28 California Buildings News • Q3 2020
New Projects AIA Honors New Sustainable Santa Monica City Hall East Earning praise for its leadership in building net-zero, highly sustainable municipal facilities, the newly completed Santa Monica City Hall East has claimed yet another honor, winning the 2020 Building Team of the Year Award from the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). As engineer and Living Building Challenge consultant for the project team, Buro Happold supported the architect Frederick Fisher & Partners and builder Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Co. The modern expansion of the complex adds a range of cutting-edge features to the municipality’s facilities, including a water-recycling solar power array on the roof. The super-green new structure is tracking to achieve the exceptional Living Building status, according to Amber Richane, the city’s head of sustainability, and Buro Happold architect Heidi Creighton, AIA, LEED Fellow, WELL Faculty and Fitwel Ambassador, who helped lead the collaborative effort. Buro Happold engineer Julian Parsley P.E. spearheaded the mechanical and plumbing systems design for the unusually efficient, sustainable building. “Living Building Challenge is a rigorous and quite rare achievement for a government owner,” says David Herd, managing partner for Buro Happold, Los Angeles, who adds that the municipally owned public services facility is unique in the nation as the first to recycle rainwater into potable
water and store all of its greywater for irrigation and other city uses. Other innovations include "edible plants and sunset art," as well as: achieving net-zero water through composting toilets and graywater reuse for irrigation landscaping across the campus; super-efficient radiant cooling/heating, highperformance glazing, natural ventilation, and phase-change insulating materials; no red list chemicals within the building except those required by codes. Efficiently housed in a single structure measuring 50,200 square feet with three floors and a basement, the building brings key departments and vital public counter functions under one roof. Santa Monica City Hall East. Image courtesy of Buro Happold. Rendering by Frederick Fisher & Partners.
Grand Hyatt Lands at SFO The Grand Hyatt at SFO was honored as one of the best designbuild projects in the nation, receiving the National Design-Build Merit Award in the Commercial/Office Buildings category from the Design-Build Institute of America. The project will also go on to compete for a National Award of Excellence and Project of the Year to be announced in October.
Winning Team on Grand Hyatt SFO Project: Design-Build Team: Webcor Builders/HWI/ED2 International Contractor: Webcor Builders Architect: Hornberger + Worstell Engineer: Arup Specialty Contractors: BraytonHughes Design Studios
The Grand Hyatt Hotel at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is a 351-room (22 suites), 12-story high rise, Type 1 construction, on-airport hotel. The LEED Gold project features a gourmet three-meal restaurant, cocktail bar, Grab and Go Market, grand and junior ballrooms, 17 meeting and event rooms, and fitness and spa facilities. Constructed in a constrained site, bordered on one side by the U.S. 101 freeway, and on the other by the taxiway at SFO, this ground-up construction project presented the project team with unprecedented complexities and constraints within which to construct this iconic building located at the entrance to the airport. Grand Hyatt at SFO. Photo credit: DBIA.
