Saturday, November 8, 2014

Westgroup Designs Achieves LEED Platinum Certification for the Google Orange County, CA Headquarters

  
Google Orange County Headquarters,
Jamboree and MacArthur, Irvine, CA


Irvine, CA  -- The 140,000-square-foot Google Orange County Headquarters, a striking glass structure completing the Impac Center campus and plaza was recently Certified LEED© Platinum by the USGBC for Core and Shell.  The building is located at the intersection of Jamboree and MacArthur in the City of Irvine.

The building, designed by Westgroup Designs, is the first multi-story commercial office project located throughout Southern and Central California to receive LEED Platinum Certification.

LEED, or Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, is a green building certification program that recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices.

Westgroup’s sustainability solutions for the Google building incorporated strategic design elements such as the use of energy-efficient, 10’ high monolithic glass, streamlined structural design, exterior balconies and 45-foot interior bay depths. These solutions contributed to the sustainability of the project as well as providing significant savings on construction costs.

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