The Google Bay View campus offers 1.1M sq. ft. of office space and 240 modular short-term employee accommodation units on 42 acres. The campus is designed with California’s drought issues in mind. It houses North America’s largest geothermal heat-pump network, allowing the campus to access ground head for its HVAC systems, as well as to distribute excess heat into the ground during hotter months. The campus also includes 57,000 silver solar panels, supplying 4 megawatts of electricity (enough to accommodate 40% of the building’s power needs). BKF provided civil engineering design and land surveying services for the project, including the preparation of construction documents and construction support.
- 1M sq. ft. of office space and 240 modular short-term employee accommodation units on 42 acres
- Campus HVAC system to use 100% filtered fresh air
- Designed to enough daylight into offices to eliminate need for electric lighting for majority of daytime hours
- Largest LEED v4 BD+C: NC Platinum project in the world
- 2022 ENR Global Best Project
- 2022 CoreNet Global, Award for Sustainable Leadership in Corporate Real Estate
- 2022 Silicon Valley Business Journal, Structures Award, Best Campus Project Award
- 2021 Silicon Valley Business Journal, Structures Award, Green Project Award
- Image courtesy of Google
- Award-Winning Core Team:
Owner/Developer: Google/Sares Regis Group of Northern California
General Contractor: Whiting Turner
Architects: Heatherwick Studio, Bjarke Ingels Group, Adamson Associates Architects, STUDIOS Architecture
