California Academy of Sciences

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Our Role
Development Manager, Project Leader
Client
California Academy of Sciences
Architect
Renzo Piano Building Workshop; Executive Architect - Chong Partners Architecture (now Stantec)
Consultants
Structural, MEP, other engineering - ARUP; Civil - Rutherford & Chekene; Life Support - MWH Global; LEED Commissioning - CTG; Hortaculture - Rana Creek Ranch; Landscape - SWA Group
Contractor
Webcor Builders
Size
433,000 square feet
Type
Cultural/Institutional, Office, Sustainable, Tenant Improvements
Budget
$488,000,000
Address
55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, California View Map
Status
Building Complete October, 2007; Open to the Public September, 2008
Description
For more than five years, T. J. REAGAN, INC. (in association with D. R. YOUNG ASSOCIATES) served as Project Leader for one of San Francisco's most groundbreaking museum renovations. Through multiple phases of entitlement, design and construction, T. J. REAGAN, INC. coordinated the work of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano and a highly specialized team of consultants, contractors and vendors numbering in the thousands (not to mention 900 species of fish, 38,000 examples of fauna, and 20 million items of its natural history collections). The result is an architectural landmark with the distinction of being the world’s largest publicly accessible building to earn LEED Platinum certification for sustainability by the United States Green Building Council.