Government Office

Oregon State Treasury

Salem, Oregon

The new two-story Oregon State Treasury (OST) facility is a demonstration of resilient design, designed to protect occupants from a Cascadia Subduction Zone magnitude 9.0 earthquake, floods, wildfires, windstorms, and/or a volcanic eruption. It is designed to be operational 24/7 post-disaster for the 100 full-time OST staff, as well as support visiting staff from other state agencies. | Read More

Mixed Use

Broadway Office Development

San Antonio, Texas

Aiming to be the most sustainable building in Texas, this multi-office development features a geothermal loop, water cooled VRF, a solar PV system, rainwater and condensate water collection and reuse, and radiant heating and cooling. Specifically, building will store more than 100,000 gallons of rain & condensate for treatment & reuse. | Read More

Mixed Use

Hassalo on Eighth

Portland, Oregon

In the midst of a population boom, Portland has found itself in need of more residential space. With the city’s infrastructure not able to keep up with that need, new builds must find ways to accommodate a growing population while not damaging the surrounding environment. | Read More

Mission Critical

Oracle Cell 2.1

West Jordan, UT

Energy costs skyrocket as the need for data storage increases exponentially by the year. This fact was not lost on tech giant Oracle when it needed to construct a 30,000 sf data center space to meet its growing storage needs. Wanting to show that that those increasing energy costs could be mitigated without sacrificing stability. | Read More

Office

Vestas North American Headquarters

Portland, Oregon

When Vestas – one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wind turbines – decided to move its North American headquarters into the historic Meier & Frank Delivery Depot in Portland, Oregon, they were challenged with sustainably modernizing a building that has stood for nearly a century and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. | Read More

Laboratory

Allen Institute for Brain Science

Seattle, Washington

After decades of philanthropy after co-founding Microsoft, Paul Allen in 2003 founded the Allen Institute for Brain Science. The establishment aims to understand the human brain and fight diseases like Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia. | Read More

Mixed Use

Indigo | Twelve West

Portland, Oregon

As Portland’s downtown continues to see tremendous development with new builds and renovations, the West End neighborhood has long been seen as having major potential for growth. Indigo | Twelve West was conceived as a flagship building that could not only unite the 30-block area with the rest of downtown and ignite development there. | Read More

Mixed Use

Wilshire Grand Tower

Los Angeles, California

When finished, Wilshire Grand Tower will stand entirely in the footprint of its predecessor, the iconic Wilshire Grand Hotel, but that’s where the similarities will end. The hotel had earned a reputation over its near 60-year existence as a destination for celebrities and international dignitaries, becoming a Los Angeles landmark in the process. | Read More

Education

Chapman University Science and Technology Building

Orange, California

Chapman University in Orange, California, sought to meet the expanding needs of its faculty and growing student population with a new, three-floor center for science and technology. With strict spatial restrictions from the city and the site itself, the school turned to Glumac’s mechanical, electrical, and plumbing teams to provide innovative systems design to ensure the project’s success. | Read More

Mixed-Use

Bridges@11th

Seattle, Washington

Designed as an innovative “Smart Green” affordable housing community for University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital employees, Bridges@11th, a 139,938 sf development blends live and work spaces for busy working families. | Read More

Office

Johnson Controls – Shanghai

Shanghai, China

Global technology and manufacturing giant Johnson Controls wanted to expand its Asia Pacific presence, and elected to build a new five-story, 54,000-square-meter (177,165-square-foot) headquarters facility. The goal was to provide space for innovation while maintaining a comfortable work space and a sustainable design. | Read More

Healthcare

Kaiser Antelope Valley MOB

Lancaster, California

Kaiser Permanente saw the need for a new, highly sustainable, specialty medical office building to bring specialized care to a growing number of members in the remote location of Lancaster, 70 miles north of Los Angeles. Known for its windy, high desert climate, Lancaster’s extreme weather presented challenges in the design and construction, particularly in light of Kaiser’s goals of LEED Gold-certification and net-zero energy. | Read More

EXPERTISE

Modular Data Center Design Helps Oracle Achieve Sustainability Goals

With 2014 revenues at $38 billion and more than 130,000 employees company-wide, Oracle has plans. Big plans. These included reaching their internal IT growth targets for 2014 with a forward-looking plan to support IT growth needs for the next several years. Accordingly, Oracle moved forward with the build-out of the UCF Phase 2 Data Center space in West Jordan, Utah, with a Glumac-lead master plan that included building the 30,000 sf of data center space in six modular 5,000 sf builds. | Read More

Great Projects

Lean Collaboration + LEED Commitment:
Mission College’s Main Building Targets LEED Platinum

Originally targeting LEED Gold certification, Mission College’s new Main Building is now striving for LEED Platinum. How it achieved that, however, is a story of value-oriented collaboration and strong alignment of intentions between Mission College students, faculty and management; the design team of architects at Lionakis; and the MEP systems engineers at Glumac. | Read More

Concepts

Buildings Need Clean Water Too: Overcoming the Challenge of Process Water Conservation

As the world becomes more aware and engaged in sustainability at a lifestyle and cultural level, the social and economic benefits of investing in water conservation are becoming more globally apparent and compelling. But an important aspect of conservation is often neglected in these discussions: process water. | Read More

Expertise

New Steps for Sustainability:
Glumac Brings the Living Building Challenge to Asia

The International Living Future Institute (ILFI) is making huge strides this year with its signature certification program and green building philosophy, The Living Building Challenge (LBC). ILFI has partnered with Glumac, Gensler and Shimizu to plant the first seed in Asia with the continent’s first-registered LBC project: Glumac’s new 6,450-square-foot (600-square-meter) office TI in Shanghai, China. | Read More

Great Projects

Urban Renewal in Salt Lake City
City Creek Center

There’s a new and shimmering upscale tourism and retail destination in the heart of Salt Lake City that’s won the attention of city planners worldwide. Some call it “urban renewal on steroids.” Others regard it as just one more extension of the buoyant and optimistic resource that Utah is. | Read More