POLYTECH NEWS FALL 2013
WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE OUR COLLABORATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS: VA Menlo Park, Homelessness Resource Center and Emergency Annex The 95-acre VA Menlo Park Campus is one of the VA’s largest, specializing in providing mental health services, long-term care and inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation programs. Polytech Associates is designing a new, 4,400 sf Emergency Annex at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Menlo Park Campus. The facility will house the Police Department, and will include offices, conference/training areas, registration, and staff support spaces. VA Menlo Park is also home to a domiciliary unit providing patient programs that treat homeless and substance-dependent veterans with the goal of returning them to optimal independent living. Our design team is renovating an existing 15,400 sf building into the Outpatient Behavioral Health Center, which provides spaces for outpatient psychiatric programs, open and private spaces for nurses, therapists, and physicians, conference areas, consultation rooms, and examination rooms.
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HUMANI, INC. Ethiopia Polytech Associates recently completed the schematic design for Humani, a community center that empowers women living with HIV to become economically viable citizens by providing resources such as education, productive and sustainable employment, access to healthcare, and family support. Humani’s Executive Director is currently negotiating with the Ethiopian government to secure the land for the project. Fundraising for the project is in its final rounds, with an anticipated construction start date of 2015. Click here to learn more about this project.
Farmers Market
Exterior, Night View
MORE NEWS... Curry Senior Center Annual Bocce Ball Competition and Social Polytech Associates participated in the Curry Senior Center’s Annual Bocce Ball Competition and Social. Our team made it to the semifinals and won for best team name, “Mission ImBocceBall.”
Golden Nugget Award We are pleased to announce that Polytech Associates was awarded a Golden Nugget Award for Best Responsive Design in the Special Needs Category for our work on South of Market Health Center. Our design team created a design scheme for SMHC that elevates the healthcare delivery experience for all. Click here for more about our collaboration with South of Market Health Center.
Center for Health Design and South of Market Health Center The Center for Health Design is featuring South of Market Health Center as an example of a best practice community clinic for the design community. More information is available here.
Team ImBocceBall: Kelli Costelloe, Rob Razzo, Loraine Manalac, Tom Cruz, Bob Schafgans, Anna Kempf, and Andy Anderson
Lobby, South of Market Health Center
Rob Razzo accepting our Golden Nugget Award (far right)
FOR MORE INFORMATION Polytech Associates Inc. 235 Pine Street, 17th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104
Mehrnoush Arsanjani, AIA Managing Principal marsanjani@polytechae.com
Richard J. Graziano, Associate AIA Principal/Studio Director rgraziano@polytechae.com
Lloyd A. Bush, CID, LEED AP Principal/Director of Interior Design lbush@polytechae.com
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Carl A. Scholz Principal/Architect cscholz@polytechae.com
Robert J. Schafgans Principal/Director of Information Technology bschafgans@polytechae.com
Marielle Neri Director of Business Development mneri@polytechae.com
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