Leisure + Hospitality

Levi’s Stadium

Santa Clara, California

Home to the San Francisco 49ers and the world’s premier outdoor sports and entertainment events, the new airy Levi’s Stadium in the Silicon Valley opened its gates to lucky fans in 2014. Environmentally friendly, technologically equip, and beautifully designed, this place sought to exceed all expectations for a sports facility. | Read More

Education

Matthew Knight Arena – University of Oregon

Eugene, Oregon

Home to the University of Oregon’s basketball teams, Matthew Knight Arena a state-of-the-art athletic and events facility in the heart of one of the west coast’s most active college towns. | Read More

Government

Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building

Portland, Oregon

The US General Services Administration wanted to optimize the 1970’s 18-story Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building. Targeting an energy savings of 30% over ASRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2007 per the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and a 55% reduction in  fossil fuel energy over a Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) baseline, the GSA and design team pursued an integrated design approach. | Read More

Office

Vulcan Blocks 44, 45, 52

Seattle, Washington

An area primed for redevelopment, Seattle’s South Lake Union has now become home to Amazon’s corporate headquarters, with three building’s occupying three blocks of the neighborhood as a keystone to this up-and-coming area and serving as a template for future developments. | Read More

Community

Oregon Convention Center

Portland, Oregon

Portland’s Oregon Convention Center (OCC) has worked toward a mandate to achieve new levels in sustainability since it opened in 1990. When time came for it to recertify its LEED status in 2013, it came to Glumac’s commissioning team to help the facility move from LEED Silver to LEED Gold. | Read More

Community

Experience Music Project Launch Pad

Seattle, Washington

Wanting a space that not only met their growing administrative needs, but that also openly highlighted the organization’s commitment to sustainability, the Experience Music Project Launch Pad in Seattle worked with Glumac’s commissioning and energy modeling teams to outfit its new four-story office building, also known as the “Little Wing,” with a series of innovative, eco-focused features. | Read More

Government

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Honolulu, Hawaii

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sought to consolidate the programs and operations in Hawaii into a single location on Ford Island, an islet in the middle of Pearl Harbor. | Read More

Great Projects

Commissioning a Mega-Project: Seattle’s SR-99 Tunnel Replacement

You don’t design and construct a mega-project like the SR-99 Alaska Way Tunnel Replacement and simply open it to more than 100,000 vehicles overnight. While ushering drivers from Point A to Point B (in this case, CenturyLink Field to the Space Needle) is any roadway’s primary objective, making that trip simple and seamless requires hundreds of MEP, lighting, low voltage, security, and digital safety systems – both inside and outside the tunnel – that each need to be inspected and tested. And tested. And tested again. | Read More

Great Projects

Levi’s ® Stadium:
Commissioning the First LEED Gold NFL Stadium
as New Construction in US

The decision to build the new 68,500-seat Levi’s ® Stadium, a venue owned by the Santa Clara Stadium Authority, was never about simply constructing a new home for its city’s beloved football team, the San Francisco 49ers. It was intended to be the first of its kind in sustainability: the first stadium in the United States to receive LEED Gold certification as new construction. | Read More

Great Projects

Oregon Convention Center Earns LEED Platinum

For the last 25 years, the Oregon Convention Center’s staff has worked tirelessly toward its stated mission to be the greenest, most sustainable events facility in the world, and the first choice for domestic and international green meetings. In November of 2004, it became the first convention center in the world to achieve LEED-EBOM certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, and in the years since has reached LEED Platinum. | Read More

Great Projects

Commissioning University of Oregon’s Matthew Knight Arena:
From Good to Great

Two years ago, we wrote about Glumac’s Commissioning work at the University of Oregon Duck’s new 12,541-seat Matthew Knight Sports Arena in Eugene, Oregon. The project was designed by a world-class architectural and engineering team. While most sports facilities are just designed to code, this facility was shooting for LEED® Silver and Glumac encouraged the team to actually achieve LEED Gold. | Read More

Great Projects

Optimizing a Landmark:
Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building

Clad in a new envelope of glass and steel with a sloping rooftop solar parasol, the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt (EGWW) building bears little resemblance to the white concrete façade of the original 1970s building. Exterior shading and radiant systems provide excellent comfort and energy efficiency. But energy-optimized buildings can’t be handed over “as is” at completion and be expected to thrive. A year of post-occupancy commissioning proved key in transforming this federal building from an energy hog to a high performance workplace. | Read More