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The American Institute of Architects’ COTE Top Ten Awards is the industry’s best-known awards program for sustainable design excellence. The Harvard University Science and Engineering Complex was one of the ten, having already earned LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge Materials, Beauty and Equity Petals certifications as well as the SEFA “Lab of the Year”...

Earth Day is an annual celebration on April 22 that honors the achievements of the environmental movement and raises awareness of the need to protect the earth’s natural resources for future generations.  van Zelm is proud to be working on three decarbonization plans and/or their implementation for Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Salem State University and Quinsigamond...

We are delighted to share with you an article in Tradeline on one of our recent projects at the Dartmouth College campus. The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society in Hanover, NH is a beacon for sustainability at Dartmouth College. It was designed for groundbreaking performance and efficiency, with an expectation of achieving...

The Bowdoin College Schiller Coastal Studies Center’s Living and Learning Center (LLC) won honorable mention in the Commercial/Institutional category in the annual PHIUS Passive Projects Design Competition 2022. PHIUS (Passive House Institute US) is a non-profit organization delivering the industry standard for high-performance zero-energy building. Read More…

We are pleased to announce that the Tufts University Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) has been honored with the prestigious AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Award. This LEED Gold certified facility consists of 175,000 square feet of laboratories, classrooms, support rooms and other core facilities creating a unique space for students, faculty...

Excellence – Innovation – Teamwork It is a tremendous honor that the Harvard University Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) is the 2021 SEFA Lab of the Year.  The SEFA Lab-of-the-Year™ Award expresses the highest honor that can be given to a laboratory building, bringing enormous pride to everyone who participated in this effort. This project...

At last night’s 26th Annual CREW CT Blue Ribbon Awards Showcase, van Zelm Heywood & Shadford, Inc. was thrilled to be on a winning project: Best in Class: Workplace Innovation Award & People’s Choice Award for LAZ Parking Home Office in Hartford, CT! Thank you CREW CT and congrats to Tecton Architects, One of a...

Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) achieves LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge Petal certifications.  This is an unprecedented achievement for Harvard, and both especially stellar achievements given the diversity of the building, complexity of the program and the size (over 500,000 gross square feet).  This is the largest building, and the first building with wet...

We are honored to have served as the MEP engineers on the Amherst College New Science Center which won two awards at the Boston Society of Architects gala last week… an Honors Award for Design Excellence and a Citation for Sustainability Design.  The project is also a previous national AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE)...

We are excited to be working with BEHNISCH ARCHITEKTEN on the University of Pennsylvania Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology and are pleased that the project has received design approval by the University’s Board of Trustees. The new $173 million facility at 3200 Walnut Street will consolidate existing and emerging energy research programs by...