H elen hadley hall Graduate stu dent housi ng At home at school CLIENT Yale University Yale’s Helen Hadley Hall opened just before the start of the 2013 school year; ahead of schedule and type Comprehensive Renovations and high-maintenance components and transformed it into a modern, desirable residential size 64,332 sq ft date August, 2013 under budget. For this project, CWA took a mid-century facility that was wrought with outdated environment. In addition to collaborating with H2Z Design on interior design for the lobby and lounge refurbishment, CWA’s primary concern was the quality of residential life for the students as well as Yale’s maintenance and operating costs. This project included new finishes and furnishings for the lobby, lounge and corridors; replacement of 200 exterior windows with new operable casement windows; fabric window treatments; full electrical upgrades; shower and restroom renovations; kitchen and dining area renovations to each floor; as well as other extensive upgrades. Throughout the course of the project we brought innovation into each and every aspect of our work to the fullest extent possible. For example, we developed and constructed full scale window mock-ups; we listened to students who complained that shower water was being “shared” between stalls and countered this with the design of slip resistant tile stalls with individual drains. We also specified our unique signature floating bathroom vanity that has proven to be so successful that we install it on virtually all of our campus-wide bathroom projects. This is the type of thoughtful understanding, exhaustive preparation and masterful execution we can bring to all future undergraduate and graduate level residential projects at Yale University. Team: H2Z Design (Interiors), AKF Engineering (M/E/P), Morrisey Engineering (Structural), Paul Butkus (Landscape Consultant), Babbidge Facilities Construction (Construction Manager), Alice Raucher (University Planner), JP Fernandes (Associate Director of Project Managerment), Carobe Hart / Brian Eaton (University Project Managers) cwa’s Top 20 IMPROVEMENTS Operable casement windows with magnetic closing insect screens Robustly constructed room darkening, washable window treatments Breezy and en-lightening ceiling fans in each dorm room Privacy respecting separate shower compartments Easy-maintenance shower drain traps Student safety arc fault protected electrical outlets within each dorm room Maintenance friendly isolated electrical panels on each floor Protective smoke alarms in each room with alternate power Modern stainless steel student kitchens Odor removing kitchen exhaust hoods Trash reducing automatic garbage disposals Freezers with automatic filtered-water ice makers Convenient hot and cold filtered water Air conditioning in each common room / kitchen 85 Willow Street, Building 54, New Haven, CT 06511 203 776 0184 cwarchitectsllc.com 1/2 H elen hadley hall Graduate stu dent housi ng At home at school cwa’s Top 20 IMPROVEMENTS Out of sight / out of smell trash rooms on each floor Inviting glass doors between kitchens and public corridors Student helpful information walls at each elevator lobby No touch hygenic toilet automatic flush valves CWA’s easy-to-clean signature floating bathroom vanity Discrete, brightly illuminated student mail room 85 Willow Street, Building 54, New Haven, CT 06511 203 776 0184 cwarchitectsllc.com 2/2