July 31, 2009
(From Island Press publishers)
When the Woods Hole Research Center needed a new administration
building, its scientists and staff decided that the building should
utilize “state-of-the-shelf” green building techniques and materials.
However, the new office had to conform with the laws and building codes
of the time, and with materials that were then available—no matter how
frustrating these requirements were to the resident scientists and
contractors.
George M. Woodwell, founder of the Woods Hole Research Center, was
intimately involved in the design and construction of the Gilman Ordway
Campus, which was completed in 2003 in collaboration with McDonough +
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