OFFICE

California DGS Natural Resources HQ

Sacramento, California

Glumac is currently providing MEP engineering, and energy services for a new, modern office building on P Street for the State of California, Department of General Services, which is targeting net zero energy. | Read More

OFFICE

Clifford L. Allenby Building

Sacramento, California

Glumac is currently providing MEP engineering, energy and lighting services for the Clifford L. Allenby Building for the State of California, Department of General Services. The property is designed to meet LEED Platinum and net zero energy standards. | Read More

OFFICE

Arch | Nexus SAC

Sacramento, California

This architectural firm’s headquarters is a noteworthy endeavor in that they achieved the first ever Living Building Certified (LBC) building in California and have also achieved LEED CI v4 Platinum certification. It has achieved net zero energy and net zero water. | Read More

EDUCATION

Creekside Community High School

Tigard, Oregon

The newest addition to Tigard Community School District is designed to achieve net zero energy. Through the use of rooftop solar photovoltaics and passive design approaches, elements, this facility generates more energy than it uses – enough to power three homes per year and achieve net zero energy. The systems design also provide a 12-15 year simple payback schedule for the district. | Read More

EDUCATION

Mission College Student Engagement Center

Santa Clara, California

Glumac provided MEP engineering and energy services for the three-story Student Engagement Center. The facility serves 1,000 students and faculty and is now the new main entry  point for the campus. Originally targeting LEED Gold certification, the project is now certified LEED Platinum, and is net zero energy equivalent. | Read More

EDUCATION

CSU Long Beach Clean Energy Master Plan

Long Beach, California

Glumac created for CSU Long Beach (CSULB) a Clean Energy Master Plan, which provides a strategic road map for the school to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. This engineering study included a robust assessment of campus energy sources, demands, and utilization to identify clean energy alternatives and strategies to integrate sustainable building design and improve the efficiency of campus operations| Read More

GOVERNMENT

CSU Northridge Sustainability Center

Northridge, California

As the focus on sustainable building design continues to grow among students and administration at Cal State Northridge, and its Institute for Sustainability expands, it was determined a facility was needed to house its classes and faculty and serve as a showcase for their work. The existing recycling yard was tapped as a space for its new Sustainability Center. The facility has achieved Net Zero Energy and earned LEED Platinum certification. It is also designed to meet the Living Building Challenge. | Read More

Mixed Use

Hassalo on Eighth

Portland, Oregon

In the midst of a population boom, Portland has found itself in need of more residential space. With the city’s infrastructure not able to keep up with that need, new builds must find ways to accommodate a growing population while not damaging the surrounding environment. | Read More

Mission Critical

Oracle Cell 2.1

West Jordan, UT

Energy costs skyrocket as the need for data storage increases exponentially by the year. This fact was not lost on tech giant Oracle when it needed to construct a 30,000 sf data center space to meet its growing storage needs. Wanting to show that that those increasing energy costs could be mitigated without sacrificing stability. | Read More

Office

Vestas North American Headquarters

Portland, Oregon

When Vestas – one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wind turbines – decided to move its North American headquarters into the historic Meier & Frank Delivery Depot in Portland, Oregon, they were challenged with sustainably modernizing a building that has stood for nearly a century and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. | Read More

Education

University of Washington, Bothell Discovery Hall

Bothell, Washington

As the University of Washington, Bothell, enrollments continued to rise (the number of full-time students has risen more than 70 percent since 2009), the school saw the need to expand its facilities to accommodate not only a growing number of students, but to also provide cutting-edge learning environments to maintain that growth and keep a focus on safety. | Read More

Mixed Use

Indigo | Twelve West

Portland, Oregon

As Portland’s downtown continues to see tremendous development with new builds and renovations, the West End neighborhood has long been seen as having major potential for growth. Indigo | Twelve West was conceived as a flagship building that could not only unite the 30-block area with the rest of downtown and ignite development there. | Read More

Leisure + Hospitality

Levi’s Stadium

Santa Clara, California

Home to the San Francisco 49ers and the world’s premier outdoor sports and entertainment events, the new airy Levi’s Stadium in the Silicon Valley opened its gates to lucky fans in 2014. Environmentally friendly, technologically equip, and beautifully designed, this place sought to exceed all expectations for a sports facility. | Read More

Laboratory

Allen Institute for Brain Science

Seattle, Washington

After decades of philanthropy after co-founding Microsoft, Paul Allen in 2003 founded the Allen Institute for Brain Science. The establishment aims to understand the human brain and fight diseases like Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia. | Read More

Mixed Use

Brewery Blocks EcoDistrict

Portland, Oregon

A catalyst of Portland’s Pearl District, one of the country’s most successful urban renewals, the Brewery Blocks is a landmark achievement in mixed-use development and shared sustainable systems. | Read More

Transportation

LA County Expo Line Operations & Maintenance Facility

Santa Monica, California

With the city of Los Angeles continuing to reinvest in public transit and looks to become a cleaner, more pedestrian friendly city, the highly anticipated Expo Line light rail was designed to finally connect downtown Los Angeles with Santa Monica and unite the neighborhoods in between. | Read More

