Morrison Hershfield as the building envelope consultant to the design consortium for this project.  Our role was key in defining environmental requirements and building envelope performance criteria.  This included resolving the issues of indoor environment control capabilities, requirements in relation to the library’s archival function, and performance capabilities.

Morrison Hershfield undertook an environmental monitoring program to establish indoor environmental conditions currently being maintained and to determine seasonal indoor environment conditions the existing building envelope could handle, assessed the construction and performance capabilities of building assemblies, participated in the design resolution discussions and provided recommendations for intervention.