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Atkins’ design of the Bahrain World Trade Center created the world’s first skyscraper with wind turbines integrated into the building structure.

Three aerodynamic bridges between the 42-story twin towers take advantage of strong prevailing winds to generate over 700 kW of electricity, providing more than 20 percent of the building’s total power requirements.

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SustainabilityWith the planet under stress from the activities of mankind, a sustainable approach to design and construction is needed. From habitat destruction to over-harvesting of resources and pollution of the land, sea, and air, the built environment has a direct, if not immediate impact on the world. For Atkins, it’s not just a moral decision, but one that is business critical.

Atkins’ sustainable design group assists clients with a variety of green services related to buildings, energy, industry, infrastructure, and the environment. This dedicated group is supported by Atkins’ global network of architects, engineers, scientists, and construction management professionals who are committed to delivering creative and innovative results for clients while improving life for generations.

Introduction

Plan Design EnableAtkins works on some of the world’s most technically challenging and time-critical infrastructure projects. Whether it’s the development of an energy model to help balance building cost and performance, the full design of a LEED certified facility, or the retro-commissioning of a building, we plan, design, and enable solutions for our clients.

IntroductionAtkins is a multidisciplinary architectural, engineering, planning, and construction management company. We are consistently ranked among the nation’s top architectural-engineering companies by Engineering News Record.

Atkins’ sustainable design group is a national practice that provides dedicated expertise in several key service areas: green building consulting, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) project management, energy modeling simulations, energy audits, and building commissioning.

In-house services available to our clients•Building energy audits (ASHRAE Levels I and II)•Building envelope commissioning•Building information modeling (BIM)•California Title 24 Reports•Carbon footprinting•Contractor LEED assistance•Eco-charrettes•Energy and daylight modeling•Energy Star certification assessments•Federal EPAct calculations•Federal Green Building Tax deduction support•Green building training and workshops•Green specification and material research•LEED assessment studies•LEED fundamental and enhanced commissioning•LEED project management•Materials research and specification•Renewable energy analysis•Retro-commissioning•Software: EnergyPro, eQUEST, Trace,

Energy Gauge, and VisualDOE

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Fitness Center Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida

Client U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District

Area 72,750 square feet

Status Built

Certification rating LEED Platinum

Services Architecture, energy modeling, building commissioning, BIM services

Awards

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2012 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chief of Engineers Award of Excellence

2011 Building of America Gold Medal Honor

2009 Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environmental Merit Award for Concept Design Recognizing the Air Force goal for the new fitness center to serve as a national

showcase for sustainable military development, the Atkins team strove, to the greatest extent possible, to integrate proven energy- and cost-saving solutions into the design. Atkins performed life-cycle cost analysis on all energy-saving features. The receipt of LEED Platinum certification reflects the highest achievement possible in the five categories of green-build construction: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials and resources selection, and indoor environmental quality.

Sustainable design features include:

•Energy-efficient roof system that reduces heat island effects and supports a solar power (photovoltaic) system.

•Incorporation of on-site renewable energy from roof-mounted photovoltaics and solar hot water panels to help reduce building energy consumption by 40%.

•Use of active daylighting controls to automatically turn off overhead lighting.

•Recycling of construction demolition materials, including reuse of material in the new pavement design.

•Increased wall and roof insulation.•Use of waste heat recovery chiller to provide free domestic hot water.•Low-flow toilets, urinals, and shower systems.•Permeable paving to reduce overflow in parking areas.•Maximized usage of natural daylighting.

•High-efficiency lighting and controls.•Spectrally selective glazing.•Interior finishes with high recycled content and

low volatile organic compounds.•Use of Energy Star and Federal Energy

Management Program rated products.•Solar hot water heating system.


E.O. Wilson Biophilia Center Freeport, Florida

Client M.C. Davis Trust


Status Built

Certification rating LEED Silver

Services LEED consulting, energy modeling simulation, building commissioning

Located in the Florida Panhandle, the E.O. Wilson Biophilia Center is an environmental education facility that serves students, teachers, the general public, and professional audiences. The center is nestled in the Longleaf Pine ecosystem, which is considered the sixth most biodiverse area in the continental United States. “Biophilia,” a term coined by the center’s namesake, Dr. Edward O. Wilson, a two-time Pulitzer Prize Award winner, author, and scientist, encompasses the innate love of nature felt by humankind.

The mission of the center is to educate visitors on the importance of biodiversity; to promote sustainable balanced ecosystems; and to encourage conservation, preservation, and restoration. The 28,500-square-foot facility includes an exhibit hall; 200-seat theater; and multipurpose rooms, classrooms, offices, and training labs. In support of obtaining LEED Silver certification for the facility, Atkins assisted with documentation for compliance with LEED credits, including energy modeling simulation and fundemental building commissioning.

