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//AWARD WINNERS
DBIA Excellence in Design Award
Colonel James Nesmith
Readiness Center
DALLAS, ORE.
The Colonel James Nesmith Readiness Center
was built to best service the needs of the Oregon
Army National Guard's 162nd Combat Engineer
Company. The 40,000 square-foot, LEED® Gold
certified building includes offices, training facilities and recruiting space as well as family support
facilities. It also serves the surrounding community with flexible event space.
The readiness center is Oregon's first project
to be designed and built using strict design excellence guidelines that were modeled after the U.S.
General Services Administration's design excellence program. The facility's design excellence is
expressed through its timelessness, connection to
its site, its human scale and the structural and material integrity. The center was designed to evoke
images of historic granges in the surrounding area
while maintaining the necessary requirements of
the military.
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The building takes advantage of the natural
beauty of the surrounding landscape. The approach
goes through grasslands and orchards and over a
stream, providing setbacks and separation for security in the most aesthetic manner possible. The
assembly hall features panoramic views of the land
and its interior. Natural light filters through a real
wood framework in the assembly hall, establishing
a connection with the land. A large gabion wall separates the military vehicle zone from public parking.
A major design challenge was balancing
stringent security requirements with excellent
design. While this was far from easy, the team
of Lease Crutcher Lewis and THA Architecture
accomplished it superbly. Form and function are
seamlessly allied. Separate secure program areas
for administrative spaces and training facilities are
separated by the public areas, which are welcoming
and less stringently secured.
In the owner letter in the award submission,
the Oregon Military Department called the center
"the best National Guard Readiness Center in the
nation." It cites design-build's numerous benefits
from the owner's perspective, including the collaborative approach of the team, design flexibility and
the decrease in the owner's risk while increasing
the project's value.
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© Lara Swimmer
A Look to DBIA's Excellence in
Design Award Winners
Project: Colonel James Nesmith Readiness
Center
Location: Dallas, Ore.
Owner: Oregon Military Department
Design-Builder: Lease Crutcher Lewis
Architect: THA Architecture
Engineers: Catena Consulting Engineers
(structural)
Glumac (mechanical)
KPFF Consulting Engineers (civil)
Specialty Contractor: Place Studio (landscape
design)
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of IQ Winter 2014
leadership reflections
legislative update
project of the year
DBIA survey
design-build best practices
design winners
nationalo design-build student competition
IQ Winter 2014
IQ Winter 2014 - (Page 1)
IQ Winter 2014 - (Page 2)
IQ Winter 2014 - (Page 3)
IQ Winter 2014 - (Page 4)
IQ Winter 2014 - leadership reflections (Page 5)
IQ Winter 2014 - leadership reflections (Page 6)
IQ Winter 2014 - legislative update (Page 7)
IQ Winter 2014 - project of the year (Page 8)
IQ Winter 2014 - project of the year (Page 9)
IQ Winter 2014 - DBIA survey (Page 10)
IQ Winter 2014 - DBIA survey (Page 11)
IQ Winter 2014 - DBIA survey (Page 12)
IQ Winter 2014 - DBIA survey (Page 13)
IQ Winter 2014 - design-build best practices (Page 14)
IQ Winter 2014 - design-build best practices (Page 15)
IQ Winter 2014 - design-build best practices (Page 16)
IQ Winter 2014 - design winners (Page 17)
IQ Winter 2014 - design winners (Page 18)
IQ Winter 2014 - design winners (Page 19)
IQ Winter 2014 - nationalo design-build student competition (Page 20)
IQ Winter 2014 - nationalo design-build student competition (Page 21)
IQ Winter 2014 - nationalo design-build student competition (Page 22)
IQ Winter 2014 - nationalo design-build student competition (Page 23)
IQ Winter 2014 - nationalo design-build student competition (Page 24)
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