West Hawaii Civic Center
Location: Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Owner: County of Hawaii
Architect: Richard Matsunaga & Associates Architects Inc.
Contract Amount: $50,527,863
Completion Date: January 2011
Design/Build of eight (8) buildings and a parking structure. Major exterior finishes consist of textured composite concrete walls, native basalt lava and standing seam metal roofs. The buildings are constructed with slab-on-grade foundations, a steel frame with metal and concrete decking and concrete shear wall lateral bracing. A central plant of redundant Turbocor chillers and cooling towers feed building air handlers and distribute overhead via VAV diffusers. Power and lighting systems feature local controls and energy saving measures per LEED.