OneWorld Career and Training Center

Apr 9, 2024

OneWorld Career and Training Center

Omaha, Nebraska

OneWorld Community Health Centers is a non-profit healthcare system whose mission is to empower all people through health and well-being services. From the start of the planning and design of the OneWorld Career and Training Center, it was clear that OneWorld’s deep sense of care for the community also considers care for the environment as they expand to meet the needs of underserved populations.

The new OneWorld Mixed-Use Development is a three-story building intentionally offering a combination of services conveniently located across the street from OneWorld Health Campus. The 30,000 SF facility houses childcare, healthcare workforce training and development, and outpatient behavioral health and administrative services. Thoughtful design safely separates the user groups by establishing pedestrian and vehicle traffic flow and grants secure access features for each of the unique programs housed in the building.

Offering easy access to available and affordable childcare, the vibrant first-floor childcare center opens to playful and welcoming design for the children of OneWorld staff and the surrounding community. Designed for the care of infants through Pre-K, the layout includes six classrooms with culturally significant artwork to connect and inspire all.

Demonstrating OneWorld’s commitment to provide professional development within the community for their workforce, the second floor is dedicated to a workforce training and development center for healthcare occupations. Mock clinic, dental exam rooms and reception spaces allow for training in a wide variety of healthcare professions including physician and dental assistant, medical reception and medical records training. The layout includes large and small training classrooms and a testing center for certifications.

Because of growing demand for behavioral health services, the third floor is devoted to outpatient behavioral health and administrative spaces. The plan includes spaces for nine therapy offices as well as separate spaces for family, pediatric, and group therapy. The planned administrative functions on this floor align with therapy services and include social worker offices for easy access/referrals.

LEO A DALY’s experienced and integrated design team led OneWorld to appropriate and affordable sustainable solutions using incentives available through the Inflation Reduction Act. The site, climate, and financial incentive made a geothermal system an economical and environmental heating and cooling selection. This highly efficient and sustainable system lowers utility bills as well as maintenance costs for the non-profit making its return on investment and reliability a reasonable choice for the project budget. The architects and engineers also designed the project for photovoltaic panels, so OneWorld is ready for future environmental investments that align with their goals.

Client 

OneWorld Community Health Centers

At a glance

30,000-SF mixed-use development

Affordable sustainable design

Geothermal

Photovoltaic-ready

Features

Safe, secure, accessible and affordable childcare, workforce training and behavioral health services

Services

Architectural Design

Engineering

Excel Miami

Dec 11, 2023

Excel Miami

Miami, Florida

Excel Miami stands as a beacon of sophisticated urban living, presenting a distinctive architectural marvel comprising 310 luxury rental units gracefully spread across 12 stories, encompassing a sprawling 386,000 square feet. This remarkable development seamlessly integrates modern design with unparalleled comfort, setting a new standard for refined city living. From its commanding exterior to the meticulously crafted living spaces within, Excel Miami exemplifies sophistication and contemporary elegance.

Beyond its lavish residences, Excel Miami unfolds as a sanctuary of amenities, spanning 8,000 square feet of meticulously curated spaces. Residents at Excel Miami will have access to a cutting-edge fitness room for holistic well-being, a dynamic game lounge for socializing and entertainment, collaborative co-working areas complete with meeting rooms, and an imaginative Makers Lounge tailored for creative pursuits. Each amenity is thoughtfully designed to elevate the resident experience, fostering a sense of community and creativity within the luxurious confines of Excel Miami.

Excel Miami not only promises an exceptional living experience but also offers a comprehensive suite of services. From skillfully navigating the intricacies of planning and zoning approvals to overseeing the architectural design, acting as the Architect of Record, and managing construction administration services, the project ensures a seamless and quality-driven process from inception to completion. With a visionary commitment to excellence, Excel Miami aims to redefine urban luxury living, leaving an indelible mark on the cityscape and embodying a synthesis of architectural grandeur and functional brilliance.

Client 

CL RE 15 MIA, LLC

At a glance

  • 336,000-SF
  • 24 Stories

Features

  • Fitness Room
  • Living room area
  • Co-Working area
  • Podcast room
  • Game room
  • Screening room

Services

  • Architect of Record
  • Construction Administration Services

2000 North Miami Avenue

Dec 11, 2023

2000 North Miami Avenue

Miami, Florida

2000 North Miami Avenue in Wynwood emerges as a pinnacle of refined urban living, unveiling a striking architectural achievement featuring 310 luxury rental units distributed across 12 stories and encompassing a substantial 386,000 square feet. This distinguished development seamlessly marries contemporary design with unparalleled comfort, setting a new benchmark for sophisticated city living. From its commanding exterior to the meticulously crafted living spaces within, 2000 North Miami Avenue stands as a testament to sophistication and modern elegance.

