The California Highway Patrol - Chico Area Office is a replacement facility designed as a state-of-the-art Essential Services building that will serve the growing and adapting needs of the California Highway Patrol for the next 50-plus years. The new area office focuses on meeting the CHP's identified Critical Success Factors and the rigorous Facility Design Program requirements. The project seeks to create a new facility that is functional and secure for both staff and public and reliable, easy to access and responsive to CHP's requirements. This project delivers a functional, modern police station with appropriate security that is welcoming to the public. The project is forward-thinking, flexible and anticipates the needs for future technologies. Attention to durable and easily maintained interior and exterior materials ensures the facility will maintain its civic presence, sense of security, strength and quality image for years to come. The project consists of 39,405 square feet of building area distributed between three main structures: Building A - an administrative area office (31,291 square feet); Building B - an automobile service center (7,328 square feet); and Building C - a recycle, waste, and storage building (786 square feet). The 5.9-acre site includes visitor parking, secure staff parking, vehicle fueling station, and a truss-like 120-foot communication tower with an antenna array. While all new CHP replacement facilities are mandated to achieve LEED Silver certification, this project is the first CHP replacement facility to be certified at LEED Gold level. Building materials are primarily sourced locally and specified with durability and ease of serviceability. The building exceeds the energy efficiency of a typical similar building by 46%. On-site power generation through the shade structure-mounted photovoltaic roof panels produces over 42% of the buildings total annual energy usage while providing shade for the vehicles parked below.
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