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The Sonicare Office and
Manufacturing Facility
In the Snoqualmie Ridge Business Park
Sustainable Building Advisor Certificate Program, 2002
Project Team:
Dale Anderson
Susan Drucy
Brad Liljequist
Katrina Morgan
The Sonicare Office and
Manufacturing Facility
The Sonicare Office and
Manufacturing Facility
The Sonicare Office and
Manufacturing Facility
• Research/ Development Fabrication under one roof--creator of Sonicare electric toothbrushes
• Located in Snoqualmie Ridge Master Planned
Community, in the Cascade Foothills
• This is a 176,000 square foot tilt-up concrete building
• 11 Acre site
• East and West Wings--East is corporate offices, west is
fabrication/ shipping and additional offices
The Sonicare Office and
Manufacturing Facility
Client Context
• Facility built in 1999 to consolidate dispersed operations
• Building built and initially owned by Quadrant
Commercial Properties. Building initially leased by
Sonicare
• In 2001, Phillips purchased Sonicare as well as the
building
Physical Context
• Building located in larger Snoqualmie Ridge Master
Planned Community
• At completion, Snoqualmie Ridge will include:
– 2,000 homes
– 2 million square feet of office space
– 100,000 square feet of retail space
• Facility is about 1,000 feet from the future neighborhood
retail area and 2,000 feet from half the Ridge residents
• Downtown Snoqualmie is a 10 minute drive
Overview Map
Our Approach:
We will discuss a few representative points about each
category in terms of these three questions:
• What does the building do well?
• What retrofit could improve the performance?
• What are the missed opportunities?
Site/ Transportation
What’s Good?
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Close to housing and services. . . Walkability
Showers provided within building
Bike Parking
Jobs/ Housing Balance
Possible retrofits:
• Incentive programs for employees to carpool
• Provide public transportation, carpooling, flexcar
etc.
Missed Opportunities:
• Snoqualmie Ridge is not an urban village. . .
more of a self-contained, isolated community
• There is no transit service
• Lack of affordable housing for assembly room
workers. . . raises equity issues
Water Issues
What’s good?
• Stormwater detained and treated to DOE Central
Puget Sound requirements
• 1992 water efficient fixtures provided
• Mostly native landscaping (drought tolerant)
Possible retrofits:
• Update fixtures:
– Waterless urinals
– Kitchen, bathroom faucet and shower gpm’s limited
• Do more detailed analysis of cafeteria water usage.
Pre-rinse system and more efficient washers.
• Install rainwater catchment system for irrigation, replace
standard landscaping with drip system
Missed Opportunities
• Use of rainwater for non-potable interior needs
• Grasspave for overflow parking
• Use of parking lot landscaping for supplemental
water quality treatment
• Green roof
Construction Materials
What’s good?
• A simple, open building plan reduces the overall use of
material, and increases the flexibility of the space
• Tilt-up concrete produces little waste
• A combination of carpet tile, broadloom, and concrete
floors. Carpet companies today work hard to make their
products recycled and recyclable.
• There is no acoustical tile in the building
• Resources on the site were maximized
Possible retrofits:
• Systems furniture could be reduced by sending back
portions to the manufacturer to be re-used or re-cycled
• Develop a vigorous company-wide reduce/ recycle
program focused on reducing the consumption of and
waste produced by this building. This has obvious cost
benefits
Missed Opportunities:
• The company could have been re-located to an
existing building, making use of resources
already in the market
• Higher fly-ash content concrete
• More recycled materials could have been used
Indoor Environmental Quality
What’s Good?
• The lobby space has excellent air quality, due to
hard surfaces, good ventilation, and low
particulates
• Most office employees have access to daylight
• The spaces are very clean
• Ventilation allows some occupant control
Possible retrofits:
• Isolate copy/ print areas and provide supplemental
ventilation to these areas
• The furniture could be reconfigured to allow better light
penetration and reduce the tunnel effect of the offices
• Operable windows or trickle vents could be placed in
strategic locations to allow more occupant control
• Skylights or light wells in the manufacturing space to
allow access to natural light
• Enact a sustainable, non-toxic maintenance
methodology
Missed Opportunities:
• This would have been a good candidate for a
raised floor system
• Systems furniture design could have been more
carefully chosen to maximize light and material
• Solar orientation, natural ventilation, and nontoxic flooring materials. . .
• Build the building based on the site-- allow views
and outdoor break spaces
Energy/ Lighting
What’s good?
• It’s good that Phillips, a company that describes itself as a
“global leader in. . . Lighting…” (www.phillips.com), now
owns the company and the building. There may be a
possibility of more energy efficient lighting upgrades in
the future, to supplement some that have already
happened.
• In the office wing, many workspaces are situated along
the periphery, allowing ample daylight.
Possible retrofits
Office Wing:
• A dropped, acoustical ceiling should be installed to reflect light
back downwards that is lost upwards into the unfinished
ceiling
• All T-12 ballasts should be replaced with newer technology,
electronic ballast T-8s, especially since T-8 tubes are
currently in those ballasts, resulting in flicker and energy
inefficiencies
• To help improve the overall lighting levels of the office areas,
many of the walls should be re-painted from their current dark
blue color to a lighter shade for benefits of wall reflectance
Possible retrofits
Production Wing:
• Skylights could be a feasible retrofit in this area, though
a pricey one
• Task lighting should be upgraded in this area where
visually precise work takes place. Currently, there are
old T-12 lamps at the workbench stations that provide a
low quality of light
Missed Opportunities:
• Light shelves could have been included I the design for
the office wing to direct daylight deeper into the office
• Skylights, again, as a missed opportunity in that they
weren’t designed into the structure
Energy/ HVAC
What’s good?
• Used Natural Gas Heating/ Cooling- most efficient fuel
source available
• Included Localized Control and Economizer cycleoccupants can adjust their local temperatures
• Designed with energy efficiency considered- meets
Building Code for thermal performance (I.e. insulation,
window glazing, etc.), sited w/ East-West orientation
Possible retrofits:
• Install dropped ceilings-- integrated with lighting
savings, reduces heating/ cooling loads
• Extend economizer cycle to introduce night-time
cooling- concrete surfaces can hold the cooler air during
daytime occupied hours
• Improve the Operation & Maintenance of systemsreduce call-backs of Mechanical Contractor
Missed Opportunities
• Improve Building Thermal performance- go beyond
Code requirements, design to Occupant use and layout
• Consider natural elements- ventilation, passive solar
heating, daylighting (w/ high-performance glazing)
• Provide conditioned air at the Occupant level- design
distribution at floor level, not 12’-15’ high.
In Conclusion
• Developer based design is often not geared
toward sustainability
• Common sense design concepts can be
more sustainable than complex solutions
• Lessons can be learned from every project
Site/ Transportation
Water Issues
Construction Materials
Indoor Environmental Quality
Energy/ HVAC
Energy/ HVAC
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Manufacturing Facility. . . Ride the
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