Athol Public Library

The project addressed accessibility, upgraded technology, and developed new spaces, including a children’s room and teenagers’ area, a larger and more modern community meeting room, quiet study areas, and conference rooms.SGH helped manage a quality assurance-oriented process for achieving, verifying, and documenting that the building enclosure performance meets the defined criteria.  Highlights of our work include the following:

• Developed a building enclosure commissioning (BECx) plan and testing specifications for building enclosure systems, including below-grade waterproofing, exterior wall components and fenestration, roofing, and transition details between systems
• Conducted peer reviews of the building enclosure design and provided recommendations to help the project team achieve the specified performance requirements
• Made periodic site visits to compare the design intent with construction of an on-site mockup and building walls, windows, and roofs

As the BECx agent, SGH utilized our historic preservation and building enclosure engineering capabilities to assist the project team with the following:

• Achieving high performance from restored, replacement, and new windows
• Evaluating the effects of insulating the existing mass masonry walls
• Designing reliable waterproofing transitions between the new wing and the existing building