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Exterior of Lehigh University’s Chandler Ullmann Hall renovation by MGA Partners, showing students walking, and a historic stone façade under spring trees.

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230,000 sf

Photograph of the courtyard with a large sculpture

To complete the interior revival, we created several new lounge spaces with glass walls to pull daylight deeper into the building and encourage interaction and collaboration among faculty.

Photograph of the lounge
Photograph of the lounge
Photograph of the machine shop

To complement the HVAC improvements, inefficient single-pane window units were replaced with a high-performance, thermally-broken window wall system, and closed cell foam insulation was installed to provide a tighter building envelope. 

Diagram showcasing the window improvements
Photograph of Jadwin Hall and the surrounding Princeton campus

In order to help reach the University’s goal to reduce campus emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, the renovation of Jadwin Hall includes a number of sustainable design strategies, which together are projected to achieve a 45% reduction in energy consumption.

Diagram of sustainability metrics
Architectural section of Jadwin Hall
Exterior photograph of Jadwin Hall

The linchpin of the renovation is the new 8,000 sf mechanical penthouse to serve the building’s laboratory wing. 

Photograph showing the mechanical penthouse
Exterior photograph of Jadwin Hall

Jadwin Hall
Princeton University

Princeton University is a national leader in its commitment to an aggressive and comprehensive sustainability plan, whose emissions reduction strategies include systematic retrofits of buildings across the campus. Jadwin Hall, a late 1960s building in the science precinct designed by Hugh Stubbins, is among the first and largest buildings to be revived under this plan. Jadwin's work environment was no longer sufficient for modern scientists and its mechanical systems were beginning to fail. The carefully planned and thoughtful integration of cutting-edge energy-efficient systems and envelope upgrades in a mid-20th century building serves as a model for successful revitalization of Modernist buildings for other institutions nationwide.

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Jadwin was home to the world-renowned Physics department for over 40 years.

 Jadwin was home to the world-renowned Physics department for over 40 years.

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