapered wood legs.

Level 4 allows you to design comfortable work environments with an energy that inspires employees to connect and collaborate.

21c Museum Hotel | Oklahoma City OK architects: Deborah Berke Partners & Hornbeek Blatt Architects original architect: Albert Kahn photographer: Mike Schwartz

Rooftops redefined.

CREATING A BUZZ ABOUT TILE Daltile’s Bee-Hive Medley is a lineextension of the popular Bee Hive Collection. Featuring a small 8-in. × 10-in. size, available in seven colors in addition to the 3D cube and geometric patterns, this concrete-look hexagon shaped tile allows customers to experiment, creating a bold, fun space.

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BARN DOOR SEPARATOR Barn-Lite doors are available in Wave and Glacier acrylic blocks, with 9-in. × 9-in. and a depth of 1.5 in. Supported by durable steel hardware overhead in black satin, each door has 4-blocks across × 9-block down configuration. Ideal for medical settings, or any interior that needs separation without traditional doors.

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Barn-Lite www.hy-lite.com

MODERN SOFA FOR HIGH-TRAFFIC LOBBIES The Zander Sofa Collection by Level 4 Designs bridges traditional and modern design with highshelter arms in a fitted double cushion style. The sofa’s smooth horizontal lines are accentuated with a row of eight button tufts and durability of fabric for high-traffic hospitality, sports and arenas and retail environments. Zander is available in COM or any of Level 4’s graded-in fabrics.

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Zander Sofa Collection www.level4designs.com

FANCY FAUCETS Expanding its Lollipop and Nerea widespread faucet collections, Franz Viegener’s new Lollipop features include tall, cylindrical handles and Nerea, a low, disclike style. Each handle features one of four decorative designs—vertical lines, horizontal rings, subtle knurled detailing or a more prominent diamond pattern.

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Lollipop www.franzviegener.com

DURABLE METAL COLUMNS Transform spaces with gradient metal solutions

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ROCKFON TO THE RESCUE Rockfon’s Artic acoustic ceiling panels are made from stone wool with a square edge and feature standard sound absorption while also featuring excellent sag, mold and mildew resistance. The panels come in either 2-in. × 2-in. or 2-in. × 4-in. sizes. It’s a lightweight panel, easy to carry and install and available in square lay-in and tegular.

Shown here at Salina Central High School in Kansas.

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CORRUGATED SILENCE Scala, by Unika Vaev, is inspired by homes in Ireland that feature both façades and roofing made of corrugated iron. Used as a wall screen, wall tile and hanging screen or ceiling tile, the sound-absorbent material can help create a softer soundscape. It has an NRC Rating of 0.80.

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Rockfon

Artic www.rockfon.com

What’s inside matters.

Custom interior signage makes an impact.

Successfully connecting people to place begins by integrating interior signage design into the project from the start. With Gemini as a design partner, you’ll be inspired by our expansive capabilities and palette of materials, coatings, special finishes and colors.

From branded environments to ADA/wayfinding, we’ll partner with you on solutions to help bring your creative vision to life, crafted with extraordinary attention to quality and detail. Superior service, tools and resources are available to support you through all phases of the process.

Think about interior signs as an integral part of your design.

GeminiSignProducts.com/Interiors US: 800-538-8377 | Canada: 800-265-0426

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Recyclable, dimensional, aluminum surfacing made in Wisconsin

NET-ZERO FIRE STATION Helping Salt Lake City’s Fire Station No. 14 become one of the first net-zero fire stations in the country is Tubelite’s 400TU Series Therml=Block curtainwall, T1400 I/O Series multi-pane storefront, operable windows, side entrance doors and INT45 interior framing systems. As part of the city’s larger “Climate Positive 2040” plan, Salt Lake City is seeking net-100% renewable electricity by 2030, and to reduce carbon pollution by 80% by the year 2040. According to Tubelite, the energy-efficient thermal performance and condensation resistance, indoor air quality and natural ventilation, daylight and views delivered by these projects also contribute to the physical and mental health, and readiness of the fire fighters.

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Kolbe Windows & Doors Forgent www.kolbewindows.com

FORGING FORWARD Made from a proprietary hybrid of fiberglass and UV stable polymer, formulated for strength and resilience, the Forgent line includes a variety of window and door products. An integral nailing fin, and welded sash and frame, provide rigidity and keeps units square, thereby preventing air and water from entering the joint. A great fit for new construction and retrofits with short lead times, the products can be installed in three convenient ways.

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The 100% impervious concrete plinth that originally surrounded the building was opened up to include gardens and skylights bringing daylight into the basement classrooms. 1600 UT was used to utilize new daylight.

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a bird-safe pattern that mimics a spiderweb with a biophilic coding. Birds see a bright yellow/red pattern, but the micro-detail ensures humans barely see anything but clear glass.

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Green Roof

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The 1963 building was retrofit with a green roof in standard modules.

Velux

A corrugated zinc rainscreen is a pre-formed panel with a profile in the form of a “wave.� The sine wave profiles are installed on a metal framework fixed to the supporting structure (masonry or metal).

Modular fiberglass skylights, Northlights, are raised to allow sunlight to reach rooms below. The upright design targets installations that are directed toward the northern hemisphere for soft and reflected lighting without direct glare.

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Stairs and benches were made from custom precast architectural concrete from architectural cast stone.

Tectura Designs’ Expressions from Wausau Tile unit concrete pavers were used.

Lighting HK Lighting

The ZXL20i-WM2-SQ up and down LED wall sconces with mounting canopy features modular components and are field changeable LED modules with beam spread reflectors.

Keller Center, Harris School of Public Policy Creating positive change is the goal of every public policy department. The University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy checked this box before they even moved into the Keller Center, the school’s new LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge Certified home.

The center’s story of global change stars Theaster Gates, an artist and woodworker who salvaged local Ash trees devastated by the Emerald Ash Borer beetle. When architect Gabriel Wilcox of Farr Associates approached Gates to help integrate art into the Keller Center, the idea to utilize Gates’ stored Ash was born.

Farr Associates’ wood order was the impetus Gates needed to re-envision an old warehouse five miles from the university into a workforce program teaching local South Side teens woodworking.

“The Keller Center was the first large-scale purchase that gave Theaster Gates the means to push his mission and vision through,” said Wilcox. “This is a full-circle sustainability story—from the social and economic impact on the local community to the sustainable impact on the local environment.”

The design team almost exclusively chose sustainable products for the Kelley Center, including 36 with a Declare label. Wilcox even hinged some specifications on the manufacturer’s ability to alter their product’s composition to meet the center’s sustainable mission—which ultimately proved successful and altered product ingredients forever.

The building, originally designed by Edward Durrell Stone in 1963, now uses 46% less energy than code requires thanks in part to the radiant cooling and heating system paired with a rainwater cistern that saves 523,000 gallons of fresh water annually and a grant-funded photovoltaic array.

ARCHITECT

Gabriel Wilcox, ,  , , , Associate Principal, Farr Associates, is an award-winning architect with 14 years experience designing high-performance, sustainable buildings.

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Project: The Keller Center, Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago Owner: University of Chicago Architect: Farr Associates Collaborating Architect: Woodhouse Tincci Architects Original Design Architect: Edward Durrell Stone General Contractor: Mortenson MEP Engineers: dbHMS Structural Engineers: Stearn Joglekar Civil Engineers: Terra Engineering Lighting Design: Anne Kustner LD Landscape Design: Site Design Acoustics & AV: Shen Milsom Wilke Opened: 2019 Photography: Tom Rossiter

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The reclaimed ash wood, with design and installation by Theaster Gates, played the most significant role in The Keller Center earning a Living Building Challenge certification.

“When you build a lot of walls and floors, what do you do with the cut pieces of wood?” says architect Gabriel Wilcox, Farr Associates.

“We designed a method to use all the end cuts, integrating them back into the project to create a zero-waste project. It’s gorgeous when you see it up close.”

