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The Sketch Vol.05 | 12.2015

The Sketch View this newsletter online at gpintranet

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new website! www.grimmandparker.com

Profiling our people.

Sharing our knowledge.

Representing our culture.

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Introducing 2 new office locations!

Nov. 21 — Urban Connectivity and Pride

of Place for G+P Charlottesville. The new 6,400 sf office for the Charlottesville studio offers a refreshing collaborative experience and will improve team communication and efficiency for clients. The open floor plan promotes studio-wide learning and team-work. Multiple conference rooms and col-laborative spaces provide opportunities for small-group breakouts, focused projects, and privacy for client meetings. Studio win-dows overlook the bustling downtown mall. The vibrant new location reinforces the firm’s commitment to urban connectivity and pride of place.

Firm Announcements

The Sketch

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G+P’s Charlottesville Office: 123 East Main Street, 2nd Floor, Charlottesville, VA 22902

Congratulations!

Newly Registered

Justin Cullen, RA — West VirginiaKiley Wilfong Cullen, RA — West VirginiaPatty Chen, RA — MarylandSteele Bergman, AIA — MarylandWill Morrison, RA — MarylandCarmine Cafiero, AIA — Virginia

New PVAIA President for 2016

Congrats to Janice Szymanski — AIA 2015 President-Elect, Potomac Valley Chapter

Births

Ogechi Wallace welcomed a daughter, Chelsea on October 16th. Greg Overkamp welcomed a daughter, Loralei on November 25th.

Coming Soon — G+P’s Tysons Office.

In February 2016, our McLean office will be moving to a newly renovated office space in Tysons, VA. Just moments away from the Silver Line’s Spring Hill Metro station, the new site is in the heart of a growing urban community filled with the region’s major shopping and dining destinations. G+P col-laborated closely with Steelcase and their local representative — Arbee Associates — to develop a smartly-configured floor plan de-signed to promote worker productivity in a collaborative environment in 9,000 sf. The relocation is part of our latest means to bet-ter serve our clients and employees as the firm continues to grow.

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This year’s Canstruction theme is transportation. G+P’s Can-estoga wagon design is based on the Conestoga wagon from the colonial era, 1750-1850. Conestoga wagons were used to transport food and other products from rural communities to cities throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. Eventually the Conestoga wagon made its way across the Appalachians to the Ohio River Valley, but soon became obsolete as more railways came into service. During its time, it was an essential tool for the settlement of the American colonies.

Save the Date

Jan. 12 — K-12 Forum

An ongoing series of shared lessons and thought leader-ship launching in 2016! See page 7 for more info.

Jan. 25 — Lessons Learned

Join us from 12-12:30 in the charette space. Hope to see you there!

G+P Events

Nov. 22 — Canstruction Competition

2015. Build-out for this year’s Canstruction Competition took place at the National Build-ing Museum. G+P won Juror’s Favorite

for 2015, and will go on to compete at the National Canstruction event through submis-sion of photographs to a national panel of ju-rors. A huge thanks to all participants and a special thanks to Lam Vuong for leading and coordinating this exciting endeavor. Our involvement with Canstruction is primarily building and donating the can goods to the Capital Area Food Bank.

For more info about Canstruction, visit www.canstruction.org. For more info on the com-petition, please visit www.canstruction.org/competitions.

Dec. 17 — All Staff Meeting / Holiday Gath-

ering. Please plan on attending our next All Staff Meeting on Thursday, 12/17 from 3-5 pm with a festive G+P Holiday Gathering im-mediately following the meeting.

Industry Events

Nov. 18 thru 20 — Greenbuild Internation-

al Conference and Expo 2015, Washing-

ton, DC. The biggest event in sustainable building kicked off on November 18th at the Washington Convention Center. This year’s Monumental Green event included three days of uplifting speakers, unmatched networking opportunities, showcases, LEED workshops and green building tours — including G+P’s Brookland Middle School, and the Francis L. Cardozo Education Campus (led by Paul Bradshaw and Amy Upton). Next year’s Icon-ic Green conference is on October 5-7 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Oct. 26 — Residential Development 101:

Creating Value After the Buy. The ULI RE 101 Team hosted a panel at Studio Theater on DC’s Design and Development. Martin Ditto — Ditto Residential’s President and CEO — opened with a speech on the interconnect-edness of design and development. The dis-cussion focused on “how the right team and designs can solve on-the-ground problems and allow savvy developers to build high-end products and address field questions on boutique development.” See page 7 for more info.

