SWBR was honored at the 2014 NAIOP Upstate New York Chapter Awards of Excellence ceremony for its work on RIT’s Golisano Institute of Sustainability in the Institutional category. The NAIOP awards celebrate the high-quality and innovative achievements of regional commercial real estate projects from the Upstate New York area, covering the Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse regions. There are several award categories, and each winner represents a challenge that was overcome and realized results that were economically, environmentally, and/or aesthetically achieved.
The nearly $36 million RIT Golisano Institute of Sustainability (GIS) project consisted of a unique 84,000-square-foot, four-story building at the university. It houses sustainability research, technology transfer, education and outreach, and is a state-of-the-art showcase for green construction and design, as well as GIS master’s and Ph.D. programs in sustainability and architecture. The project was completed in March 2013. It houses one of the world’s first Ph.D. programs in sustainability. SWBR served as executive architect and architect of record on the project, with LeChase Construction as design-build team leader and FXFOWLE as design architect.