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Campus Square Building: Yesterday Meets Tomorrow
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A careful integration of the historic facade, renewable energy, and stringent green building practices gave birth to The Campus Square Building in Midtown Harrisburg, Pa. Campus Square is a landmark mixed-use facility in the community and plans to become the first LEED® Gold Core and Shell Building in Harrisburg, Pa. This building is part of a major revitalization by the city which, in Midtown, has been spearheaded by GreenWorks Development. Their plan is to build/renovate over 1 million square feet within the 10 block radius of Midtown and do it all in an environmentally responsible manner.
Anchoring the Green Building Design was forty-six (46) geothermal wells (located under the footprint of the building) and a 220 Panel Solar PV System (42 kW) on the roof. The Energy Harvest Grant which will fund the Solar Equipment was the first stimulus dollars awarded in the state of Pa. In addition to the ground source heat pumps and solar PV system, here are some of the various green aspects of Campus Square Building: fly ash used in every yard of concrete, white roofing material, high efficiency glazing, completely automated building management system (Wireless ATC, Security, Lighting & Solar), regional materials, IAQ plan during construction, low VOC materials, high recycled content in the finishes, low flow water closets and waterless urinals.
Circa 1964
From the early conceptual stages of the project, LEED was a priority. With the Architect (Ganflec Architects), Construction Manager (Wohlsen Construction) and an MEP Design Build Team all working closely together through budgeting and design to come up with the ultimate balance of cost, green aspects, efficiency and quality. The end result is a well thought out, socially and environmentally responsible project which will house the new Green Center of Central Pa and several other tenants. Hopefully the students of the new Green Center will be able to learn first hand from the green building aspects of Campus Square and assist in the continual growth of the industry.
LEEDBlogger.com guest author William Sutton was named Wohlsen Construction Companies‘ Green Liason in 2008 and works day to day as a Project Manager on their LEED and Green Building Projects. To date, he has worked on 6 LEED projects in various phases of construction and is working with several owners currently to determine and establish green building goals. William is on several green building committees throughout Central Pa and also volunteers at local schools and colleges to give informative talks about Green and LEED. Follow William on Twitter via @LEED_Resource.If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
