Unifying Plaid Design: The wood look provides a warm focal point for the room, and the red and black accents throughout offer a contemporary spin on the classic plaid design—a unifying design theme that’s carried throughout the building.

Wood-look finish CertainTeed’s Continuous Linear Grille was a more workable alternative to the original custom millwork specified for the soffit, while remaining true to the rendering.

University of Kentucky Off-Campus Apartments Honor City Equestrian Heritage

In addition to showcasing Lexington’s equestrian heritage with a custom plaid design, the architect solved installation challenges with a versatile aluminum ceiling and wall solution that offered convincingly real wood finishes. With a total enrollment of almost 30,000 students, the university relies on residence life and housing as key elements of its student experience, both on- and off-campus.Therefore, when Core Spaces—an integrated company focused on developing and managing real estate for colleges and universities—began exploring ideas for a new project in Lexington, Ky., the company focused on creating a warm, welcoming off-campus apartment building th

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Designed to deliver timeless beauty and tested strength into any outdoor space, the Outdoor Accents line of connectors and fasteners, from Simpson Strong-Tie, deliver the flexibility to build a wide range of custom outdoor spaces. The newest addition, the APBDW Outdoor Accents decorative post wrap enhances the appearance of post base connections and adds design flair by enclosing them in an offering that fits around most nominal 4x4 and 6x6 post bases. Originally developed for the MPBZ moment post base, the APBDW decorative post wrap accommodates other post bases from Simpson Strong-Tie, including the CBSQ, ABUZ, ABWZ and ABAZ (screw and nail application only). In addition, it can be u

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Utility Facility Features Gas-Flame Blue Roof

The Sevier County Utility District uses a metal roof as its calling card, using more than 13,500 sq. ft. of metal panels finished in gas-flame blue. Based in the county seat of Sevierville, the Sevier County Utility District (SCUD) serves more than 14,000 customers in Sevier and adjacent Blount counties. When the utility, which is also an agency of the county’s government, determined it needed a new employee training facility, it decided the new structure should offer amenities to the broader community as well.Located on a larger campus of other utility buildings, the 9,500-sq.-ft. center provides a commercial-quality kitchen and a multifunction area that are available to area organiza

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Lighting & Controls

Sensible Sensing

Perfect for both new construction and retrofit applications, Enlighted One ships integrated into lighting fixtures or is easily installed in the field. Programming only takes seconds with an Enlighted wireless wall switch and off-the-shelf laser pointer. The system is out-of-the box building code compliant with features such as daylight harvesting, task tuning and vacancy detection. The solution yields energy savings up to 65% with an LED retrofit. It features the same Generation 5 hardware as the Enlighted IoT Platform. When building occupants are ready to upgrade to IoT capabilities, no modifications to the lighting fixtures are required—the sensor is already installed in the buildin

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Acoustics

Curing Diseases in an Inspiring Space

Amicus Therapeutics is dedicated to “the fight to remain at the forefront of therapies for rare and orphan diseases.” It is a mission that is incredibly personal to Chairman and ceo, John F. Crowley. Two of his children were born with Pompe disease, a rare neuromuscular genetic disease that Amicus is working to cure in its new 46,000-sq.-ft. Global Research and Gene Therapy Center of Excellence in University City Square, Philadelphia, Pa.This state-of-the-art research facility is located in the top two floors of a 14-story tower, which was itself a design challenge, because the building was not inherently equipped to provide the security and hazard control required in biosafety l

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Lighting & Controls

Layers of Light Reinvented to New Level of Space Integration

The growing trend in office designs is to accommodate ever-changing and future-proofing configurations. Since lighting is essential in every built environment, lighting designs must also adapt to reconfigurations and future changes in site layout. Dynamic lighting not only supports resilience, flexibility, and wellbeing, it also provides a future-proof solution to deal with changes. Flexible designs—and lighting—necessitate the increased mobility of people and facilities.Axis Lighting’s new StencilFlex allows designers to integrate different, ever-changing lighting requirements in an open space, while remaining creative and relevant. If tasks, furniture and people can

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May 18, 2022 by Jeanie Fitzgerald-Pitts

Product Highlights from AHR Expo 2022

The AHR Expo, the industry’s largest HVAC show in the U.S., returned in person in 2022. This unique show provides the venue where the future of HVACR technology is on display and the hot topic of discussion in the over 1,500 exhibitor booths hosted there. For those of us who were unable to attend, the AHR Expo Industry Trends Report summarized the direction the industry is headed. One key takeaway: The Future is Clean. A sentiment supported by the decarbonization, electrification, low-GWP refrigerants, and regulation updates that have become increasingly common across the market. The report also noted that the pandemic has changed the industry by making customers more aware of their indoor environments and identified indoor air quality (IAQ) as a design objective with some staying power. This issue of AP ProductWire profiles a few of the products that caught the eye and imagination of contributing writer John Mesenbrink.

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Móz Designs’ new feature column outside San Jose’s Hanover Diridon residential building is an eye-catching backlit Laser Cut column dotted with the company’s Skyline pattern and finished in a white matte powder coat. Contrasting with the building’s stone exterior, wood accents, and two-toned patio tiles, the backlit column’s clean, modern design nods to the duality of San Jose: the traditional residential area, and the emerging, technology-driven Innovation District that intersects at Hanover Diridon. The column’s unique cone-like shape is an elevated alternative to traditional columns that makes it stand out as a prominent design feature. Internal LED lig

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Interactive Children's Science Center Gets Sound Advice

One of the top priorities at the new Lancaster Science Factory for children was to improve the acoustics for the large, exposed space. The Lancaster Science Factory, an interactive science center for children in Pre-K to 8th grade, recently completed a major renovation. To improve the acoustical environment, the Science Factory partnered with Armstrong Ceiling and Wall Solutions. InvisiAcoustics ceiling panels were installed in the ceiling of the Hall of Science. Designed specifically for exposed structure spaces, the 2-ft. × 4-ft. panels maintain the integrity of exposed structure designs while reducing sound.The ceiling panels have a Noise Reduction Coefficient (NRC) of 0.75, indicat

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The Century Project at Seattle Space Needle

The preservation and renovation of a 57-year old icon. In June 2017, the Space Needle announced its intent to undergo a multi-year renovation venture. As one of the most recognized landmarks in the world, the Space Needle’s remodel focused on updating the structure’s physical systems and elevating the visitor experience. Included in the renovation was an expansion and resurfacing of the observation deck, with the most important requirement being that the deck had to remain open to the public during operating hours.An additional challenge during the project was the building itself. The Space Needle is an active building—contracting, twisting, and expanding depending on wind

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