Client
U.S. Coast Guard
Location
Houston, TX
Market
Military: Operations Center
Justice & Institutional: Government & Administration Buildings
Resilience
Services
Design: Architecture, Structural Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Plumbing, Piping, Fire Protection, Landscape Architecture, Mechanical/HVAC Engineering, Interior Design
Environmental Sciences: Resilience & Sustainability
Certification
LEED® Silver
U.S. Coast Guard Houston-Galveston Sector Building
Hurricane Ike caused massive flooding in a swath stretching from the Florida Panhandle to the Texas coast. Among the casualties of the storm was the Sector Field Office of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) in Galveston, which sustained substantial structural damage.
STV served as the designer of record to Mortenson Construction, as part of a design-build contract, for a new four-story, $42 million the USCG Sector Field Office, which was relocated to a 19.7-acre site in Houston. The firm provided civil, landscape, architectural, structural, mechanical, plumbing, fire protection, and electrical design services. Revit 3-D BIM software was used in the design.
The 111,500-square-foot building includes office and training spaces, command centers, a data center, medical and dental facilities, shops, berthing rooms, a cafeteria, a fitness center, and support spaces.
It also meets the requirements of Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection and was designed to achieve LEED® Silver certification.
Project Recognition
NATIONAL AWARD OF MERIT
2015 Design-Build Project/Team Award – Civic/Assembly
Design-Build Institute of America
AWARD OF MERIT
2014 ENR Texas & Louisiana Best Projects – Government/Public Buildings
Engineering News-Record Magazine