Potter Lawson + HOK were selected to plan and design the new Chemistry Biology Building on the UW-Stevens Point campus. This new facility will offer staff and students modern academic lab space, research facilities, offices, classrooms, lecture halls and a computer lab. Construction of the project is expected to be complete in 2017.
The food has been weighed, and the dollars have been counted…the 2013 Potter Lawson Food Drive raised 39,024 meals this year ($12,684 and 1,213 pounds of food)! Since 1989, together we have donated more than 775,000 meals to Second Harvest Foodbank!
Special thank you to our partners who help make this drive a success: Arnold & O’Sheridan | Associated Dentists | BPI | County Materials Corporation | Creative Business Interiors Energy Center of Wisconsin | General Heating | Ideal Builders | Interior Investments | J.H. Findorff | JDR Engineering | Ken Saiki Design | KJWW Engineering | Krupp General Contractors | Madison Trane Lerdahl Business Interiors | MasterGraphics | MEP Associates | New Glarus Brewing Co. | OTIE | Power Engineers Collaborative | RSM McGladrey, Inc. | Ryan Signs | Target Commercial Interiors | TURIS | SAA Design Group
We are proud to be a part of another transformation in downtown Madison. The revitalized Madison Central Library embodies the Madison community with it’s focus on sustainable design. Follow this link to read more on the details of green design principles included in our design!
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, Gordon Dining and Event Center, earned a Gold
Citation from American School & University’s Educational Interiors Showcase.
Situated between several residence halls that collectively accommodate 3,000 students,
the new Gordon Dining and Event Center replaces the campus’s existing dining facility,
built in 1965. The 94,700 sf facility provides students with marketplace-style dining from
12 unique venues.
The goal of the program was to create anything but an ordinary dining hall. The Gordon
Dining and Event Center is a place for student life and enhancing the campus experience.
More than 600 dining seats are distributed throughout a series of distinct spaces with
different seating styles, including bar/counter seating, banquettes and traditional larger
tables that can be moved to accommodate a variety of programming.
The building is sited along a major campus pedestrian mall and features:
The site is part of the campus master plan, the site extending the main axis from the union and
library to the residence halls surrounding the Gordon Dining and Event Center. In association
with Cannon Design.
“Good choice and use of materials create a variety of seating experiences. Warm,
thoughtful, interesting and engaging.”—2013 jury
Potter Lawson was proud to be a part of the groundbreaking ceremony for the Domestic Abuse Intervention Services, Inc. (DAIS) shelter on Fordem Avenue designed by Potter Lawson.
Executive Director Shannon Barry says she hopes to move into the new facility next summer. “We still must raise just over $2 million to meet our capital campaign goal and hope those who know that our community desperately needs a better shelter and increased program space will find a way to give with gifts of any size.”
DAIS is the only domestic violence program serving Dane County. In recent years, the organization has experienced a huge increase in the number of individuals and families needing assistance. Shelter officials say an emergency domestic violence shelter is long overdue.
The current DAIS Shelter is the smallest domestic violence shelter per capita in the entire state of Wisconsin (1 emergency shelter bed per 19,000 people compared to the state average of 1 bed per 7,500 people). In 2012, there were over 8,200 nights that DAIS had to waitlist people with high safety needs for shelter due to the limited bed space available.
UW Health’s new Digestive Health Center at University Crossing is officially open for operation. Designed by Potter Lawson the 65,000 square foot facility has 14 procedure rooms, 46 prep and recovery rooms, 21 exam rooms and four minor procedure rooms, along with a CT scanner and other radiological equipment.
The new DHC will focus on endoscopies. In the procedures, doctors use flexible scopes fitted with cameras to look for — and sometimes treat — abnormalities throughout the digestive tract. In addition to colon cancer, other conditions to be assessed at the center include acid reflux disease, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease and hepatitis.
The center is the first of seven planned buildings at University Crossing, a mixed-use development at University Avenue and Whitney Way that was master planned and designed by Potter Lawson. The new DHC is also a sign of UW Health’s expansion and medicine’s growing emphasis on digestive health — especially colon cancer — as baby boomers age.
