Submitted by Fisher Development The $1.05-million Crissy Field Center, an award-winning environmental education center located in San Francisco’s Presidio National Park, which serves nearly 20,000 youth annually, needed to relocate due to one of the city’s largest public works projects: the rebuilding of the Golden Gate Bridge approach (Doyle Drive). The Crissy Field Center staff had to work quickly to find a new location for its classrooms, labs, cafe and visitor amenities within six months. Their solution turned out to be a golden “green” opportunity. One of the nation’s greenest park-based buildings promises to be an outstanding model of sustainability.
Submitted by DPR Construction Transforming a typical 24,000-sq-ft, suburban multi-tenant office building into a Net Zero facility is a real possibility, as proven by the team on DPR Construction’s new San Diego office project. With 11 conference rooms, including a large training area, a 16-person video conference room and a space dedicated to building information modeling technology, the $6.25-million building is targeting LEED-NC platinum certification by incorporating natural ventilation, daylighting, efficient HVAC and lighting systems and renewable energy. During the initial programming stages, the design team and DPR hosted several strategic planning sessions to generate the project criteria and create
Submitted by O.C. Jones & Sons This project involved reconfiguring the existing California State University, East Bay’s football stadium field in Hayward into an NCAA-level soccer field. The facility is also the new home field of the local Women’s Professional Soccer Team, the FC Gold Pride. In addition to reconfiguration of the athletic field, the running track was reconstructed, new drainage systems installed and access improvements made. The project was turn-key and handed over in time and under budget for opening day ceremonies for the FC Gold Pride. The project schedule required demolition and excavation of the existing stadium field
Submitted by AECOM The Eastside Extension is a 6-mi-long addition to the Los Angeles-to-Pasadena Metro Gold Line. The light rail line runs from downtown’s Union Station to East Los Angeles. The project features eight new stations (two underground) and twin 1.8-mi-long tunnels under Boyle Heights, a heavily populated section of Los Angeles. In addition to bringing new transit options to a traditionally under-served community, the project meticulously integrated community-inspired art into the station designs. Although this was LACMTA’s first design-build project, it was hugely successful, opening on schedule, on budget, and with no lost time injuries suffered after more than
Submitted by W.L. Butler Construction The project involved the demolition of the existing spray booths at the AC Transit Authority Central Maintenance Facility in Oakland and the construction of a new paint booth with an underground exhaust structure. The new spray booth was designed for re-painting of articulated buses for the Transit District. The spray booth was designed with down-draft air flow and heated air replacement system. The booth will be used with EPA and local air pollution control authority water borne paints, making it environmentally state-of-the-art. Construction highlights included an exhaust pit in the floor, directly fume laden air
Submitted by Roebbelen Contracting The new 54,000-sq-ft, two-story Fairmont Elementary School is the first LEED facility for Vacaville Unified School District. An interactive touch-screen display, located in the main foyer, tracks energy consumption as well as energy produced by the wind, turbine and solar panels. The display has brought a whole new hands-on education opportunity for students to learn about sustainability. Not only are they hearing about it, seeing the features at the school they attend each day, but they can make a difference by being accountable for their own energy usage and savings. The building includes 27 classrooms, office,
Submitted by Gonsalves & Stronck This Woodside-based project consisted of a historical rehabilitation and restoration of a 1905 horse stable designed by Arthur Brown Jr. (who also designed San Francisco City Hall, War Memorial Opera House and Coit Tower) for the coffee magnate, James A. Folger II. The timber building underwent complete repair and seismic retrofit. A major part of the restoration was structural. Heavy timber trusses supporting the roof and second story hay loft had sagged and crushed existing support columns; support deflections were upwards of 10 in. caused by termite damage, water infiltration, neglect, and old age. Major
Submitted by McCarthy Building Cos. The new, 279,000-sq-ft, $178.9-million Acute Care Pavilion is the state’s first acute care facility to meet rigorous standards for quality and safety mandated by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, while also achieving the level of occupant health and environmental sustainability required to earn LEED certified status. The four-story pavilion houses a much-needed surgical center, 84 medical/surgical beds, a neo-natal intensive care center, and a cancer center. It also provides 16 operating rooms with associated support departments, a 28-bed hematology and oncology unit, a 10-bed bone marrow transplant intensive care unit, a 32-bed
Submitted by Swinerton Builders This $19.4-million project involved the construction of a new four-story building combining UCSD’s self-supporting catering program and the Housing & Dining Services administration offices into one new facility. The steel and concrete slab-on-grade structure contains an approximate 8,000-sq-ft catering kitchen, lobby and break room on the first level. Office space for the Housing & Dining administrative support is located on the remaining floors, as well as an event space and terrace located on the fourth floor. LEED features include community connectivity, water efficient landscaping, optimizing energy performance including enhanced commissioning of mechanical and electrical systems, low-emitting
Submitted by Moon Mayoras Architects The $214-million, four-story new general acute care inpatient care facility, the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Pavilion at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, offered many challenges for the entire project team. Most of the significant challenges were the result of the initial stated objective to respect and preserve the original 1970 Eisenhower hospital building (“Ike Wing”), designed by the renowned mid-century Modernist architect Edward Durell Stone. The Annenberg Pavilion was designed to relocate and augment the existing inpatient beds from the existing Ike Wing into a new state-of-the-art facility, while providing opportunities for adaptive reuse