Historic meeting house deep green and net-zero energy restoration + addition
The Historic Meeting House serves as the spiritual and social heart of Camden’s Quaker community. Through the project, the c.1805 Meeting House was restored and new social hall was built to house indoor and outdoor events, catering, archival display, and community education. During the Master Planning phase, the building committee worked with Re:Vision to ensure the new building reflected their core values of simplicity and environmental stewardship. Through careful design and detailing, the LEED-Platinum building starts with a low energy load and supplements energy needs through a closed-loop ground source heat pump and photovoltaic array. After the first year of operations, the new and old buildings worked together to create a net-zero energy campus.
Closed-loop geothermal system
12kW photovoltaic array makes more than 150% of the campus annual energy use
2,000 gallon cistern collects rainwater for flushing toiets and watering gardens
100% of excess stormwater is filtrated on-site through planting
97.5% of demolition from previous addition was recycled or reused
NESEA $10,000 award for Net-Zero Energy design and performance
LEED NC Platinum Certified
– Michael Richards, Camden Friends Meeting