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“The salvaged wood is a great example of policy integration—the purpose of the Harris School. Our goal is always to understand who the client is, what their mission is and how we can integrate that into the architecture,” says Wilcox about the reclaimed local ash used.

Blue cubes add extra seating to the wood forum.

“We ran wild with the wood in contrast with the black and steel stain, especially in the interior forum,” said Wilcox. Wood acoustic baffles called Navy Island were used.

Dorchester Industries

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Kona Pouf www.hightoweraccess.com Gray couches on second floor overlooking forum.

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Navy Island Acoustic Baffle www.soundply.com

Second floor coffee tables.

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Roland www.agati.com

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The Vessel pendant light has a Declare Label and was designed by designer Todd Bracher. It is a glare-free light.

Colored and polished concrete with a Declare Label is used in the cafe area.

Reclaimed chalkboards in the café feature an artist’s mural depicting his family’s immigration to the U.S. Salvaged bronze pendants were original to the 1960s building and used in the cafeteria above. Tables and wood walls are part of the reclaimed wood throughout.

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“We’re living in a throw-away society and the Keller Center is a great example of an adaptive reuse done at the highest sustainable level that met project scope and budget. This building is ready for another 60 years of life, proving that anyone can do it. It is possible to achieve the highest level of sustainability in design with your team,” says architect Gabriel Wilcox, Farr Associates.

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Flooring

Furnishings

Operable glass wall creates various spaces.

Steel Ceilings’ perforated aluminum in a custom color.

A modular carpet inspired by pavement, asphalt and traveled concrete create direction and movement.

Blue lounge chairs.

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Bioscience Research Laboratories, The University of Arizona The new Bioscience Research Laboratories (BSRL) building provides the University of Arizona (UA) Health Sciences Center and the BIO5 Institute with highly efficient, state-of-the-art laboratories and office space to support strategic bioscience research themes.

by John Mesenbrink, contributing writer

Comprised of wet, damp and dry research laboratories, laboratory support areas, offices, conference rooms and specialized core facilities, the building’s design and layout maximizes flexibility to allow reconfiguration of spaces in response to evolving changes in technology and research priorities.

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The contextual building renews and reinforces the identity of its place on campus by creating a programmatic, architectural and physical linkage to the existing buildings on site—the Medical Research Building (MRB) and Thomas W. Keating Bioresearch Building (Keating), also designed by ZGF. “One of the university’s

goals for the project was to provide a sense of community, inclusion and visibility into the research happening inside the laboratory building,” says Gary Cabo, Principal, ,  ,  Architects.

The siting and massing responds to an existing mid-block pedestrian axis that

crosses the site from east to west, linking a series of proposed courtyard spaces. The building establishes the courtyard’s western edge and forms a campus gateway via the grand two-story opening at the midpoint of the building.

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Building Initiative—and received an Excellence in Masonry Architectural Award from the Arizona Masonry Guild— the design of the  Gold building’s highperformance exterior envelope responds to the hot and arid climate of the Sonoran Desert, through high-performance glazing and fixed external shading

devices that maximize daylight, and minimize direct solar loads, heat gain and glare to promote thermal and visual comfort for building users, while helping the facility meet its energy conservation goals. Although not considered net zero, for a laboratory, this building achieves highly in terms of sustainability.

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High-Performance Envelope The three adjoining buildings each possess a distinct image but share a common architectural language— a red brick blend, horizontal metal datum lines and angled window articulations. The outward-facing shell of red brick with metal sunshades provides the complex with aesthetic consistency and integrates shading and daylight control on the west and south façades. The more transparent east façade addresses the courtyard environment created between the three buildings. The link between building and courtyard is further reinforced by the strategic placement of a new campus café. Its two-story glass form protrudes beyond the plane of the eastern façade, announcing itself as the new heart of the complex.

BSRL achieves its own unique architectural signature through a simplification and paring-down of form, detail and material palette.

The exposed glazed lobby is an extension of the outdoors, joining the street realm and the inner courtyard through a visually connected continuum of active spaces. This modulation is marked by vertical lines that rhythmically shift from floor-to-floor and expand or contract to create a façade composition that resembles a barcode.

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It’s estimated that the building performs 25% better in terms of annual energy consumption and 16% better in terms of annual energy cost as compared to an ASHRAE 90.1-2007 minimally compliant baseline building.

RAINSCREEN SYSTEM

The project employs a cavity wall/rainscreen system. The components of the typical assembly include 6-in. cold-formed metal framing with fiberglass batt insulation, gypsum sheathing, a liquid applied air and vapor barrier, 2-in. cavity wall insulation, 2-in. air space and 4-in. brick veneer.

Hot-dipped galvanized masonry ties are used throughout the project. “In this application, this assembly provided excellent energy performance, maximizing R-value while minimizing thermal breaks,” says Cabo.

PROJECT SPECS

Project: Bioscience Research Laboratories Owner: University of Arizona Design Architect: ZGF Architects Associate Architect: BWS Architects General Contractor: DPR Construction Affiliated Engineers: MEP Audio-Visual Engineer: Information Technology Environmental and Lighting Designer: Atelier Ten Structural Engineers: John A. Martin & Assocs./ Martin, White & Griffis Civil Engineer: Engineering and Environmental Consultants Landscape Architect: Wheat Design Group Laboratory Planner: Jacobs Consultancy Cost: $532 per sq. ft.

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COURTYARD

BSRL serves as the final piece of the original master plan for this urban block in the UA Health Sciences Center precinct, giving shape to a courtyard space that is framed on either side

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BSRL’s differing façades are unified by metal horizontal datum lines that capture vertical panels of brick and perforated metal, which frame the building’s windows to provide shading. The long, western façade is carefully tuned to harvest daylight and promote access to views, while blocking direct sunlight using deep, angled window openings, perforated screens and horizontal sun shades.

The trapezoidal brick piers on the south façade were a challenge. Special shaped bricks were required for the corners of the piers. Unitized prefabricated steel and cold-formed metal framing strong backs were used to maintain repeatable geometry for brick elements.

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Teamwork Personified The teams pioneered a “flight planning” work session for team building, project alignment, and to address conflicts in real time. This workshop with the owner, architect, engineer, contractor and key trade partners built a foundation of mutual understanding and coordination so the team could course correct when the project hit inevitable turbulence.

The teams walked away with a strong sense of togetherness and the success of this early alignment was apparent with scope changes early in the process. The original schedule and estimate required a three-story plus basement building, but prior to start of construction, a fourth floor was added in order to optimize the university’s investment on the site over the long term. The addition of the floor reproportioned the building and altered the desired relationships with the neighboring structures. A complete redesign of the façade was required. Evolving into a fast-track project, the team faced a tight schedule for construction without a completed design.

The team set-up face-to-face meetings in Tucson to flesh out an exterior design that worked for schedule and budget. “In timesensitive situations, there’s always the possibility for tensions to rise; however, the team remained nimble and open to change. In a collaborative environment, the envelope was recomposed, new prototype details were developed and the redesign was accomplished without delaying the overall project schedule,” says Cabo.

LIGHTING The lighting strategy for BSRL minimizes connected lighting power density and lighting energy use. Advanced lighting controls include daylight sensors, occupancy and vacancy sensors, programmable dimming, and time-based controls, as well as automated blinds in public and shared spaces. The task-ambient lighting strategy in laboratories (below) allows for further energy savings by reducing overall ambient light levels without compromising illuminance at the work surface. Luminaires use primarily high efficacy, long life and high color rendering linear fluorescent and LED technology.

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The office areas share immediate adjacency and direct lines of sight to their associated labs, which, in turn, enjoy optimal access to views and borrowed daylight, greatly improving the quality of the research environment.

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Research Collaboration There are design elements that support a collaborative work/ research environment throughout the building, including a series of breakout spaces that form a bridge adjoining the north and south wings of the building.

