Building tours at the Woods Hole Research Center

The last tour of our high-performance building for 2004 was offered on Saturday, October 2nd as part of the Green Building Open House. This annual event is sponsored by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association and is held in conjunction with the American Solar Energy Society's National Solar Tour. These two overlapping events include private homes and a wide range of commercial and institutional buildings that use a variety of forms of renewable energy and green building technologies and materials.

The next regular tours will be scheduled in the Spring of 2005. Special group tours may be arranged by calling Allison White at (508) 540-9900.

More on the building

In 1999, with a pressing need for expanded facilities to house a growing staff, the Center employed the firm of William McDonough + Partners to design a 19,300 s.f. building that would be a model for 21st century construction in its use of energy, water, and environmentally-friendly building materials. Completed in February of 2003, the Gilman Ordway Campus was designed to provide comfort and pleasure to building inhabitants without causing harm to the immediate environment and the larger world. It is in fact, a true "building for the future."

Because we designed this building as a replicable model for sustainable design, the building itself functions as one of our primary tools for demonstrating some of the possibilities for the successful implementation of "green architecture." Group tours can be scheduled by prior arrangement.

Central Stair	South Commons
North Commons	Kitchen Counter

©Woods Hole Research Center, 2008