Bosarge Family Education Center

Bosarge Family Education Center
General information
Location	Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, Maine
Coordinates	43°52′26″N 69°39′41″W
Technical details
Size	8,200 sq ft

The Bosarge Family Education Center in Boothbay, Maine, United States is an 8,200-square-foot facility at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens built in 2011. It has attained LEED Platinum certification, the highest level that USGBC offers, and has become known as Maine's "greenest building."[1][2] A 45 kW photovoltaic panel array provides 100% of the energy required to run the building.[3][4] The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association's (NESEA) awarded it the 2013 Net Zero Energy Building Award.[5] The building was designed by Scott Simons Architects of Portland, Maine and Mclay Architects of Waitsfield, Vermont.[6]

The center is named after benefactors Marie and Ed Bosarge.[1]

Energy usage can be tracked publicly online.[7]

Awards

• 2013 AIA Maine Institutional/Commercial Citation Award[8]
• 2013 NESEA Zero Net Energy Award[5]
• 2012 AIA Vermont Award for Design Excellence[9]

References

1. Turkel, Tux (14 July 2011). "Portland Press Herald". Maine’s ‘greenest building’ is designed to educate. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
2. Cullina, William; Freeman, Ph.D., Dorothy E.; Freeman, Barbara Hill (2012). Coastal Maine Botanical Garden. Down East. pp. 181–185. ISBN 978-0-89272-941-8.
3. "Fact Sheet The Bosarge Family Education Center at Coastal Mine Botanical Gardens" (PDF). Retrieved 17 July 2024.
4. "Bosarge Family Education Center – Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens". www.allied-eng.com. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
5. "2013 Winner: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Bosarge Family Education Center". www.nesea.org. Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. 2013. Archived from the original on 8 February 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
6. "HP Cummings". www.hpcummings.com. Archived from the original on 2016-06-10. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
7. "The Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens". www.buildingdashboard.com. Lucid. 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
8. "Institutional/Educational – Citation – (third) Bosarge Family Education Center at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens". aiamaine.org. American Institute of Architects Maine. May 2013. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
9. "2012 AIAVT Excellence in Architecture Design Awards". AIA Vermont. American Institute of Architects, Vermont. 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2014.

External links

• Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens