Murphy & Dittenhafer Conducting Feasibility Study for Shippensburg University's Stewart Hall

Murphy & Dittenhafer Architects has been commissioned to design renovations and additions to adaptively reuse Stewart Hall, the original 1894 gymnasium structure on the campus of Shippensburg University.

The existing Stewart Hall historic gymnasium space with suspended “banked” running track will be converted to an event space and possibly the new home of the Department of Alumni Affairs.

The project budget is $3.9 million and the finished building will be 15,146 total square feet (original footage of 13,284, plus a proposed three-story addition of 1,862 square feet). Murphy & Dittenhafer is currently completing a preliminary concept design/feasibility study, and will begin to move forward with developing construction documents sometime in 2015.

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Murphy & Dittenhafer Architects is an award-winning architectural firm that focuses on planning, interior, and architectural design projects involving new construction, renovation, restoration, and adaptive reuse for historic properties, churches, urban housing, nonprofit organizations, higher education, and libraries. The firm’s offices are located in York, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland. Visit their website at murphdittarch.com.

Murphy & Dittenhafer Leading Bloomsburg University Steam Plant Green Energy Conversion

Murphy & Dittenhafer is the architect for the $11 million project to convert Bloomsburg University’s coal-burning steamplant to a wood chip-burning biofuel plant.

Murphy & Dittenhafer is working with RMF Engineering (York, PA) on this specialized, “green” sustainable project, providing architectural services for the building renovations and expansion required for the new systems and equipment. The new University bio-fuel plant will be designed to allow visitors to tour and learn about this new technology.

Murphy & Dittenhafer is currently developing the building architectural design concept for this project , with construction slated to begin in late 2015.

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Murphy & Dittenhafer Architects is an award-winning architectural firm that focuses on planning, interior, and architectural design projects involving new construction, renovation, restoration, and adaptive reuse for historic properties, churches, urban housing, nonprofit organizations, higher education, and libraries. The firm’s offices are located in York, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland. Visit their website at murphdittarch.com.

Murphy & Dittenhafer Providing Design Services for Stehli Silk Mill Restoration & Rehabilitation

MURPHY & DITTENHAFER PROVIDING DESIGN SERVICES FOR STEHLI SILK MILL RESTORATION AND REHABILITATION

(photo credit: Little Miss Lovely)

July 27, 2014--Murphy & Dittenhafer Architects have been commissioned for design services for the rehabilitation and restoration of the 227,400 square foot Stehli Silk Mill complex in Lancaster, PA.

The firm’s design work on the large, turn-of-the-century silk mill buildings will initially include new roof systems, replacement in-kind of historic wood roof beams, historic masonry repair, and historic window replacement.

All work will be carried out in conformance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Historic Preservation, in order for the project to qualify for historic tax credits. The earliest record of the start of construction on the first mill in the complex is 1897. More mills were built throughout the years, culminating with construction of the boiler house and remaining buildings between 1914 and 1925.

Murphy & Dittenhafer expects to complete construction documents for the historic window replacement project this summer, with bidding and construction to follow. The initial historic envelope rehabilitation construction phases are anticipated to be complete in early 2015.

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Murphy & Dittenhafer Architects is an award-winning architectural firm that focuses on planning, interior, and architectural design projects involving new construction, renovation, restoration, and adaptive reuse for historic properties, churches, urban housing, nonprofit organizations, higher education, and libraries. The firm’s offices are located in York, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland. Visit their website at murphdittarch.com.