U.S. Fish & Wildlife Visitor Center

This project was for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife at the Desert National Wildlife Refuge and consisted of a renovation of the contact station to a visitor station. This facility is a LEED Platinum rated facility and serves as a regional destination and major access point to the 1.5 million acre range. Key sustainable features include water-efficient fixtures, high-performance glazing, and HVAC systems that reduce energy costs, extensive daylighting and low VOC materials. The concrete tilt-up structure features unique touches in the public spaces such as replicas of fossils indigenous to the area cast into the walls and floor patterns that map the flow of spring run-off streams on the site.