Renovation

PROJECT FACT SHEET

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

This project includes the historic restoration of an 1805 Meeting House and a new community gathering space designed to match the elegant simplicity and durability of the Meeting House. Prior to design, Re:Vision’s due diligence included an energy audit, structural analysis, and archaeological investigation of the existing site and historic Meeting House building. This information formed the basis for a master plan which Re:Vision then executed.

Eight years after Corporate Headquarters Building 701 was completed as a ‘green’ building, Armstrong World Industries worked with Re:Vision Architecture to undertake a series of additional design and operational improvements to fully optimize the building and secure a LEED-Platinum rating from the US Green Building Council under the LEED For Existing Buildings (EB) program. In the end, Building 701 became the fifth building nationwide to achieve LEED-EB Platinum. The achievement set an example for the corporate world, promoting environmental responsibility and consciousness.

Fair Food is a local non-profit “dedicated to bringing locally grown food into the Philadelphia marketplace.” They represent more than 90 sustainable farms and food producers in southeast Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, including urban farms within Philadelphia, and are at the epicenter of the local food movement. Re:Vision Architecture was commissioned to design their new expansion in the historic Reading Terminal Market.

Mercy Neighborhood Ministries of Philadelphia, Inc. (MNM) is a 501 (C) (3) not for profit organization that has served the Tioga neighborhood of North Philadelphia for over 25 years. It is the only social service provider in one of the most neglected sections of Philadelphia. The Ministries’ programs were developed in partnership with Tioga’s residents in order to address their needs.

 Designed in collaboration with Roofscapes, Inc., the enormous vegetated roof atop PECO’s headquarters building at 23rd and Market Street is the largest of its kind in a Pennsylvanian urban setting and will offer a myriad of environmental benefits from stormwater absorption (soaking-up 1.5 million gallons of rainwater runoff annually), to heat island mitigation, to the creation of a welcoming habitat for birds and other wildlife.  In a