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  Project Title

  Amherst College, New Science Center

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  Winning Firm
  
  

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  Awarded
  
  WINNER, PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT, Educational

• Company/Firm
  Payette
• Lead Designer
  Robert J. Schaeffner
• Firm Name
  Amherst College, New Science Center
• Firm City
  Boston
• Firm Size
  Large Firm (49+ employees)
• Project Link
  view
• Project Status
  Built
• Client
  Amherst College

Amherst College sought a new, forward-looking building that would create an open learning environment for the entire campus community for the next 100 years. The components—two high energy laboratory wings tucked into the hillside to the east, and three pavilions of low intensity uses extending west toward the hilltop academic core—are organized around a central commons and unified by dramatic roof canopy. Predicted energy usage of 91 kBtu/SF is 76% lower than the 2030 baseline and 15% below the current reduction target goal.