The City of Shoreline, Opus Northwest and LMN Architects celebrated the “topping out” of the four-story civic center on Jan. 16.
With its green roof and solar panels, the $30.5 million campus will be part of a solar power demonstration project. The council chambers will open onto a plaza and outdoor amphitheater, and other meeting space will be made available to community and non-profit groups for conferences.
“It is a special opportunity to be a part of creating a new front door and living room for a City,” PJ Santos, senior real estate director for Opus Northwest said in a press release. “With Shoreline, our team worked passionately with citizens, constituents and community leaders to develop the vision and design. It is ‘Shoreline’s home’ and we feel it is well on its way towards achieving its goals.”
Opus Northwest and the City of Shoreline will seek to certify the campus as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) silver level and possibly the gold level. LEED is a program that the U.S. Green Building Council administers. The program is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high-performance, environmentally sustainable buildings.
“Sustainable development needs to be pondered at the start with any new development in our time. With the City of Shoreline and its citizens, sustainability was at the core of their goals so we quickly found harmony in our collective vision,” Santos said.
Sustainable features will include bioswales and rain gardens, where storm water will be collected and cleaned on site, according to Santos. The municipal campus will have low-flow plumbing fixtures and will use products made of recycled materials. Office furniture will be made of 75 to 100 percent recycled content. The project will also contain a solar demonstration project which will be used to educate the community on solar power.
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