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Attend the 2014 Q Award Luncheon
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Honoring
Emerson College Los Angeles
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June 24, 2014
Pre-Event News Release: For Immediate Release
2014 Q Award Recipient
Emerson College
Emerson College Los Angeles is 2014 Q Award Recipient
Los Angeles, CA – Emerson College of Los Angeles will be awarded the prestigious Alliance for Quality Construction’s Q Award on June 24, 2014, for its construction of a flashy and technologically advanced LEED Gold Certified 10-story building. This $85 million, 107,000 square foot project began in early 2012 and was completed in the fourth quarter of 2013. The new Emerson College campus was union built by Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company, and architecturally designed by world-renowned architecture, Thom Mayne of Morphosis Architects, a collaborative architectural practice negotiating the technological, political, and cultural intersections of architecture, urbanism, and design.
Emerson College was established in 1880 and evolved from a small New England school of oratory to a multifaceted college with an international reputation. Situated in a lively part of Boston, Massachusetts, Emerson College has offered a semester-long program in Los Angeles built around professional internships since 1986. In 2008, the college purchased a vacant lot in Hollywood and began to develop plans to expand the Los Angeles program and create a permanent home. With over 4,000 alumni living in Southern California, this became the ideal place for Emerson to establish another campus. This campus offers students television, film, journalism, marketing, and communication internships, which assist in their networking base.
With a targeted LEED Gold Certification environmental impact, the construction team was able to create a sun-shading system, connected to a local weather station, that automatically adjusts to minimize the energy used to heat, cool, and illuminate the glass-enclosed residential towers. A valence system, located within the ceilings, is controlled by sensors and provides radiant heating and cooling for the residential units when needed. On top of the West tower, solar thermal panels use the sun to heat water, providing hot water throughout the center and decreasing the building’s consumption of natural gas. In addition, the building is equipped with efficient fixtures and on-site water management to reduce water use by 40%.
“It is quite a remarkable feat for a structure of this magnitude and design to become LEED Gold Certified,” said AQC’s Chair Pam Ackrich. “Positive results can occur only with a stellar general contractor leading the project, a superb architectural design, cooperation between government and Emerson College, and all union trades working in unison.”
The new Emerson College sustainable building is on the lively corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gordon Street, looking North toward Hollywood Hills and a pristine view of the Hollywood sign. The geometry is unique because different viewpoints can cause somewhat of a stunning optical allusion. The bridge over the grand stairs also serves as a mounting platform for large video screens transforming the upper portion into an outdoor movie theater. The glitzy building provides 6 general purpose classrooms, a computer lab, an audio lab, a distance learning room, two performance studios, two dressing rooms, two study rooms, a 4K screening room, a multi-purpose event space, and a post-audio mixing suite. Of exceptional note, the event space has advanced audio and visual equipment with seating capacity of 250 persons reconfigurable for special events and parties and the post audio is a 7.1 Dolby surround sound audio suite that is shaped to provide optimum acoustics. The outdoor terrace takes advantage of the Southern Californian sunshine with a park-like grass area with trees and barbeque grills. The relaxing atmosphere creates social activity and creative cross-pollination. “One must see this structure to realize the incredible final result. Emerson College Los Angeles adds to the growing Southern California Q Award iconic buildings,” said Ackrich.
ABOUT AQC
The Alliance for Quality Construction, a Southern California association of union contractors and building trades unions dedicated to promoting industry awareness of the value, quality and integrity provided by union contractors and their skilled craftsmen.
NOTES TO EDITORS/MEDIA:
For more information contact
Pam Ackrich, Alliance for Quality Construction
Tel: 909-224-5749
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