BOOTH & DIMOCK MEMORIAL LIBRARYBUILDING EXPANSION PROPOSAL TO PROVIDE BUILDING DESIGN AND BUDGET ESTIMATING SERVICES TOWN OF COVENTRY COVENTRY, CONNECTICUT MARCH 3, 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover Letter 1. Firm Brochure 2. Experience 3. GSA 330 4. Resumes 5. Consultant Team 6. References 7. Price Proposal March 3, 2015 Town of Coventry 1712 Main Street Coventry, CT 06238 Attention: Mr. John Elsesser, Town Manager Re: Library Expansion HERBERT S. NEWMAN FAIA Dear Mr. Elsesser: JOSEPH C. SCHIFFER AIA MAVIS B. TERRY Newman Architects appreciates this opportunity to present its proposal to provide architectural, RICHARD G. MUNDAY AIA engineering, and estimating services for a preliminary design and budget estimate for the building PETER J. NEWMAN expansion of the Booth and Dimock Memorial Library. As the architect for many libraries, including the JOSE A. HERNANDEZ AIA recently completed historic restoration and addition at the Ridgefield Library in Ridgefield, Connecticut, we have been participating for many years in the transformation of the American public library, one of our HOWARD C. HEBEL AIA most important civic institutions, in response to the information revolution. It is an exciting and creative JOSEPH C. HUETHER time for everyone involved, and we consider ourselves privileged to be part of what is unfolding. JAMES L. ELMASRY AIA LEED AP MICHAEL C. SCOTT AIA We recognize also that Coventry is a town in transition. As one of the consultants that participated in the STEVEN J. ORLANSKY AIA LEED AP University of Connecticut’s new master plan, with particular focus on potential impacts on the campus MARC C. HOUSTON AIA historic fabric, we are aware of how the growth of the university has and will continue to affect small MICHELLE ARIOLA NEWMAN IIDA towns such as Coventry. We see your library expansion in that context. Newman Architects has also KAREN SCOTT worked in towns and cities throughout the region, including many that are of the size of Coventry, so we PAUL Q. SANTOS understand how each is unique, with different qualities and challenges. We work hard to assimilate an PETER HORTON AIA appreciation of those factors into our design approach. JEROMY H. POWERS VIRGILIO J. GONZALES AIA In the attached qualifications document we describe the relevant experience of our team. It includes A. BROOKS FISCHER AIA information on our prior experience in all phases of the design and construction of libraries and of other buildings in the public realm, from initial community engagement, programming, conceptual design, and referendum services. We also describe our experience in high performance design, and building to budget. Having visited the library, which has great character, we can see how intensely the existing building is used by the community. We can also see both the importance of keeping the library in that location and the challenges that such an aspiration involve due to its site. We know how important this project is to Coventry. We believe in a design approach that is inclusive and thoughtful, bringing together ideas and constituencies to create a built outcome that reflects a spirit of community at its best. Libraries make the world a better place. Through our work as architects, we want to make the world a better place. If selected as your architect, working with the Town and the Building Committee, we will commit ourselves to that goal for your library in Coventry. Sincerely, Newman Architects, PC 300 York Street Richard Munday, AIA New Haven, CT 06511 Principal TEL 203.772.1990 FAX 203.772.1997 1054 31st Street NW Suite 135 Washington, DC 20007 TEL 202.525.2726 FAX 203.772.1997 newmanarchitects.com 1 FIRM BROCHURE 1 FIRM BROCHURE 1 FIRM BROCHURE Fairfield Library Firm Profile Fairfield, Connecticut Founded in 1964, Newman Architects is a collaborative partnership offering comprehensive architectural and interior design services, from master planning to construction administration, through to project completion. Our firm has completed a wide variety of public and private projects throughout the United States, and has established a national reputation for the design of new buildings and renovation and restoration of existing buildings. Newman has received over 125 awards for design excellence, and our work appears regularly in architectural journals in the United States and internationally. Our Experience Newman Architects has significant experience in the planning and design of libraries – for cities and towns, schools, universities – and we are recognized for the creativity and appropriateness of our solutions. Having provided architectural services to numerous community libraries that have faced similar needs to those of the Booth and Dimock Memorial Library, we know how to work in town environments with multiple