HGA experts will speak about carbon neutral museum design using the upcoming Peary-MacMillan Artic Museum as a case study.
Program: Achieving Carbon Neutral Museum Design
Moderator: Rebecca Celis, AIA, LEED AP BD+C (HGA)
Speakers: Susan A. Kaplan, Ph.D. (The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College), Lauren Piepho, PE (HGA), and Leighton Deer, PE (HGA)
Date: March 2, 2021
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 P.M. EST
Bowdoin College is building a Center for Arctic Studies to house the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum. The Center examines interrelationships of northern climatic, environmental, and social systems. Given challenges posed by a warming Arctic, minimizing the Center’s carbon footprint is an important driver in the building’s design and program’s messaging. In this session, representatives from the Center for Arctic Studies and the HGA design team will discuss ways they collaborated on systems and material selection to align the Center’s mission and sustainability goals with the building’s design. Speakers will address the benefits of using mass timber for the primary structural component of the building, including its impact on the museum’s carbon emissions and carbon emissions in the construction industry as a whole.
To learn more about the virtual panel, visit Building Museums 2021. The Center for Artic Studies at Bowdoin College breaks ground this month.