Setting a New Standard - Green Building & Design Spotlights SEF's Office Building
With a cutting-edge building that was designed to demonstrate that a Net Zero Energy approach can be used for a leasable office building for a similar development cost to comparable office buildings, the Sustainable Energy Fund (SEF) has received national attention. Green Building & Design has a feature article on “5 Net Zero Energy Building Examples Worth Emulating.” Additionally, the SEF project has also been named a finalist for the 2020 Groundbreaker Awards by Green Building United.
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Angarano and Evans Discuss Transforming Mid-Century Campus Buildings on APPA Webinar
Susanne Angarano, Principal / Senior Interior Designer, and Jason Evans, Associate Principal, presented “Transforming Mid-Century Campus Buildings 2.0: Measuring Design Against the Outcomes” on a July 9 webinar hosted by the Association of Physical Plant Administrators (APPA). This webinar provided a best practices approach, post-occupancy evaluation, and where do we go from here with new Deep Energy Retrofit directives while weaving in case studies from various projects.
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Catherine Wolfe Earns Accredited Learning Environment Planner (ALEP) Certification
Ashley McGraw Architects is pleased to announce that Catherine Wolfe, CID, NCIDQ, has earned her Accredited Learning Environment Planner (ALEP) designation from the Association for Learning Environments. She is the first ALEP professional at Ashley McGraw Architects and one of less than 10 ALEP’s in New York State. The ALEP credential is designed to elevate a practitioner’s professional standards and identify those in the industry who demonstrate the knowledge essential to the practice of academic environment planning.
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Berg Earns Passive House Consultant Certification
We are pleased to announce that Sara Berg, Architect, has met all the requirements as a Certified Passive House Consultant (CPHC) by the Passive House Institute US (PHIUS). Sara’s certification brings the total number of CPHCs on our staff to four. This reinforces our capabilities, as well as our commitment, to the sustainable design of high-performance buildings.
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Ashley McGraw Architects Launches Vaysen Studio
Ashley McGraw Architects has launched Vaysen Studio, a creative studio that focuses on design strategy and interior design. Vaysen Studio offers a fully integrated team of certified interior designers and design strategists with extensive experience in transforming interior spaces for a wide range of project types including K-12 schools, colleges and universities, and community/civic buildings.
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Ashley McGraw Architects COVID-19 Update (3/17/20)
Ashley McGraw Architects is carefully monitoring current events related to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. At this time, it has not affected our practice and we are servicing all of our clients as usual. In the event that our clients or our company are impacted by quarantine measures, our office has seven conference spaces available for video conferencing and all Ashley McGraw staff have the capability to work from home for an extended period without disrupting their ability to complete your work.
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Ashley McGraw Architects Names Calvin Ahn Firm Principal
Ashley McGraw Architects is pleased to announce that Calvin Ahn RA, LEED AP BD+C has been named a Principal in the firm. Ahn has led some of the most innovative, sustainable projects in his 18 years at Ashley McGraw Architects. His extensive experience with high performing projects includes the LEED Platinum new MacArthur Elementary School in Binghamton, the LEED Platinum new Syracuse Center of Excellence in Syracuse, and the LEED Gold Le Moyne College Coyne Science Building Addition. He is currently leading the design team for a research facility at Binghamton University, Nuthatch Hollow, which is targeting Living Building certification.
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Angarano and Evans Discuss Transforming Mid-Century Campus Buildings 2.0 at SUNY PPAA Winter Conference
Susanne Angarano, Principal / Senior Interior Designer, and Jason Evans, Associate Principal, presented “Transforming Mid-Century Campus Buildings 2.0: Measuring Design Against the Outcomes” at the 2020 SUNY PPAA Winter Conference in Saratoga Springs, New York on January 28, 2020. They co-presented with Jaimee Wilson of Pathfinder Engineers. They provided a best practices approach, post-occupancy evaluation, and where do we go from here with new Deep Energy Retrofit directives while weaving in case studies of building renovations from Binghamton University and SUNY Upstate Medical University..
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Westhill CSD High School Featured by Retrofit Magazine as a Model for Midcentury School Buildings
Retrofit Magazine featured Westhill Central School District’s High School renovation in the article “Architectural Design Drives Instructional Conversation.” Westhill CSD Superintendent Casey Barduhn and the Ashley McGraw design team saw an opportunity not only to replace failing building systems, but to rethink how this project could drive instructional conversation through architectural design.
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Groton CSD STEAM Learning Center Earns AIA CNY Design Award
On Friday, November 15, 2019, AIA Central New York held their annual Celebration of Architecture awards ceremony. The STEAM Learning Center at Groton Central School District received a Citation for Design. The $4.8 million center is a renovated 8,000-square-foot Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) lab and shared-learning space. They are now in their second year in using this space and the satisfaction in education delivery from the students has gone up from 19% up to 71%.
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