News
  • PDT Architects awarded Kennebec County Superior Courthouse project
    PDT Architects is honored to have been awarded the design of the expansion of the Kennebec County Superior Court in Augusta. For PDT, which has designed four Maine district courts, this once-in-a-lifetime project represents an opportunity to showcase in-state design and engineering. We are very proud to have won this project in competition with many prominent out-of-state design firms. PDT heads a team of largely local consultants, including Terrence J. DeWan and Associates, Becker Structural Engineering, Allied Engineering, and Gorrill-Palmer Consulting Engineers, which support dozens of professional jobs in the state.


  • PSA Student Submission - "V E L O C I P E D A R Y"
    Giovanni Morabito, an architectural designer at PDT Architects, was one of two winners in the student category of the Portland Society of Architects' Unbuilt Architecture Awards competition. Gio's project, called Velocipedary, is a design for a public access bicycle education and resource facility where the public can learn how to build, fix, and ride bicycles. The judges praised the thoroughness of Gio's presentation and the integration of the building to the site.



  • PDT Designers Bring Joy to Polar Express Riders
    Interior designers Suzanne Morin, MCID, and Pam Anderson transformed Polar Express train car #23 as part of the Maine Interior Design Association's 2010 benefit for the Maine Narrow Gauge Railway. Each holiday season, the railway runs a special evening Polar Express program. This year, teams of MIDA members festooned the cars with holiday decorations and an estimated 8,750 passengers enjoyed the ride. Design, labor, and materials for Car #23 were donated by PDT Architects, with other donations by Altro Floors (labor & materials), Patcraft flooringing (labor and materials), Men's Wearhouse (labor), Capozza Tile (labor), CF Stinson (fabric), and Surface Materials (wall coverings).

    BEFORE

    PDT Polar Express Before Car #23, which is not used during the regular season, got its chance for glory for the Polar Express.

    AFTER

    PDT Polar Express After With a tiny budget, donated labor and materials, and a "kid-safe" mandate, Pam and Suzanne adorned #23 with new flooring and wall coverings, lights, wreaths, ribbons, reflective balls, and "snow."


  • Kuniholm and Morin speak at MBS on Green Interiors
    Alan G. Kuniholm, AIA, LEED AP, and Suzanne W. Morin, MSID, interior designer, speak on the "Greening Rental Office Space" panel at the Maine Businesses for Sustainability Fall Workshop on November 9. For a handy checklist, click here. To learn more about the workshop or to sign up, go here: www.mainebusinessesforsustainability.org/
  • See PDT's Fundraising Exploits for news about this year's Tri-for-a-Cure and Peaks-to-Portland races. click here!
  • Job Captain Ian "Giant" Parlin came in 6th in the Barefoot 5K "Shod" Division at the Pineland Farms Trail Running Festival on May 29th, 2010. Runners in this division wear "minimalist shoes," which really look funny but help to improve strength and running form. For more on the festival, which Parlin founded and has been organizing for the past 5 years, go to www.pinelandfarms.com. For an article on Ian and barefoot running, go here.


HONORS AND AWARDS
  • NEW LEED APs: Aaron J. Klein, architectural designer, is the most recent PDT staff member to receive his LEED AP. Katherine A. Fischer, architectural designer, and Marilyn E. Leivian, registered architect, achieved theirs in late 2008. More than two-thirds of PDT's architectural design staff are now LEED-accredited.
  • Becca Casey represented PDT again at the Maine Hospital Association Golf Tournament and, stepping up one spot from last year, her team placed fourth in the standings. Becca reports that she nearly missed the tournament record for closest shot to the pin, but she did bring back a fabulous set of Sunday River Golf Club pilsner glasses for the office.

    Photo by Cal Weaver.


  • Job Captain Ian Parlin, LEED AP, runs 100 miles, wins coveted belt buckle! Powered by truly alternative energy (sports drinks, Mom's cookies, and incredible determination), Ian ran the 20th Annual Vermont 100 Mile Endurance Run on Saturday, July 19th, in 22 hours, 54 minutes, and 4 seconds. Read all about it on his blog.
    trailmonsterrunning.blogspot.com/2008/07/vermont-100-mile-endurance-run-race.html

  • PDT Summer Intern and AIAS Co-President Giovanni Morabito represented Maine architecture students at the Grassroots Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., in July 2008. An architecture student at the University of Maine at Augusta, Morabito was the first member of the Maine Chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) to attend the annual conference, which draws student leaders from across the country. PDT Architects, AIA Maine, and the AIAS sponsored Giovanni's trip, which also allowed him to spread the word about UMA's architecture program on a national level.

  • Maine Preservation honored the U. S. Marine Hospital renovation project with a 2008 Maine Historic Preservation Honor Award in May. Principals David C. Webster (third from left) and Ann Fontaine-Fisher, AIA, LEED AP, attended the awards ceremony with the owner, Martin's Point Health Care. Accepting the award for Martin's Point is Ann Tucker, director of support services, and to the right are Peter Benard, Scott Cristina, and Steve Claffie of Ledgewood Construction. This is PDT's fifth project to receive a Maine Preservation Honor Award.

    To learn more about the project, click here.

  • LEED Silver at UMF: The new College of Education, Health, and Rehabilitation at the University of Maine at Farmington has been awarded a LEED Silver rating by the U.S. Green Building Council. The building has a geothermal heating and cooling system and a high-performance thermal envelope. Many recycled products were used in its construction. To learn more about PDT's second LEED building, click here.