As COVID-19 continues to infiltrate our communities across the globe, let us take this lockdown as an opportunity to rethink the built environment and its impact on our health. As designers focused on health and wellness, we want to share the immediate measures that architects, designers, building managers, and employers can take to create safe […]
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Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA), or cradle-to-grave analysis, is an assessment tool used to calculate the environmental impacts and resources used across a product’s entire life cycle: raw material extraction (cradle), manufacturing, packaging, distribution, use, and end of life (grave). The increasing focus on environmental, social, and economic sustainability has amplified the application of life cycle thinking
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Helping to cap the most ambitious expansion in Zoo Atlanta’s history, both the Zambezi Elephant Center and Savanna Hall Renovation have officially earned LEED Gold certification. Administered by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program recognizes buildings across the world for design and construction geared toward the
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Indoor environments provide plenty of opportunities for people to come in contact with viruses and bacteria — through airflow, from surfaces, and from the way our built spaces cause us to interact with one another. In light of the recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we’ve gathered the latest research and resources that evaluate indoor air quality and
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We are thrilled to share that our office is officially the FIRST v4.0 Materials Petal project in the world and the FIRST International Living Future Institute (ILFI) Certification in Atlanta. Utilizing our internal expertise, our designers prioritized products with a Living Product Certification and a Declare label early in the design. We repurposed 58% of
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As COVID-19 continues to infiltrate our communities across the globe, let us take this lockdown as an opportunity to rethink the built environment and its impact on our health. As designers focused on health and wellness, we want to share the immediate measures that architects, designers, building managers, and employers can take to create safe
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One of the focal points of Epsten Group and Zoo Atlanta’s Grand New View concept was the conversion of the historic Grant Park Cyclorama building into Savanna Hall. Originally constructed in 1921, the building was formerly the home to the Battle of Atlanta painting-in-the-round commemorating the 1854 Civil War battle of the same name.
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The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design is the most environmentally advanced education and research building in the Southeast. Situated under photovoltaic panels, the “living laboratory” is the first educational facility in Georgia to pursue Living Building Certification 3.0, and houses research labs, laboratory support areas, offices, and breakout spaces. With water-cooled heat pumps for
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The Carnegie Building is a two-story, brick veneer structure comprised of office spaces and below-grade basement spaces. Tech Tower is a four-story, brick veneer structure with a granite foundation comprised of office spaces and below-grade partial basement spaces. Throughout the years, these buildings have gone through the normal deterioration of the building components and materials,
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The Convocation Center at the University of North Georgia houses a 3,600-seat arena, academic offices, classrooms, clinical lab space, and building support areas. The facility also contains the Health and Physical Education and Military Science programs. Building systems commissioning services were provided for the 103,000 SF center beginning early in the design phase and included
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