UNO Mammel Hall wins the 2011 Grand Engineering Excellence Award

Awarded to Farris Engineering, for the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Holland Basham Architects

With increasing enrollment and national recognition as a leading business program, the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha was outgrowing its existing facility. A donor stepped forward to help the college realize the vision of a brand-new building.

From the beginning, the goal was to design a state-of-the-art, high-profile facility to attract new students, faculty and community involvement.

The result is Mammel Hall, a 120,000-squarefoot facility that serves as a gateway to the campus at the south and provides state-of-theart instructional facilities.

The building provides an increased number of classrooms, a 200-seat auditorium, multiple collaboration areas and improved faculty offices for increased interaction with students. To reinforce the college’s commitment to the community and the environment, the facility was designed to achieve minimum LEED Silver certification — a first on the University of Nebraska at Omaha campus. The final building design has a 35 percent energy savings over the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers standard baseline.

The design of a high-tech, high-profile building includes complex systems and spaces not encountered on typical projects. Include the LEED certification process, and this project presented a substantial challenge and an opportunity for the design team to implement innovative design concepts and new technologies.

The design of Mammel Hall incorporates the concept of complete building-systems integration, creating “smart” buildings in which systems communicate with one another, automatically adapt to their environment, facilitate maintenance and save energy.