Education

University of Oregon – Straub Hall

Eugene, Oregon

Originally designed in 1928 as a dormitory, the University of Oregon’s Straub Hall was repurposed in the 1970s as a classroom facility for the Psychology department. Requiring a modernization to suit the needs of faculty and students, the university worked with Glumac’s mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering teams to help usher this building into the 21st century. | Read More

Education

University of Oregon – Straub Hall

Eugene, Oregon

Originally designed in 1928 as a dormitory, the University of Oregon’s Straub Hall was repurposed in the 1970s as a classroom facility for the Psychology department. Requiring a modernization to suit the needs of faculty and students, the university worked with Glumac’s mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering teams to help usher this building into the 21st century. | Read More

Government

Las Colinas Detention and Reentry Facility

Santee, California

An innovative approach to a correctional facility that shares a cross street with a residential neighborhood is a project requiring buy-in from more than just ownership. For this public facility, community involvement was essential to meet public expectations of safety and to achieve sustainability standards of low energy use costs. The Las Colinas Detention and Reentry Facility in Santee, California, was a design-build project that features six levels of security and was designed with a focus on inmate rehabilitation, to prepare them to reenter society and minimize recidivism rates. | 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

Government

Oregon Military Department Camp Withycombe

Clackamas, Oregon

When the century-old Camp Withycombe underwent an expansion, the Oregon Military Department had obvious needs in modernizing its campus for the 1,300 service people stationed there. However, it also saw the opportunity to utilize emerging technologies to create a more sustainable and cost-efficient facility. OMD came to Glumac with some specific goals to achieve a higher level of sustainability and to create a positive image of the facility in the surrounding community, namely: decreasing its water consumption by 30-40% and lowering its yearly energy costs by 25%. | Read More

expertise

Working by Daylight:
How Circadian Lighting Increases Productivity

By now, we all know that low access to daylight can be detrimental to our health. Eye strain, exhaustion, and weakening mental health are all issues that share a root cause in poor access to light. But what if the implications of access to daylight went beyond wellness and energy savings, and we could prove it was inextricably linked to increases in productivity?  | Read More

Great Projects

Lighting Design Hits an Ace for Indian Wells Tennis Garden

The Coachella Valley has long been home to a cluster of oases in the rocky desert of Southern California. One of these sought out destinations is the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Opened in 2000, the facility, nestled into the Old Hollywood getaway of Indian Wells, has undergone an award-winning renovation. | Read More

Great Projects

Discovery Hall: Building for a Strong STEM Future

The University of Washington Bothell campus had two important needs. As a burgeoning destination for students in the Snohomish and King counties of WA, UW had to increase its enrollment capacity. They also needed to meet the academic demands of its students, local community, and regional industry, specifically in the field of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). | Read More

EXPERTISE

Lighting Control Basics:
Occupancy and Vacancy Sensors Explained

in a high-performance office building, lighting can account for 20% of energy use. Properly applied, lighting controls can easily reduce that portion by 25%. But, as with any high-performance strategy, there are subtleties to the technology and application. In this article, we’ll explain the basics of occupancy sensors and their important counterpart, the vacancy sensor. | 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

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