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Brian Murphy

Brian Murphy

Architect, co-founder, and Design Principal at Placework, a sustainable architecture and planning studio in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Sep 15, 2026

32:20
If you could describe for us your role with Strawberry Bank, what is the most recent project that you're working on with the team over there? If you could describe that project and what are your goals for it?
32:31
The current project is a stormwater management project, and it emerges from a particular experience that the museum is having.
32:39
They sit at perhaps the lowest point in Portsmouth, only about eight or ten feet above sea level.
32:46
At the lowest point, there are other points that are higher.
32:48
Because of the nature of that infill area where the inlet used to be at Puddle Dock, the water table really infiltrates that.
32:56
And as we know, when sea level rises, it puts pressure on groundwater in the coastal areas and that brings the water table up.
33:04
higher.
34:48
What are some of those tools that you're trying to implement at Strawberry Bank and what's shown the most promise? How do you go about coming up with a plan to get water to stop coming into these basements and this historic infrastructure there?

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