The award-winning design achieved LEED Silver certification through the use of energy-efficient lighting, low volatile organic carbon paints, retention and conservation of water, building orientation, and incorporation of recycled construction debris. The center is the first LEED for New Construction certified building in Walton County.


University of Central Florida Campuswide LEED/Sustainability Study Orlando, Florida

Client University of Central Florida

Status Complete

Services LEED sustainability consulting

As part of ongoing sustainability initiatives, the University of Central Florida has committed to obtaining LEED Silver certification through the USGBC and Green Building Certification Institute for all new construction projects on its campus. In support of this goal, the university hired Atkins to develop a plan and approach to LEED documentation for its main campus. For development of the first phase, which included shared amenities and basic design criteria prerequisites, Atkins gathered information from the University of Central Florida Campus Master Plan 2010–2020 and various campus departments (such as facilities planning, sustainability and energy management, and housekeeping).

Phase 1: Using the LEED for New Construction Application Guide for Multiple Buildings and On-Campus Building Projects, along with the LEED Reference Guide for Green Building Design and Construction, Atkins identified strategies to document compliance with credit requirements for ten credits and two prerequisites.

Phase 2: Atkins developed a campus energy plan that meets requirements of the prerequisites and credits in the energy and atmosphere category. This plan addresses the campus LEED requirements for commissioning, optimized energy performance, refrigerant management, on-site renewable energy, measurement and verification, and green power.

Phase 3: Atkins created an exterior lighting master plan for the campus, including a comprehensive photometric study, and reported any necessary changes to existing lighting to meet LEED requirements for light pollution reduction. This plan also incorporated requirements for the innovation and design credit for low mercury lighting.

Phase 4: Atkins reviewed the campus stormwater master plan and provided suggestions for modifications to comply with LEED requirements. We investigated opportunities for the use of rainwater, recycled water, or reclaimed water systems for irrigation and/or sewage conveyance and explored options to treat campus-generated wastewater on site. In addition, Atkins established design guidelines for future projects to achieve maximum water reduction in buildings, while specifying fixtures acceptable to facilities and maintenance staff. A manual was developed to assist with bidding and to avoid the sole sourcing of fixtures.

Research Office Complex Austin, Texas

Client The University of Texas at Austin


Status Built

Certification rating LEED Certified

Services Architecture

A key component of the university’s vision for this best-in-class computer facility was a desire to apply environmentally friendly design and construction principles throughout the process. Atkins’ project plan was developed based on established U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) environmental performance goals for on-campus building projects. Those goals touched every aspect of the project, from the building site to energy efficiency, and from construction materials to the indoor environment.

This new three-story facility was the first UT Austin project to receive LEED certification and the first to incorporate the new “Tier 2” university design standard.

Awards

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2008 Associated Builders & Contractors Central Texas Chapter’s Certificate of Excellence

Atkins decided to “walk the talk” during design of our corporate headquarters for North America. We elevated interior design to the next level through our environmentally conscious, highly efficient, LEED Gold-certified office space within the MetWest Building. Located in Tampa, Florida, the project was named the 2010 Outstanding Project of the Year in the commercial interiors category by the local chapter of the US Green Building Council.

Located on 3.5 floors within a LEED Certified Core and Shell building, the project includes 90,251 square feet of commercial office space. There are over 350 employees in the new space, which consists of 146 private offices, open office areas, and 10 conference rooms. The project provides an excellent example of how to reduce costs by incorporating sustainable design elements into a project from beginning to end.


Atkins North America, Inc. Corporate Headquarters Tampa, Florida

Client Confidential


Status Built

Certification rating LEED Gold

Services Sustainability consulting, energy modeling, building commissioning

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2010 USGBC Florida Gulf Coast Chapter Commercial Interior Project of the Year


Project 2011-1 Lake Buena Vista, Florida

Client Confidential


Status Under construction

Services Architecture, sustainability consulting, energy modeling, BIM services

Located adjacent to a Victorian-style flagship resort hotel, Project 2011-1 is a 147-key timeshare. The project’s six floors house studio, one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and grand villa suites in a striking red-gabled building that complements the architecture of the existing resort.

To meet the needs of an additional 700 guests, a new water activity pool and cascading water feature will be incorporated along with numerous program enhancements to existing pools, restaurants, and retail venues.

This development is employing a design-build delivery methodology with an integrated project delivery approach and BIM technology. The building

model is being used for design coordination, clash detection, construction scheduling, cost estimating, and asset management.

