Friday, 3 May 2013
The Brody Learning Commons at Johns Hopkins University, which has been packed since its doors opened last August, has something big to celebrate this week: LEED Gold certification from the US Green Building Council. It’s the first new construction on the school’s Homewood campus to earn this distinction.
The Learning Commons’ sustainable strategies include:
Managing solar gain: Heat gain and loss from the glass curtain wall system was combated by high-performance glass, automated interior shades, and perimeter (hydronic) heating and cooling.
Energy efficiency: While the under-floor air distribution system ...[more]
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Tags: brody learning commons, daylighting, energy efficiency, green, high performance buildings, joe rondinelli, johns hopkins, learning, leed, leed gold, matt gifford, recycled, solar gain, steve erwin, usgbc
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
The robotics lab at Johns Hopkins’ School of Computer Science and Engineering gets a shout-out in the January 17 issue of Time magazine. The article, “Where the jobs are,” discusses the sectors for job growth in the current economy. Johns Hopkins has established training programs to better match the skills of Baltimore residents with the requirement of the sophisticated bioengineering jobs now being created.
The photo in the article shows Professor Russ Taylor’s robotics lab at Hackermann Hall on Johns Hopkins Homewood campus. The building, with its open bays ...[more]
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Tags: computational science, hackerman hall, joe rondinelli, johns hopkins, matt gifford, research facility, steve erwin, time magazine, tony morra, whiting school of engineering
15 March 2010
SCUP Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, Baltimore, MD
Thomas Kearns, AIA, Principal, Shepley Bulfinch
William Conley, Dean of Enrollment and Academic Services, Johns Hopkins University
Travers Nelson, Program Manager, Johns Hopkins University
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Tags: decker quad, johns hopkins, mason hall, scup
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
BALTIMORE, MD – The green roof of the Decker Quadrangle at Johns Hopkins University will be on show April 29 on a walking tour offered as part of the sixth annual Greening Rooftops for Sustainable Communities conference in Baltimore. The tour, “Midtown Baltimore by Foot”, will take conference participants on a two-mile walk through Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus and the adjoining Remington neighborhood.
One of the largest green roofs in the state of Maryland, the 75,000 sf grassy quadrangle is a defining element of Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus while screening a 604-space parking garage beneath. The Quadrangle and adjacent Computational Science Building and Mason Hall were completed last fall and ...[more]
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Tags: decker quad, green, green roof, johns hopkins, sustainable communities
Saturday, 27 October 2007
Baltimore, MD – Amid fireworks and gala celebration, The Johns Hopkins University dedicated the Decker Quadrangle on the school’s Homewood campus today.
The $77 million project, under construction since 2005, includes Mason Hall, with a visitors’ center and admissions office, the 75,000 s.f. interdisciplinary Computational Science and Engineering Building and the 604-space South Garage, an underground structure covered by the grassy lawn of the Quad. The design of the complex reestablishes Homewood’s distinctive architectural style.
The Decker Quadrangle honors the late Alonzo Decker Jr., longtime chairman and CEO of Black & Decker Corp. and former Hopkins trustee, and his wife Virginia. Mason Hall is named in honor of Raymond A. “Chip” ...[more]
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Tags: decker quad, higher education, johns hopkins, mason hall, steve erwin
22 March 2013
Harvard GSE Program in Professional Education, Cambridge, MA
Janette Blackburn, AIA, Principal, Shepley Bulfinch
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Tags: academic library, brody learning commons, collaborative learning, collaborative study, duke link, duke university, janette blackburn, johns hopkins
Thursday, 19 May 2011

Johns Hopkins marked a milestone in the completion of the Brody Learning Commons with a May 9 topping-off ceremony. The symbolic last steel beam, bearing hundreds of signatures of members of the Hopkins community, was hoisted into place at the end of the event.
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Tags: academic library, collaborative study, higher education, johns hopkins, learning commons
Monday, 8 November 2010
Think you know what goes on here? Look again. Step inside Hackerman Hall, home to Johns Hopkins’ Computational Sciences program and a remarkable intellectual crossroads.
Posted in: blog | science & research
Tags: collaborative learning, computational science, hackerman hall, joe rondinelli, johns hopkins, matt gifford, research facility, steve erwin, tom kearns, tony morra, video, whiting school of engineering