Beyond its lavish residences, 2000 North Miami Avenue unfolds as a haven of amenities, spanning 8,000 square feet of carefully curated spaces. Residents will enjoy access to a state-of-the-art fitness room for wellness pursuits, a vibrant game lounge for socializing and entertainment, collaborative co-working areas complete with meeting rooms, and a creative Makers Lounge tailored for innovative pursuits. Each amenity is thoughtfully designed to elevate the resident experience, fostering a sense of community and creativity within the luxurious confines of Wynwood.

2000 North Miami Avenue not only promises an exceptional living experience but also offers a comprehensive suite of services. From navigating the intricacies of planning and zoning approvals to overseeing the architectural design, acting as the Architect of Record, and managing construction administration services, the project ensures a seamless and quality-driven process from inception to completion. With a visionary commitment to excellence, 2000 North Miami Avenue aims to redefine urban luxury living, leaving an indelible mark on the cityscape and embodying a synthesis of architectural grandeur and functional brilliance.

Client 

CL RE 2K MIA, LLC

At a glance

  • 386,000-SF
  • 12 Stories

Features

  • Fitness Room
  • Game Lounge
  • Co-working w/ meeting rooms
  • Makers Lounge 

Services

  • Planning, Zoning Approvals (Entitlement Phases)
  • Architectural Design
  • Architect of Record
  • Construction Administration 

City of Lake Elmo Combined City Hall & Public Safety Facility

Dec 1, 2023

City of Lake Elmo Combined City Hall & Public Safety Facility

Lake Elmo, Minnesota

The new Lake Elmo city hall & public safety facility combines city hall staff and functions, the entire fire department, and a satellite office for the Washington County Sheriff’s Department. This co-location involves renovating and expanding the city-owned Brookfield office building to concentrate civic resources into a single structure at the historic core of the city. In addition, the public works facility will also be expanded to accommodate city growth and expanded service needs.

Client 

City of Lake Elmo

At a glance

  • 17,500 SF remodel
  • 37,500 SF total

Features

  • Improved service accessibility
  • Community room available for public use
  •  New council chambers with updated technology
  • Additional conference rooms
  • Co-locate Washington County Sheriff staff.
  • Office space for growth of city staff
  • Accessible restrooms

Services

  • Architecture
  • Civil Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Plumbing
  • Interior Design
  • Fire Protection Engineering

North Metro Regional Public Safety Training Facility

Dec 1, 2023

North Metro Regional Public Safety Training Facility

Maple Grove , Minnesota

Today’s law enforcement professionals are highly trained and highly skilled. They must continue to develop specialized knowledge and training that enables fair and procedurally just policing to meet a wide variety of new challenges and expectations. The North Metro Range Regional Public Safety Training Facility’s mission began in 1992 when the City of Maple Grove, and Hennepin County joined forces to build a firearms training facility and supportive classroom training spaces. However, after nearly 30 years, the facility was dated and lacked the capacity and accommodations for modern law enforcement training. LEO A DALY led an effort to complete the Minnesota predesign effort and associated activities required to prepare the project for support from the state. The NMR addition and renovation include additional space for de-escalation and crisis intervention training, simulated ammunition space for a realistic scenario-based training environment, dedicated space for a state-of-the-art-decision-making simulation lab, increased firearms training lanes, and office space to accommodate the nearly 20 regional public safety organizations and future customer organizations that utilize the NMR facility.

Client 

City of Maple Grove 

At a glance

  • 34,675 SF New Construction
  • 23,185 SF Renovation

Features

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  • Modernization and Expansion
  • Enhanced Training Spaces
  • Simulated Ammunition Space
  • State-of-the-Art Decision-Making Simulation Lab
  • Increased Firearms Training Lanes

Services

  • Architecture
  • Predesign
  • Design
  • Civil Engineering
  • Structural Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Plumbing
  • Fire Protection
  • Interior design
  • B3 Sustainability
  • Construction Administration
  • Legislative Funding/Bonding Assistance

Winnebago Child Care Center

Nov 3, 2023

Winnebago Child Care Center

Winnebago , Nebraska

The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska’s urgent effort to preserve its stories, language and traditions across generations lies at the heart of this child-care center. The design serves as a scaffold for storytelling, creating layers of meaning out of its parti, site relationship, geometry, organization, materials, patterns and colors. Its program of educational, play and dwelling spaces serves the wellness and developmental needs of the whole family. 

