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ULI/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition Jury
VMWP partenr Tim Van Meter will be one of the jury members for the Hines Urban Design Competition, which kicked off its competition stage January 17, 2012. Winners will be announced March 30, 2012..
The ULI/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition, now in its tenth year, is an urban design and development challenge for graduate students.
This is an ideas competition; there is no expectation that any of the submitted schemes will be applied to the site. The winning team will receive $50,000 and the finalist teams $10,000 each.
Sunnydale HOPE SF Master Plan Conditionally Approved
LEED ND Gold Plan
VMWP's Sunnydale HOPE SF Master Plan application for LEED ND Stage 1 certification has been submitted and approved by the US Green Building Certification Institute. It is the first United States project to receive conditional approval at the LEED Gold level, one of three major checkpoints on the path to certification as a LEED for Neighborhood Development project and one of the first three submitted in the world.
The LEED for Neighborhood Development Rating System integrates the principles of smart growth, urbanism and green building into the first national system for neighborhood design. LEED for Neighborhood Development is a collaboration among USGBC, Congress for the New Urbanism, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
LEED-ND certification provides independent, third-party verification that a development's location and design meet accepted high levels of environmentally responsible, sustainable development.
West Village, Nation's Largest Zero Net Energy Community,
Unveiled At UC Davis
Setting a national precedent in sustainable design, UC Davis West Village will be the largest planned zero net energy community in the country. Located on the UC Davis campus, this visionary development is designed to generate as much energy each year as it consumes.
When completed, the ambitious 130-acre development will be home to about 3,000 people in 662 apartments and 343 single-family houses.
Zero net energy has never been attempted on the scale of UC Davis West Village. If the community achieves its energy goals, it will set a national precedent in sustainable design.
VMWP worked on the Student Housing Design Guidelines for West Village, a set of guidelines for developing a quality, sustainable, pedestrian-oriented campus neighborhood.
Read more about West Village here.
Congratulations to Lou Huang and Geoffrey Barton on their
Capitol Mall Design Competition Win!
VMWP designers Lou Huang and Geoffrey Barton teamed with Virginia Alexander, designer at Pyatok Architects and Darryl Jones, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2D Candidate at UC Berkeley on their entry
River City Promenade. The four person team was awarded second place at an awards ceremony Wednesday night.
The competition was put on by the city of Sacramento, the American Institute of Architects and other local organizations, including the Downtown Sacramento Partnership, to help gather ideas to transform Capitol Mall after the state handed it over to city control in 2006.
Information on the competition here.
Sacramento Press article here.
VMWP Selected to Create Master Plan for
Yale Station Transit-Oriented Development
ULC is a part of Yale TOD Partners, a strategic alliance between RTD, Koelbel and Company and Mile High Development, to create a master plan for a transit-oriented community at the Yale Station.
Yale TOD Partners has selected Van Meter Williams Pollack as the architect who will work with the development partners to create a comprehensive master plan that incorporates numerous parcels including ULC's 1.5 acres.
Warner Creek Senior Housing Ground Breaking
Warner Creek Senior Housing is having a ground breaking ceremony October 7th. Warner Creek is a 61 unit affordable housing development of one bedroom units for seniors over 55 to “age in place”. This site along Diablo
Avenue is the quintessential infill site, on a vacant lot in Novato, CA alongside a creek bank. Eden Housing is the developer.
Check out this short video of the site.
Eastbridge Apartments Ground Breaking
Eastbridge Apartments has started construction. The project is a multi-family residential development located just south of Eastbridge Town Center in the Stapleton community of Denver. The 118 rental units are broken up into six buildings taking on a horseshoe form. Forest City Stapleton is the developer.
Peralta Senior Housing
Construction on VMWP's Peralta Senior Housing is moving along and taking shape. Funded through the HUD 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program and Tax Credits, the project will consist of 98 affordable units for low income seniors and will include commercial space for the senior health care provider, On Lok Lifeways, a PACE provider offering supportive services to seniors.
Designed to receive a GreenPoint Rated score of over 200 points, the project will be one of the greenest multi-family developments in California, incorporating a variety of energy- and resource-efficient features such as a solar hot water system, photovoltaic panels, Energy Star appliances, drought-tolerant landscaping, and high efficiency irrigation. Eden Housing is the developer.
Project Updates
The Kalaeloa Net Zero Community is an exciting new planning effort in Hawaii our Denver office has been working on. It's a 15 acre site with 338 dwelling units of affordable housing. The community will handle all energy, water and waste on site.
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