The significant energy efficiency measures included in the design will result in substantial annual energy savings when compared to a typical design. Design measures focused on envelope materials and building mechanical systems. An innovative geoexchange system takes advantage of nearby lake water to cool condensers of water-cooled chillers instead of a traditional cooling tower. This will provide significant annual make-up water savings and will eliminate the use of chemical treatment for cooling tower maintenance.


Miami Culinary Institute Miami, Florida

Client Miami Dade College


Status Built

Certification rating LEED certification pending

Services Architecture, engineering, BIM services

Atkins provided complete architectural and engineering design services, as well as cost estimating, civil engineering, and surveying, from programming through construction support, for the Miami Culinary Institute. A model of sustainability and urban stewardship for Miami Dade College, the eight-story building is designed to achieve LEED Gold certification and incorporates six cooking/teaching labs, a television studio/demonstration lab, and a full-service restaurant on the top floor. Other spaces include a café, classrooms, and administrative offices. As a modestly scaled yet iconic infill building, this project embodies a new paradigm of urban development and architecture.

Supported by a design and operations that reflect the principles of sustainability, the Miami Culinary Institute promotes a holistic approach to food—from the farm to the table. Despite the challenges of massive fresh-air replacement, the use of recycled glass, bamboo, and cork lend tangible credence to this environmentally conscious approach.

Mechanically, the building is similar to a Swiss watch, in that a significant number of systems, components, and accommodations were incorporated into the small available areas. The required number of lab hoods and limited footprint size led to over 60 percent of the roof surface being penetrated or covered by equipment, with 20 percent of the floor area devoted to mechanical chases and 80 percent of the maximum hood exhaust replaced by outside air. Atkins’ mechanical engineers employed several innovative techniques to achieve LEED certification: fully programmable air distribution, hot water from both a gas-fired boiler and chiller heat recovery, pretreatment dehumidifiers, low consumption fixtures, numerous recycled content material selections including high-end finishes, rainwater/greywater harvesting from dishwashers, and composting of recycled solids for the institute’s vegetable gardens.


Northumbria University City Campus East Law, Business, and Design School Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

Client Northumbria University


Certification rating BREEAM Excellent

Status Built

Services Architecture, engineering, sustainability and environmental consulting

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2008 Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Award, Sustainability, Design, and Innovation and Overall Building of the Year Award for the Northern Region

2007 and 2008 Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, Low Carbon Performance Award for Low Carbon New Build Project of the Year

2007 Best Building Overall and Best Public Building, Journal Landmark Awards

Atkins’ award-winning sustainable design created a new landmark law, business, and design school for the Northumbria University city campus. The distinctive detached, double-curvature outer layer shades and encloses the buildings, while making a strong architectural contribution to the local community.

The solar veil of Atkins’ design is created by a stainless steel mesh frame that shades the buildings against 50 percent of the sun’s radiation and reduces air-conditioning loads. The solar grids capture and transfer solar energy to heat water for the building while enabling daylight to penetrate and contributing to the overall architectural drama.

Atkins’ design also incorporated the use of recycled materials and numerous other sustainable initiatives. The exceptionally fast-track schedule of only six months from the start of detailed design to construction required the involvement of two Atkins’ structural engineering teams to complete the complex geometry of the structure supporting the mesh screening of the building envelope.


Nobel House, DEFRA Headquarters London, United Kingdom

Client Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs


Certification rating BREEAM Excellent

Status Built

Services Architecture, engineering, sustainability and environmental consulting

Atkins was commissioned to design the renovation of this prestigious 1930’s government headquarters building for the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs. The building has ten stories of open plan offices that surround two large light wells and meeting rooms. Atkins’ renovation design included the creation of an atrium through the installation of a glazed roof over one of the two lightwells, along with a new rooftop restaurant and roof garden. The atrium roof uses a system of inflated transparent panels in place of conventional glazing.

The building fabric, as well as mechanical and electrical services, were designed to exceed established requirements for sustainability, energy efficiency, and emissions. The renovated building achieved the highest BREEAM “Excellent” rating score ever attained by a commercial building in Britain. Established in England and now used worldwide, BREEAM (Building Research Establishment’s Environmental Assessment Method) is a voluntary measurement rating for green buildings.

The renovation included new mechanical and electrical systems and incorporated high-efficiency and ultra-low-emission boilers and an ammonia refrigeration plant. Air-conditioning requirements were minimized by enhancing the natural ventilation achieved between the “warm” covered atrium and the open lightwell. Energy supply was made more efficient by using a gas turbine combined heat and power unit that provides 25 percent of the electrical load.

The building was occupied throughout the two-year construction, with phased work completed floor by floor.