Ho-Chunk stories infuse the design in abstract form, teaching history. A hub-and-spoke parti embodies the Thunderhawk, conveying strength and protection. Program spaces extend from a central Rotunda whose shape recalls a traditional Ciporoke dwelling. Louvered, 360-degree clerestory windows cast dynamic shadows in patterns recalling Ho-Chunk basket-weaving. East-west circulation honors the tribe’s sun-centered creation story. 

Three wings extend from the rotunda, their rectangular forms embodying the Longhouse. To the southwest, the daycare wing engages children at each developmental level, including special needs. Outdoor play equipment follows the existing topography, naturally separating age groups. The east wing offers career training for adults. The northern wing lodges the children of overnight workers. Adjacent, a row of tiny houses facilitates transitional living for young adults. 

 

Client 

Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska

At a glance

30,000 SF

Features

Designed to reflect Ho-Chunk culture, the center incorporates abstract depictions of tales, creating captivating spaces. The hub-and-spoke parti represents strength and protection, while the central Rotunda reflects the traditional dwelling, nurturing educational and play areas.

Services

Programming 

Architectural 

Mechanical 

Electrical engineering

Fire Protection 

Plumbing 

Civil Engineering

Interior Design 

Construction Administration 

Xcel Energy Analytical Testing Labs, Office, & Fleet Maintenance Facility

Oct 25, 2023

Xcel Energy Analytical Testing Labs, Office, & Fleet Maintenance Facility

Minneapolis, Minnesota

​The redevelopment and modernization of this portion of the 11-acre urban utility campus in downtown Minneapolis prepares Xcel Energy and the surrounding communities for the next 100 years of reliable and resilient service. Envisioned as an agent for change, the high-performance project includes a four-story office building, advanced analytical labs, and a fleet maintenance garage. These structural and varied-use combinations present unique energy design challenges.

The deeply experienced and integrated design team guided Xcel leadership through decisions that ensure the client reaches their carbon-free commitment by 2050. Navigating the HVAC-intensive lab requirements and the repeated opening and closing of the large overhead doors of the service garage are some of the project challenges. Innovative passive strategy solutions include preheating all ducting with a transpired solar wall and rooftop solar ducting. Full electrification led to shifting the campus backup power to lithium ion and electric heat instead of gas. Integrated solar tubes on the service level reduced the need for artificial light in the building by 35%.

The 20,000-sf laboratory component showcases low-embodied-energy construction while prioritizing optimal workflow, comfort, and safety. Laboratories were designed to identify metals, radioactive samples, PFAS, mercury, and lead at trace amounts.  Extensive analytical instrumentation requiring a laboratory gas system was designed to meet this need.  Extensive acid digestion processes required acid fume hoods, fiberglass ductwork, and high plume exhaust systems.  The laboratory gas piping was designed to ultra-pure specifications with quick connects, auto changing manifolds, and extensive planning for a high lab gas use facility. Safety was paramount which required PPE stations, high air exchange rates, acid resistant surfaces, a large chemical inventory, gas monitoring system and shut offs, explosion proof fans and receptacles, an extensive flammable safety analysis, and a very large pH neutralization system, for wastewater. The project also required an extensive lab water system with polishers throughout the facility. It includes:

  • Mapping workflows and critical adjacencies with considering lab certifications and accreditations sought to be maintained or integrated.
  • Metals Lab
  • Radiology Lab
  • Water Lab
  • PFAS Lab
  • Oil Lab
  • Coal Lab
  • Mercury Lab
  • Lead Lab
  • Soil Lab
  • Lab Infrastructure: Extensive Lab gas piping system to heavy instrumentation laboratories, lab water system, & large walk-in coolers
  • Meeting all governmental, state, and referenced building codes for environmental laboratory conditions.
  • Included accurate classification, definition, and quantification of chemicals, procedures, and systems, addressed rigorous environmental and safety standards, with newly designed fire suppression system that uses synthetic fluorine-free foam.

Client 

Xcel Energy

At a glance

  • 313,000 SF
  • Four-Stories

Features

  • 20,000 SF of advanced analytical chemistry resources labs
  • Hazardous waste storage and processing area
  • Advanced airflow measures
  • Mapping workflows and critical adjacencies with considering lab certifications and accreditations sought to be maintained or integrated.

