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Oakmead Tower

Sunnyvale, California

A four-story office shell building with built out cores and related site improvements on a vacant lot.

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Part of a two-person design team, I was the head LEED project coordinator. My responsibilities included communicating proper credit assignments to individual sub-contractors, supervising and reviewing the completion of credits, and fully executing all architectural related credits.

 

In addition, I came up with a ‘Public LEED Education Awareness’ credit within the Innovation in Design category which awarded the project more points. Within this credit, I developed a tour itinerary that demonstrated the ways in which this project was sustainable and organized public tours on site. I also created a LEED awareness link on the project’s website, educating people about LEED, and provided examples of some credits completed for this project. I designed educational ‘Sustainable Fun facts’ signs that are on display throughout the building and around the site for tenants and those taking the LEED tour to learn from. Furthermore, I put together a LEED binder for the building tenants that lists each appointed credit for the project and the required documentation so they can see how green the building is.    

 

The slideshow illustrates a few of the credits that I filled out for this project to earn points.

This project earned 62 points awarding it a LEED Gold certification! 

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LPAS Architecture + Design, 723 S Street, Sacramento, CA, www.lpas.com

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Devcon Construction, 690 Gibralter Drive, Milpitas, CA, www.devcon-const.com

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Griffith Architects, 242 Broadway Street, Chico, CA, www.grifftharchitects.com (Internship)

ON Design Architects, 829 De La Vina St., Suite #200, Santa Barbara, CA, www.ondesignarchitects.net (Internship)

 

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