Sustainability Studio Qualifications

Station Center Family Housing

Union Center, CA

TYPE: SIZE: ACCREDIATION:

New Construction 309,315 SF

LEED Platinum

The firm provided mechanical, plumbing, and fire protection engineering, as well as sustainable design, for this 6-story mixed-use, affordable housing development. The project provides 157 one, two, and three bedroom units totaling approximately 150,000 SF. Additionally, the development includes ground-level flex commercial spaces, which will soon house a corner café and market. The building has on-site social and health services with programs for teens and kids as well as a community room that opens onto a fitness center, pool deck and grand courtyard creating a large indoor-outdoor space for the residents. Parking for residents and commercial spaces is provided in a 103,005 SF parking structure. The low-energy building used a range of complementary sustainable strategies — including solar domestic hot water, high-efficiency boilers, and rooftop photo-voltaic arrays — to achieve LEED for Homes Mid-Rise Platinum certification. The Bay Friendly Rated landscape design will save 193,282 gallons of water per year compared to a conventionally landscaped property, beating Title-24 requirements by 20%..