Canstruction 2015 — Click to see the full video. Viewing in Print? Scan QR code below to watch the full video.

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Sept. 26 — Sprucing Up the Living Class-

room at the Washington Youth Garden. Eleven volunteers and their families came together at the US Arboretum’s Washing-ton Youth Garden for an Outdoor Classroom Work Day. They rebuilt nature worktables and a sandbox, spruced up the kids’ stage with stairs and curtains, and salvaged an un-used planter bed. A special thanks to Amy Upton, Kiley Wilfong Cullen, and Justin Cul-len for spearheading our volunteer effort this year. We had a great turnout of G+P staff (Mel Thompson, Blanca Flores, Will Morri-son, Carly Rickerson, Jen Fowler, Kat School-ey, Zak Schooley and their families). Thanks to all who joined!

The event was part of a larger global move-ment, the Green Apple Day of Service, an ini-tiative from the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council that brings together advocates from around the world and encourages them to take action in their communities through service projects.

Founded in 1971, the Washington Youth Garden provides a unique, year-round envi-ronmental science and food education pro-gram for DC youth and their families. Using the garden as a living classroom, they teach participants to explore relationships with food and the natural world. Check out their website for volunteer information at www.washingtonyouthgarden.org

Oct. 14 — Gardening for a Cause: Improv-

ing Biofilters at Monticello High School. Our goal for this Green Apple Day Event was to improve an existing biofilter at Monticel-lo High School. Grimm + Parker volunteers planted a variety of groundcover plants in the biofilter to increase the effectiveness of the filtration process. For maximum envi-ronmental friendliness, we only used native plants that survive with very little care to keep the biofilter attracting pollinators and decreasing pollution for many years to come!

Thanks to William Abrahamson for spear-heading the event in Charlottesville! He, Pa-tricia Jessee, Liz Chapman, Steve Hoffman, and Jonathan Moore took part.

US Arboretum’s Washington Youth Garden — AfterThe Day of Service provided an opportunity for healthy, safe, cost-efficient and productive learning places. This is G+P’s 7th Green Apple Day of Service project and we are already looking forward to next year’s event!

US Arboretum’s Washington Youth Garden — Before

Sprucing Up the Living Classroom at the Washington Youth Garden — Click here to see our volunteer work in action. Viewing in Print? Scan QR code below to watch the full video.

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Project Announcements

Groundbreaking | Opening

Oct. 27 — CSM breaks ground on Center

for Trades and Energy Training. Construc-tion has started at the College of Southern Maryland’s CTET building located at the school’s Hughesville campus. The new fa-cility will provide 30,000 sf of lab space, classrooms and offices designed for citizens throughout Southern Maryland to train in fields where future workers will be needed. The building is tracking LEED® Silver.

Southern Maryland leaders have longed for economic development, and with the establishment of Cen-ter for Trades and Energy Training, hope to create the work force to fuel that dream. — Joseph Norris, thebaynet.com

For more information, visit www.thebaynet.com/articles/1015/csmbreaksgroundon-centerfortradesandenergytraining.html.

Oct. 14 — Highland Park Senior Apart-

ments breaks ground in Richmond, VA. William Abrahamson joined CPDC and Rich-mond Redevelopment and Housing Author-ity for the groundbreaking of Highland Park Senior Apartments (formerly Brookland Park Plaza). Located in the Six Points neighbor-hood, Highland Park will offer 77 apartment homes for area and RRHA seniors. The groundbreaking also kicked off a larger, col-laborative community development effort in Six Points designed to attract investors and reinvigorate the commercial corridor.

Aug. 24 — Frederick Community College

Building B Academic Hall is now open!

G+P’s Building B renovation provides new, modern, general-use classrooms sized and proportioned to allow for collaborative learn-ing spaces. FCC students and staff enjoy new computer labs, a dedicated CAD lab, faculty offices, and faculty work rooms. A math teaching suite houses student study spaces, along with math learning and test-ing centers. The building is currently pursu-ing LEED® Silver.

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LARGEST DC METRO ARCHITECTURE FIRM IN WBJ

9#City Councilwoman Ellen Robertson speaks at the Highland Park Ground Breaking. Photos © Katie Demeria.

