Alberici Corporation

Key Project Information Project Title: Corporate Headquarters
Project Location: San Jose, California
Building Type: Office low-rise, 2-stories, 110,000 sq. ft. (10,000 sq. m.)
Total Project Cost: US$20.9 million (land included)
Recognition Status: LEED for New Construction v2.0/2.1 Platinum, 4 Green Globes
DOE Climate Zone: Zone 3 (5,000 HDD, 1,400 CDD)
Occupancy: 200 staff, 150 visitors per week

Project Overview

Corporate Headquarters — St. Louis, Missouri

As a global construction services company, Alberici sought to lead the transformation of the design and construction industry by renovating a 485-foot-long (148-meter-long) manufacturing plant into their new Class-A corporate headquarters. The desire to convey resource efficiency, integrated design, and corporate responsibility prompted Alberici to achieve huge resource and cost savings by combining numerous strategies, including:

Results

“In this facility—110,000 square feet—our utility costs are half of what they were at our old facility at 70,000 square feet.” — Christy Cunningham Saylor, Environmental Specialist, Vertegy, An Alberici Enterprise All measures incorporated into the project have a financial payback of less than eight years (14 percent return on investment). The building, completed within Alberici’s US$150-per-square-foot (US$1615-per-square-meter) budget, features a 78 percent reduction in potable water consumption and a 60 percent reduction in energy use (US$78,000 annual energy costs savings). An on-site wind turbine and solar thermal panels provide nearly 20 percent of the building’s annual energy requirements. Fully 93 percent of the project’s construction and demolition waste was recycled. And, recovery of the surrounding brownfield created indigenous habitats that now function as a regional seed bank for native ecosystem rehabilitation and propagation throughout the Midwest.

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