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Orange County Water District’s Advanced Water Quality Assurance Laboratory, Fountain Valley, Calif. Photo by Andre Casasola, OCWD.
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Orange County Water District’s Advanced Water Quality Assurance Laboratory, Fountain Valley, Calif.
Budget: $27 million.
Size: 39,000 ft2.
Project team: RNL Design, Los Angeles (architect, landscape architect); Earl Walls Associates (now Xnth), San Diego (lab consultant); IBE Consulting Engineers, Sherman Oaks, Calif. (MEP engineer); Nabih Youssef & Associates, Los Angeles (structural engineer); Psomas Engineering, Santa Ana, Calif. (civil engineer); Diaz-Yourman Geotechnical Services, Santa Ana (geotechnical services); Butier Engineering Inc., Tustin, Calif. (construction management); FTR International Inc., Irvine, Calif., (contractor).
Completion date: October, 2009
Description: The Orange County Water District’s Advanced Water Quality Assurance Laboratory is a 39,000-ft2 two-story steel framed building that houses about 45 chemists, lab technicians and water quality monitoring personnel. The lab also holds the equipment needed to do >350,000 analyses of ~18,000 water samples annually, and to meet the testing requirements for the Groundwater Replenishment System, the largest water purification project of its kind in the world. The lab replaced a 35-year-old building and several add-on portable trailers. Incorporating key design strategies from Labs21, the designers used locally manufactured materials with recycled components and low VOC emissions, and recycled water for on-site landscape. The laboratory has been awarded LEED Silver certification.
Contact: Gina DePinto, Orange County Water District, GDePinto@ocwd.com.
Published in Laboratory Design newsletter: Vol. 15, No. 12, December, 2010.
