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Middlebury Community Celebrates the Opening of the New Recreation Center

Middlebury, Vermont —A Ribbon Cutting Ceremony was held on March 2nd to celebrate opening of the new Middlebury Recreation Center located at 151 Creek Road. Bread Loaf Corporation provided Integrated Project Management services for the design and construction of the building.

The 13,880 SF Town of Middlebury Recreation Center is organized around a large, flexible main lobby with a regulation sized multi-sport gymnasium flanking one side and the support spaces - offices, multi-purpose room, and quiet studio on the other side. There are also four team rooms to serve the play fields as well as sports using the gymnasium. The building will provide much needed restroom amenities for the adjoining Recreation Park as well as shelter from storms.

Members of the Middlebury Selectboard, Parks & Recreation Committee, Town Offices & Recreation Facilities Building Committee and residents celebrate the grand opening of Middlebury’s new Recreation Center with an official ribbon cutting. Kathleen Ramsay, Middlebury Town Manager (L) and David Donahue, Special Assistant to the President of Middlebury College (R) hold ribbon cut by Nick Artim of the Middlebury Selectboard (L) and Chris Huston, Architect from Bread Loaf Corporation (R).

Interior and exterior colors are purposefully playful, bright and energetic. Interior finishes feature a maple wood gym floor, a polished concrete lobby floor and linoleum sports flooring in the multipurpose rooms. Durable, painted concrete block walls are appropriately designed to ensure the long term durability of this multi-purpose sports facility.

The building features a robust, energy efficient and air tight exterior building envelope. The load-bearing, cavity wall construction includes six (6) inches of spray-foam insulation to reduce building energy loads. LED lighting, daylighting and low-flow plumbing fixtures all contribute to energy and water conservation. The roof structure was planned for the Town to add photovoltaic panels at a later date. The building contains a balance of large windows with solar shading devises on the southerly facing office and multipurpose spaces, while the gymnasium features high windows on the northeast and northwest corners to minimize potential glare in the gymnasium during sporting events. This also helps with the overall building energy profile through a naturally passive solar design.

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