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Centerbrook has created a new Central Heating Facility with ingenious architecture and environmentally-friendly features, for The Hotchkiss College in Lakeville. The new power plant style is expected to lessen greenhouse gas emissions by a third to practically a half. Photography © David Sundberg/Esto

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“The new 16,500-square-foot creating homes two biomass boilers 4 truck bays feed wood chips into a 17,500-cubic-foot storage bin capable of supplying a week’s worth of fuel.”



green central heating facility Green Central Heating Facility For The Hotchkiss School In Lakeville others
green central heating facility Green Central Heating Facility For The Hotchkiss School In Lakeville others


“In order to merge with the surrounding landscape, the new constructing has a low profile and an undulating, sloped green roof. The Facility is one of only 3 LEED certified energy plants in the nation. Sustainable attributes contain: the building’s vegetated roof of hearty sedums that will combine with a bio-swale/rain garden program to absorb rainwater and filter runoff ahead of returning it to the ground a renewable, laminated wood structural technique water-conserving plumbing fixtures use of neighborhood components with a higher recycled content an abundance of daylight and highly effective mechanical systems, lighting systems, and exterior skin.”



green central heating facility Green Central Heating Facility For The Hotchkiss School In Lakeville others
green central heating facility Green Central Heating Facility For The Hotchkiss School In Lakeville others


“The constructing also serves an educational mission, exposing its technologies and wood structure to tours by students and neighborhood groups, who have access to a mezzanine balcony that overlooks and circumnavigates the boiler space. In addition, wall-mounted charts and maps and a series of interactive laptop consoles that track overall performance data are on show. Outdoors the plant, visitors can comply with a nature path that affords up-close views of the green roof and meanders by way of the newly created rain gardens, bio-swales and nearby wetlands.”


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