BE Magazine - Volume 5, Issue 1 - (Page 16) BUILDING BE Award Winner and air-handling systems to reduce energy use in unoccupied areas. The campus central plant provides building heating and cooling utilizing waste heat from a campus cogeneration plant. Common Ground BIM speeds design of new green biomedical facility PROJECT OVERVIEW Biomedical Engineering and Optics Laboratory Building F ounded in 1929, the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics was the first academic program in optics in the United States. Now the institute is joining the Department of Biomedical Engineering—one of the university’s newest and fastest growing departments—to move into Goergen Hall, the first building on campus designed with LEED sustainability standards. The building design also adheres to Labs21 guidelines for green building design principles that improve the performance and efficiency of laboratories. The five-story, 92,000-square-foot teaching and research facility includes laboratories, offices, and lecture halls surrounding an atrium. Design began in 2004 and construction started in summer 2005, with construction completed last spring. The building design follows LEED standards for minimizing lighting consumption at night, controlling storm runoff, using renewable materials, and improving air quality. For example, all paneling is milled from bamboo, a renewable wood source, and motion detectors work with lighting, energy, Organization M/E Engineering BE Awards Category BIM for Building Engineering Project Objective Design 92,000-square-foot laboratory and classroom building incorporating green design principles The atrium required a separate engineered smoke-control system in conjunction with once-through air lab systems and standard office support spaces. To meet this specification, laboratories and support spaces needed separate-headed, variable-volume supply and exhaust systems. The result: Two air-supply systems provide air to the atrium and safe laboratory flow and pressurization requirements in case v M/E Engineering used BIM to design the first campus building to be designed with LEED sustainability standards 16 BE MAGAZINE | Volume 5, Issue 1
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