Writable glass partitions separate the spaces, which feature casual coffee table seating or more formal tables and chairs that can accommodate up to eight people.

Biophilic Discovery

A SPLASH OF COLOR

Color accents are accomplished through the furnishings and graphic applications, predominantly in tones of blue and green—bringing the sky and landscape inside.

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A sense of wellness is integrated with the material selection as well, which aims to elevate the biophilic elements in the space and bring the outdoors inside. The interior materials and color palette consist of natural finishes, such as wood; warm, neutral tones; and stone-like textures to express a connection to the local terrain. The casual lobby seating and meeting areas, the café and a high-bay lab are visible from the shaded pedestrian colonnade—putting science on display for passersby. Meant to inspire and draw others in, the transparency along the ground level entices other students, faculty and university visitors with the process of scientific discovery.

“The sun-blocking elements also give texture and break down the scale of the west façade, which is BSRL’s largest outward face.”

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Color accents add energy to the space by providing a counterpoint to the warm wood tone and neutral flooring materials to enliven and invigorate the user experience. The interior materials and color palette consist of natural finishes, such as wood; warm, neutral tones; and stone-like textures to express a connection to the local terrain.

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Explore how restrooms can reduce contact with contaminated surfaces; acoustics solutions that improve sound management without compromising aesthetics; and options for incorporating stone accents that connect people with nature and improve their wellbeing.

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After reading this article, you should be able to: 1 Explain how all-in-one touchless handwashing fixtures and taller partitions can create bathrooms that are safer and more hygienic.

2 Describe how incorporating stone elements into an interior space supports biophilic design, positively impacting a person’s health.

3 Explore the common noise issues compromising the acoustic performance of the interior space and negatively effecting employees’ productivity, satisfaction and well-being.

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he topic of hygiene occupies more time on the airwaves and public consciousness today than perhaps ever before. Handwashing has never been a hotter topic. As a result, many now know the optimal amount of time to spend scrubbing is 20 seconds or approximately the amount of time it takes to hum the “Happy Birthday” song twice.

This interest in cleanliness extends beyond person-to-person contact and into the ways that we can keep interior spaces safer and more sanitary. This subject aligns well with the health-focused design concepts that have gained momentum over the last few years as studies continue to indicate that the interior environment—and the products within—can make a real impact on the health and well-being of the people in the space.

This article explores a few of the many ways that interiors impact the health and well-being of the people inside them. From restrooms being designed to reduce contact with contaminated surfaces and inhibit the presence of bacteria to acoustics solutions

that absorb or isolate noise, making interiors more comfortable and productive. Biophilic design, a health-focused design concept that encourages the inclusion of plants, daylight and natural elements like wood and stone, is also discussed, as are the options designers have for bringing stone elements inside.

There were also undeniable inefficiencies, water waste and maintenance challenges to keeping these areas stocked and clean. These obvious issues motivated the development of new products and materials that would enable these spaces to be safer, more hygienic and more efficient.

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CREATING A MORE HYGIENIC EXPERIENCE

One of the latest innovations revolutionizing the bathroom experience is an all-in-one touchless handwashing fixture. These solutions make the sink a one-stop shop for all the handwashing stages—rinsing, cleaning and drying. It also eliminates touching from the process. To be clear, these fixtures include a touchless faucet, touchless soap dispenser and a touchless hand dryer. LED lights and icons for water, soap and the dryer guide users to place their hands in certain positions along the fixture depending upon which stage of the process they are in.

Although several all-in-one solutions have entered the market in the last few years, usability and

Even before the pandemic, the design of the typical commercial bathroom left a lot to be desired. Gaping sightlines into the stalls and partitions that could easily be seen over or under contributed to privacy concerns that became increasingly more troubling with the proliferation of smart phone technology. The layout of the multi-staged handwashing process left patrons zigzagging through the space from the sink to the drying stations, dripping soapy water on the floor. The many touches required to activate the water, the soap, the hand dryer and open the door left users with just-washed hands that were questionably clean.

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An all-in-one touchless handwashing fixture includes a touchless faucet, soap dispenser and hand dryer.

reliability can differ dramatically from one product to the next. Specifiers should ensure the fixture operates as intended. Some models incorporate advanced features that enhance the handwashing experience and reduce false activations. In some fixtures, the cleaning, rinsing and drying functions are designed to activate independently and only one-at-a-time, which helps to prevent the accidental activation of their neighboring services like water spraying onto drying hands.

Well-designed, all-in-one solutions also make bathroom interiors safer by avoiding germ exposure at the faucet and keeping water from dripping on the user or the floor, which can cause slips and falls. There are additional cost savings and maintenance benefits as well. These systems reduce water and soap use, eliminate clutter from paper towel waste and are easier to refill and maintain.

The design team of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs—ranked the sixth best zoo in North America by USA Today in 2019—selected an all-inone handwashing model during a recent restroom renovation. A member of the design team described their choice by saying this, “The fixture is easy for our grounds crew to wipe down and keep clean and its streamlined design promotes an overall sense of neatness and tidiness in the restroom that we haven’t had before. Our remodeled bathrooms look great and the sinks are fabulous.”

“Flushing the Toilet May Fling Coronavirus Aerosols All Over” which states, “Scientists have found that flushing a toilet can generate a cloud of aerosol droplets that rises nearly three feet. Those droplets may linger in the air long enough to be inhaled by a shared toilet’s next user, or land on surfaces in the bathroom.”

The latest plume research highlights the need to rethink some of the common spaces people share, especially in the restroom during a pandemic.

One of those shared spaces that could be reconsidered is the toilet stall. New products can be used to create compartments that more effectively enclose the stall, reduce contact with potentially contaminated surfaces, and inhibit the presence of bacteria in the immediate area, while improving user privacy.

TALLER PARTITIONS

One way designers can better contain elements in the compartment is by using taller partitions. Standard partitions used to create a toilet stall are 58-in. tall. At this height, there is usually a 12-in. gap between the floor and the bottom of the door or stall wall. Partitions are now available that reach up to 72-in. tall. This allows for a smaller 6-in. gap between the floor and the bottom of the door and less open space overhead, which reduces airflow between the stalls.

WIDER STALLS REDUCE POINTS OF CONTACT

Another aspect to consider is the width of the toilet stall. While the width of the stall is informed by many factors, including the amount of space allotted for the restroom, wider stalls offer two key benefits: 1) They allow for greater separation between simultaneous users; and 2) reduce potential points of contact that a person may have with the physical stall. Narrow stalls may force people to bump into the plume-contaminated door or walls as they navigate the compartment.

ANTIMICROBIAL ELEMENTS

Manufacturers are also developing more washroom accessories with inherent antimicrobial properties.

There are antimicrobial partition door pulls and latches and even antimicrobial grab bars that inhibit the growth of bacteria, mold, mildew and fungus.

Instead of an antimicrobial coating, the antimicrobial nature of many solutions is integrated into the physical product and will not wash or wear away over time.

In addition, the antimicrobial response is automatic and begins whenever a microorganism contacts the product’s surface.

RETHINKING THE TOILET STALL

Toilet stalls also play a significant role in the cleanliness of the restroom and the overall experience a person has in this space. This is becoming increasingly apparent as new information emerges about toilet plumes that are created by the flush of a toilet.

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biophilic design, which is based on the idea (and the research) that people have an innate need to connect with nature, even though they spend 90% of their time indoors. This means that incorporating plants, daylight, natural elements, like stone and wood, and even the patterns found in nature can create an interior that positively affects the people in it. Studies indicate that biophilic design solutions can reduce stress and lower heart rates and blood pressure, while increasing creativity, productivity and well-being.

Although the concept of biophilic design was first introduced in the 1980s, it is now gaining momentum and designers are finding themselves regularly seeking ways to incorporate more natural elements into commercial, hospitality and residential interiors. Just look at how popular living walls, also known as green walls or vertical gardens, have become. They are practically commonplace in tech company offices today.

