Manifesting Potential
Every endeavor can be an opportunity to develop place-sourced outcomes and effects that evolve our inherent collective capacities and deepen our relational understandings.
RE Farm Café at Windswept Farm
What started as a green building project, an off-the-grid, LEED certified, farm-to-table restaurant located on a working farm, a project that "does less harm", evolved into a systemic transformation of regional food production and consumption. Through the persistence of the owners Duke and Monica, a co-discovery process with key stakeholders aligning around the project’s Purpose and its effects in the Community, and years of regenerative thinking and design effort, the RE Farm Café at Windswept Farm was cultivated - a café nested in a farm, a farm nested in a community and regional food production and consumption system.
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Center for Sustainable Landscapes
Phipps Conservatory boasts the title of "most energy efficient conservatory in the world", and their ongoing commitment to sustainability is evidenced by their most recent project, the Center for Sustainable Landscapes (CSL). By utilizing an integrative design approach, this education, research and administration facility maximized efficiency and sustainability earning it "living" status under the Living Building Challenge (LBC), LEED NC v2.2 Platinum certification, WELL Building Platinum certification, and four stars under the SITESTM 2009 landscape rating system. In addition to being the first and only project to meet these four highest green certifications, CSL has been named by AIA COTE as a Top Ten Green Project of 2016 among other awards.
The Willow School Campus
"Excellence, Education, Ethics, and Ecology", is The Willow School’s mantra. A small, independent coeducational day school for students in kindergarten through eighth grade, The Willow School is committed to combining academic excellence and the joy of learning with experiencing the wonder of the natural world. It's campus is nestled on a 34-acre wooded site in rural New Jersey countryside, and the building and its surroundings are an integral feature in school’s curriculum. Children at The Willow School study the connections between mathematics, literature, history, and the natural world; observing ecosystem patterns and cycles; and sustaining a thriving natural environment.
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Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems Headquarters Building
The Syracuse Center of Excellence (CoE) in Environmental and Energy Systems engages collaborators from over 200 institutions to address worldwide challenges in clean and renewable energy, indoor environmental quality (IEQ), and water resources. CoE members conduct targeted research, exhibit new technologies, commercialize innovations and provide education.
Yestermorrow Design/Build School Campus
Originally founded in 1980, the Yestermorrow Design/Build School is devoted to hands-on education integrating design and building principles with a core understanding of sustainable and regenerative practices. The school operated using rented space in Vermont’s Mad River Valley until 1990 when the dilapidated Alpen Inn property in Waitsfield was purchased. Yestermorrow’s students, faculty and staff worked together to renovate the Inn, transforming the structure into the school’s first permanent teaching, living and dining facility.
West Chester University School of Music and Performing Arts Center
The School of Music and Performing Arts Center (SOMPAC) at West Chester University was designed and constructed as a larger and more sustainable performance center replacing the 1950s era Swope Hall.7group served as the LEED, energy, and daylighting design consultant for this new performing arts and academic building, which attained LEED Silver certification in July 2010. SOMPAC is a musical, theatrical and dance facility for students, and the local and regional community, and is becoming known as a major public performance venue for the area.
Arthur W. Ferguson Elementary School, York School District
Constructed in 1958, the original Arthur W. Ferguson Elementary School was meant to be a temporary facility until a new school could be built. The modular facility lasted more than 50 years until it was possible for the School District of the City of York to build the new 90,250 sf school. Having secured a $500,000 Energy Harvest grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the project focused not only on making a healthy learning environment for its anticipated 750 students, but also on maximizing energy efficiency.
The Davies Facility
As one of the first Consumer Package Goods facilities to take a holistic approach to developing a manufacturing facility and distribution center, the Davies Facility in York, PA continues Church & Dwight’s sustainable legacy earning LEED Silver certification in December 2009. The project team for this new facility focused on upholding sustainable practices while considering workplace conditions for the anticipated 300 employees. With Church & Dwight’s need to address its current facilities’ inefficiencies and expand to accommodate future growth, a new strategic location in close proximity to major highways and railways was essential.
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Cambria Office Building
As the first LEED-NC v2.0 Gold project certified in the United States, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) Cambria office building has won numerous awards since its completion, including selection as one of 5 U.S. buildings to participate in the 2000 Green Building Challenge in Maastricht, The Netherlands, one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Buildings for the 21 st Century, and one of the AIA’s TOP Ten Green Buildings nationally in 2000.