CITATION AWARD
Entry Number: UB03063
Project Name: UNLV, Science Engineering & Technology Building
Project Address: UNLV main campus, Las Vegas, NV
Building Type: Educational
Completion Date: June 2007
Design Team:
Architect: Dekker/Perich/Holmes/Sabatini

Design Team: William Q. Sabatini, AIA; R. Brandon Sprague, AIA; Tobias Flatow; Mike Purtill, AIA; Andrea Hanson, NCIDQ
Interior Designer: Dekker/Perich/Holmes/Sabatini (Interior Division)
Landscape Architect: Dekker/Perich/Holmes/Sabatini (Landscape Architecture Division)
Structural Engineer: Hyytinen Engineering
Electrical Engineer: Syska Hennessey Group
Mechanical Engineer: Syska Hennessey Group
Civil Engineer: Tetra Tech
Owner/Developer:
Nevada State Public Works Board
Christian P. Chimits, AIA, Project Manager
University of Nevada – Las Vegas
Peg Rees, Ph.D., Senior Vice Provost, Provost Office
Thomas M. Hagge, P.E., Assoc. Vice President, Facilities Management and Planning
Susan Hobbes, AIA, Director, Planning and Construction
Frederick W. Bachhuber, Ph.D., Dean, College of Sciences
Rodney V. Metcalf, Ph.D., Chair of Geosciences Department, College of Sciences
Darrell Pepper, Dean, Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
William G. Culbreth, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Research, Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
Others Involved:
Facility Program – Ira Fink and Associates
Laboratory Programming/Planning – Earl Walls Associates
Commissioning – Affiliated Engineers, Inc.
Cost Estimating Consultant – O’Connor Construction Management
Infrastructure Design Consultant – Stanley Consultants
Acoustical Design Consultant – Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon, Williams
Audio/Visual Consultant – Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon, Williams
Vibration Isolation & Control Consultant – Colin Gordon & Associates
Lighting Design Consultant – Pivotal, Lighting Group of Affiliated Engineers
Life Safety/Code Consultant – ArupFire
Sustainability/Energy Design Consultant – The Weidt Group
Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing Design – Affiliated Engineers

Design Approach: The design was driven by solid sustainable design principals paired with the desire to create a comfortable environment that sparks discovery, provides space for diversity & flexibility and gives the building a unique image with a sense of place.

Material in ASL Library: Form Core Boards, Project Identification Form, Project Entry Form, 3-D Computer Modeling, Site Location, Site Plan, Floor Plans, Photos of Model, Lighting Studies, 3-D Computer Modeling Interior/Exterior, Sections and CD