Daylight now floods many floorplans. Stone walls and stone accents infuse natural elements into the design and create interiors with a lot of character.

NATURAL STONE VS. MANUFACTURED STONE VENEER

When selecting a stone product for a project, designers have two options. They can select a natural stone or manufactured stone veneer (MSV). While natural stone is quarried from the ground, MSV is a concrete mixture that is cast in a mold and then painted. The end result is a lightweight decorative surface that is a few inches thick but creates the illusion of a structural stone wall.

MSV solutions look virtually indistinguishable from natural stone, but they are lighter, approximately one-quarter the weight of natural stone, easier to install on an interior or exterior, require fewer or no structural interventions such as footings and tie-ins, and are more budget friendly. Also, MSV can be applied to a variety of substrates, including wall sheathing, cement board and concrete. Full-bed-depth natural stone is more limited in where it can be incorporated. Natural stone with a thin-cut profile is comparable to MSV in terms of weight and application opportunities, but the available texture, stone shape and color palette is restricted to what can be found in nature. MSV replicates natural stone textures and colors, but because it is manufactured, it can be produced in a wide range of colors and textures and accommodate current design trends and customer preferences.

TEXTURE, SHAPES AND COLOR PALETTES

When describing their target aesthetic for the stone wall or accent, designers often talk in terms of the type

Wider—and more to-the-floor length—stalls help eliminate unwanted contact in the stall, while also containing any plume effect from adjacent toilets.

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SELECT BACTERIA-RESISTANT PARTITION MATERIALS

For materials that are not antimicrobial, specifiers can still select materials that are bacteria resistant. While stainless steel and powder-coated steel partitions are nonporous and easy to clean, partitions made from solid phenolic or high-density polyethylene (HDPE) are naturally resistant to bacteria.

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Selecting the right products and materials can do more than improve the cleanliness of an interior space, they can improve the health of the people who occupy it. One of those health-centered design concepts is

Manufactured stone veneer can be cast to replicate any kind of stone.

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Manufactured stone veneer produces a lightweight decorative surface that is a few inches thick but creates the illusion of a structural stone wall.

of stone, the texture they would like to use, the shape of the stones—and, of course—the color. MSV can be cast to replicate any type of stone. Designers can use MSV products that look like granite, limestone, sandstone, river rocks, serpentine stones and many others.

The texture of a stone is an important detail to discuss when identifying the precise nature-forward aesthetic that a designer is trying to achieve. There are many terms used to describe the surface textures of stones. A honed surface is smooth, but not reflective.

Slate, limestone, travertine and granite are examples of stones that can have a honed surface. Stone surfaces also have varying degrees of uniformity and roughness. MSV products can replicate any number of naturally occurring stone surfaces and there are solutions available that can even mimic embedded fossil artifacts.

In terms of shape, stones are often described as cut stone, rectangular, linear, irregular and round. Cut stone possesses a precision and uniform quality that can resemble a brick wall, but in stone. Rectangular stone walls contain stones that are a veritable mishmash of different sizes of rectangles. Overall, rectangular patterns incorporate thicker stones than the cut stone wall. Linear stone walls also contain stones of differently-sized rectangles, but the rectangle shape is longer and thinner, giving the overall pattern a more linear appearance. Designers can also choose a stone pattern that contains round stones and an irregular pattern that features stones of varying size and shape.

MSV stone walls can mimic a tight, dry-stacked wall or have a rough-stacked look that contains dramatic angles and shadows.

Stone naturally occurs in a broad earthen tone palette that includes warm neutral grays, shades of white and tan, wine, burgundies, hints of apricot, soft creams, golden umbers, light coffee, sienna rusts, deep moss greens, cool grays, blends of silver, charcoal and black.

MSV colors can be customized to fit a specific aesthetic, giving designers and other specifiers greater control and allowing for color and texture matching between historic or legacy stone and new applications many years later. Region of the country and the

architectural style of the project can also inform the MSV solution that best fits a space.

ACO U ST I C S

BETTER ABSORPTION AND BETTER BLOCKING

Acoustic performance is another design consideration that is gaining a lot of momentum, because the world today is louder and noisier than ever before. There are a number of reasons for this. First, with the proliferation of smart phones, every person carries a noise maker in their pockets, whether it’s ringing, beeping, vibrating, accessing music-laden social media posts or being spoken on. Second, the materials being used in interiors are increasingly less sound-friendly. Glass, concrete, wood and hard surface floor coverings absorb sound much differently than the carpets of the past. The combination of more noise makers and materials that are worse at managing noise result in environments that are too loud and distracting for people to function happily.

A recent study by Oxford Economics concluded that noise pollution in open offices has reached “epidemic levels,” with 63% of employees stating that they lack quiet space for work, which in turn has a “negative effect on their productivity, satisfaction, and well-being.” The report also found that employees affected by noise pollution in office environments are more likely to say they may leave their job in the next six months.

In fact, employee surveys show that acoustic problems are the leading source of dissatisfaction within the environmental conditions of an office.

ambient noise. While background noise can be used to mask or camouflage certain sounds, and create privacy, issues arise when the sound or signal that a person wants to hear is drowned out by the level of ambient background noise.

The reverberation time describes how long a sound stays present in a space after it is made. In rooms with high reverberation times, sounds echo and are detectable for longer than they should be. This can severely diminish the clarity of new sounds. It also increases the level of ambient noise in the room. When listening to someone speak in a room with a high reverberation time, the speech will sound muffled and muddy. It is even possible that the listener will hear sounds from more than one word simultaneously. Areas designed to feature speakers or support easy conversation must achieve short reverberation times.

Transmission occurs when sound transmits into a room through wall partitions, ceilings and floor assemblies. When a phone rings or a conversation occurs in one room and the sound transmits through the wall and re-radiates into a different room, those are examples of the noise issue transmission. Impact sounds, such as footfalls or the crash of a dropped object, that occur on an above floor, but are heard on the floor below, are also examples of sound transmission.

Vibrations in buildings can cause noise issues as well. These vibrations can be caused by mechanical, electrical or plumbing equipment or created by local roadway noise or the proximity to an airport. The problem arises when these vibrations are transmitted into the structural elements of the building and the vibrational energy is converted into sound.

SOUND MANAGEMENT

Solving the noise issue requires designers to think about the acoustics of their project—the creation and control of sound—at a much earlier stage. For this, it is important to understand how sound moves through a space. Sound radiates from its source in all directions, traveling through the air until it collides with a surface.

When this happens, depending upon the properties of the surface, sound will either be reflected back into the interior, absorbed by the material it hits, or transmitted through the material into another part of the building.

The sound will keep going until its energy is expended.

SOUND METRICS

Many sound metrics have been developed to help quantify how a material or assembly interacts with sound and how it absorbs/blocks sound transmission.

SOUND METRIC: NRC

COMMON NOISE ISSUES

The most common noise issues buildings and spaces face are high levels of background noise, high reverberation times, transmission and vibration.

Ambient background noise is the soundscape of a space. It is created by the sounds of the space being used. It is the combination of the ringing phones, the whir of the HVAC system, computer fans, footsteps, conversations, papers shuffling, carts with squeaky wheels, and more. Unfortunately, sound is cumulative, so the sound from all of these different sources just keeps adding together and building to a higher level of

The metric used to quantify a material’s ability to absorb sound is called the NRC, or the Noise Reduction Coefficient. An NRC rating defines the average amount of sound energy that a material can absorb, when the frequencies range between 250 and 2,000 Hz. A material can earn an NRC value between 0.00 and 1.00. A material with an NRC value of 0.00 reflects all the soundwaves that strike it. On the other end of the spectrum, a material with an NRC value of 1.00 absorbs 100% of the soundwaves that strike it. The higher the NRC value of a material, ostensibly, the better the material is at absorbing sound.

