This project involved a new addition to the existing facility, which created space for a library, cybercafé, fitness center, video conference room and large lobby, plus nursing classrooms. The clerestory and skylights allow large amounts of natural lighting into the building, low-flow plumbing fixtures reduce water consumption by 20 percent, and a series of vegetated swales and ponds filter out pollutants from runoff, earning this building LEED Certification. This project won a 2007 Ohio AIA award for newly constructed buildings.
HAWA commissioned this building with all trades being involved, thus reducing the number of potential “callbacks.”