Recycled Materials

Mantua Square

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

KSK Architects Planners Historians, Inc. provided complete architectural and engineering services for Mantua Square in West Philadelphia, the redevelopment of the former Mantua Hall high-rise public housing project. The development of 101 new rental walk up apartments in three-story buildings surrounding private secure parking and a landscaped park also includes street level commercial space, a community room and managerial office.

Ten Penn Center

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Temple North 16th Street

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19121

Green Roof on Kitchen

Northern Liberties, Pennsylvania 19123

As part of a larger renovation project, Urban Ecoforms designed and installed an extensive green roof on a local resident's kitchen roof. In the next few growing seasons the sedum plugs will fill in to create a green carpet of succulents that is visible from all of the adjacent homes and from the project owner's bedroom.

Wister Education Center and Greenhouse

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

The Wister Education Center and Greenhouse, designed by Archer & Buchanan Architecture, Ltd. of West Chester, PA, is a sustainably designed facility, LEED GOLD certified by the US Green Building Council. The Wister Center serves the staff and volunteers of The Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College in their mission "for the encouragement of horticulture in its broadest sense." The state-of-the-art greenhouse provides space for plant propagation, overwintering, cultivation and display.

Delaware County Community College - STEM Complex

Media, Pennsylvania 19063

The new Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Complex is designed to support modern educational trends, such as small-group collaboration, hands-on learning, use of multimedia tools, smaller class sizes, and multidisciplinary approaches, while remaining flexible enough to respond to future pedagogical innovations. The complex is comprised of two buildings: a 32,000-square-foot technology building and a 100,000-square-foot science, engineering, and math building.

SAP America Inc.

Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073

As of 2010, the 218,000-square-foot facility, housing 950 employees, is the third-largest new construction Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum level building on the planet. Evan Welsh, SAP AG’s global media relations specialist, explained it has ripple benefits, as well.

Entry to the building is through a passageway that features a floor comprised of recycled materials, including seashells and pieces of crushed bottles and glass and the bamboo drop ceiling.

Lehigh Valley Hospital - Cedar Crest, Kasych Pavilion

Allentown, Pennsylvania 08103

FreemanWhite, Inc. in association with VSBA designed a major expansion for the Lehigh Valley Hospital’s Cedar Crest Campus and oversaw construction of the final phase of its facility master plan projects. The Kasych Pavilion, centerpiece of the campus, includes:

• a 182-bed (all private) patient care tower

• 6 new operating rooms

• 3 30-bed medical / surgical units

• 2 intensive care units with 44 beds total

• cardiac unit

• 30-bed open-heart unit in-patient tower

Lehigh Valley Industrial Park Building

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 08015

Lehigh Valley Industrial Park and Spillman Farmer Architects have achieved dual LEED Gold certifications for the Lehigh Valley Industrial Park office building and Spillman Farmer Architects’ offices, located in Bethlehem Pennsylvania on the former Bethlehem Steel industrial site (and now the largest privately owned brownfield site in the United States).

REI Eastern Distribution Facility

Bedford, Pennsylvania 15522

REI, a leading distributor of recreational outdoor equipment chose Lauth to develop and construct a 625,000 square foot distribution center in Bedford, PA. The state-of- the-art center will serve the recreational, camping, hiking and climbing needs of the eastern United States market.

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