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Where We Work
Explore the radical transformation taking place in the workplace, not only from the perspective of place and furniture but also location and proximity to home.
Where We Live
Examine case studies of the work of architects addressing issues related to home and housing.
Our Place in the World
Discover alternate roles for the architect through national and world leaders who know what is expected and what is demanded of those who wish to lead.
How We Come Together
Investigate new forms of communication as we look at how we reinforce and build upon traditional environments.
Our Place on the Land
Explore restorative and regenerative approaches to high performance buildings as one of the opportunities for architects to embrace as a continuing challenge for the profession into the future.
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WE65 60 Oxford Street: Building Enclosure Design Award Winner 2007 HSW
05/14/2008, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM


Learning Units: 3.75-Entry level

Training Units: 0.9375-Training Area 17 (Energy Conservation)

In November 2007, the Boston Society of Architects' Building Enclosure Council awarded the First Annual Building Enclosure Design Award to 60 Oxford Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The first building in Harvard University's North Yard Lab Campus, is a high security office and computer lab that houses University Information Systems and the Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Harvard University, Perry Dean Rogers | Partners Architects, and Lee Kennedy Company, Inc. designed and constructed a building enclosure that not only effectively manages heat, air, moisture and daylight, but includes a series of innovations that illustrates the craft, science, and engineering of high performance building enclosures. LEED Certified.

Learning Objectives:
  • Examine the architectural expression and process of energy and daylight modeling.
  • Discuss the benefits of building enclosure commissioning from design through construction.
  • Obtain a better understanding of sustainable design strategies in the design of high performance building enclosures.
Speakers: George Blackburn and Richard M. Jones, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP

Provider: AIA Center for Building Science and Performance

WE65 Wednesday, 1-5 p.m., $125