Case Studies
Collaborative Innovation Center
Institutional
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Size : 260,600 square feet.
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Location : Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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Owner : Regional Industril Development Corp. of SW PA
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LEED™ Rating : LEED-CS Gold
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Costs : $106 per square foot
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Completion Date : 2005
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Building Overview:
Designed by Davis Gardner Gannon Pope Architecture, LLC, the four-story, 260,600 square foot Collaborative Innovation Center (Co-Lab) features large open spaces that provide its tenants with one of the most energy efficient, cost-effective, healthy, flexible and adaptable work environments in existence. The Co-Lab, which accommodates over 400 employees, employs green design principles -- some developed at Carnegie Mellon's Center for Building Performance Diagnostics -- and building materials that will ensure sustainability and maximize employee productivity.
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Sustainable Sites:
- Reduced site and parking garage footprint
- Located near numerous community amenities and bus lines
- Changing rooms and bike stations for employees and visitors
- A cistern helps control stormwater rate and flow while also providing graywater and water retention after a storm event
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Water Efficiency:
- The use of a cistern, plus low flow fixtures amounts to a total estimated potable water savings of 56.4%
- The graywater system also irrigates planters providing 50 gallons per day
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Energy & Atmostphere:
- A raise floor HVAC system, argon-filled insulation Solarban 60 glass, and insulated terra cotta rainscreen combine to deliver a system what uses 22% less energy then the ASHRAE base case
- The HVAC's enthalpy wheel passively extracts latent heat
- The thermal mass of the concrete floor system produces a thermal fly wheel affect which lowers the energy needed for morning cool down and/or morning warm up
- DDC based Building Automation System with diagnostic capabilities that allow for the adjusting of systems to improve comfort and performance
- Cantilevered concrete structural slabs also double as sunshades
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Indoor Environmental Quality:
- The raised floor HVAC system allows for increased ventilation and controllability of non-perimeter systems
- 12 feet clear height allowed for significant daylight penetration
- The Building Automation system provided the means to permanently monitor the HVAC system and carbon dioxide levels
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Materials & Resources:
- High levels of concrete and steel in the structure allowed for a significant amount of recycled content
- Most other systems employed materials that has high recycled content
- 26.7% of all materials consisted of recycled content
- 52% of the material used in the project was manufactured locally and 36.4% of that material was locally harvested
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Team:
- Regional Industrial Development Corporation
- dggp Architecture
- RAY Engineering
- Churches Engineering
- Klavon Design Associates
- PJ Dick Corporation
- D+D Engineering
- Steven Winter & Associates
- Engineering Economics, Inc.
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