Office

Vulcan Blocks 44, 45, 52

Seattle, Washington

An area primed for redevelopment, Seattle’s South Lake Union has now become home to Amazon’s corporate headquarters, with three building’s occupying three blocks of the neighborhood as a keystone to this up-and-coming area and serving as a template for future developments. | Read More

Community

Oregon Convention Center

Portland, Oregon

Portland’s Oregon Convention Center (OCC) has worked toward a mandate to achieve new levels in sustainability since it opened in 1990. When time came for it to recertify its LEED status in 2013, it came to Glumac’s commissioning team to help the facility move from LEED Silver to LEED Gold. | Read More

Education

Chapman University Science and Technology Building

Orange, California

Chapman University in Orange, California, sought to meet the expanding needs of its faculty and growing student population with a new, three-floor center for science and technology. With strict spatial restrictions from the city and the site itself, the school turned to Glumac’s mechanical, electrical, and plumbing teams to provide innovative systems design to ensure the project’s success. | Read More

Leisure + Hospitality

Allison Inn & Spa

Newberg, Oregon

Since its opening in 2009, the Allison Inn & Spa in Newberg, OR, has regularly appeared in the pages of travel magazines listing it as one of the best hotels in the country. And though luxury is the forefront for this Willamette Valley resort and spa, it does not come at the cost of sustainability. | Read More

Education

Matthew Knight Arena – University of Oregon

Eugene, Oregon

Home to the University of Oregon’s basketball teams, Matthew Knight Arena a state-of-the-art athletic and events facility in the heart of one of the west coast’s most active college towns. | Read More

Laboratory

UCSF IRM Laboratory

San Francisco, California

When the University of California, San Francisco Parnassus Campus decided to add a new laboratory for its Institute for Regenerative Medicine decided, spatial concerns added another level of complexity to the already difficult task of designing a high tech space from the ground up. | Read More

Leisure + Hospitality

Sokol Blosser Winery Tasting Room

Dayton, Oregon

Throughout its 40-year history, Oregon’s Sokol Blosser winery has been an industry leader in sustainable design and operation. For their new wine-tasting room in Dayton, Oregon, Sokol Blosser upped the ante, choosing to pursue Living Building Challenge Petal Recognition, which includes achieving net-zero energy. | Read More

Government

Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building

Portland, Oregon

The US General Services Administration wanted to optimize the 1970’s 18-story Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building. Targeting an energy savings of 30% over ASRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2007 per the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and a 55% reduction in  fossil fuel energy over a Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) baseline, the GSA and design team pursued an integrated design approach. | Read More

Government

Oregon Military Department – Fort Dalles Readiness Center

The Dalles, Oregon

With views of the Columbia River Gorge, the Oregon Military Department’s Fort Dalles Readiness Center was meant to be more than a standard military facility. Conceived as a collaboration between the OMD and the surrounding community, it is designed to be a fully-functional military facility, community center and occupational training facility for careers in renewable energy. | Read More

Expertise

Glumac Design Trends Update: Strategies to Deliver a Low Carbon Future

It’s a well-known fact – buildings generate 40% of the planet’s annual greenhouse gas emissions. What’s more, according to Architecture 2030, the global rate of new buildings constructed is expected to grow the size of an entire New York City, every month, for the next 40 years. In order to even come within hailing distance of our decarbonization goals, these buildings must operate at net-zero carbon. And to do that, we need to think about carbon more holistically. | Read More

Expertise

Nature-Inspired Design

Nicole Isle, chief sustainability strategist with Glumac’s Portland office, believes more building designs should capitalize on the human attraction to nature. Isle, who has a background in biology, is leading the engineering firm’s investigation into biophilic design. | Read More

Expertise

Glumac LA:
An Innovative Approach to the Living Building Challenge in a High-Rise Building

Located in the heart of the Financial District in downtown Los Angeles, Glumac’s new office space sets a precedent for ultra-efficient tenant improvement projects. The office relocation is an opportunity for the firm to chart innovative strategies for existing high-rise buildings by pursuing Petal Certification under the Living Building Challenge (LBC). | Read More

Expertise

New Steps for Sustainability:
Glumac Brings the Living Building Challenge to Asia

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~ Chinese proverb  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). | Read More

Concepts

Green Buildings: Beyond LEED

The USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council) was founded in 1993 with the mission “To transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life.” This is a lofty mission to be sure. | Read More

Concepts

Shifting Perspectives for a Net-Positive Future

The International Living Future Institute (ILFI) Net Positive Conference in San Francisco this February presented a vision for the environmental performance of buildings that is challenging for many to embrace. | Read More

Great  Projects

Sokol Blosser’s New Tasting Room Targets Living Building Challenge
and Net-Zero Energy

Over 40 years ago, the Sokol Blosser winery began its journey to becoming a world-class vineyard and an industry leader in sustainability. They had a passion for growing Pinot Noir grapes and creating fine wine which helped shape Oregon’s now-prominent wine industry. | Read More