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Unfortunately, many of the materials that are so popular today in interior design are terrible at reducing noise. Here is a quick list detailing the NRC values of a few of the materials commonly used in commercial interiors: Marble (0.01), Glass (0.05), Brick (0.05), Wallboard (0.05), Plywood (0.10-0.15), Concrete (0.20), Carpet (0.20-0.50).

SOUND METRIC: STC

Sound transmission class, or STC, measures how well a material or assembly blocks airborne sounds. More specifically, the metric measures how well a solution prevents sound between the frequencies of 1254000Hz from transferring from one area to another.

It is most applicable for interior areas filled with middle-to-high frequency noises such as conversation, television, telephones ringing and office equipment.

Ceilings, floors, doors, windows, interior partitions and exterior wall assemblies can earn an STC rating. A higher STC rating indicates that the material or assembly is better at stopping sound in the 125-4000Hz range from transmitting through it. A low STC rating, 20-25, indicates that very little sound in the speech frequencies in blocked. A product with a higher STC rating, 50-60, blocks more sound. Selecting the correct level of isolation requires taking into account what will be happening on both sides of the partition.

SOUND METRIC: IIC

The Impact Insulation Class, or IIC, measures how effectively a floor/ceiling assembly blocks direct impact sounds from transmitting through it at 100Hz to 3150Hz. Higher IIC values indicate that the assembly does a better job of attenuating or isolating sounds.

Without proper attention to detailing, a lightweight residential construction may have an IIC value as low as 25—well below the minimum residential code of IIC 50.

If higher levels of sound isolation are desired, a vibration break must be incorporated into the design. A vibration break decouples the elements in the partition so that the sound and impact vibrations do not move so easily through the physical structure of the assembly.

A sound control mat manufactured from entangled mesh and used below gypsum concrete, or

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Sound-absorbing panels improve a space’s acoustics by reducing ambient background noise and reverberation time.

Improve sound isolation, without compromising the exposed wood aesthetic, by adding a gypsum underlayment and sound control mat into the floor/ceiling assembly.

resilient ceiling channels or clips, can be used to create a sufficient vibration break to achieve STC values above 55 and IIC values greater than 50.

In terms of what STC or IIC rating is necessary in a building, the International Building Code (IBC) establishes minimum requirements for airborne and impact acoustic performance of multifamily buildings.

The minimum code requirement mandated by IBC in multifamily projects is STC 50 and IIC 50. Further, the International Code Council (ICC) issued ICC G2-2010, “Guideline for Acoustics,” that established two additional categories of acoustical performance: • Acceptable: STC 55 and IIC 55 • Preferred: STC 60 and IIC 60 A C O U S T I C A N D N O N - A C O U S T I C F R I E N D LY M AT E R I A L S

ISSUES WITH EXPOSED CEILINGS

If there is a shortcoming to mass timber construction, it’s the way these projects perform acoustically.

The floor/ceiling assembly in a typical steel-framed commercial building consists of a concrete slab on deck as the floor and dropped acoustic ceiling tiles.

This type of assembly often earns an STC rating in the low- to mid-50s ; with carpet flooring, such systems can achieve an IIC rating of more than 60, or rate at least in the low to mid-40s with a hard floor finish.

Replacing that assembly with an exposed CLT ceiling and a hard floor surface, however, eliminates critical airspace that was used to reduce impact sound transmission and dramatically changes the way that the floor/ceiling assembly manages sound. The result is interiors that are filled with distracting levels of noise.

NEW DESIGN TRENDS CAUSING ACOUSTICS ISSUES

While there is a growing demand for interior spaces that have good acoustics, some of the latest design trends create interiors that are less equipped to manage sound well.

An uptick in the use of wood, including use as the primary structural element, provides a perfect example. Mass timber construction, as it is known, is the generic term used to describe the use of large solid wood panels to build load-bearing structures, such as walls, floors and roofs. Several types of mass timber exist, including cross-laminated timber (CLT), nail-laminated timber (NLT), dowel-laminated timber (DLT), mass plywood panels (MPP) and a glue-laminated timber called glulam.

Interest in mass timber construction is growing rapidly throughout North America due to the impressive list of benefits offered by this material. There are significant sustainability benefits to building with mass timber, over concrete or steel, and the construction timeline can be dramatically shorter. Aesthetically, the exposed wood interiors in these buildings are strikingly beautiful and people have a positive reaction to being surrounded by natural elements.

FLOOR/CEILING ASSEMBLIES ISOLATE BETTER

Sound isolation can be improved, without compromising the exposed wood aesthetic, by adding both mass and airspace into the floor/ceiling assembly. While CLT lacks adequate mass to manage sound well, a gypsum underlayment can be added in on top of the mass timber panel prior to the flooring installation to add mass and stiffness. A sound control mat manufactured from entangled mesh converts and stores vibrational energy, which lowers both structural and airborne sound transmission through the assembly.

In mass timber construction, floor/ceiling assemblies that contain a sound mat and 25 to 50 mm (1 in. to 2 in.) of gypsum concrete will offer dramatically better acoustic performance and maintain the exposed wood aesthetic. This improves the STC rating of the assembly to the low-50s; the IIC rating also improves to the mid-40s with hard surface—both of which are more commensurate with current commercial buildings.

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DESIGN BUILDING ENVELOPES THAT SUPPORT HEALTHY, EFFICIENT BUILDINGS Explore how certain solutions equip the building envelope to manage moisture, improve thermal performance and admit daylight without glare.

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Readers will explore three facets involved in delivering a high-performance envelope, including materials and systems to maximize efficiency and construction.

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After reading this article, you should be able to: 1 Explain why controlling air leakage in the building envelope is crucial to safeguarding the quality of the interior environment and protecting the energy efficiency of the building.

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3 Describe how translucent daylight panels allow daylight into the interior, mitigate glare and provide better thermal performance than many other glazing solutions.

4 Use structural precast concrete panels to reduce the amount of perimeter steel needed on a project, while achieving and exceeding code-compliant thermal performance.

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he building envelope separates the conditioned interior space from the environmental elements at large in the great outdoors. It is tasked with fending off moisture in the forms of rain, sleet, snow and humidity. Sufficiently encasing the conditioned space to limit the thermal gains and losses that occur, protecting the thermal efficiency of the building. In selecting the opacity of the materials in the envelope, and the number of openings it will have, architects determine whether daylight will be allowed into the space and in what amount.

This course will explore how a few solutions equip the building envelope to manage moisture, improve thermal performance and admit daylight without glare, creating healthy, efficient buildings and interiors.

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DELIVER DAYLIGHT AND MORE TO THE INTERIOR

Daylight benefits the built environment in many ways.

When daylight is present, electric lights can be dimmed or turned off, saving energy. Providing occupants in a

building—employees, students, customers—with access to natural light has been shown to improve their mood and productivity, and positively affect their health and wellbeing. Unfortunately, the inclusion of natural light can also create problems. Allowing intense, direct light into a room or giving people an unshielded view of the sun can create glaring conditions and hot spots that are uncomfortable and distracting.

Another problem with creating openings in the building envelope to allow all that sunlight in is that it diminishes the thermal performance of the structure.

The explanation for this is straightforward: windows are poorer insulators than wall assemblies. They are the weak spot for thermal gains and losses as thermal energy passes through them much easier than their more solid counterpart. Unfortunately, this puts specifiers in a position of having to choose between creating a building envelope that supports health and wellbeing or prioritizing the efficiency of its operation.

A solution for specifiers looking to incorporate soft, diffuse, glare-free daylight into a space—without sacrificing thermal performance—is not a clear pane of glass, it’s a translucent panel.

