IMEG’s design of the new Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis has won a Grand Award in the 2024 ACEC Missouri Engineering Excellence Award competition and a first place St. Louis Chapter ASHRAE Technology Award for new commercial buildings. 

The new visitor center is a showcase of innovative technology and engineering design. IMEG provided sustainability, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and technology design, as well as energy modeling for the new facility. The new 91,700-sf visitor center includes an event center, gift shop, meeting spaces, restaurant, auditorium, and conservatory. The project also included the renovation of the 21,000-sf historic Linnean House, the oldest continuously operated public greenhouse west of the Mississippi. 

Read more about the project here.