The fast-tracked design-build project became the first social infrastructure project in the U.S. procured under the principles of performance-based infrastructure (PBI) contracting, which uses a public-private partnership not only to fund design and construction but also to provide long-term operations and maintenance.
As a leader in genomic research and the study of climate change, the institute set out to build the most ambitious sustainably designed biological research laboratory in the world.
The meeting and learning center is the first large-scale commercial building retrofit to meet the U.S. Dept. of Energy's definition of an annual net-zero energy use building.
A partnering, design-assist approach and building information modeling helped the team contend with a dense urban site at the largest freestanding hospital in the Western U.S.
The team delivered the medical center—which includes a six-story, 435,900-sq-ft hospital; four-story, 277,000-sq-ft hospital support building; and central utility plant with cogeneration, water storage and high-efficiency thermal fluid boilers—seven months ahead of schedule.
Representing a model for future military hospital development, the Clark/McCarthy-led design-build team planned, procured and installed all of the facility's medical equipment and furniture, in addition to training hospital staff on how to use the medical devices.
Two World War II-era hangars on Pearl Harbor's National Historic Landmark Ford Island were adapted into the headquarters for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Region in a way that complements the original scale and material.