4-3-2025 | Events
Presented by: Carla Brown, Senior Project Manager, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo | Danielle Buttacavoli, Principal, The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP | Adriana Popescu, Dean of Library Services, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo | Tamara Strickland, Design-Builder, Hensel Phelps Construction Co.
Despite challenges, renovations of older campus buildings are necessary to create safer, healthier, more inclusive environments; they also present an opportunity to mitigate the embodied carbon of new construction. This panel will review a concrete brutalist library adaptation at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly). This transformation reduces energy on a limited budget while uplifting the student experience by providing equitable access to services, thermal comfort, and study space. We’ll offer candid and enduring strategies for transforming existing assets with a fixed budget, including methodologies for integrating student feedback, concise analyses for balancing competing interests, and supporting data-informed decisions.
To Danielle, doing good is the ultimate purpose, whether that’s connecting with someone in a positive way or designing a space that will impact a community for the better. Growing up within a multi-racial family and traveling to her mother’s home country of Bolivia, Danielle experienced the dichotomy between first-and third-world nations. Aspiring to understand this…
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