Case Studies

Oak Forest Neighborhood Library: Houston, TX

What's a community to do when a beloved, but aging neighborhood library is deemed undersized, inefficient and inaccessible?

Toledo Museum of Art: Toledo, OH

At first glance, the Toledo Museum of Art, graced by its 101-year-old Greek Ionic façade, looks like any typical art museum.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Campus: Seattle, WA

At the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation campus in Seattle, employees can brainstorm with colleagues next to a dark-water bog that also attracts the occasional heron.

Center for Applied Energy Research Renewable Energy Laboratory: Lexington, KY

The Center for Applied Energy Research at the University of Kentucky is on the leading edge of laboratory design, implementing multiple strategies never used ...

College of the Atlantic Student Housing Village: Bar Harbor, ME

It's one thing to learn about ways to improve the relationship between humans and the environment; it's another to actually live according to those principles.

LED Wall Pack

Cooper Lighting offers the Lumark Crosstour MAXX LED Wall pack luminaire series. A patent pending architectural design integrates high output LEDs available in full cutoff and refractive lens models. The series' reflector technology, optical components and thermal management outputs up…

VCU Cary Street Gym: Richmond, VA

The structure that houses Virginia Commonwealth University's (VCU) Cary Street Gym could be a poster child for the concept of adaptive reuse.

Lightshelf

BrightShelf® lightshelf from Hunter Douglas Contract Solar Control is a 100% prefabricated lightshelf that scatters light at the ceiling, allowing for deeper penetration of daylight into the space. It features a patented ogee curve design that uses less daylighting window,…

Large Format Acoustic Panels

CertainTeed Ceilings has expanded its Gyptone® BIG™ large format perforated acoustical panel offering with the launch of Quattro 46. The perforated gypsum panels allow for monolithic ceiling and wall designs without visible breaks or joints and provide superior acoustics for…

McCormick Distribution Center: Belcamp, MD

When McCormick & Company wanted to reduce its environmental impact and energy bills, the facility team sought to improve the energy efficiency of its distribution center in Belcamp, Md.