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1. 2023 USGBC-LA Sustainable Innovation Awards

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   1. Santa Ynez Chumash Museum and Cultural Center

      2023 Sustainable Innovation Award
      Water
      
      Santa Ynez Chumash Museum and Cultural Center for achieving LEED Silver certification and earning 12 water efficiency credits above the maximum requirement through its innovative use of greywater and blackwater systems. Water is reused throughout the museum site for toilet flushing and irrigation reducing the need for potable water by 100%. The museum’s water efficient landscaping incorporates drought-resistant native plants, and the use of highly efficient irrigation controllers.

      
      

   2. 11010 Santa Monica Boulevard

      2023 Sustainable Innovation Award
      Equity & Environmental Justice
      
      Going above and beyond to achieve LEED Homes Midrise Platinum certification for an affordable housing complex is something rarely seen for a budget-tight project. They utilized modular units to streamline construction and increase density, and provide wrap-around services such as living supplies packages, case management and substance abuse counseling for its community of older veterans. 

      
      

   3. LAMP Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility

      2023 Sustainable Innovation Award
      Energy & Operational Carbon
      
      The LAMP Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility which is a redesigned 6 million square foot, LEED Gold certified facility, housing 18,000 rental cars and consolidates all major LAX area rental car agencies into a single structure. The most exciting technical innovation employed is the unique lighting control system, invented by the team, whereby each fixture communicates wirelessly to all other fixtures and zones, allowing more efficient performance and eliminating miles of plastic, wiring and other materials from construction: a significant win for reducing embodied carbon. The building also performs as a small power plant for the LADWP, with photovoltaic panels on the building providing over 8,400 megawatt hours of electricity a year.

      Designing for energy efficiency and adding solar panels will help make this a truly sustainable facility saving 1.2 million pounds of carbon a year.

      
      

   4. DMV Inglewood Field Office Replacement

      2023 Sustainable Innovation Award
      Energy & Operational Carbon
      
      DMV Inglewood Field Office Replacement for the first net zero energy new building for the State of California Department of General Services and Department of Motor Vehicles.

      The project replaces an outdated and deteriorated DMV facility with a new, environmentally progressive building with abundant daylight, clearer interior visibility that lessens stress, shading and shelter with photovoltaic panels, drought tolerant planting and more. All this is expected to better serve the public experience, and the community can take pride in a ground-breaking building that offers patrons an accessible, state of the art landmark.

      
      

   5. Bank of America Plaza

      2023 Sustainable Innovation Award
      Water
      
      The Brookfield Management Engineering Team at Bank of America Plaza for designing a state-of-the-art water harvesting system that captures 500,000 gallons of groundwater and condensate each year. Currently, the water harvesting skid processes approximately 1200 gallons of harvested water daily, with the cooling towers 12 stories above. Using reverse osmosis and ultra-filtering, the water which otherwise would go into the city sewer, is efficiently reused in the 57-story building’s cooling tower. 

      
      

   6. 1 Cal Plaza

      2023 Sustainable Innovation Award
      Energy & Operational Carbon
      
      1 Cal Plaza for its 42-story, 1 million square foot office building and campus in Downtown Los Angeles. The building has achieved 12 certifications, including LEED Zero Energy and Zero Carbon and continues to exceed its ambitious ESG targets.  Through renewable energy and water efficiency savings, including decommissioning their old centrifugal chillers and cooling towers and now purchasing chilled water from a local district chilled water plant, 1 Cal Plaza reduced its GHG emissions by more than 23 million tonnes last year.

      
      

   7. City National 2CAL

      2023 Sustainable Innovation Award
      Energy & Operational Carbon
      
      City National 2CAL is a 52 story, 1.4M square foot mixed use project on Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles, part of the California Plaza master plan.  Since it first opened, City National 2CAL has continued to improve its sustainability annually by achieving and recertifying and maintaining LEED Platinum for Existing Buildings, Operations, and Maintenance, and earning Fitwel certifications, and UL Healthy Building Verification Mark for Indoor Air and Water, and participated in USGBC-LA’s Green Janitors and GPRO training programs. Engineering leads the way every day in the way they operate and maintain the central plant, ensuring maximum energy efficiency.

      
      

   8. Upper Los Angeles River & Tributaries Revitalization Plan

      2023 Sustainable Innovation Award
      Water
      
      The Upper Los Angeles River & Tributaries Revitalization Plan aims to revitalize communities along the river’s upper tributaries, prioritizing equity and resilience.  With each major milestone of ULART reached with extensive input from the community, the proposed 17.5 square mile area will benefit 1.53 million people, capture 8,695 acre-feet of stormwater a year, nurture 250,000 trees, provide over 1,000 miles of shaded green street and trails, and preserve over 6,000 acres of urban wildlife ecology.