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New Projects + Recent Commissions

K-12

• William Schmidt Educational Center Master Plan + Feasibility Study, Brandywine, MD • Holabird Elementary / Middle, Baltimore, MD • Graceland Elementary / Middle, Baltimore, MD • Lansdowne Elementary School, Baltimore, MD • Jessup Elementary School, Jessup, MD • Hollywood Elementary School Open Space Pod Conversion, College Park, MD • Indian Queen Elementary School Pod Conversion, Fort Washington, MD • Frederick Elementary School, Frederick, VA • Benjamin Stoddert Middle Feasibility, Waldorf, MD • Charles County Elementary School, Waldorf, MD • Largo High School Open Space Pod Conversion, Largo, MD • Howard County Public Schools New CTE High School Feasibility Study + ED Spec, Columbia, MD • Old Mill High Feasibility Study, Millersville, MD • Paint Branch High School Pod Conversion, Prince George’s County, MD

Higher Education

• Goucher College Athletic Masterplan, Towson, MD • International Learning Hub, Lanham, MD • BSU Part 1 Programming • Renovation of the Thurgood Marshall Library, Bowie, MD • New Facilities and Maintenance Building, Bowie, MD • McKeldin (Gymnasium) Complex Renovation, Bowie, MD • Goodloe Apartments Renovation, Bowie, MD

Residential

• Forest Hill Heights - Rock Spring Village Assisted Living, Rockville, MD • 3400 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC • 901 Monroe Street, Washington, DC • New Brentwood Village Seniors, Washington, DC • 1164 Bladensburg Rd NE, Washington, DC • Walter Reed Army Medical Center Building 14, Washington, DC • Culpepper Garden I Renovation, Arlington, VA • Fellowship Square, Fairfax County, VA • Jackson Place, Richmond, VA

Library + Cultural

• Leonardtown Library + Garvey Senior Center, Leonardtown, MD

Civic + Public Safety

• PG Police 2nd & 5th Floor Renovations, Clinton, MD • Shenandoah County’s Sheriff’s Office, Woodstock, VA

Aug. 24 — Lothian Elementary School

dedicates their brand new building! Lo-thian’s new design addresses key issues identified during an initial feasibility study — also completed by G+P. We worked closely with Anne Arundel Public Schools to place the administration office at the building’s main entrance for maximum supervision, and locate the early childhood classrooms to the front of the building closest to the main entrance and administration office. The de-sign provides programmatic spaces that sup-port maximum flexibility and multi-use. The building is tracking LEED® Silver.

Sustainability and LEED®

North Frederick Elementary School is

now LEED® Silver! The newly LEED-certi-fied facility demonstrates FCPS’s commit-ment to public education as an investment in our future. North Frederick is one of three FCPS Elementary Magnet sites serving aca-demically gifted students in grades 1-5. Con-gratulations to the North Frederick ES team!

Awards

The annual Metropolitan Washington Ex-cellence in Construction Awards program honors the outstanding quality construction produced by members of Associated Build-ers and Contractors’ (ABC’s) Metropolitan Washington and Virginia Chapters.

Bel Pre Elementary School in Silver Spring, MD was honored with a 2015 Excellence in Construction Award. Congratulations to the Bel Pre Team!

Located in St. Michael’s, MD, the River-

woods at St. Michaels has also been se-lected as a winner. The awards banquet took place on Thursday, September 24th at the Westin Annapolis Hotel. Way to go RUD team!

Bel Pre Elementary School, Silver Spring, MD — 2015 Excellence in Construction, Associated Builders and Contrac-tors (ABC)

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BD+C Special Report — What it Takes to Build 21st-Century Schools

Explore how the latest design, construction, and teaching concepts are being implemented in the next generation of America’s schools including Willow Elementary, Falcon Virtual Academy, and Princeton Middle / High School. Visit www.bdcnetwork.com/bdc-special-report-what-it-takes-build-21st-century-schools for more info.

K-12 Forum — An ongoing series of shared lessons and thought leadership launching in 2016!

Jan. 12 — The first bi-monthly Happy Hour gathering led by our K-12 staff. The goal is to learn from one another, and operate as “One G+P” in bringing excellence to our clients. All are welcome, regardless of whether or not you are currently working on K-12 projects.

