To create a facility that can serve both as Grundfos’ regional headquarters and a showplace for its technologies, a two-story office building was replaced with a new 50,000-sq-ft building adjacent to the company’s manufacturing plant near Houston. Grundfos, a Danish water management and pump manufacturer, envisioned the headquarters as an opportunity to promote its vision and products while illustrating its sustainability mission for ecology, people, buildings and infrastructure.
The new office’s ground level consists of exhibition, education and training spaces, while the second level houses administrative spaces. The office building is accompanied with a 4,000-sq-ft companion central plant—called the Tech Building—which exhibits the use of their products and technologies. This serves as a gallery of mechanical utility systems used at the facility, including building automation, heating and cooling, storm and gray water reuse filtration, storage and processing.