constituencies. We also have a deep commitment to public architecture – to the buildings and places Ferguson Library that provide a setting and a source of sustenance for community. Your library is such a Stamford, Connecticut place, and set generously in its own space looking over the road, flanked by other similarly scaled but imposing wood buildings, creates a sense of place that reflects many of our core interests as an architectural practice. The American Library Association and the American Institute of Architects awarded Newman Architects Honor Awards for Design Excellence for the Dana Addition to Case Library at Colgate University and for the Yale University Law School Library Renovation. Newman Architects has completed twenty library projects for public and private clients. Library Projects - Newman Architects Completed: • Slover Library, Norfolk, VA • Ridgefield Library, Renovation and Addition, Ridgefield, CT • Ferguson Library, Renovation and Addition, Stamford, CT • North Branford Intermediate School Library, North Branford, CT • East Rock School Library, New Haven, CT • Fairfield Public Library, Fairfield, CT • Eugene M. and Christine E. Lynn Library, Lynn University, Boca Raton, FL • Westport Public Library, Renovation and Addition, Westport, CT • New Jersey State Library Renovation, Trenton, NJ • Sterling Law School Library Renovation, Yale University, New Haven, CT • Cross Campus Library (with Edward Larrabee Barnes Associates), Yale University, New Haven, CT • Five Residential College Library Renovations, Yale University, New Haven, CT • Law School Library, Northeastern University, Boston, MA • Dana Addition, Case Library, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY • Jewish Religious Center and Library, Williams College, Williamstown, MA Ridgefield Public Library Ridgefield CT • Middlesex Community College Library, Middletown, CT A Workshop Approach • Bear Path School Library, Hamden, CT To meet your schedule and to begin the process of building • Darien High School Library, Darien, CT confidence in the process, we recommend a well-planned but • Augusta Troup Magnet Academy of Sciences Library, New decisive start that shows progress immediately. Our approach Haven, CT combines fieldwork, information-gathering, analysis, planning and • Harry A. Conte West Hills School Library, New Haven, CT design, documentation and presentation, review and decision- making in a continuous feedback loop. In Construction: • John Jermain Memorial Library, Sag Harbor, NY We can utilize a workshop approach, as inclusive as the Town determines is appropriate, to create a design foundation that will In Design: enable us to establish the momentum necessary to carry out the • Yale University Beinecke Library Comprehensive Renovation, work within the time frames you establish. We will confirm the New Haven, CT schedule for the pre-referendum work. This schedule will reference • Clinton Morgan School Library, Clinton, CT the meetings, the meeting types, the meeting attendees, and the agendas for meetings, that will be required to build consensus in Library Competition Entries: advance of the referendum. • New Library of Jalisco State, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico • Guangzhou Library, Guangzhou, China Roundtable Format Not a ‘tree’ of relationships, we can envisage a roundtable format, with a leadership that manages the agenda and the flow, but Our Project Team provides opportunity for all to hear and to offer information. We see this as providing a caring and dynamic environment for efficiently The design team we have assembled is highly experienced in library generating decisions, encouraging innovation, responsiveness, and other public institutional projects. In addition to being dedicated responsibility, and accountability for the Library project. architects, we are skilled communicators and managers, with a commitment to achieving energy efficiency and environmental sustainability, and specialized expertise in library programming, We will schedule this continuum of activities with benchmark planning and interior design. We believe that our base of experience events, both open stakeholder charrettes to enable organized and special affinity to the library as a building type will enable us to participation in the issues and formal presentations to obtain direction. contribute particularly well to the success of your project. Our Approach Town of Coventry Library As important as it is to embed large aspirations in every step of a Board of library project, it is equally important to be responsible stewards of Trustees Building Newman the public purse and be attentive to the public will. Our approach to Committee y Architects the project will be based on achieving three foundational objectives it un m - community support, fiscal