Boston, MA – Payette announced two recent academic commissions. At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Payette was selected to provide a programming and feasibility study for the schematic design phase of a new 16,000sf, energy-efficient greenhouse facility: Bowditch Hall Research and Teaching Greenhouses.
In addition to an 11,000sf greenhouse, the project includes a head-house support building, which may include potting rooms, labs, computer room, offices, storage and utility rooms.
The site will be created by demolition and renovation of campus facilities that are more than 60 years old to create a new facility to support primary research and teaching for the Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences.
Payette was also the designer of the new 173,000sf Integrated Sciences Building on the UMass Amherst campus, which opened for classes earlier this year.
Project team members include Greenhouse Engineering, Greenhouse Consultant; R. G. Vanderweil Engineers, MEP/FP Engineer; Lim Consultants, Structural Engineer; and Daedelus, Cost Estimator.
Additionally, Payette is working with HLW International to develop a teaching facility for the new Hofstra University School of Medicine in Hempstead, N.Y. The project includes renovation of the former New York Jets administration office and training headquarters into a teaching facility. The program calls for experiential learning classrooms, medical library, a large lecture hall, faculty offices and an anatomy lab. HLW International is the Architect-of-Record.
