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Geneva High School
V3 provided design services for proposed additions and renovations to an existing high-school campus, including an expansion of the high school from 240,000 square feet to 400,000 square feet. Improvements to the 50-acre site included grading, utilities, parking/hardscape design as well as the football field, tennis courts, fitness trail and other recreational areas. Creative stormwater management was needed to gain approximately 9 acre feet of storage to bring the disturbed areas of the site into compliance with current county stormwater regulations. Stormwater management techniques included stormtrap underground detention, permeable pavers with sub-base storage in the parking lot, and use of the sub-base under the football field’s synthetic turf for storage volume. V3 also assisted the project’s LEED consultant with documentation and design parameters for LEED certification. |
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Takeda Pharmaceuticals North American Headquarters
This 70+/- acre corporate office includes five office buildings and additional support buildings that total more than 1 million square feet. A primary project focus was to achieve certification by the U.S. Green Building Council as part of the Leader in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. LEED stormwater credits were achieved through the use of bioswales and interceptor ditches, promoting infiltration, and minimizing pollutants entering the waterways. Heat islands were reduced by minimizing the footprints for parking areas through the use of parking structures, land banked parking, and challenging the local parking requirements. |
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General Board of Pension and Health Benefits for the United Methodist Church
Sustainability was a key goal for the General Board’s 25-acre headquarters property with LEED certification as an objective. To break up the heat-island effect, the parking lot was laid out to include larger landscape islands, which receive stormwater runoff that is filtered through bioswales and native vegetation in the islands to improve water quality prior to discharge into the detention facilities. One detention facility is a naturalized dry bottom basin and the other is a wet bottom basin with a wetland shelf and naturalized shoreline; the design of both aid in improving water quality prior to discharge. Compensatory storage was provided in areas – separated from the detention facilities – that also are planted with native vegetation. Other sustainability features include dark-sky lighting along the drive and in the parking lot, a structure roof that is part-green, part-Energy Star compliant, and an evaluation of recaptured rainwater usage. |
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River Point at Sheridan
This retail development is comprised of 800,000 square feet of new retail and restaurant space on a 145-acre assemblage of 27 parcels of land and public right-of-way. This project included the design and installation of 16,650 lineal feet of public water main and utilization of approximately 3800 lineal feet of existing water main within the project site. Activities included a 400-foot horizontal directional bore of a 12-inch water main under the South Platte River. Because the project is being built over an existing landfill, V3 prepared and gained approval of a “Water Main Design Report” that specified the pipe material and special joints for the water main. All water mains located outside the right-of-way required new easements, resulting in V3 preparing more than 20 easement legal descriptions and exhibits. V3 modeled the water system using WaterCAD and prepared and gained approval of a water model report that included fire flow analyses and worst-case scenarios. The project received an Engineering News Record (ENR) Best of 2009 Projects Award in the Environmental category. |
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Springbrook Prairie Pavilion
A 27+/- acre shopping center, this project is the first LEED CS center in Illinois. The project includes 1170 surface parking stalls, 11 buildings, two future outlots, a central plaza area, bike path and associated bike parking. Best management practices used include the use of permeable pavers, vegetated swales, bioswales, settling basins and storm risers. To minimize the impact to receiving waters during construction, additional provisions were added to the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan, including silt fencing, temporary construction entrances and protection of adjacent off-site stormwater inlet filter baskets. |
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Children’s Memorial Hospital
A complex 1.7-acre infill site for hospital offered numerous unique characteristics, including a creative building geometry that encompassed 90% of the site but 30% of which was cantilevered to allow for an arching access drive through the site. Site challenges included successfully coordinating the location and elevation of the stormwater detention system, emergency generator fuel tanks and utilities to serve the hospital. Loading dock access is off of a newly dedicated green alley. The project was registered with the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program and included water quality improvements through the use of a Stormceptor water quality unit. Concrete was used as a paving material to help reduce the heat island, non-roof effect; a green roof system decreased the heat island effect caused by the building and helped minimize stormwater runoff. |
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WMS Gaming
Sited adjacent to the Chicago River, this project consists of a proposed 1-acre development containing a 4-story building addition, a river walk and a vehicular drop-off area. WMS Gaming wanted the project to be highly innovative to attract elite game designers as employees, resulting in WMS targeting a LEED Platinum rating. A heavy focus was placed on the energy efficiency and water use both within and outside of the building. Examples include collecting stormwater from the roof and re-using it as gray water within the building and filtering site stormwater through native plantings and settling areas to minimize runoff and promote infiltration. Stormwater that was not absorbed via this process entered a traditional storm sewer system, which was then routed to a cistern to capture the clean water for use at a later date for irrigation. An overflow from the storm sewer/irrigation system was directed through a water-quality unit prior to being discharged into the Chicago River. Other sustainable site credits included development density, access to public transportation, protecting or restoring habitat, maximizing open space, providing stormwater quantity and quality control, and minimizing heat island affect. |
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Public Works Service Center
Project involved redevelopment of a 22.8 acre site formerly used as an automobile transfer station parking lot to a new complex including a 213,000-square-footbuilding, 432 parking spaces for employees, visitors, trucks and police impound vehicles, a salt dome, fueling station, recycling center, storage areas and an outlot. Stormwater was managed through an extensive series of bioswales and a naturalized detention basin to promote infiltration and improve water quality. Sustainable design was a major goal of the City, and the project became LEED Certified through the USGBC. The existing site was entirely paved with asphalt and a key challenge for the project included the milling, recycling and re-use of all this material on site, avoiding the cost and waste of hauling it off site. |
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Municipal Services Center
Located on 40 acres, this development consists of an administration building, a maintenance building, a fueling station and several inside and outdoor storage facilities. The site plan was designed specifically to minimize impact, disturbing only 15 acres and allowing existing wetlands and forest preserve property to become the project’s focal point. Wetland permitting provided unique design challenges early in the project and encouraged the incorporation of additional sustainable elements. Specially designed curbs and sidewalks will be used to prevent the endangered Blanding’s turtle from accessing pavement areas. To further foster a naturalized feel, Best Management Practices (BMP’s) will be implemented, including a network of bioswales. A vortex separator will discharge filtered stormwater to naturalized detention basins, improving the water quality entering nearby Middlefork Savanna. The client is pursuing LEED Gold certification to promote the importance of environmental considerations in developing land.
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