ABS Information Commons, MA Maritime Academy
Main Reading Room. Photo by William Vogt.- American Bureau of Shipping
Information Commons
Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay, MA - The ABS Information Commons is a 43,000 GSF library and academic resource center located on the campus of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. The program includes study spaces, maritime artifact displays, open and compact shelving, 50-seat lecture hall, offices, seminar rooms, and a ship bridge simulator.
LEED Certification: Platinum pending
Architect of Record: Perry Dean Rogers | Partners Architects
Principal-in-Charge: Ned A. Collier, AIA, LEED AP (now Higher Education Principal, ICON architecture, inc.)
Landscape Architect: CRJA
Construction Manager: WT Rich
Owner: Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management
Photography Credits: noted with images 
Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay at the Cape Cod Canal. Photo courtesy of MMA.
View from Training Ship. Photo by William Vogt.
View from ABS Information Commons plaza to residence halls.
Library from Stack Mezzanine- 50-seat lecture tiered lecture hall. Photo by Rick Mandelkorn.
- Luminous Map Wall at Main Stair
- Luminous Map from Exterior
- Ship Bridge Simulator, photo courtesy of Massachusetts Maritime Academy
- Ship Bridge Simulator seen from outside of bridge, photo courtesy of MMA
- First Floor Plan (First Deck) - Library and Lecture Hall
- Mezzanine Plan - Book Shelves, Meeting Rooms, and Reading Mezzanine
- Second Floor Plan (Second Deck) - Academic Resource Center and Ship Bridge Simulator
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