Awards

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2006 Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, Sustainable Building of the Year


King Abdulaziz International Airport Expansion Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Client Confidential

Area 5,301,400 square feet

Status Under construction

Services Architecture, engineering

King Abdulaziz International Airport, located approximately 19 kilometers north of Jeddah, was inaugurated in 1981. It has since become the busiest and fastest growing airport in Saudi Arabia. Atkins is designer of record for an estimated $8 billion program to nearly double the capacity of the existing airport.

To achieve LEED certification goals, the design efforts have focused on optimizing building energy costs, reducing water consumption, and making use of recycled materials. Sustainable design features include photovoltaic panels integrated into the solar protection systems and use of recycled water for irrigation, among many others.

Buildings designated for LEED design include the following:

•Passenger terminal complex (2.9 million square feet)•First and business class car parking (150,700 square feet)•Railway station (590,000 square feet)•Transportation center (60,700 square feet)•Multi-story parking garage (1.6 million square feet)

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Atkins provided retro-commissioning services for 11 buildings, ranging in size from 7,500 square feet (sf) to over 135,000 sf, totaling over 522,000 gsf. Each of the facilities receiving services was constructed between 1885 and 1995.

Building types included offices, warehouses, dormitories, and a precision measurement equipment lab. Responsibilities included performing a complete review and analysis for each of the building’s lighting, HVAC, and automation and/or energy management systems. This effort required collecting and reviewing existing documentation including record drawings, building operating plans, shop drawings, operations and maintenance manuals, control sequences, energy audits, utility rate structures, utility billing statements, facility condition assessments, computerized maintenance management system information, and equipment lists, among other data. Atkins implemented adjustments to equipment and controls, based on survey findings.

The final deliverable was a report that documented functional performance testing results, adjustments made, remediation recommendations, improvements to operations and maintenance strategies, training recommendations, issues needing resolution, and suggested equipment or system upgrades. Atkins also noted the building orientation, general location, and visual characteristics and developed a master list of energy conservation measures and typically known operational issues to form the basis of a final report.

Repair/Retro-Commissioning at Multiple Facilities Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming

Client 90th Contracting Squadron


Status Complete

Services Retro-commissioning, energy audits

Retro-Commissioning Services Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota

Client U.S. Air Force, Air Combat Command

Status Complete

Services Retro-commissioning

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Atkins performed retro-commissioning services for seven buildings at Ellsworth AFB. The work focused on HVAC and plumbing systems and included development of a retro-commissioning plan, system condition analysis, testing and balancing, and “quick fix” replacement of defective components.

Atkins was able to establish performance baseline and benchmarks for each structure using historical utility billing data, metering data, work histories, customer complaint logs, customer surveys, and Building Automation System trend data. Data logger sensors provided additional system diagnostic monitoring, which helped to identify issues and improvement opportunities.

Atkins delivered comprehensive reports to the Air Force for each building when services were completed, along with a video-taped training course for Ellsworth technicians. Once compiled, system performance data provided the framework for test procedures that would subsequently verify that building performance requirements are being met. Ninety percent of current facility requirements could be met at a relatively low cost by implementing the recommended corrective actions in each building. In most instances, these recommendations show return-on-investment payback of less than four years, with most less than two years.

Since completing initial assessments and making adjustments, Ellsworth AFB engineers have reported that four of the seven project buildings have shown an average of 18 percent reduction in annual energy usage. Retro-commissioning also provided significant improvements in indoor air quality, along with reduction in air temperature fluctuations.

A beneficial byproduct of the pilot program was compliance with federal requirements to reduce energy consumption by 20 percent by 2015 (EPAct05, Sec. 102) and energy intensity by 3 percent annually through 2015 (Executive Order 13243, 2007).

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Benton Rudolph, AIA, NCARB Buildings Practice Manager Architecture 813.281.7602 [email protected]

Shad Shafie, PE Architecture Engineering 210.321.2016 [email protected]

Darryl McDonald, AIA, LEED AP Aviation Architecture Market Leader 813.281.7606 [email protected]

Greg Wilk, AIA Federal Architecture Market Leader 972.588.3223 [email protected]

Chuck Croslin, AIA, NCARB, ID Higher Education Architecture Market Leader 512.372.1240 [email protected]

Fran Boettcher, AIA, LEED AP BD+C Leisure Architecture Market Leader 407.806.4192 [email protected]

Vince Briones, PE, LEED AP BD+C Sustainable Design Market Leader 512.342.3241 [email protected]

Thomas Farmer, PE, LEED AP BD+C Mechanical Engineering 407.806.4251 [email protected]

Dennis D. Yates, CFM® Asset Management Market Leader 210.321.2015 [email protected]

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