LOCATION

Apple Valley, California

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

This Mojave Water Agency project started off with a needs assessment of the current Agency, which is currently located at two different sites. The new facility, located in an empty lot within a few hundred feet of the existing Administration Building, centralized all the Agency departments in one location to make daily operations more efficient. Designed to be an understated simple form cladded in CMU block with an iconic entrance facade, the new headquarters facility has attained a LEED Gold Rating.

This project is designed with many sustainable design features which can be found within the building as well as the site itself. Among those sustainable elements are large windows that allow views to the outside, tube skylights for natural light, light shelves, retention basins, demonstrations gardens and photo-voltaic fields found on top and side of the Administration Building and on top of the covered parking canopies.