HARVARD RICHARD SMITH

Location:
Cambridge, MA
System:
LITEFLAM
Sector:
Commercial
DESIGN GROUP:
BURNER / COTT
owner:
Harvard University
Contractor:
Year:
2018
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Walkable fire-rated skylight/floor by Greenlite Glass at HARVARD RICHARD SMITH, Cambridge, MA.

About

HARVARD RICHARD SMITH

The Smith Campus Center is a dynamic center of University life, enabling the greater Harvard community to come together in new and exciting ways.

It’s part of a multi-year effort to create and improve common spaces across Harvard to help ensure its physical spaces foster the intellectual, cultural, and social experience.

The building’s renovated façade is the backdrop for newly designed outdoor spaces. Light-filled interior spaces include glass bridges, food venues, unique indoor landscape elements. The suspended glass walkways and platforms are a key feature in the main hall allowing natural light to flow from the upper walkways and platforms to the floor below.

The project has been very well received by both Harvard University (the president, faculty, staff and students) and the public as a whole. “The glass walkways run adjacent to multiple giant green walls which makes the walkways even more stunning.”

PROJECT CHALLENGES

Engineering and Compliance Challenges for Suspended Fire-Rated Glass Walkways at Harvard

  • Coordinated engineering with structural consultants;
  • Fire-rated glass walkways and platforms are suspended structures;
  • Maintain workflow and schedule;
  • Demonstrate compliance with life safety requirements for egress.
Project SOLUTION

Collaborative Engineering of LITEFLAM XT60 for Suspended Glass Walkways

  • Greenlite Glass Systems worked closely with, Burner Cott Architects and the structural consultants, in a design-assist
    capacity to engineer LITEFLAM XT 60 for the suspended glass walkways and platforms.
  • LITEFLAM XT60
PROJECT ACHIEVEMENTS

LEED Gold Certification and Building Code Compliance with Sophisticated Glass Walkway Design

  • Sophisticated suspended glass walkway and platform design;
  • Meeting building code and life safety requirements;
  • Contributed to LEED Gold Certification;
  • Coordinated engineering and design.
STAKEHOLDERS

partners that made the project possible

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testimonial

what people said about the project

“The project has been very well received by both Harvard University (the president, faculty, staff and students) and the public as a whole. The glass walkways run adjacent to multiple giant green walls which makes the walkways even more stunning.”

Lena Kozlovski | AIA LEED AP, Architect | Burner Cott

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