Education Projects
Phase One of the master plan for Fairhope Educational Enrichment Foundation’s NEST Campus, the award-winning Pavilion and Outdoor Classroom, is now complete. Get ready for Phase II!
The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is being developed on the grounds of Fairhope’s first high school in a historic building that has sat vacant for over 10 years.
The Gulf Coast Center for Ecotourism and Sustainability is a campus of resilient green buildings set in a restored coastal forest with both indoor and outdoor learning spaces.
Watershed is working with the Hope Community on the planning and design of a community center and museum, teaching kitchen, teaching farm, and park on a 12-acre site in Fairhope South.
This adaptive reuse of an existing home into a Nature Center to serve the city’s newest park, Flying Creek Nature Preserve, is underway and will open to the public in 2025.
In Progress:
Auburn University’s Advanced Structural Engineering Laboratory is a state-of-the-art facility built to withstand extreme structural testing loads previously only possible in the field.
Alabama’s first Living Building demonstrates not only resilience to the symptoms of climate change, but the possibility of a cure.
The Learning Campus is sited on 16 acres of upland forest at Gulf State Park, adjacent to park headquarters. The facilities include “bunk room” style lodging facilities, an auditorium, indoor and outdoor classrooms, and a restaurant.
A research facility and education center that’s a model of energy efficient design.
USA’s New Engineering and Computer Science Building is a natural fit for green building practices.
Smart building technology creates a healthy environment for study.
Sustenance and sustainability: The University of South Alabama’s new dining facility is the first of three LEED registered buildings on campus to achieve LEED Certification.
This highly secure specialized laboratory will provide superior indoor environmental quality for researchers while saving the university in operating costs and utility bills.
Upholding the principle of respect for the interdependent web of existence of which we are all a part.
Faulkner State Community College’s new Memorial Hall on their Bay Minette campus achieved LEED certification in the fall of 2013.