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5/01/08
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The latest addition to the Summit Office Campus in Aliso Viejo – a nine-story, 246.6k sf build-to-suit office tower for Newport Beach-based Pacific Life Insurance Company -- was recently completed. Situated on roughly 5.5 acres at 45 Enterprise, the building will house about 1,000 employees of the company. SoCal-based Snyder Langston is handling construction of the project, which began in November 2006.
“This was a fast paced project,” said Snyder Langston’s Chad Olson, Senior Project Manager for the Pacific Life building. “Everyone was pulling on the same rope to successfully get it done and meet our client’s needs.”
Snyder Langston worked closely with the City of Aliso Viejo and with Aliso Viejo-based Parker Properties, the developer of the 1.8 msf Summit Office Campus. The upscale business park also includes a Renaissance Clubsport facility, containing a 174-room hotel and 65k sf sports club that will be completed this summer.
Pacific Life’s Class A office tower is Aliso Viejo’s tallest building and is adjacent to, and highly visible from, the 73 Tollway. The steel frame structure includes a pre-cast concrete exterior, glass and metal panels and Pacific Life logos that are lit at night on the upper floors.
The building offers redundant mechanical and electrical systems – if one system shuts down, another will start. These systems are located within a Central Plant mechanical and electrical building. The Central Plant eliminates the need for equipment to be mounted within the building. The construction of the building and six-level adjacent parking structure, which includes 1,100 spaces, presented some challenges because the site sits on different elevations which required the construction of several retaining walls. A total of 12 retaining walls were created and the finished product offers a topography that includes lush landscaping, outdoor people places and a visually pleasing work atmosphere that successfully uses the elevations to the project’s advantage both visually and logistically for its users. Irvine-based Ware Malcomb was the project architect.
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