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The recently completed Capitol Area East End Complex is the largest office project ever undertaken by the State of California Department of General Services and also the “greenest” ever developed by the State. Located on the east end of Sacramento’s Capitol Park, the project is a multi-block, mixed-use office development consolidating the headquarters operations of two major departments of California State government. The design-build team of Clark/Gruen, consisting of Clark Construction Group, LLC of Oakland, Calif. and Gruen Associates of Los Angeles, built the major portion of the $300 million complex.
Sixty-four hundred employees of the Departments of Health Services and Education are housed in the five-building, 1.5 million-square-foot development, along with 2,200 parking spaces. Public amenities include retail, community police station, 300-seat auditorium, and childcare center with outdoor play area. The Clark/Gruen design-build team built the four buildings flanking Capitol Avenue Park.
Exterior building materials are natural and neutral in color, to complement the existing downtown structures. Light-toned green-gray granites recall the materials of the Capitol Building. Thirty thousand square feet of gray marble from the historic Library and Courts Buildings were recycled and used in the ground floor lobbies. Facades facing residential areas are clad in light toned beige brick and patterned precast panels, in scale with the residential street. Non-reflective high-performance glass is used to maximize the positive benefits of sunlight, conserve energy and provide visual transparency to existing nearby buildings.
Numerous energy efficiency and conservation measures were designed and built into the project, resulting in performance expected to exceed State efficiency standards by over 30%. Savings from the development’s reduced energy consumption will total $400,000 annually. Sustainable features include:
- 85% of construction waste - over 12,500 tons - was diverted from landfills
- Strongest indoor air quality strategies ever used by the State
- Building materials selected for high recycled content and low emissions
- Water efficiency include low-flow plumbing fixtures and plant-segregated irrigation systems
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