INTRODUCING TRANSLUCENT PANEL WALL SYSTEMS

A translucent panel wall system enables designers to create large portions of the building envelope with a material that is between opaque and clear. The panels allow soft, diffuse daylight into the space and obscure the direct view of the sun. This effectively eliminates glare and hot spots, while still allowing people the connection to natural light that they crave and that is

The mixed material translucent wall system selected for Carver Elementary School washes students and teachers in soft natural light, while providing views to the outdoors, and the grid-like nature of the panels complements the shape of the bookshelves.

so beneficial to them. These translucent wall systems can transmit as much as 64% of the light that strikes it into the building.

Translucent wall systems are constructed of multiple translucent sandwich panels. Each panel features two translucent face sheets, available in several colors, supported by an aluminum grid core and held in place by perimeter framing. At roughly three pounds per sq. ft., this solution has one of the best strength-to-weight ratios available for a daylighting solution, which can reduce the need for bulky structural support and allows for more versatile design options.

There are also several configurations available that enable these translucent panels to offer more to a building envelope than access to glare-free daylight.

Panels can be filled with insulation to enhance the thermal performance of the translucent wall. They can also be installed into mixed glazed assemblies that contain a combination of translucent and transparent glazing materials, offering glare control, while providing occupants with a view to the outdoors.

DELIVER DIFFUSED DAYLIGHT AND INSULATION

The metric commonly used to quantify the thermal performance of a solution is the U-factor. It measures the rate of heat transfer across an assembly. The lower the U-factor, the better the solution insulates. For

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Translucent panel wall systems can be filled with insulation to enhance the thermal performance of the translucent wall.

context, a single-paned window with a basic aluminum frame has a U-value that is around 1.25. The best high-performance double-pane windows can have U-factors of 0.30 or lower. The U-value of triple pane windows may near 0.25.

The basic, unfilled, translucent panel will have a U-factor of 0.48. Insulation options are available that can offer translucent panel wall systems with significantly lower U-factors of 0.20, 0.17 and 0.06.

Beyond improving the thermal performance of the translucent panels, the presence of an insulating material in the panel cavity also impacts the amount of solar radiation and light that enters the interior.

As the density of the insulation increases, less solar energy passes through the assembly.

While insulation is generally thought of enhancing system performance in cold climates, it can also be beneficial in warmer regions where excessive heat and sunlight often require that much energy be spent to keep the interior cool. Regardless of where a project may be located, or its unique design objectives, architects can customize the thermal performance and light transmission of these translucent wall systems to match the unique needs of any project.

DELIVER DIFFUSED DAYLIGHT AND VIEWS

Sometimes a project requires more than a translucent wall. Mixed glazing systems combine the translucent panels with fixed and/or operable glass to deliver a multi-tasking wall system that allows daylight into the space, access to views and even ventilation control.

Beyond accomplishing a lot, these mixed wall systems offer a dramatic aesthetic and create a wall area full of visual interest.

The translucent panels are versatile enough to be incorporated into an existing window wall, offering specifiers a daylight management solution for interiors that experience harsh glare and need a more permanent control solution. Unitized configurations are also available, offering seamless integration of translucent panels, glass, louvers, metal panels and more for a clean integrated look and simplified installation.

translucent panel will also obscure the direct view of the sun’s orb, blunting the appearance of the hot spot when it is in the field of view.

When a designer would like to give building occupants views to the outdoors from the southern façade, but still minimize any exposure to glaring conditions, balance the materials in the façade by installing the diffusing translucent panels higher up on the wall, so that they will block the direct sunlight when the sun is at its highest in the sky. Glass glazing can be more safely installed lower on the façade to offer building occupants views of the outdoors, without subjecting them to long bouts of unrelenting glare.

On north-facing façades, where direct sunlight can’t reach, designers can consider installing a larger amount of glass glazing, or incorporating a unique geometric pattern of glazing materials to provide access to daylight and views without forcing occupants to find ways to accommodate a glare or suffer through uncomfortable hot spots.

S T R U C T U R A L C O N S I D E R AT I O N S

COMBINING SUPPORT, INSULATION AND FINISH

It is rare that a material simultaneously provides a modern, beautiful exterior finish and the structural integrity of the building envelope, but structural prestressed precast concrete can offer a solution that does just that. While the aesthetic versatility of the precast concrete solution is common knowledge—the material can mimic a variety of high-cost cladding materials, including any number of stones—the structural nature of this material is underutilized by many in the design and construction community.

There are three basic types of structural wall panels: single wythe (non-insulated), composite or non-composite. In this case, structural precast panels in a non-composite sandwich solution isolate the load-bearing concrete wythe from the architectural finish with a high-performance layer of continuous insulation.

A key characteristic of a load-bearing wall panel is that the steel reinforcement within the concrete has been prestressed. Placing the steel reinforcement in tension before the panels are cast reduces the amount of deflection that will occur when the material is under load and allows designers to take fuller advantage of the panel’s strength. Prestressed structural precast panels offer a structural stability that reduces life-cycle costs in part by resisting dents, corrosion and rust.

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BEST PRACTICES

On façades that receive a lot of natural light, like south-facing exposures, prioritize the use of translucent panels over glass to effectively diffuse the intense, direct sunlight available throughout the day. The

A non-composite sandwich solution (shown here) isolates the load-bearing concrete wythe from the architectural finish with a high-performance layer of continuous insulation.

SURPRISING LOAD-BEARING CAPABILITIES

Prestressed structural precast concrete can be manufactured in greater lengths allowing for the construction of taller projects. Structures using prestressed precast panels can reach heights of 73 ft. and widths up to 13 ft. 6 in. Wall panels can be stacked against structural frames for multi-story buildings.

Beyond being able to produce a taller building envelope, structural panels eliminate perimeter steel load-bearing columns. These prestressed precast concrete panels can support live and dead loads, including the roof load. In fact, an important benefit of using structural precast concrete is the dramatic reduction of raw materials that are necessary to create a more energy efficient project.

Some basic advantages that these prestressed structural precast panels can offer a project include: steel savings, fewer support columns resulting in more usable interior space, taller structural precast concrete buildings, more flexibility in the construction process and a shorter construction cycle.

This blend of qualities can be of particular interest to owners and design teams creating fulfillment and distribution spaces, where the ability to create a space with an expanded height, a larger interior footprint and less structural steel can make these projects viable and profitable.

IMPRESSIVE THERMAL PERFORMANCE

Structural precast concrete panels can be used to create a building envelope that delivers impressive thermal performance. As the science and technology behind these solutions continues to evolve, their thermal performance continues to improve. This is indicated by the R-value that the panels have achieved.

An R-value measures how well a building material resists the flow of heat. The higher the R-value, the greater the insulating performance of the material. A non-composite structural precast concrete panel that features a 2.5-in. thick layer of continuous insulation integrated into the panel can offer an R-value of 24. To put this in context, expanded polystyrene (EPS) is a type of continuous insulation commonly used in the building envelope. EPS typically exhibits a thermal performance at an R-value of R-5.0 per inch of thickness.

The panels can be manufactured to whatever specifications a project may have, so designers can consider the climate, the applicable codes and the design objectives of the owners and order the building envelope solution that precisely meets the project requirements.

Beyond the impressive and customizable R-value of the assembly, concrete offers thermal mass benefits that will reduce peak heating and cooling demands, thereby reducing the costs of a project. Precast concrete reacts slowly to changes in the outside temperature because the concrete soaks up the heat from the sun during the day and releases the heat during cooler nighttime temperatures. Precast concrete’s thermal properties are creating interest in precast concrete in markets in the Southwest, Southeast and Deep South—where the cost of cooling a building is every bit as expensive as heating it. Data centers are also increasingly being designed with a precast concrete envelope as their primary thermal struggle is keeping their buildings cool because computers generate a lot of heat.

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CONTROLLING AIR LEAKAGE + MOISTURE MOVEMENT

Moisture is another outdoor element that the building envelope must manage. To protect a structure from moisture intrusion, look at the entire building envelope working together. Underslab, below-grade, abovegrade, roofing and transitions between these systems must provide equal protection against water and air.

