The design and construction team on this $32-million, certified LEED Gold project faced a complex challenge of constructing a modern, state-of-the-art educational building that is also architecturally compatible with historic campus structures.
For the seven-story pavilion at the Scripps Memorial Hospital campus in La Jolla, designers met with physicians, nurses and clinical staff to understand their operational needs, incorporating the findings with the owner’s project guidelines.
On a campus that has been in continuous operation since 1872, the project team delivered a 284-bed, nine-story general acute care hospital that features full diagnostic and treatment departments.
In renovating the Los Angeles Police Dept.’s Metropolitan Division Facility—built in 1966 like a bunker and associated with past department scandals—the builders say they aimed to transform the structure from its dark past into a beacon of neighborhood safety.
The 216,000-sq-ft health and social services facility in the San Fernando Valley consolidates seven Los Angeles County departments serving 1,000 vulnerable and disadvantaged local residents daily, many of whom now schedule multiple appointments in the one location.
The three-story Sen. Daniel K. Inouye Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Center for Excellence (DPAA) at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Oahu, Hawaii, consolidates three island operations for identifying missing personnel and providing accurate information to their families.
The dust mitigation project aims to rectify issues created by the draining of Owens Lake in the early 20th century, which created the world’s second-largest source of dust pollution—second only to the Sahara Desert.
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