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CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY BURBANK COMMUNITY SERVICES BUILDING Location: 150 North Third Street, Burbank, Calif. Size: Three-stories, 72,000-square feet, 1.97 acres Cost: $38 million Opened: August 2008 Certiﬁcation: Submitted for LEED NC 2.1 certiﬁcation in November 2008 Client: City of Burbank — www.ci.burbank.ca.us Tenants: Community Development Department; Public Works Department; Park, Recreation and Community Services Department; and the Public Information Ofﬁce LEO A DALY Team: Brian Kite, AIA, Principal-in-charge; Nicos Katsellis, AIA, LEED AP, Project Manager/Project Architect; Roxana Salcedo, Job Captain; Quang Hua, Senior Designer; Leon Reed, Senior Interior Designer; Eunju Cho, LEED AP, Interior Designer; and Ernest Barron, Construction Administrator Assistant. Contractor: Swinerton Builders A full list of outside design consultants is available at www.EDCmag.com. Products + Resources: Acoustic ceiling tiles – Armstrong Carpet tile – C&A Energy-efﬁcient central heating and cooling equipment – Energy Labs High-emissivity rooﬁng membrane – Sarnaﬁl High-level insulation – Thermaﬁber Light-gauge framing – Haworth Wall Systems Low-emitting composite wood – Haworth Low-emitting paints – ICI Paints Low-energy consumption motion sensors/photo sensors/timers – Lutron Precast concrete panels – Clark Paciﬁc Resilient sheet ﬂooring – nora systems Inc. Terrazzo ﬂooring – Sherwin-Williams Wall fabric – Designtex Wall panels – Trespa Design Waterless urinals – Duravit Window coverings – MechoShade THE THREE-LEVEL ATRIUM IS THE FOCAL POINT FOR THE ONE-STOP PERMITTING CENTER, AND DISPLAYS IMAGES REPRESENTING THE BUILDING TRADES. PHOTO BY DAVID LENA PHOTOGRAPHY. environmentally sustainable civic structure to better serve citizens while providing a functional, high-quality work environment for city employees. The interior of the building features a dramatic, three-story central atrium that visually unites the various programmatic functions and minimizes the need for artificial lighting. By consolidating all permitting functions around a central, welcoming, easy-toaccess battery of counters at the ground floor of the facility, the architecture of the building communicates a sense of an acces- sible government that is ready to provide service to the community. According to LEO A DALY Los Angeles Director of Design Hraztan Zeitlian, AIA, LEED AP, “Our strategy in creating meaningful civic architecture consisted of weaving the ‘memory of the place’ in the architectural elements and embodying a sense of democratic transparency and openness in the conception of the architectural spaces.” LEO A DALY Project Manager/ Project Architect Nicos A. Katsellis, AIA, LEED AP, who managed the LEED initiatives and submission materials for the project, adds that, “With minimal interior finishes used, the building’s seismic bracing system was intentionally exposed, revealing the structural components found in the perimeter walls. This was another functional design feature that plays into the history of the building’s location in earthquake-prone California.” The vast open core of the building had its benefits (creating a sense of openness and activity, providing generous amounts of daylight), but also posed an acoustical challenge. Designers incorporated a “white-noise” system to address the potential sound issues that could have arisen from the open atrium space. Zeitlian adds, “By judiciously using large glass curtain wall ‘windows’ at the main points of entry, we strived to bring a sense of transparency and openness to the building. The building’s architecture embodies the tenets of democracy and transparent civic decision making: The open atrium allows for the citizens to ‘see’ into the government offices, strengthening the sense of accountability and openness.” 18 ed+c J A N UA R Y 09 http://www.ci.burbank.ca.us http://www.EDCmag.com

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