Three members of the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge design team accept awards from the Energy Department on Oct. 22 in Washington, D.C. (From left, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy John F. Mizroch, Doug Brewer, Donna Stanek, Andrew McDermott and Federal Energy Management Program Manager Richard G. Kidd IV.)
The Energy Department recognized the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service’s Ottawa National Refuge Design Team with its 2008 Federal Energy and
Water Management Award. The team received the award in the category of Small
Group Sustainable Design/High Performance Buildings. Ottawa
refuge manager Doug Brewer, landscape architect Andrew McDermott, and Visitor
Services chief Donna Stanek accepted the award at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.,
on Oct. 22. The other winners of the award, past Ottawa refuge manager Dan Frisk and
engineering chief Rick Frietsche, were unable to attend the ceremony.
The Energy Department awarded the team for its efforts in
building the new OttawaNWRVisitorCenter in Ohio. The center replaced
the old headquarters building, which the Fish and Wildlife Service constructed
in the 1940s. The team designed the new high-performance building to be equivalent
to a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design "Silver" rating. A pond-loop geothermal heat pump system, with
geothermal, radiant-floor heating on the main level, heats and cools the
building's 12,684 square feet. The building also incorporates the following:
high-efficiency
lighting, which motion and daylight sensors control;
point-of-use
hot-water heaters;
high-efficiency,
low-E,
tinted windows;
super
insulation;
a
reflective metal roof consisting of 32 percent recycled steel;
natural
linoleum flooring;
carpet
with a high recycled content;
low
light pollution;
rainwater
gardens and holding ponds; and
restoration
of wetland; and native planting.
The sustainable design reduced the building's energy
intensity by 51 percent in 2007 from 2003 levels.