AlfaTech Big Book: Corporate Office & Campus

C O R P O R AT E C AMP U S

UBER | MI SS ION BAY 1 & 2 LEED PLATINUM, WELL GOLD San Francisco, CA

Type: New Site, Two High-Rise Office Buildings Size: 420,000 SF

AlfaTech is currently involved in Uber’s innovative new San Francisco headquarters which is a ground up office building in the Mission Bay district. AlfaTech provided design/bid/build style Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) engineering, lighting design, and Technology (low voltage, security, audio/visual) services, throughout the entire project. AlfaTech is part of the construction administration effort and served as the engineer-of-record for mechanical and electrical installations. AlfaTech assisted the architectural design team with optimizing performance by assessing various utility, façade and wind studies. Life-cycle cost analysis, energy benchmarking, and computational fluid dynamics were critical tools to inform the design effort. The project is designed as an innovative, ultra-high performance building that focuses on an occupant-centric workplace and includes an elaborate IT infrastructure, a façade that responds to programmatic needs, an under floor air distribution system, a two-building atria system incorporating natural ventilation, and a central treatment system for collecting graywater and rainwater. The interactions between the occupants, the buildings, and the ambient, were at the heart of the architectural and engineering systems; targeting lower environmental metrics of 1,100,000 kWh in reduced energy use and 2,100,000 gallons in reduced water use. AlfaTech provided engineering strategies and Smart Building System Matrix outlining all systems that should be included in the Intelligent Smart Building System.

The buildings' eco-friendly features consisted of: • Two passively conditioned, interconnected atria • Shaded facade with automated natural ventilation

• Chilled sails and occupant-controlled underfloor air-distribution systems • High-performance LED lighting with an occupancy driven network-based lighting control • Graywater reuse and rainwater catchment systems • Integrated building automation, controls and management platforms • Full air-side and water-side economizing • Fuel cells redundantly powering building network operations • Urban garden • Solar domestic hot water system • PV-ready electrical system

Awarded Savings by Design Incentive