Markets: Municipal & Government

The California Highway Patrol is a new Area Office encompassing several buildings and site enhancements. The project includes Building A, an Administrative Office Building; Building B, an Auto Service Building; Building C, a combined Radio Vault and Storage Building; and Building D, a combined Storage, Vehicle Evidence Storage and Waste, and Recycling Building. Additionally, there is a Radio Antenna Tower and a Covered Fueling Island. The site improvements comprise a CHP secure parking lot with Solar PV Shade Canopies, emergency back-up generator, a public parking lot, on-site walkways, stormwater treatment areas, frontage improvements with sidewalks, and two drive entrance exits. The 31,300 SF building is built using CMU and is certified LEED Silver.

Building A comprises administrative offices, a dispatch area, a briefing room, an issue room, a staff break room, a public lobby, a conference room, and a locker room.

Building B includes an office area, auto service bays, tool storage, service equipment area, parts storage, new and used tire storage, fluids storage, air compressor, and waste oil storage.

Building C comprises a radio communications vault that serves as a communication hub for the agency. The 140’ high free-standing communications tower is connected to the Radio Vault via a wave-guide bridge. The Building also has an attached Secure Storage Room.

Building D comprises a covered open-air waste and recycling bin storage area, a covered and enclosed Secure Vehicle Evidence Storage Area and additional Secure Storage Rooms.

The new CHP area office serves as the headquarters for officers patrolling the Tracy Triangle area and southwestern San Joaquin County, extending down to the Stanislaus County line and west to Alameda County.

 

Photo Credit – Pablo Mason

Lusardi Construction Company and HKS Architects were contracted under a design-build agreement to perform design and construction services for Easterly Government Properties – Owner of the project. The FDA Laboratory project combined the renovation of an existing building with modern architecture to blend the facility within the surrounding business park. In order to accommodate the FDA laboratory equipment, extensive structural improvements had to be made to the existing facility.

The project is a 69,000 square foot alteration of an existing building that included structural upgrades to the shell, site improvements, and a building expansion of 8,000 SF. All new mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection systems are included within the facility. The interior improvements include administrative office space for lab operations, investigative units, District and Regional administrative functions.

The laboratory and associated support space total 34,000 square feet and is equipped with 31 fume hoods, high plume exhaust fans, compressed air system, pure water system, nitrogen oxygen systems and a certified class 10,000 clean room. All mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems for the laboratory functions were designed with N+1 redundancy and emergency power backup, to guarantee mission operations.

A new addition to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection is a 36,000 sf single-story laboratory and office complex in Savannah, Georgia. The building is designed and constructed with a highly advanced CCTV security and access control system for maximum security. The facility contains Class 100 and 1000 clean rooms, laboratories, a library, multiple offices, and a high security vault; all supported with a highly efficient mechanical system. The exterior of the building is finished with multi-colored precast panels and two types of form- liners which create a wood grain finish on the surface of the concrete panels. The exterior of the storefront window framing includes sun shades to help deflect the light from the lower windows. The site also includes two large retention ponds and a 15,000 square foot pre- engineered canopy for employee parking. This project has achieved LEED Silver Certification and is also the recipient of the Georgia Chapter American Concrete Institute Low Rise Category.

Completed in 2017, this new facility is located at Southgate Lane and State Highway 99 in Chico, CA. The project site is 5.9 acres and includes a public parking area, truck inspection area, secure fenced parking, fueling station and three buildings. The three buildings include Building A – Area Office Building, Building B – Auto Service Building, and Building C – Waste/Recycle and Equipment Storage.

Building A (31,291 sf) includes administrative offices, locker rooms, dispatch area, briefing room, issue room, staff break room, public lobby and conference room. Building A also includes an antenna tower immediately adjacent.

Building B (7,328 sf) includes an office area, auto service bays, tool storage, service equipment area, parts storage, new and used tire storage, vehicle wash bay, fluids storage, air compressor and waste oil storage. Building B also includes storage rooms.

Building C (786 sf) includes a covered open-air waste and recycling bin storage area and an enclosed equipment storage area. The site includes 14,458 sf of PV shade structures, a 120’ high free standing communications tower, connecting wave-guide bridge, and emergency generator. Tower work included the design of the tower, antenna mounts, wave guide ladders, climbing ladders, grounding, and foundation system. Included in the building design was the coordination of racks and cable tray design, HVAC and building control system, security, and telecommunications.