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.
Access constraints at the $90-million retrofit of one of the world's most iconic bridges made work treacherous, as did the more than 100,000 vehicles and thousands of pedestrians and bicyclists passing "through" the jobsite every day.
The $49.6-million project replaces a 50-year-old truck-scale facility located in the middle of the confluence of three freeways: Interstate 80, I-680 and State Route 12.
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