News

Katherine Fischer, LEED AP, swam the Peaks to Portland race on July 25. For details and a slideshow, click here.


Principal Alan G. Kuniholm, AIA, LEED AP, presented energy-use data for the UMF Education Center as part of a panel discussion at the New England Board of Higher Education conference on May 4 in Boston. Al's presentation to the "Greening Higher Education: Saving the Planet and Saving Money" conference is available for download here, and the data sheet is here.

The PieD-a-Teers raise $2,000 for breast cancer research.
Mary's Walk and Kerrymen Pub Road Race, Saco, Maine, benefits the Maine Cancer Foundation. March 16, 2009, sunny, 45 degrees, warmest day in months!

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HONORS AND AWARDS
  • Kenji Funahashi, LEED AP, joined the PDT staff in March as an architectural designer. He has most recently worked for Hickok Cole Architects, Washington, D.C., designing residential and commercial projects.
  • 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.



NEW PROJECTS
  • EYE CLINIC RENOVATION, FOR THE VA MEDICAL CENTER, JAMAICA PLAIN, MASSACHUSETTS. Programming, feasibility study, and design for renovation of 25,000-s.f. on two floors of the VA's hospital. Project involves new opthalmology and optometry services, research, and teaching spaces.
  • CLINICAL LAB RENOVATION, FOR THE VA MEDICAL CENTER, WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VERMONT. Renovation and expansion of the VA Medical Center's Clinical Lab, includes analysis and reorganization for improved workflow. With national lab consultant Karen Mortland.
  • MT. BLUE HIGH SCHOOL/FOSTER REGIONAL APPLIED TECHNOLOGY CENTER, a renovation/addition project to add capacity to these two linked institutions in Farmington, Maine.
  • UNITY COLLEGE MASTER PLAN AND SCIENCE BUILDING, a parallel planning process for the environmental college in Unity, Maine, with Terrence DeWan and Associates.
  • BRUNSWICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, which includes a public process to determine whether to build a new school or renovations and additions to existing schools.
  • GORHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with a projected completion date of 2010. The project is tenth on Maine's 2004-2005 Special Priority List.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION
  • Specialty Clinic Addition, for the VA Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont. This project involves adding a new top floor to Building #39 on the VA Medical Center campus, along with structural and mechanical upgrades to the entire building. The new floor will house outpatient specialty clinics.
  • MSAD #28 Elementary School, Camden Rockport, a locally-funded addition/renovation project that quadruples the size of the existing building. MSAD #28 is investing $700,000 for energy conservation elements and a geothermal heating and cooling system. See Work in Progress.
  • A multi-phase renovation/addition project for the five schools of MSAD #15, Gray/New Gloucester
    • BURCHARD DUNN ELEMENTARY: completed 2007
    • MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: completed 2007
    • GRAY-NEW GLOUCESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL: completed 2007
    • JAMES RUSSELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: completed 2008
    • GRAY-NEW GLOUCESTER HIGH SCHOOL: completion expected August 2008