Grange Insurance Audubon Center: Part 2

Opened in August 2009, the Grange Insurance Audubon Center exhibits several innovative systems and unique design approaches. DesignGroup architects introduced untreated cedar siding, storefront glazing with a custom frit pattern to prevent bird strikes, exterior shading to achievepassive solar design, flexible classroom spaces,weathering steelsignage, andgeothermal wells with an integrated heat pump system. Following brownfield remediation, several stormwater management applications were constructed, including a vegetated roof with rainwater channeled into rain gardens and bioswales, along with apervious pavementparking lot.[Watch Part 1]