While this article explores only one of these systems, keep in mind its context with the other components in the building envelope. Control layer continuity and material compatibility are the most important factors in designing comprehensive moisture protection for the building envelope and its occupants.

Furthermore, the air barrier assembly acts as an important part of the water control layer in addition to the air control layer. The purpose of the system is to prevent moisture in all its forms from impacting the structure and the occupancy experience.

INTRODUCTION TO AIR BARRIER SYSTEMS

As building science has developed, the air barrier system has become increasingly recognized as crucial to moisture protection and whole building energy conservation. Uncontrolled air movement causes the loss of conditioned air, the influx of moisture through unconditioned air, the potential for organic growth into occupied space and premature deterioration of materials. Most locally adopted energy codes now require air barriers to prevent leaky buildings and the unnecessary energy loss of conditioning these spaces.

In addition to controlling moisture, curbing air leakage protects building assets, extends the working life of equipment and supports a longer life cycle of the building. Stopping uncontrolled airflow controls sound, particulate matter, odors and gaseous substances from entering the building. A well-designed air barrier system promotes healthy indoor air quality, prevents mold, and allows the building to function as intended for the occupants.

Structural precast concrete panels deliver a beautiful and load-bearing building envelope solution with impressive thermal performance.

diffusion is a slow process which moves very little moisture above grade, especially when compared to air transport.

Air transport moves significantly more water vapor into our structure than vapor diffusion because the molecules don’t have to fight through another substrate. Air moves similarly to a liquid. Suspended water vapor is carried very quickly through the air similar to the flow of a river. Air movement can move up to 100x more moisture than vapor diffusion alone.

In a building envelope, each gap or crack, change in material or change in direction is an opportunity for air to enter. There can be thousands of these transitions, which make the air barrier layer significant in preventing water vapor molecules from entering.

Water vapor itself has little effect on the building envelope. However, water vapor has the potential to condense into liquid water after it has entered, and liquid water poses a serious threat. This change of state is referred to as the dew point. Dew point is dependent on the relative humidity of air and the ambient temperature. As warm, humid air cools down, its capacity to hold moisture decreases. At a certain point, the air will not be able to hold the suspended water vapor molecules anymore and those molecules will condense into a liquid. In a perfectly designed and installed wall enclosure, the dew point will always occur within the insulation because that is where the temperature change should occur. However, gaps in the air control layer can bring unconditioned air further into the structure and change the location of the dew point.

THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE

In order to understand how moisture moves through a structure, one must understand how water moves in nature. The hydrologic cycle is the continual shift between liquid water to water vapor through evaporation and condensation.

Rain or other precipitation may enter the structure through gaps or cracks in the building envelope.

Liquid water not only moves high to low due to gravity, but also horizontally and against gravity due to surface tension and capillary action. In fact, smaller openings allow water to penetrate further due to water’s unique chemical properties.

Water vapor is a high energy single H2O molecule.

Water vapor diffusion is the migration of these single molecules through the atomic negative space of a solid substrate. Water vapor will attempt to move from high concentrations to low concentrations until equilibrium is reached. Because the interiors of our structures are conditioned, there is typically a vapor drive. The direction is dependent on the climate where the structure is located and the time of year. For example, a warm humid summer will create a vapor drive from exterior to interior, while a dry cool winter will create a vapor drive from interior to exterior. However, vapor

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A well-recognized benefit of using structural precast panels for the building envelope is the speed with which the structure can be erected. Installation crews can set an average of 250 lin. ft. of panels per day. Installation methods are matched to the specifications of the building foundation and structural design, and may be free-standing, temporary shore or permanent steel.

One of the reasons this product is so easy to install is that it is manufactured in a controlled environment for a specific purpose and specific project, and delivered to the jobsite ready to be erected. In addition, because the solution is structural, there is no need to wait for the perimeter steel.

In summary, prestressed structural precast concrete panels can be used to create building envelopes that install quickly and provide the structural support, insulation and exterior finish all in one solution.

Controlling air leakage requires that all gaps and cracks in the building envelope be covered and that special attention be paid to any change in material or change in direction.

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Ceiling Solutions a Home Run at Atlanta Braves Spring Training Complex The new North Port location in Sarasota County gives the team a 30-year lease on a purpose-built facility that mimics its home at Georgia’s SunTrust Park.

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The locker room’s private changing area also relies on the Rockfon Artic panels paired with Chicago Metallic 4000 Tempra 9/16-in. ceiling suspension system (pictured above). This same panel and grid pairing was selected for the clubhouse, stadium control room suites, kitchens and press box.

CHALLENGE

Built on 80 acres of previously vacant land, the new complex was designed by Fawley Bryant Architects (FBA) to create a state-ofthe-art, comfortable and fun environment for players, fans and year-round events.

The $140 million complex, named CoolToday Park, centers around a 6,200-seat stadium and a threestory, 55,000-sq.-ft. clubhouse with an athletic training facility and executive offices.

INFLUENCE

In addition to Spring Training, the complex is envisioned to become the heart of a planned “town center” commercial and residential district with year-round events including concerts and farmers’ markets and extended spring training for minor league teams, Gulf Coast League and Fall Instructional League.

SOLUTION

FBA selected Rockfon’s ceiling systems to meet the desired appearance of a contemporary training facility, the performance requirements of a hot and humid climate, and the high-traffic use of a sports and entertainment venue. According to FBA’s studio leader and project manager, Kirk Bauer, Rockfon provided ceilings for every building on the complex.

Rockfon’s architectural sales manager, Amy Neumann, , , Allied , , said, “Much of the complex is open to Florida’s weather, so the ceilings had to be resistant to prevalent moisture and to prevent sagging, mold and mildew. It also needed to work within the limited budget to present a highclass appearance with minimal maintenance.”

The updated locker room uses Rockfon Artic acoustic, stone wool, 2-ft. × 2-ft. panels in a square tegular narrow edge coupled with a Chicago Metallic 4500 Ultraline 9/16-in. ceiling suspension system. Not only does this showcase an attractive reveal profile and clean, streamlined look, its smooth white surface also reflects 85% of light. Rockfon Infinity Perimeter Trim delivers the neat, professional edge.

Inset within the locker room’s stone wool panels are Rockfon Planostile Snap-in metal ceiling panels finished in Satin Silver to accentuate their modern aesthetic and complement the team colors.

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Reflecting Puerto Rican Culture with Vibrant Hues Custom-woven carpeting pulls together the Puerto Rico Convention Center.

CHALLENGE

Located in Isla Grande, the convention center made way for the district that was subsequently named after it. What was once a U.S. naval base during  has become a beacon for tourism in San Juan, Puerto Rico, but it was missing pizzazz.

INFLUENCE

To pull the space together, the Puerto Rico Convention Center desired a carpet that was reflective of the Puerto Rican culture with vibrant hues and waves that not only resemble the ocean, but link to the architecture’s exterior. For this project both Brintons and TVS Design reveled in the opportunity to be bold—using a recolored pattern from the stand out Credence collection—bringing the Puerto Rico experience to life through Axminster carpet.

SOLUTION

Brintons joined forces with TVS Design to produce and manufacture 20,600 sq. yards of custom woven Axminster carpet for the impressive convention center. According to Tricia Moore, principal at TVS Design, “working with Brintons was a delightful experience.” Moore continues, “their response to the deliverables is always professional and done in a timely manner—making every effort to make my job easier.”

“We’ve been in the hospitality carpet business since 1966 and have collaborated with Brintons since the late 1980s. When this massive project came along, we knew our tried-and-tested installation team would be challenged to their core. The breadth, scope and complexity of the design, coupled with logistical installation hurdles, demanded a level of attention to detail that stretched our skillset. In the end, however, the hard work paid off,” says Moore.

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To pull the space together, the design called for a carpet that reflected the Puerto Rican culture with vibrant hues and waves.

