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DEC 2009

SMU EMBREY ENGINEERING BUILDING

Categories: LEED Gold

Architect: Hahnfeld Hoffer Stanford

Location: University Park, Texas

Client: Southern Methodist University

Project Design Team: Robert Ayers, AIA, David Stanford, AIA

MEP: CCRD Partners

Structural: Lee & Baldouf

Civil: Huitt Zollars

Contractor: Turner Construction Company

Project Registration Date: 07/2006

Project Area/Size: 58,000 SF

Materials Used: Concrete, steel, brick, stone (slate), glass. Recycled content materials are steel, fly ash in concrete, carpet, floor coverings, wood in casework, paving materials, landscape bedding materials.

LEED Category: LEED NC 2.1

Photography: Hillsman Jackson

AV / Acoustics: WJHW

Lab Consultant: Earl Walls Associates

LEED Team Manager: Eric Claycamp, AIA, LEED AP

The project team, led by Hahnfeld Hoffer Stanford, accomplished LEED Gold certification for the J. Lindsay Embrey Engineering Building, a 58,000sf instruction and research facility for the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University. Embrey is home to the Departments of Mechanical, Environmental and Civil Engineering, which also accommodates the Dean and faculty offices. Not only is it the first University building in the southern region of United States designed for Gold LEED certification, and the second of three buildings designed for the Lyle School of Engineering, but this project initiated the first LEED design program on the Southern Methodist University campus.

As a high performance energy efficient facility, Embrey Engineering is in part a teaching facility and serves as a state-of-the-art educational tool for students and faculty. Designing the facility as a redundant system where specific elements (or building components) could be taken apart, studied and reinstalled was important to the University. One component of this “Living Laboratory”: exposed ceilings in some parts of the facility for easy access to systems above.

Laboratories within the building include Materials Testing, Electron Beam Materials Processing, Abrasive Waterjet Materials Processing, Rapid Manufacturing, Air and Water Quality, Computation/Design, Fluid Dynamics, Micro-Machining, Opto-Electronics, and Nanoscale Electro-Thermal Sciences.

Geoffrey C. Orsak, Ph.D, Dean of the SMU Lyle School of Engineering recently commented, “Hahnfeld Hoffer Stanford has been an innovative partner helping us realize our dream of creating landmark sustainable education and research facilities for the engineering and design community.”

2007 Summit Award, Quoin (D/FW AGC)
2006 Award of Merit: Institutional, $10–25 Mil, Associated Builders & Contractors

2006 Award of Excellence: Higher Education, Best of 2006 Texas Construction Magazine
2006 D Magazine, September Issue

2005 Texas Contractor Magazine, December Issue