ENR Northwest 2024 Best Projects

The Whatcom Village Project receives the ENR Northwest 2024 Best Projects award for Excellence in Sustainability.

The project comprises four buildings within a larger east campus modernization project, spanning approximately 988,500 square feet. MacDonald-Miller is proud to have provided the HVACPlumbing, and Controls for each building.

ENRNorthwest:

Best Sustainability: Whatcom Village

Whatcom Village is on track to meet LEED Platinum, ILFI Zero Carbon and Salmon Safe certifications, underscoring its commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship. The project integrated minimum employee bike parking, green roof areas, rainwater harvesting and all-electric building operations. Crews tracked construction material and construction activity embodied carbon emissions as well as construction activity water usage. In addition, the team followed Forest Stewardship Council certified wood procurement and diverted at least 90% of construction waste from landfills.

Another key sustainability goal was eliminating natural gas from the new campus, requiring all commercial kitchen equipment in the two food halls to be electric. The carbon reduction mandate, driven by the owner’s carbon-neutral goals, presented several challenges and opportunities for innovation including a required increase in electrical design criteria and the construction of a temporary gas feed to the property. In a traditional kitchen, the electrical distribution system accommodates around 65 watts per sq ft of back-of-house kitchen space before national electrical code (NEC) diversity.

 

Congratulations to our partners:

  • Lead Design Firm: LMN Architects
  • General Contractor: A joint venture between Skanska and Howard S. Wright Construction Co., A Balfour Beatty Company
  • Structural Engineer: Coughlin Porter Lundeen
  • Construction Manager: CBRE
  • Design Firm – Cafés: Graham Baba Architects
  • Subcontractors: PCI Insulation and Firestopping, Epic Electric, Modern Construction Services, Honeywell, Ness & Campbell Crane

Learn more about MacDonald-Miller’s scope of the Whatcom Village project here.

Whatcom Village photo by Tim Griffith.

 

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