      
      

   9. Home Depot Distribution Center

      2023 Sustainable Innovation Award
      Energy & Operational Carbon
      
      The Home Depot Distribution Center for its 530,000 square foot industrial facility in Irwindale, CA which offers an unprecedented blend of intelligent and sustainable features woven into the design. The property includes a Building Automation System, smart metering system, solar panels, superior insulation and high-efficiency air conditioning units. The Smart Building will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 800,000 kg per year, when juxtaposed with conventionally-powered air-conditioned warehouses. The project also slashed water usage by 83% and upheld a stringent waste management plan that diverted/recycled 82% of construction waste. 

      
      

   10. Laserfiche

       2023 Sustainable Innovation Awards - Health & Wellbeing
       
       Laserfiche for its state-of-the-art global headquarters that integrate sustainability and wellness concerns into its design, with focus on natural light, material selection and a biophilic approach. Situated on a former Long Beach oil field, the site was fully remediated to restore the health of its soils and groundwater, creating vibrant outdoor spaces. Once a barren lot, the property now features native landscaping, dense tree canopy and outdoor gathering spaces. 

       
       

   11. Partake Collective

       2023 Sustainable Innovation Award
       Zero Waste and Circular Solutions
       
       Partake Collective for its flagship ghost kitchen using creative adaptive reuse of two underperforming office buildings, one constructed of heavy timber, the other of poured in place concrete. The design strategy centered on integrating the two original structures into a comprehensive, multi-use space while maximizing material reuse and generating minimal waste. The project team successfully reused 98% of the original structure, including the building façade, exterior wall assemblies, interior walls, and foundation, resulting in an embodied carbon decrease of 77% relative to new construction.

       
       

   12. Long Beach Container Terminal

       2023 Sustainable Innovation Award
       Energy & Operational Carbon
       Project of the Year
       
       The Project of the Year award goes to Long Beach Container Terminal at the Port of Long Beach which is the most technologically advanced, efficient and environmentally friendly terminal in the United States. Having spent $2.5 billion to electrify all the cranes including cargo transport vehicles, the LBCT is well on its way to becoming the first True Net Zero terminal in the world before 2030. This year, the LBCT demonstrated sector leadership by tackling its supply chain Scope 3 emissions from ships, trucks and trains and bringing them close to carbon neutral.

       
       

   13. University of California, Irvine, College of Health Sciences and School of Nursing

       2023 Sustainable Innovation Award
       Health & Wellbeing
       
       University of California, Irvine, College of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, and Integrative Health Institute for its translational facility that integrates academic study, medical research, and clinical treatment in a single building that achieved LEED Platinum certification. The building emphasizes connections to nature, fusing to enhance the health, wellbeing and functions of students and visitors alike. One example is the Nutritional Gardens adjacent to the Teaching Kitchen, supporting culinary medicine programs. The team used an integrated and evidence-based approach that factors environmental influences and essential comfort needs into holistic design of all building components, site relationships, materials, and systems.

       
       

   14. Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County

       2023 Sustainable Innovation Award
       Zero Waste and Circular Solutions
       
       Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, the first food bank in the world to become TRUE Zero Waste certified. The 121,000 square foot warehouse in Irvine, achieved over 90% diversion rate from landfill and incineration by reusing wood pallets, packaging, transport containers and office supplies. Their operations are also equipped for recycling and composting, and the mission and work of the food bank also aligns with aspects of circularity such as social equity and environmental leadership.

       
       

   15. San Bernardino Valley College Technical Education Building

       2023 Sustainable Innovation Awards - Health & Wellbeing
       
       The new San Bernardino Valley College Technical Education Building, the district’s pioneering Net Zero pilot project. The LEED Platinum building maximizes indoor and outdoor learning opportunities in green careers training, while demonstrating sustainability and environmental stewardship–prioritizing energy performance, occupant comfort, and program flexibility–in a true Living Lab for students and the wider community.

       
       

   16. Villa Hermosa III

       2023 Sustainable Innovation Awards
       Equity & Environmental Justice
       
       Villa Hermosa III in the Coachella Valley, an all-electric, low-income housing project for farm workers and their families, achieved LEED Platinum, DOE Zero Energy Ready Homes, Energy Star Homes, and Indoor AirPLUS certifications. The project paid special attention to the architectural assemblies, designing and building for maximum energy and water efficiency, while creating healthy indoor and outdoor spaces for children so families can continue to work and stay together.

   17. Epstein Family Amphitheater

       2023 Sustainable Innovation Award
       Equity and Environmental Justice
       
       Epstein Family Amphitheater at UC San Diego for its commitment to sustainability, inclusivity, and creating a new public arts and entertainment space open to and for the region. The Amphitheater, which is strategically oriented to hide support facilities and use the natural landscape to lower solar heat gain and increase shading, not only achieved LEED Gold certification but celebrates the land’s first peoples by etching indigenous Kumeyaay language and tradition into the hardscape.