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Architecture Week: TOUR - Apex Plaza (1 HSW LU)

Apex Plaza (image William McDunough)

Join William McDonough + Partners, Hourigan Construction, and Apex Clean Energy for a tour of Charlottesville's first mass-timber office building. At 187,000 SF, this multi-tenant office building is the tallest mass-timber building on the east coast. Learn how the team designed, coordinated, and built this net-energy-positive office building, while balancing Cradle to Cradle Certified material choices, occupant health, and rooftop solar and stormwater systems. RSVP here.


> EARN 1 HSW LU
> RECEPTION to follow tour

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

  • Understand how mass-timber provides natural beauty to occupants while allowing for transparent material sourcing, material health, material reutilization, and carbon management.

  • Identify strategies for selecting healthy materials that sequester carbon, improve indoor air quality, and occupant wellbeing.

  • Understand how mass-timber provides natural beauty to occupants while allowing for transparent material sourcing, material health, material reutilization, and carbon management.

  • Explore ways the building balances the rooftop terrace, net-energy-positive PV production, and outdoor landscape and green roof to manage stormwater.