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After 10 years of planning the hockey players, coaches, parents and visitors in the Proctor area are now being treated to a new arena, having spent nearly 45 years in a facility that had outlived its usefulness. Gausman & Moore provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fi re protection design and construction phase services for the new St. Luke’s Sports & Event Center, which opened in 2018. The arena features a new NHL-size sheet of ice.

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As a new two-story, 90-bed behavioral health hospital was close to completion, the Destiny Springs healthcare facility required a final systems review to make sure the facility and all systems were operating at maximum efficiency.

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Corporate Headquarters Gets System Upgrade

When Land O’ Lakes opened a new 155,000 square-foot, four-story headquarters facility the company wanted to make sure the facility was operating at peak efficiency for staff. Gausman & Moore provided commissioning services to verify that the building’s systems were complete and functioning properly.

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Gausman & Moore has helped prepare aspiring architects for the Architect Registration Examination (ARE 5.0) for years. This year was no exception, as Dave Blume (Partner, Electrical Engineering – Roseville office) and Jim Manning (Partner, Mechanical Engineering – Roseville office) led a training session for more than a dozen candidates on Oct. 4.

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Gausman & Moore has partnered with CMA Architects on projects throughout the country for several years. This year G&M helped contribute to CMA’s project to raise public awareness and thousands of pounds of food for Second Harvest Heartland.

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When First Lutheran Church in Bemidji, MN underwent a remodeling and addition project they encountered a problem. One of the beautiful stained glass windows in the church was no longer receiving natural daylight because it was facing the new addition. With other stained glass windows still exposed to daylight, this was a noticeable issue.

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New Clinic Celebrates Grand Opening

Gausman & Moore has a long and successful history with St. Luke’s Hospital and DSGW Architects. A good example of this collaboration was demonstrated on April 25 at the grand opening for the new

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Gausman and Moore routinely retro-commissions existing buildings to improve the performance of their systems.

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Current statistics say that buildings (both residential and commercial) account for roughly 40 percent of worldwide energy usage, which is much higher than the energy use from transportation. In fact, the majority of the energy used by building structures comes from electricity usage, which greatly increases the facility’s carbon footprint. So what steps can be taken to combat this issue?

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Dave Blume (Partner, Roseville Office) was recently appointed to a state board by Gov. Mark Dayton. Blume, an electrical engineer, was appointed to the Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience, and Interior Design. Dave will serve a four-year term.

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A design conference scheduled in the middle of winter in Duluth, MN might seem unusual, but for 29 years 100-plus architects have attended the Lake Superior Design Retreat. On the shores of Lake Superior, the conference always attracts fascinating and fun presenters. This keeps the architects coming back annually, braving the typically very cold and very snowy climate. Gausman & Moore has proudly sponsored and attended the conference for most of its 29 years.

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High-performance buildings are optimized to function at the most efficient level possible. Additionally, high-performance buildings are often the outcome of an integrated design process, as we have previously discussed in this blog series. The main essence of designing in such a way comes down to thinking of a building as an ecosystem. It is a unit made up of many functioning parts, and when they all work efficiently and work together, there is harmony, so to speak. Subsequently, when changes are made to one part without considering the ramifications of that change, it could have a large impact on the rest of the building.

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