Day 1: UMass Dartmouth
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/w88y-4f18
Location
UMass Dartmouth
Event Website
www.umassbrut.edu
Start Date
22-10-2021 3:40 PM
End Date
22-10-2021 5:00 PM
Abstract
Given the immense amount of embodied carbon that mid-century Brutalist structures represent, we must redirect our focus from demolishing these concrete structures to renovating them to fit our needs in the 21st century. Higher education laboratory buildings from the 1960s and 1970s are a particularly challenging type of facility. This talk describes the work that Boston architecture firm Goody Clancy has recently undertaken in renovating over 1 million square feet of lab building space. The talk not only covers specific retrofits and envelope improvements to science buildings, such as the Gant Science Complex at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, but also the large importance that renovating Brutalist buildings has on climate action for adaptation, sustainability and carbon mitigation.
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Architectural Engineering Commons, Architectural History and Criticism Commons, Architectural Technology Commons, Construction Engineering Commons, Cultural Resource Management and Policy Analysis Commons, Environmental Design Commons, Historic Preservation and Conservation Commons, Interior Architecture Commons
Approaches to Renewing Brutalist-Era Lab Buildings
UMass Dartmouth
Given the immense amount of embodied carbon that mid-century Brutalist structures represent, we must redirect our focus from demolishing these concrete structures to renovating them to fit our needs in the 21st century. Higher education laboratory buildings from the 1960s and 1970s are a particularly challenging type of facility. This talk describes the work that Boston architecture firm Goody Clancy has recently undertaken in renovating over 1 million square feet of lab building space. The talk not only covers specific retrofits and envelope improvements to science buildings, such as the Gant Science Complex at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, but also the large importance that renovating Brutalist buildings has on climate action for adaptation, sustainability and carbon mitigation.
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