These built-in design elements reduce the need for artificial light or heating, helping ensure the lab can be less energy-intensive. Large clerestory windows, which are placed high above in a room, also help natural light penetrate farther into those interior spaces. Horizontal light shelves built into the walls reflect daylight into deep spaces of the open office. Overhangs built into the façade block out direct sunlight that would heat up the building’s interior in turn, this helps reduce cooling costs.
The IERC also employs a host of different passive strategies in its green quest. Using them means the facility does not need an irrigation system and is simultaneously more drought-resistant. For example, the landscape plan for the new building exclusively utilizes native plants, according to Federowicz. There are many ways Fermilab is working to accomplish these goals, including the use of practical building designs. The benchmarks in place have a twofold purpose: to use building systems and design to counter climate change and to increase climate resiliency of the built environment as weather events become more severe or unpredictable. The IERC will build Fermilab’s momentum toward its green goals. “My job is to monitor and make sure that we’re tracking the metrics toward achieving these guiding principles,” said Federowicz. The federal government has developed a robust series of checklists for assessing compliance in new construction and existing buildings. This means getting involved with projects like the IERC early on in the design phase to help establish sustainable goals and help track progress toward those goals throughout construction and project completion.
Part of Federowicz’s role is to oversee the lab’s progress toward meeting federal sustainable requirements and goals for new construction. Federowicz, senior architect at Fermilab, contributes to the lab’s Sustainability Management Team as the sustainable buildings goal owner for the lab.įederowicz explained that the concept behind the IERC building was to relocate engineers and technicians from scattered facilities spread out across the site to a new, state-of-the-art facility located in the core campus with direct access to Wilson Hall and scientists. The IERC was conceived out of Fermilab’s campus master plan, which has a set of guiding principles: Sustainability and stewardship are two of them.
The architect’s design concept for the roof of IERC to mimic the shape of Wilson Hall (rotated 90 degrees) is evident in the pond’s reflection.
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