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Keeping Tucson Parks Safe

November 2, 2017

Illuminated sports fields are a centerpiece of many parks, but the lighting and electrical systems must be properly designed, built, and maintained to remain safe and usable.  Ted Moeller, Director of Electrical Engineering at GLHN, partnered with the City of Tucson to improve electrical safety at aging parks across the community.  Ted recommends the following best practices to maintain park electrical systems. Operate circuit breakers every three years Install metal…

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Science and Health Building Awarded LEED Gold

October 5, 2017

Completed in 2015, the Science and Health Building provides modern research space and science teaching facilities in a highly sustainable facility.  GLHN’s Joyce Kelly, LEED BD+C, led the certification process for the project team.  One fifth of SHB’s LEED Gold certification was based on water efficiency – a recognized high priority in Flagstaff and Northern Arizona. The team achieved all water efficiency points including exemplary performance and regional priority credits…

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University of Arizona Selects GLHN Team for Pharmacy Addition

September 14, 2017

The University of Arizona has selected the team of GLHN Architects & Engineers, Inc. and Shepley Bulfinch to design the $20M addition and renovation to the College of Pharmacy Skaggs Building.  The project will provide the College with both new and renovated state-of-the-art research facilities to ensure its growth and capacity to adapt to the dynamic and changing fields in pharmaceutical sciences.  The project is based on a 2015 Conceptual…

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Tooker House Engineering Residence Hall

July 3, 2017

  Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona This fall ASU unveiled a new $120M residence hall for engineering students featuring on-site digital classrooms and makerspaces with 3D printers, laser cutters and other design tools. GLHN partnered with American Campus Communities to provide fast-track Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing design services for the 7-story, 458,000 SF Tooker House which is seeking LEED Gold certification. Mechanical systems in the building are on display, feeding…

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Science and Health Building

May 3, 2017

  Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona NAU’s new Science and Health Building provides modern science teaching facilities and state-of-the-art, flexible research laboratory space. The GLHN|richärd+bauer joint venture team designed a building that mimics the forms of a geode. On the exterior, metal panels of different shapes and sizes are cut at an angle, resembling the layers revealed when a geode is cracked open. Inside, a curtain wall expresses the jagged…

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Environment and Natural Resources 2 (ENR2)

April 3, 2017

  University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona The ENR2 Building borrows from the iconic imagery of the southwest: striking landforms of canyon and mesa, dramatic play of light and shadow, the painted sky of sunsets and desert monsoons, and highly adapted flora and fauna. Organized around a central courtyard, the building is entered through a “slot canyon,” curvilinear anodized aluminum ribbons define its walls, recalling the terra cotta walls of the…

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