Lambertville, New Jersey-based Hone + Associates Architects recently saw its LEED Gold-hopeful Oldwick Animal Hospital open in Tewksbury Township, New Jersey. Hone is no stranger to green design; it designed the Willow School in Gladstone, which was the first LEED-certified private school in the country and only the second LEED building in the state of New Jersey. The 4200-square-foot, 2-story Oldwick Animal Hospital would be the first small veterinary hospital in the country to earn LEED certification from USGBC. Veterinarians Janisse Cailles and her husband, Glenn Likus, will be resident at the hospital and retained a veterinarian architect to create the building’s floor plan, before turning to Hone specifically for its green design expertise. After considering a solar system which Ms. Cailles says the township "wasn’t wild about," the couple installed a closed loop geothermal heating and cooling system, "even though it cost more to install." Other green features include LEED-standard low-VOC paints and sealants, FSC-certified wood products, a graywater system, and locally sourced materials. Hone also specified recycled-content insulation and oriented the building to maximize passive solar shading in pursuit of higher levels of energy efficiency. Tewksbury Township is located in central New Jersey’s Hunterdon County, just north of Interstate 78. Ms. Cailles plans an official grand opening for the hospital later on this spring.
- Oldwick Veterinary Hospital (Hone + Associates)
- Willow School (gbNYC)
- Green Animal Hospital Opens in Tewksbury (Hunterdon Review)
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