LADWP Hoover Yard
2020 Sustainable Innovation Awards
Resilience
The LADWP commits to meet the ambitious goals set forth in LA’s Green New Deal. The 93,500sf building on an EPA clean-up/brownfield site replaces a dilapidated street lighting facility with an optimized yard including a mixed-use building housing
Management & Crew Workplace, Community/Training Room, Break Room, Lockers & Gym, Warehouse, Fleet Maintenance andParking at the scale necessary to relieve the overcrowding at downtown yards and improve service.The Hoover Yard is an essential services facility designed to survive the “Big One” and get to work restoring power for the City ofLos Angeles. Resilience is key. After a disaster, the Yard will become a 24/7 Emergency Response Center with capacity to operate for 3 days without outside resources – including the conversion of rooms to dormitories to support 24/7 shifts. Key strategies include planning to submit for the new Resiliency Certification that addresses seismic design in a manner similar to LEED certification and the use of innovative Dura fuse bolted moment frames that concentrate future damage in replaceable plates with continuous occupancy of the building.The design will achieve NZEnergy for an all-electric, industrial facility with high plug loads. Combining passive and active strategies(thermal mass, daylighting, hybrid natural and displacement air systems) significantly reduces the EUI. Given the tight urban site, the project was only able to achieve 105% of the modeled building EUI by using high performance panels and extending them over the roof top mechanical equipment.Conserving potable water is also key to the Green New Deal. Grey Water treatment and other water conservation strategies reduce potable water use by over 50% and provides for 100% of the landscape water use. The off-site pollution from a long demolished dry cleaner contaminating the ground water will also be remediated.The vitality of the community and the staff are key to the design. Community benefits include a shared Training/Meeting Room with an outdoor patio, generous additions of street trees above code mandate and massing to protect the nearby residential neighbors from the yard noise and fleet traffic. The staff experience is uplifted with views and access to a landscaped roof deck, high quality daylighting, attractive stairs and a gym, healthy material specifications and configuration of the yard to optimize safety.
Department of General Services, California Air Resources Board, Southern California Consolidation Project
2020 Sustainable Innovation Awards
Energy/Operational Carbon
Designed by the design-build team comprised of the general contractor, architect, and MEP engineer, the new 403,306 SF Southern California Consolidation Project (SCCP) for the CaliforniaDepartment of General Services, California Air Resources Board (CARB) will be one of the largest and most advanced vehicle emissions testing and research facilities in the world.
The headquarters project will centralize the organization’s five existing locations, currently spread throughout the Los Angeles area, into a single 19-acre site in Riverside, housing more than 450 employees.
Designed with the certification goals of LEED Platinum®, CalGreen Tier 2, and the International Living Future Institute, Net Zero certification, the unique three-story, pinwheel-shaped building strives to create a beautiful destination, be a good neighbor within the city and provide a compelling environment that will bring people together and foster a strong sense of pride and place for CARB and its employees.
Contributing to occupant comfort as well as building performance, the architectural form lends its elf to easy circulation, views, daylighting, and self-shading, and features abundant open and greens paces, as well as a nature walk around the perimeter of the property. The massing of the office building is consolidated into three stories that extend in three directions parallel to light duty testing, chemistry, and toward the conference buildings. This creates a smaller building footprint on the site and shortens horizontal circulation networks, while using vertical connectivity to increase proximity between offices, testing areas, support spaces, and laboratories, resulting in increased flexibility, optimized adjacencies, and greater opportunities for interaction.
The office becomes a nexus of the overall building, a “Central Command Control,” and a crucial link between all the key components of the CARB mission—testing, chemistry analysis, compliance, education, and outreach.
A variety of types and scales of meeting spaces, as well as coffee bars and cafés promote interaction and collaboration, especially for staff who circulate between the various departments throughout the day. Overall, the planning creates an efficiency of motion, which will increase productivity and connectivity between teams.
The layout of the office building establishes two principal outdoor spaces—the main courtyard to the east and a more private courtyard to the west. Shading provided by the building and large trees create comfortable respite spaces. In addition, the lunchroom spills out onto the lower level of the main courtyard, with tables and a terraced seating area. The main courtyard also serves as overflow space for large gatherings occurring in the auditorium, with flexibility for catered events to make use of the adjacent lunchroom. Incorporating direct vehicular access into the main courtyard from the north provides additional flexibility for event programming. This securable entry will allow controlled access for demonstration vehicles, food trucks, and other event or maintenance related equipment.
CSU San Bernardino Center for Global Innovation
2020 Sustainable Innovation Awards
Health and Wellbeing
Design for Integration - Outside In
CSU San Bernardino sits at the base of the San Bernardino mountains in a unique setting near a seismic fault with blustery and high temperature conditions.The university is ever trying to address this juxtaposition of elements to promote lifelong learning while providing a home for students on campus.
The Center forGlobal Innovation (CGI) is located at the heart of the campus adjacent a major pedestrian thoroughfare and across from the university library. CGI is a LEED Platinum, 70,000-square-foot, three-story building housing classrooms and administration offices for the College of Extended Learning.The building form responds to climatic conditions and a university directive to integrate a meaningful social experience with academics on campus. By shifting and folding floor plates, the design incorporates a variety of indoor and outdoor social and learning spaces that are shaded and protected from the elements, including a rooftop terrace. Additionally, the design incorporates increased structural strength measures due to the project’s proximity to the San Andreas fault.The building’s exterior is wrapped in a pleated metal panel system, a modern reinterpretation of the fluted concrete found on campus. Further articulation takes cues from existing surrounding buildings, allowing CGI to reinforce the idea of ‘campus building’.
Design for Community - Inside Out
The university’s large international student population became the driving force of the design: a global connection. Using inspiration from a typical town square found in any given city around the world, the lobby or global gallery is conceptualized as a gathering space around which the rest of the programmatic elements are arranged. This space acts as a home base for students on campus. With digital screens, writable surfaces and flexible furniture, students can gather in small to large groups to socialize or study in a series of decks on every floor of the facility.
The global gallery creates an opportunity for students to embrace and be connected to their campus environment.Classroom spaces are located on the lower floors for easy way finding and campus access, while student services become a destination on the top floor.
Designing for Resources - Sustainability
The LEED Platinum certified project relied on an integrated design approach, where all involved disciplines informed the process, and allowed numerous sustainable design strategies to be introduced including:• Meets the AIA 2030 commitment with an EUI of 29.2; a 76% reduction over baseline.• Exceeds Title-24 by 26%• Optimization of access to daylight with controls, occupancy sensors and meaningful views to the exterior.• Mixed-mode naturally ventilated lobby with operable windows.• Energy Star cool roof kept free of mechanical equipment.• 160kw photovoltaic array on roof; enough to offset 50% of building’s energy use.• 100% of stormwater collected on site and polished via bioswales.• Native and water efficient landscaping with 100% reclaimed water for irrigation.• Dual flush plumbing and low flow fixture reduce building water use by 27% from baseline.• Integration with campus chilled water loop and energy management systems.• Use of recycled content and locally produced materials.