The New Eastern Standard
Boston, MA
One of the first major cross-laminated timber office building in Los Angeles, the 145,000 square-foot, multi-story mixed-use building utilizes an environmentally forward hybrid CLT system and has subterranean parking, retail, and office space as well as a tiered vertical garden courtyard. Shawmut added five new levels on top of an existing commercial structure in this adaptive reuse project. The new construction components include renewable and energy- and water-efficient materials. The landscaping is irrigated by a 15,000 gallon cistern that captures stormwater. Preliminary calculations show an estimated reduction of 1,357 metric tons of carbon compared to traditional building methods, which is equivalent to keeping 287 cars off the road for a year or the energy needed to operate 143 homes for a year. There are 936 metric tons of carbon dioxide stored in the wood, and by using this material the project avoided greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 421 metric tons of carbon dioxide.