Creating a feeling of wellness and connection to the outdoors, this five-story, 280,000-sq-ft veterans’ health care facility in Phoenix maximizes natural daylight, has a solar-power system and is certified as a Green Globes project for its high sustainability standards.
The $7.6-million dam rehabilitation project, completed within budget in 25 months, included a labyrinth spillway, seepage and filter protection, raising the elevation of the top of the dam and improving the control tower and lake drain system that regulate the water level.
Nestled between century-old houses in a historic neighborhood, this nearly 100,000-sq-ft modernization project involved renovating a historic building, removing a classroom trailer annex and building an addition.
Consolidating seven California Air Resources Board (CARB) locations into a single facility on 19-acres, this $411-million project includes a range of dedicated test cells for testing heavy- and light-duty vehicles, an advanced chemistry laboratory and workspace for accommodating new test methods for future generations of vehicles.
The 135,000-sq-ft building marked several milestones—the first multi-story mass timber building in California, the first mass timber building in San Francisco and the longest single-span cantilever floorplates in North America.
Each year, ENR's regional Best Projects competition includes two special awards, honoring those projects throughout the region that made significant achievements in the areas of safety and sustainability.