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Gateway West Sustainable I.
3410 Gateway Road
Brookfield, WI 53045
Role: Construction Manager
Size: 34,000 Square Feet
LEED Rating: LEED NC Platinum and LEED EB: O+M Platinum
Summary:
From the outset of the project, the team made it a goal to implement “practical sustainable design” within the project and exhaustively reviewed numerous immediate and long term options to effectively integrate within the final design program. Today, this LEED-NC Platinum Certified and ENERGY?STAR rated building champions high efficiency and serves as an educational tool that aligns with the occupant’s mission to reduce the environmental impact of facilities through the application of sustainable technology and services.
Understanding that the many goals targeted for this project could not be brought to fruition without early and upfront pre-design and pre-construction planning, the owner, designer, and general contractor worked in concert to establish the project’s program and baseline design and performance criteria. Because the project team members collectively had experience with the USGBC’s LEED rating system, the New Construction Reference Guide served as a starting point and to help strategize design solutions that were practical, optimized efficiency and presented the greatest potential
tangible and intangible returns on investment.
To say that the project team scrupulously analyzed industry trends and available systems and technologies to arrive at the facility we are describing today is an understatement. Everyone was committed to developing and refining an action plan that addressed and provided a sustainable site and energy modeling that would deliver a facility that maximizes potential efficiencies, incorporates high performance systems and equipment and monitors everything through the use of a state of the art building management system. Furthermore, the project stakeholders mandated that the materials and resources that would be used to construct the space and decorate its surfaces would be selected with immediate and long term sustainability in mind, always considering factors such as recycled content, renewability, low emissions, durability, and the proximity of raw and finished goods to the jobsite. In the end, this facility provides an innovative and pleasant working environment that allows occupants and visitors alike to see how sustainable design and construction efforts can return real and lasting social, fiscal, and environmental benefits.
Some of the actions implemented by the project team include, but are not limited to:
• Positioning the building in a manner that maximizes day
lighting
• Incorporating shade trees at parking islands to reduce
heat island effects
• Landscaping the site with native species
• Constructing a high-performance building envelope (R-19
exterior walls, R-30 roofing)
• Using efficient and properly-sized mechanical equipment
• Installing efficient light fixtures
• Integrating controllability of all HVAC, lighting, access,
safety and security components within the same building
management system
• Installing a 78-panel photovoltaic array for 18kW of
electricity
• Reusing existing structural steel joists from a previous
project to form the roof support system
• Selecting architectural field brick from the contractor’s
existing overage stock
• Installing an HVAC system that utilizes higher volumes of
outside air
• Incorporating exterior windows with large, high efficiency
glazing that promotes daylighting
• Selecting and arranging workstations and furnishings to
enhance light and air transmittance as well as further pro
mote daylighting and views.
Because of not only the project team’s ability to plan and construct a unique LEED-Platinum Certified and ENERGY?STAR?rated facility (score of 98), but also because the subsequent proof and results that have been measured since the building went into service continue to fall well above the energy model’s predictions, ASHRAE standards, and other code requirements for performance and efficiency.
From the outset of the project, the team made it a goal to implement “practical sustainable design” within the project and exhaustively reviewed numerous immediate and long term options to effectively integrate within the final design program. Today, this LEED-NC Platinum Certified and ENERGY?STAR rated building champions high efficiency and serves as an educational tool that aligns with the occupant’s mission to reduce the environmental impact of facilities through the application of sustainable technology and services.
Understanding that the many goals targeted for this project could not be brought to fruition without early and upfront pre-design and pre-construction planning, the owner, designer, and general contractor worked in concert to establish the project’s program and baseline design and performance criteria. Because the project team members collectively had experience with the USGBC’s LEED rating system, the New Construction Reference Guide served as a starting point and to help strategize design solutions that were practical, optimized efficiency and presented the greatest potential tangible and intangible returns on investment.
To say that the project team scrupulously analyzed industry trends and available systems and technologies to arrive at the facility we are describing today is an understatement. Everyone was committed to developing and refining an action plan that addressed and provided a sustainable site and energy modeling that would deliver a facility that maximizes potential efficiencies, incorporates high performance systems and equipment and monitors everything through the use of a state of the art building management system. Furthermore, the project stakeholders mandated that the materials and resources that would be used to construct the space and decorate its surfaces would be selected with immediate and long term sustainability in mind, always considering factors such as recycled content, renewability, low emissions, durability, and the proximity of raw and finished goods to the jobsite. In the end, this facility provides an innovative and pleasant working environment that allows occupants and visitors alike to see how sustainable design and construction efforts can return real and lasting social, fiscal, and environmental benefits.
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