GIBBENS DRAKE SCOTT, INC.

Purpose of the award is to provide construction documents in order to construct a world-class laboratory and office complex for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California. The new facility, sited on property owned by the University of California San Diego, will be up to 124,000 GSF with an additional 90,000 GSF of under building parking and 500,000 gallon acoustic research test tank. The building steps back as it moves up the hill, placing support spaces toward the hillside and personnel spaces toward the ocean view. This allows many green building opportunities such as vegetated roofs and flow-through natural ventilation. The sustainable principles and practices incorporated in the facility design are consistent with achieving a high level LEED rating, but no lower than a "Silver" rating. The proposed new facility will accommodate between 280 and 300 personnel, with under building parking. The project satisfies individual department needs with lab spaces, office spaces, storage spaces, group gathering areas, and delivery/staging areas and allows NOAA to bring associated science and research activities together, promote proper flow of work from one activity to another, and modernize the laboratory and office spaces to comply with today's regulatory requirements and standards while supporting the state-of-the-art and next generation science that is crucial to NOAA's programmatic mission.

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