Designed by Potter Lawson in association with Jacoby Architects of Salt Lake City, the University of Utah’s newest residence hall recently received gold certification using Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards, making it the first LEED-certified university residence hall in Utah.
The 167,000-square-foot Donna Garff Marriott Honors Residential Scholars Community, which opened its doors in August 2012, exceeded minimum efficiency standards by more than 30%, resulting in $55,000 annual energy savings.
“We worked hard to ensure tremendous energy savings without increasing our construction budget,” said Myron Willson, director of the University of Utah Office of Sustainability.
In 2009, the state of Utah required all new state buildings to meet the qualifications for LEED silver certification. The design/build team of Gramoll Construction, Jacoby Architects and Potter Lawson designed and constructed the living learning community. They helped the University of Utah find ways to exceed the minimum efficiency standards without impacting cost.
The plumbing fixtures yield a 44% reduction in water use, resulting in 2.4 million gallons of water saved annually. The building uses high-efficiency heating and cooling systems and a heat recovery system that captures heat from the exhaust system and reuses it. Occupancy sensors that control lighting were installed as well as Energy Star-rated appliances and LED and CFL lighting. Other sustainable aspects include use of local materials, natural day lighting and ventilation, materials made with high recycled content, location near a TRAX light rail stop to reduce automobile trips, bicycle storage and landscaping that includes on-site stormwater retention.
Additionally, an innovative Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund project helped boost the building from silver to gold. Student Jessica Batty, an honors student who just completed an MBA and master’s in architecture at the U, was awarded a $70,000 grant to implement an electricity-tracking dashboard system in the building as well as a “green” demonstration room.
“Constructing sustainable buildings is important to the university because it saves limited natural resources and results in long-term financial savings,” Willson said. “This new building is a perfect example of how we find ways to exceed sustainability standards without passing the cost to anyone.”
The 2013 InBusiness Commercial Design awards were a successful event for the Potter Lawson design team. We were proud to have received the following awards, including Project of the Year!
Thank you to our clients for being visionary and enabling us to design award-worthy projects!
The Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI), the newest alternative energy research center in the U.S., is now open and was dedicated on April 5, 2013. The five-story, 104,000-square-foot collaboration-centric research center is located on the University of Wisconsin (UW) campus in Madison, Wisconsin. Dedicated to cutting-edge renewable energy systems research, the $55 million project was funded by the state of Wisconsin.
WEI is designed to serve as a collaborative hub for scientists of various disciplines. Its major tenant is the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), one of three Bioenergy Research Centers (BRC) tasked by the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct research that generates technology to convert cellulosic biomass to ethanol and other biofuels. Home to the nation’s first solar energy lab and the only Department of Energy funded bioenergy research center on an academic campus, UW-Madison supports the efforts of hundreds of faculty, scientists and students working in alternative energy fields of study. WEI also hosts the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative and the Center for Renewable Energy Systems.
“Developing next-generation biofuels and other renewable energy systems that are efficient and economically and environmentally sustainable requires a heightened level of interdisciplinary teamwork,” said Tim Donohue, GLBRC director and UW professor of bacteriology. “We believe WEI will spark the ‘random collisions’ between scientists from different disciplines that catalyze the breakthrough advances that are our goal.”
To that end, an interior light well supports each research floor. The light well opens sightlines and conduits for interaction between researchers and staff in offices and work stations that ring the perimeter of the floor and the laboratories that populate its interior. Pedestrian bridges within the light well provide accessibility while break rooms, seating nooks and formal meeting areas offer an array of venues for communication. All told, 90 percent of the interior space garners natural daylight and exterior views.
Potter Lawson was honored to be featured in the Sunday Wisconsin State Journal, honoring the entrance into our 100th year of business. Humbled, thankful and excited about the future, we are looking forward to another 100 years of success by design.
Click here to see the full article from the Wisconsin State Journal