Boston architecture and design firm Payette will provide a programming and feasibility study for the schematic design phase of a new 16,000-square-foot, energy efficient greenhouse facility at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

In addition to the 11,000-square-foot greenhouse, the project, Bowditch Hall Research and Teaching Greenhouses, includes a head-house support building, which may include potting rooms, labs, computer room, offices, storage and utility rooms, the firm said. 

Project team members include greenhouse engineering, greenhouse consultant; R. G. Vanderweil Engineers, MEP/FP engineer; Lim Consultants, structural engineer; and Daedelus, cost estimator.

Additionally, Payette said it is working with HLW International to develop a teaching facility for the new Hofstra University School of Medicine in Hempstead, N.Y.