Services

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  • Project Management
  • Architecture
  • Laboratory Planning
  • Engineering
  • Interior Design

Hennepin County Medical Examiner Facility

Oct 24, 2023

Hennepin County Medical Examiner Facility

Minnetonka, Minnesota

LEO A DALY’s design for the Hennepin County Medical Examiner (HCME) Facility supports an expanded service model for the county to deliver regional death investigation and medico-legal autopsy services. The Medical Examiner’s office is a regional Center of Excellence serving Hennepin, Dakota and Scott Counties and other referral-based counties encompassing over 50% of Minnesota and Wisconsin. The facility encompasses eleven autopsy and two decomp autopsy stations, storage coolers and freezers for more than 130 decedents, specialized examination and analysis areas, tissue recovery, investigations and spaces for advanced observation and training of the nation’s finest. The design also includes spaces for secured and cooled, evidence storage, mass casualty response, sally port and secured parking and other building functions.

The design performance requirements focus on safety, security, efficiency, flexibility and NAME accreditation, with the goal of being one of the nation’s leading, most advanced medical examiner facilities and attracting the nation’s top talent in forensic death investigations. The facility integrates training and education spaces, including training autopsy stations with 180-degree visual table observation and 96” vertical monitors for photographic, Lodox and investigative digital imagery. The facility will enable in-depth educational opportunities of traveling fellows and doctorate students within the industry and serve as a feeder for recruitment.

The nexus of the design vision is to create a facility that supports the forensic death investigation operations and supports the mental, emotional and social health of the staff and doctors that deal with the often-challenging nature of their business. The facility is nestled into a suburban woodland capturing views from staff offices, training and break areas into natural forests, prairies and wetlands. Designers selected natural materials and lighting strategies for non-morgue operations spaces to reduce stress levels and to encourage personal reflection, when needed, as well as social interaction between staff.

The dedicated spaces where autopsies are performed require unique HVAC and lighting solutions. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling performed by the LEO A DALY engineering team assured the airflow was continuously directed from the ceiling towards the floor, cycling odors downward, away from the examiner. The examination spaces’ HVAC system uses 100% fresh air cycling at 58,000 cubic feet per minute and maintains a constant negative pressure.  Illuminating the autopsy suite included natural lighting through angled skylights, automated, photocell, overhead lighting and focused task lighting above each autopsy station that is adjustable for various task performance and automated for energy efficiency.

Client 

Hennepin County

At a glance

64,000 SF

Features

State-of-the-art medical examiner’s facility

Training and education spaces

Services

Architecture

Interior design

Structural, mechanical, electrical and fire protection engineering

Awards

2022 Minneapolis AIA Award of Merit

2023 Best of Sustainable Buildings 2030

Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lux Zeplin, Cleanroom & Laboratories, SD

Oct 23, 2023

Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lux Zeplin, Cleanroom & Laboratories, SD

Lead , South Dakota
Lux-Zeplin was a pure research project.  LEO A DALY worked with SURF and Lawrence Berkley Laboratories to provide lab space for a particle detector 1 mile underground. Many challenges were encountered while working on Nobel prize type work. Chemical quantities beyond any code recognized amounts, equipment that could not be insured – priceless, radon free air for a class 1000 cleanroom, etc. This project challenged the team.  Throughout the process the LEO A DALY team continued to find solutions to problems which had not be addressed before in science. LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), a second-generation dark matter experiment, is a collaboration between 220 scientists and engineers from 38 universities and institutions in the U.S., U.K., Portugal, Russia, and Korea. The level of coordination and flexibility required in a tight underground space, with parameters constantly evolving, and with extraordinarily stringent safety and cleanliness requirements, made this one of the most challenging and exciting projects LEO A DALY has successfully completed. To get LZ assembled, moved underground, and working, the team designed two highly specialized controlled environments – one above-ground for the unit’s assembly, and one below ground in a lab that ultimately houses the experiment. On the surface, the design includes a cleanroom that pressurizes, dehumidifies and cools air before sending it through activated charcoal, which removes radon. Below ground, the team designed renovations to an existing two-story lab space with the upper-level housing computer racks and control systems, and the lower-level housing the detector itself. Renovated clean rooms, radon-removal system, back-up power, xenon storage and a new hoist system are all part of the design supporting this groundbreaking experiment.

Client 

South Dakota Science & Technology Authority

At a glance

One-mile underground cleanroom 9,700 SF

Features

Class 1000 cleanroom Deep earth physics laboratory Houses five operational LBCs Laboratory workflow planning, programming, & design

Services

Architectural design

Laboratory Planning

Mechanical engineering

Electrical engineering

Plumbing engineering

Commissioning

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