Agenda

4:00 Thought Leadership — Up or Out? Multi-Story vs. One Story Schools / John Hill

5:00 Inspiration — Greenville County Schools, Fisher Middle School – Winner of the MacConnell Award 2015 / Ricardo Seijo

5:15 Open Forum — Bring your project stories, best practices and questions.

Oct. 26 — Residential Development 101: Creating Value After the Buy.

A “cheat sheet” that was provided to highlight some commonly discussed Real Estate terms is available at M:\Best Practices and Resources\Market Intelligence\Residential. See page 3 for more info.

News + Resources

Willow Elementary School, Los Angeles, CA. Designed by HMC Architects. The 650-student school was designed to connect the interior of the 26-classroom K-5 school to the outdoors. One of the project’s key objectives was to maximize playground areas on the 3.9-acre urban site in South Gate, Calif. A single point of access provides street identity and increased security for the campus. Photo: ©Lawrence Anderson.

Click to see the full video on the Green Bronx Machine on PBS American Graduate Day. Viewing in Print? Scan QR code below to watch the full video.

Growing Healthy Students and Engaging them in the Classrooms

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Holiday Gathering

Dec. 17 — All Staff Meeting / Holiday Gath-

ering. Please plan on attending our next All Staff Meeting on Thursday, 12/17 from 3-5 pm with a festive G+P Holiday Gathering im-mediately following the meeting.

Holiday Decorating Contest

The second annual holiday office decorat-

ing contest is on! The contest will include all studios and — as evidenced by last year’s decorations — themes can be anything! Win-ners will be awarded for most creative, best overall, best theme, and partners choice. Decorative spaces range from small individ-ual areas adorned with rich detailing, and festive lighting, to larger configurations that feature classic holiday themes capturing the magic of the season.

The final deadline for all contest decorations was Wednesday December 16th. Judging takes place on Thursday December 17th,

after the All Staff Meeting. McLean, Char-lottesville and Baltimore studios should sub-mit photos or videos for review. Clean-up of decorations should be completed by COB January 4th.

Happy Happenings!

2014 Holiday Decorating Contest Winner, Best Theme Cosmic Christmas — Bethesda Studio

2014 Decorating Contest Winner, Best OverallExaltation Explosion — Kari, Janice, Billy and Mike B.

2014 Decorating Contest Winner, Most CreativeGrimm+ Parkerville — Marketing

Questions about unused paid time off in 2015?

Here’s a friendly reminder about our va-

cation policy: You’re permitted to carry over into 2016 the equivalent of what you earn in vacation leave in one year.

Should you have questions regarding your leave balances, please contact Peggy Cam-pion by phone at 240.965.0720 or via email at pcampion@gparch.com.

Please note that our offices will be closed on December 25th, and January 1st. Happy holidays to all!

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New website

View our new website at www.grimmandparker.com.

Brochures*

Brookland Middle School Brochure. An updated brochure can be found in the following server location: M:\Projects\1_K-12 Education\21254 - Brookland Middle School\6_Collateral\Brochure\Final\Digital.

Francis L Cardozo Education Campus Brochure. An updated brochure can be found in the following server location: M:\Projects\1_K-12 Education\21075 - Cardozo High School\6_Collateral\Brochures\Final\Digital.

*Please contact marketing personnel for help printing.

2016 calendars are slated to arrive on January 7, 2016

Photography

New photography for the following projects can be accessed in Open Asset. See the following pages to preview a selection of images.

Prospect Hall, Frederick, MD Upper Rock, Rockville, MD Renaissance Gardens, Baltimore, MD Waverly PreK - 8, Baltimore, MD Brookland Middle School, Washington, DC Carver Center, Towson, MD Arts and Science Building,, Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge, VA Workforce Development Center, Northern Virginia Community College Woodbridge, VA

New Collateral + Photography

G+P’s new website launched on December 16, 2015

Louisa County High School Mineral, VA

Click to see the full video. Viewing in Print? Scan QR code below to watch the full video.

Renaissance Gardens, Baltimore, MD

Prospect Hall, Frederick, MD

Upper Rock, Rockville, MD

Waverly PreK - 8, Baltimore, MD

Carver Center, Towson, MD

Brookland Middle School, Washington, DC

Workforce Development Center, Northern Virginia Community College Woodbridge, VA

Workforce Development Center, Northern Virginia Community College Woodbridge, VA

Arts and Science Building, Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge, VA