Best Project, Manufacturing Komatsu South Harbor Campus
A 57-acre brownfield site was remediated to make way for Komatsu Mining’s 180,000-sq-ft office and experience center, a 430,000-sq-ft manufacturing facility and a 650-car parking structure. The project was designed and built to green building standards with goals of reducing energy consumption by 75% and water consumption by 80% from baseline. The project achieved a LEED V4 Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council.
Because of the large size of some of the manufacturing equipment, the building was constructed around some machines that had to be installed in advance. The new facility houses 65 separate machine foundations.