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 Exterior of Talbot Hall, a new 60,000 sq. ft. building dedicated to Biological Sciences. Denison University in Granville, Ohio is ranked in the top tier of “America’s
Best Colleges” (U.S. News & World Report,), and has one
of the oldest college alumni organizations in the country (established
in 1846). The university has holdings of approximately 1,200 acres,
including a 250 acre main campus, extensive recreational and athletic
fields, and a 500 acre Biological Reserve. Dedicated to remaining
one of the nation’s top colleges of liberal arts and sciences,
Denison University has recently completed a three-year $60,000,000
expansion and construction program. This expansion includes Talbot
Hall, a new 60,000 sq. ft. building dedicated to Biological Sciences,
which frames the west side of the new Campus Commons project and provides
facilities that reflect advances in molecular biology and biochemistry.
Syska Hennessy Group engineers provided all mechanical, electrical,
plumbing and fire protection services for the project as well as
a campus-wide central utility master plan and associated design.
The innovation and high-visibility of the architectural design,
as well as the complexity of the program, required intense integration
and coordination of the mechanical and electrical systems.
Design engineers also worked in conjunction with laboratory designers
and building occupants to provide designs for the teaching and research
labs to best suit the needs of faculty and students. MEP systems
were designed to meet the requirements of the state-of-the-art laboratory
spaces with flexibility and reserve capacity to meet future needs.
Most of the teaching laboratories are designed with flexible bench
layouts and overhead services.
Since laboratories are prodigious consumers of natural resources,
the design options must reduce the consumption of natural resources
and at the same time maintain high contemporary standards of comfort,
health and safety, Syska Hennessy Group engineers have incorporated
the following green building type design features:
- Variable Air Volume (VAV) air distribution system with
100%
outside air.
- Variable hood exhaust with heat recovery system.
- Indirect occupancy-dependent lighting system.
- Local, natural gas-fired steam boiler plant for summer service.
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