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ACHIEVING OUTSTANDING DESIGN EFFICIENTLY
ACHIEVING OUTSTANDING DESIGN EFFICIENTLY
Pages 96-102
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GSA and the Public Buildings Service The General Services Administration (GSA) has had a good head start in this trend.
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Public Buildings Service projects vary from very small to eno~ous. In a few days, we will be signing a contract to construct a Richard Meier-designed, 900,000 square foot courthouse, which will be one of the largest buildings on Long Island, New York (Figure I)
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The resulting publications (available from the National Technical Information Service in Springfield, Virginia) cover interim design guidelines for automated offices, and productivity enhancements.
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Three of these buildings were new construction projects and two were repair and modernization amounting to total overhaul of existing federal buildings. These buildings included the Bonneville Power Authority in Portland, Oregon; the Long Beach Federal Building in Long Beach, California; and the Army Records Center in Overland, Missouri.
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The HVAC consultant probably received as much weight as the lead architect In that first phase of the selection process. We decided that this is not a good way to go.
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Our construction costs are consistent with those of priorate sector buildings whose functions can be reasonably compared. Costs for the new regional Internal Revenue Service headquarters in New CarrolItor~, Maryland, clearly an exceptional design, are well within the range of the costs for privately developed general purpose office space in the Washington, D.C., area.
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We have seen these methods produce results, such as the innovative HVAC approach of the Phoenix courthouse, which was specifically cited in the Progressive Architecture Award. We really need to look at the role of government.
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