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University of Massachusetts-Amherst, CNS Research and Education Greenhouse. Design: Payette. Photo: Warren Jagger Photography
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University of Massachusetts-Amherst, CNS Research and Education Greenhouse
Budget: n.a.
Size: 20,000 square feet (10,000 square foot greenhouse, 5,500 square foot laboratory, 4,500 square foot renovated teaching greenhouse).
Completion date: 4Q2011.
Project team: Payette, Boston (architect, landscape architect, interiors, LEED administrator); R.G. Vanderweil, Boston (MEP/FP engineer); LIM Consultants, Cambridge, Mass. (structural engineer); Nitsch Engineering, Boston (civil engineer); Stuppy Greenhouse, Kansas City, Mo. (greenhouse subcontractor); Greenhouse Engineering, Toronto (greenhouse engineer); DA Sullivan and Sons, Northampton, Mass. (general contractor).
Description: Greenhouse complex balances the historic and agrarian character of the university's roots with cutting-edge research in plant, soil, and insect sciences. Project combined a new research greenhouse, renovated teaching greenhouse, and research laboratory. The greenhouses have sophisticated automated control systems for lighting, temperature, humidity, irrigation, and fertilization. The laboratory facility includes two research laboratories, a wet/dry botany classroom and a seed germination facility, and is a modern architectural interpretation of a New England barn, allowing it to blend with the greenhouses. Project was designed to meet LEED Silver and features a stormwater retention system, sustainably harvested woods, a heat wheel energy recovery system for the laboratories, and evaporative cooling for the greenhouse space.
Contact: Robert Schaeffner, AIA, Payette, rschaeffner@payette.com.
