Sherwood Design Engineers : Campus Design Projects

Sherwood Design Engineers - Campus Projects


		Berkeley School of Law - UC Berkeley, California To complement the long-term master plan for growth and improvements at University of California Berkeley School of Law, Sherwood Design Engineers was involved in the site engineering and coordination of sustainable site design elements of a LEED-certified building. The building provides additional library stacks and classroom space in two levels below ground, with a large classroom and student meeting rooms on the ground floor. By connecting with existing buildings, the new project improves circulation and access to the entire facility, while maintaining a low visual profile to ensure a graceful transition between the campus and the city street. Our work served to stitch the gaps in environmental performance of the site with the surrounding campus.

		Stanford Green Dormitory - Palo Alto, California In collaboration with design professionals, research faculty, and students, Sherwood’s engineers were a key part of the design team for Stanford University’s cutting-edge Green Dorm project. The Green Dorm building and surrounding area includes student housing, laboratory, research, and classroom facilities all designed to exceed LEED Platinum standards. The project is truly a leader in developing and incorporating innovative green design technologies. In addition to contributing to the civil engineering documents for the site, we developed an integrated water system for the building that achieves a net-zero water use goal and complements the building’s net-zero carbon emissions goal.

Image credit: EHDD		Monterey Peninsula College - Monterey, California Sherwood worked in conjunction with a team of consultants to prepare a comprehensive Physical Master Plan for a 20-acre site at the former Fort Ord military installation currently being transferred to Monterey Peninsula College. We prepared the Utility Assessment Report to be utilized in the infrastructure planning for a Public Safety Office Training Facility, and collaborated with the design team throughout the master planning process to identify constraints and opportunities regarding water distribution and allocation for existing and proposed infrastructure.

Image credit: Michael David Rose Photography		Chartwell School - Monterey, California Recently awarded one of AIA/COTE's Top Ten Green Projects of 2009, the Chartwell School is a USGBC-LEED Platinum certified showcase school constructed on the former Fort Ord military site in Monterey, California. Sherwood Design Engineers provided environmental engineering and LEED certification design services in collaboration with EHDD Architecture to help advance and develop project construction documents for all sustainable site engineering elements. We also helped design an educational interpretive stormwater feature that links the rainwater cistern to the science garden, and introduced a series of innovative solutions to reduce project costs and improve site aesthetics.

Image credit: EHDD		Marin Country Day School - Corte Madera, California The Marin Country Day School hired Sherwood Design Engineers as part of an interdisciplinary team of architects, landscape architects, mechanical and electrical engineers to design infrastructure systems which feature zero-energy use buildings as part of its LEED Platinum school campus. From the rainwater cistern we designed, water flows through the school's mechanical system to provide summertime cooling, while in the winter the water is treated and stored for use in flushing toilets. In addition to the utility planning and design, Sherwood prepared a stormwater master plan for the 38-acre campus, analyzing runoff and designing solutions for the restoration of a local creek flowing through the campus. Further collaboration was established with CMG Landscape Architecture to remove paved areas, and build vegetative swales for stormwater treatment.

Image credit: TGH Architects		Branson School - Ross, California Occupying seventeen acres of land in the rolling hills of Marin County, the Branson School is an independent high school with buildings dating back to the 1920's. Sherwood was involved throughout the entire process, from site planning through construction, of integrating the new Student Commons and Fine Arts Center buildings into the campus. As a LEED-Platinum designed project, the plans employ a number of sustainable features including a green roof, rain gardens, and pervious paving. Sherwood played an integral role in the design of these sustainable practices for a school that looks to make green building design a cornerstone of their new master plan.

Image credit: TGH Architects		Katherine Burke School - San Francisco, California At one of San Francisco's premier private schools and in collaboration with architects Turnbull Griffin Haesloop, Sherwood has provided a range of Civil Engineering services, from green streets and utility planning, to construction documentation and administration. The three principal components of our project work include development of a new Arts and Sciences building at the location of a former tennis court, regrading and resurfacing nearly 50% of the school's hardscape areas including the central courtyard and two basketball courts, and upgrades to utility systems and adjacent streetscape.

Image credit: Balmori Associates		Botanical Research Institute of Texas - Fort Worth, Texas Sherwood is collaborating with landscape designer Balmori Associates on the design and construction of an ecologically vibrant and low water consumptive landscape for the new Botanical Research Institute of Texas. The proposed structure will include a green roof over more than 50% of its area and will provide irrigation by treated and reused rainwater captured from site runoff. Site stormwater will be treated through a series of rain gardens before it is collected in a naturalized wet pond for future use as irrigation make-up water. Sherwood performed oversight and review of the civil engineering components of the site design and made recommendation to the team for water reuse, stormwater management, ecological integration, and sustainable materials during the design phase of the project.

Image credit: FXFOWLE		Housatonic River Museum - Pittsfield, Massachusetts Sherwood’s work on the Housatonic River Museum provides an exceptional opportunity to incorporate our expertise in natural drainage systems and stormwater management into the design of a project which showcases the river’s ecology, history and culture. The proposed siting of the Housatonic River Museum on Wahconah Street, adjacent to Historic Wahconah Park, provides an excellent opportunity for the City of Pittsfield to strengthen its urban appeal and expand areas of public accessibility. Sherwood is currently collaborating with FXFOWLE to develop the site design to alleviate drainage problems while incorporating progressive stormwater management practices to benefit the site and the watershed. These practices include daylighting the existing storm drain and replacing it with a bioswale to clean and store stormwater as it flows through the site and restore native riparian habitat along the banks of the Housatonic River.