Congratulations to all the counties and project staff for producing some amazing examples of public works. Due to the COVID19 Pandemic, the Annual Conference was canceled and awards mailed to recipients. Here are the winners of the CCAEA Public Project of Excellence Awards.
This program is designed to publicly recognize your efforts, but in the midst of the current Pandemic, the Annual Conference and Awards Presentations have been canceled. We collectively look forward to the 2021 Conference, when we can all gather to celebrate in person next year’s awards.
BTW: Get ready for next year with your submissions…the Call for Entries will be sent toward the end of the calendar year. Remember, it’s FREE to enter; for details email CCAEA today.
* Daniel Stewart, AIA Steinberg Hart – San Diego, CA
* Eric Newton, Newton Construction & Management, San Luis Obispo, CA
* Rich Grudman, Chief Maintenance Projects-San Diego County
* Ed Hoag, Facilities Manager-Tuolumne County
With the 7th year of the awards program completed; we want to keep everyone informed about prior year recipients, read below for more detail on these exciting projects and the awardees.
For 2014 Winners…click here.
For 2015 Winners…click here.
For 2016 Winners….click here
For 2017 Winners….click here
For 2018 Winners….click here
For 2019 Winners….click here
There was a tie amoung large county submissions, the co-winners are:
University Health Systems Medical & Surgical Center
University Medical Center
The County of Riverside’s Economic Development Agency, completed a new Public-Private Partnership in Real Estate Development, a “P3” project, with the Trammell Crow Company, Developer, to serve the community with a state-of-the-art healthcare facility that will also provide jobs in the fast-growing region. The P3 project, which included the design, planning, entitlement and construction of a new 200,792 sf Class A Medical Office Building (MOB), also known as the Medical & Surgical Center, on the Moreno Valley campus of the Riverside University Health System Medical Center (RUHS), began vertical construction in December 2017. The entire project team worked closely in a heavy design-assist approach to ensure a successful project delivery that came in 11 weeks ahead of schedule and substantially under budget. The new MOB was completed in December 2019 and will open its doors to patients in the first quarter of 2020, once all of the equipment and furniture is fully installed, and will be operated by RUHS. The new three-story building was designed with very large 67,000 sf floor plates to provide maximum lateral connectivity between departments and functions and features multiple health clinics including a new non-emergency ambulatory care center. A new 206′ long pedestrian bridge connects the surgery level of the MOB to the surgery level of the adjacent medical center. A new Medical Center Pavilion was also built which serves as a main lobby & donor recognition area and features a Panera Bread Cafe restaurant. The Medical Office Building will achieve LEED Silver certification.
Borrego Springs Library, Park and Sheriffs Regional Office.
Library
The Borrego Springs Library, Park and Sheriff’s office is the social, educational and civic hub that brings together regional residents as well as winter vacationers to enjoy this unique place in the California desert. The design celebrates the unique environment and ecology of the desert, the unique dark sky setting, stargazing, and the vast social and cultural history of this desert community. The design goal for the complex is creating a physical and conceptual link to the Borrego Springs Community and this unique Desert Environment. By embracing and revealing the environmental conditions, the design incorporates inviting social plazas and gathering spaces with an inspirational visual backdrop of the Borrego Springs mountains and desert. With the layout of the Library and Park, community groups and visitors are encouraged to use these inspirational Interior and exterior gathering spaces that are intertwined with the Library and Community program spaces. In order to maximize the teaching potential of these public spaces, there are Library and Park design elements that create didactic and passive educational experiences. As the general public experiences these spaces of the Library and Park, there are interpretative plazas, walks and signage designed to display dark sky astronomical concepts as well as references to the local historical cultures. These features are intended for children as well as adults and are easily viewed and accessible throughout the environment. The goal is to provide a social and civic place for imagination and creativity; a campus of learning with many artful and dynamic educational displays and interpretive elements within the Library and Park environments.
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The Public Safety Facility is a multi-structure campus and is the headquarters for the Sheriff’s Department and associated public county services. The campus includes the following five buildings:
1. Public Safety Building
This building houses all of the administration and office spaces as well as the emergency operations center, central dispatch call center, conference/meeting rooms, locker rooms, gym, and more, which was previously spread-out between multiple facilities.
2. Evidence Building
The County previously-stored evidence in multiple buildings due to the lack of one central facility. This new building houses all of the County’s evidence to provide more efficient investigations and includes heightened security measures.
3. Special Operations and Training Building
This building is used to store the sheriff’s specialized materials and equipment. The facility also has two large classrooms for specialized training.
4. Shooting Range
Previously, the County did not have an indoor shooting range. This new range affords the Sheriff’s Office the opportunity for training and practices any time of day or night.
5. Morgue
The County also did not have a morgue, which resulted in the county using spaces at local mortuaries and having to send forensic autopsies out of County
There where no small county submissions this year.
The Grand Award is granted by the Jury based upon their assessment of the Projects of the Year awardees and that by the consensus of the Jury exceeds the requirements and best demonstrates the spirit of the Awards Program.
Library
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Site Plan
The project provides an enhanced civic experience for the residents of Borrego Springs while providing great working conditions for the Librarians and Sheriffs. The project assembled the major civic elements around a major intersection where the local Post Office and existing Churches were located. The Library and Sheriff’s Office were able to relocate from an existing storefront within a mall to there own buildings with the layout design specifically for their programs.
The project fits within its surroundings very well by the use of materials, including weathered steel that matches the famous sculptures of Borrego Springs. The use of a large butterfly roof, with extended eaves allowed for great solar heat gain control and created comfortable shaded exterior spaces. The Library has achieved LEED Gold on its way to be being certified as Net-Zero. The Sheriff’s Office used Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF) that have excellent thermal values while providing a simple, secure, and appealing structure. The Park is landscaped with drought-tolerant plants that will thrive in this desert community.
The most complex element of the project was the handling of the flood plain issues, which required raising the buildings and making sure that existing water flows were not disturbed. The Library was raised by the use of over sixty 30″ pylons that range from 60′ to 80′ feet deep. The depth was required due to the sandy condition of the soil that had low bearing capacity. The Sheriff’s Office reacted to the flood conditions by being raised and rotated to have a corner of the building act as a bow on a ship that would allow the water to travel around it. The Park elements were laid out in a manner that respected the existing “currents”.
There was no Jury Award presented this year.