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CHALLENGE

SOLUTION

Postmates transforms the way goods move about cities by enabling anything to be delivered ondemand. Their local couriers can deliver anything from any store or restaurant in minutes and the company encourages communities to shop local, changing their economic landscape while encouraging local businesses to offer delivery services.

Framery was tapped to outfit the space with Framery O pods—an ideal workplace solution that provides a private, soundproof space for employees to make calls, relax or work solo. One goal of the office renovation was to improve employee happiness through offering additional workspaces and Framery O’s specialty is just that—a private space that’s there when you need it to be.

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In order to promote creativity and avoid a stagnant environment, Postmates purchased modular and neutral furniture solutions. The team also runs floor resets every quarter to create new combinations of work and rest areas in the office.

CRITERIA

Like most rapidly growing companies, Postmates’ conference room shortage was quite problematic at the beginning. The company couldn’t build any additional space nor rooms, but they could buy them— and even take that investment with them into their next office. This was the first step toward a functional workplace—and space.

“Creativity needs fuel and the flexibility of possibilities that Framery offers us keeps my team sharp and agile,” says Annie Wu, senior director of Engagement & Culture at San Francisco’s Postmates.

“When I encountered the Framery O, I was blown away by the quality of construction and chic aesthetic. It felt very neutral and wouldn’t compete with other elements in our office,” says Wu. “We were able to move all 1:1s out of conference rooms and into Framery products, allowing our larger conference rooms to be utilized to their maximum for larger team meetings. From the design, cost efficiency and sustainability perspective, the decision to use Framery as a staple in our workplace design has been a no-brainer,” states Wu.

The company has noted employees have been using the pods to offset environmental fatigue, as they have an open office layout, and so the booths have become a safe haven for focused work. This realization has allowed Wu and her team to adjust and design additional workspaces that guarantee concentration, improving employees’ health, productivity and most of all, happiness.

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Modern Metal-Clad Apartments Are Bright Standout Building authorities initially took a dim view of the project’s proposed sharp angles and mixed materials, which stood in high contrast to the surrounding beige stucco.

CHALLENGE

The 17-unit, townhome-style Alan Apartments project in Mesa, Ariz., quickly leased out, once construction was completed in late 2018—but it took some doing to get its unique exterior past city planners.

INFLUENCE

“This project was made to stand out, and not look like all the boring beige houses around it—on purpose it doesn’t look like anything in the area,” says architect Tim Boyle, principal of Tim Boyle Design. “It was rejected by city staff five times because of how it looks, but we stuck to our guns until the Design Review Board gave it the highest praise.”

CRITERIA

Metal plays a significant role in the streamlined profile of the project. “Sharp points are essential to the new, crisp look of 2020 modern style, and metal is the only way to achieve this,” he says, as he explains the geometry of the panels’ slant. “The angle was determined by imagining a line from the top of the second floor to the outer edge of the roof’s overhang.”

SOLUTION

Specifically, 12,000 sq. ft. of Petersen’s 22-gauge Reveal 12-in. panels in a Weathered Zinc finish are installed as balcony canopies and unit dividers on both the front and back elevations of the development’s three buildings. The panels are angled in a way that creates a chalet-like sense of space and drama for what are actually flat-roof, box-style structures. This isn’t an uncommon approach for Boyle, who refers to his design style as “2020 modern.” Metal has become an essential element in this updated edition of modernism.

A SENSE OF MODERNISM

Metal has become an essential element in this updated edition of modernism on the Alan Apartments project. While another metal-panel maker was initially chosen for the project, the developer, Porter Kyle Builders—also the development’s installer and general contractor—eventually turned to Petersen’s PAC-CLAD products.

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Boyle was pleased with the finished project. “Price and quality of material were essential for an inexpensive project that looks phenomenal,” he says, adding that he’s not alone in his opinions. “Now the city uses The Alan in its promotional material. It had 10% higher rents than expected, was fully rented before it was even finished, and it sold at the highest price per square foot of any multifamily property in the city, ever.”

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Iconic Baseball Stadium Fountain Gets New Life Kauffman Stadium’s fountains feature an upgraded stainless steel automatic control valves, which modulate, open and close for reliable and trouble-free operation, providing an eye-catching display of vibrant colors for spectators.

CHALLENGE

Kauffman Stadium is home to two-time World Series winning KC Royals—a central division Major League Baseball team founded in 1969. The park’s bestknown feature is the “Water Spectacular”— a massive fountain and waterfall display behind the right field fence. Built in the 1990s, the fountain is now a focal point for ballpark fans. The original control valves became completely rusted due to continuous submersion and needed replacement.

CRITERIA

At 322 ft. in length, it is the largest privately funded fountain in the world. Half a million gallons of water surge through fountain pipes before and after games and between innings; the waterfalls flow continuously. The impressive display changes colors often and—on occasion—serves as an off-limits swimming pool for overenthusiastic Royals fans, or rivals.

SOLUTION

Over a period of time, the control valves—fully submerged under water—became corroded and were completely rusted through. Needing a better solution, ballpark owners chose to replace the original ductile iron control valves for the fountain in 2017, replacing them with approximately 130 stainless steel Watts automatic control valves. They worked with Watts’ local representative Mack McClain & Assocs. on the project. Approximately 130 Watts’ stainless steel automatic control valves (ACVs)—ranging from 2 in. to 6 in.

The fountain’s stainless steel ACVs modulate, open and close for reliable and trouble-free operation, providing an eye-catching display of vibrant colors for spectators. The entire operation is controlled via a remote programmable logic controller. The fountain now has valves that modulate easily, assuring park owners that fans will enjoy the dramatic water feature for years to come.

RUSTY VALVE REPLACEMENT

The original control valves became completely rusted due to continuous submersion and needed replacement. Ballpark owners chose to replace the original ductile iron control valves, replacing them with approximately 130 stainless steel Watts automatic control valves.

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Flex Space for Flex Living CetraRuddy’s holistic, flexible design philosophy is highly compatible with post-COVID residential needs.

Nancy Ruddy, a member of the Interior Design Hall of Fame, is a founding principal of the New York-based CetraRuddy Architecture.

With millions of Americans working from home, and children learning remotely, the need for multi-purpose residential spaces, flexibility, daylighting, views and natural ventilation has taken on an all-new meaning.

Ahead of the curve, New York-based CetraRuddy was proactively including all these principles in their multi-family projects, pre--19. Case in point, the architectural firm incorporated a unique flexspace concept inside the 45-story Rose Hill residential tower in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan.

Based on sound research, “we discovered that people aren’t looking for a huge bedroom or a huge living room, but they’re looking for spaces within their apartments that will accommodate their lives,” explains Interior Design Hall of Fame Architect Nancy Ruddy, who founded CetraRuddy Architecture with her husband John Cetra, .

In response, the firm innovated flex-space alcoves, which are small rooms approximately 8 ft. × 10 ft. with sliding glass pocket doors that open into the main living space. Designed as a nursery, home office, music studio or exercise/meditation room, for example, the space flexes with homeowners’ evolving needs.

“You might have a baby, you might become an empty nester or there might be a time when you’re working from home,” explains Ruddy. “This room is a clear palette that can morph into anything you want as your life changes.”

As apartments trend toward smaller, compact units, CetraRuddy’s approach is finding ways to more creatively use existing spaces. For example, a new work space can be created with a small table that pulls out of a kitchen island, a floating glass table can be designed in front of a window or a kitchen pantry can be repurposed as a work desk and computer that pulls out in the morning and closes down at night.

On that last point, Ruddy stresses the importance of the work-life balance. “People need that mental and physical separation. We’ve been thinking a lot about how can you close up at the end of the day so you’re not staring at your computer when you’re having dinner, reading a book or playing with your children.”

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recently designed wrap-around terraces for Manhattan’s 200 East 59th St., a 35-story mixed-use multifamily residential tower. The balconies are between 7-ft. and 12-ft. deep and deliver expansive daylighting, great views and cross ventilation.

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