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Spring 2011 Update - SPHHS Square 39
Highlights
- The new building for the School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) will be a hub of discovery, learning and health policy analysis promoting GW’s reputation as home to the only school of public health in the nation’s capital.
- The facility will consolidate SPHHS’s seven academic departments and programs into one location for the first time in the School’s 15-year history.
- The building will include state-of-the-art learning and teaching space for faculty and students to work collaboratively with local, regional and national governments and non-governmental organizations.
- The building will help to attract high-caliber faculty and students, as well as increased research funding.
Features & Amenities
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- The 90-foot building fronts Washington Circle and New Hampshire Avenue.
- The building’s approximate 115,000 square feet of gross floor area will contain academic, administrative, and meeting uses as well as spaces for student meetings, study, and collaboration in seven above-grade and two below-grade stories.
- Located at the intersection of 24th Street, New Hampshire Avenue, and K Street near Washington Circle, the new building will be the first image of GW visible to people who approach campus from the northwest – via Washington Circle and Pennsylvania Avenue.
- The building will be conveniently situated across the street from The George Washington University Hospital, only one block from the medical school and the Himmelfarb Library, and near the new mixed-use office, residential, and retail development at The Avenue (location of the old GW hospital site).
- The main pedestrian entrance to the building will be located along its southeast front, oriented toward the University’s Medical Center, the Foggy Bottom Campus, and the Foggy Bottom-GWU Metrorail station.
- The ground floor contains a lobby, atrium and auditorium space, all intended to serve the SPHHS’s leadership and academic mission of sharing knowledge and convening dialogue around key issues in public health.
- The upper floors feature offices on the west side of the building and classroom and student spaces on the east side of the building.
- The building includes facilities for the Department of Exercise Science, including specialty monitoring labs specific to the teaching and research activities of the department on its lower level.
- The building will include activity and breakout areas designed to accommodate both undergraduate and graduate students.
- The proposed exterior design utilizes a varied palette of materials to respond to the distinct scale and character of the urban environments surrounding the site, and by design will be pedestrian friendly.”
- The university is targeting a minimum of silver rating under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System of the US Green Building Council (USGBC) for the building. Sustainable features planned for the building include rain-water collection, terracotta panels, an HVAC system with chilled beam and mass air displacement technologies, enhanced storm water management system to reduce storm water runoff by more than 25%, a green floor, low-flow plumbing fixtures, energy-saving lighting controls, and numerous local, rapidly renewable, and recycled content materials.
- As a part of the project design, the University will also expand an existing public park at the intersection of 24th Street and New Hampshire Avenue.
Estimated Timeline and Funding
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- This project will be constructed on one of the 16 development sites approved in the University’s 2007 Foggy Bottom Campus Plan. The university filed an application with the DC Zoning Commission for further processing and second-stage PUD approval in December 2010 and is scheduled for a public hearing on June 16th, 2011.
- The University has assembled a world-class project team for this project, including Payette Architects, with associate architect, Ayers Saint Gross Architects.
- Construction is planned to begin in early 2012, continuing through 2013, with occupancy anticipated in advance of the spring 2014 semester.
- The estimated cost of the facility is $75 million, which will be financed by a combination of fundraising, debt (funded by SPHHS operations) and medical center reserves.
- The 90-foot building fronts Washington Circle and New Hampshire Avenue.
- The building’s approximate 115,000 square feet of gross floor area will contain academic, administrative, and meeting uses as well as spaces for student meetings, study, and collaboration in seven above-grade and two below-grade stories.
- Located at the intersection of 24th Street, New Hampshire Avenue, and K Street near Washington Circle, the new building will be the first image of GW visible to people who approach campus from the northwest – via Washington Circle and Pennsylvania Avenue.
- The building will be conveniently situated across the street from The George Washington University Hospital, only one block from the medical school and the Himmelfarb Library, and near the new mixed-use office, residential, and retail development at The Avenue (location of the old GW hospital site).
- The main pedestrian entrance to the building will be located along its southeast front, oriented toward the University’s Medical Center, the Foggy Bottom Campus, and the Foggy Bottom-GWU Metrorail station.
- The ground floor contains a lobby, atrium and auditorium space, all intended to serve the SPHHS’s leadership and academic mission of sharing knowledge and convening dialogue around key issues in public health.
- The upper floors feature offices on the west side of the building and classroom and student spaces on the east side of the building.
- The building includes facilities for the Department of Exercise Science, including specialty monitoring labs specific to the teaching and research activities of the department on its lower level.
- The building will include activity and breakout areas designed to accommodate both undergraduate and graduate students.
- The proposed exterior design utilizes a varied palette of materials to respond to the distinct scale and character of the urban environments surrounding the site, and by design will be pedestrian friendly.”
- The university is targeting a minimum of silver rating under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System of the US Green Building Council (USGBC) for the building. Sustainable features planned for the building include rain-water collection, terracotta panels, an HVAC system with chilled beam and mass air displacement technologies, enhanced storm water management system to reduce storm water runoff by more than 25%, a green floor, low-flow plumbing fixtures, energy-saving lighting controls, and numerous local, rapidly renewable, and recycled content materials.
- As a part of the project design, the University will also expand an existing public park at the intersection of 24th Street and New Hampshire Avenue.
- This project will be constructed on one of the 16 development sites approved in the University’s 2007 Foggy Bottom Campus Plan. The university filed an application with the DC Zoning Commission for further processing and second-stage PUD approval in December 2010 and is scheduled for a public hearing on June 16th, 2011.
- The University has assembled a world-class project team for this project, including Payette Architects, with associate architect, Ayers Saint Gross Architects.
- Construction is planned to begin in early 2012, continuing through 2013, with occupancy anticipated in advance of the spring 2014 semester.
- The estimated cost of the facility is $75 million, which will be financed by a combination of fundraising, debt (funded by SPHHS operations) and medical center reserves.
Related Links
Perspective of Washington Circle Sidewalk
Washington Circle Sidewalk Looking West
Southern View
View Looking South from 24th & K Streets