Bosarge Family Education Center, Educational facility in Boothbay, Maine

The Bosarge Family Education Center is an 8,200-square-foot building at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine. Designed by Scott Simons Architects of Portland, Maine, and Mclay Architects of Waitsfield, Vermont, it opened in 2011 and is named for benefactors Marie and Ed Bosarge.

The Bosarge Family Education Center was built in 2011 at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine, and is named after benefactors Marie and Ed Bosarge. It was designed by Scott Simons Architects of Portland, Maine, with Mclay Architects of Waitsfield, Vermont. In 2013 it received the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association's Net Zero Energy Building Award, along with an AIA Maine Institutional/Commercial Citation Award; in 2012 it won an AIA Vermont Award for Design Excellence.

The center is named for benefactors Marie and Ed Bosarge, whose gift supported its construction at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. Its public display of real-time energy data lets visitors see how a net-zero building performs day to day, and the 2013 NESEA Net Zero Energy Building Award recognized that performance.

The center stands within the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, so reaching it means entering the gardens first. Its energy use is tracked publicly online, letting anyone check the building's performance remotely rather than only on site.

The building's energy use can be tracked publicly online, and its 45 kW photovoltaic array supplies 100% of the power needed to run it. That performance earned the 2013 Net Zero Energy Building Award from the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association.