The new El Paso Water Administration Building project will serve as a model of sustainable development in an arid desert climate. The project incorporates creative stormwater management and landscape strategies designed by Ten Eyck Landscape Architects to reduce the heat island effect and to educate the public on drought resistant and native landscaping. The project will be built in three phases. The first phase, which is fully completed, consists of building a new 79,776SF parking structure which contains approximately 155 parking spaces. A hybrid structural system of precast concrete elements and steel framing was used to address the site’s challenging grade differences.
The second phase comprises of a new four story, 79,776SF office building which will accommodate approximately 290 employees based on a 10-year growth projection. This new facility is currently in construction adjacent to the Utility’s existing office building which remains fully operational. The building will house six engineering departments, the utility’s data center and IT department, government affairs and communications departments, executive and general counsel departments as well as accounting and finance departments. Various collaboration spaces, spatially defined by operable wall partitions, and equipped with movable furniture, will be provided throughout the building to allow various employees / departments to meet and coordinate the utility’s active construction projects and day-to-day work activities. The site improvements will be completed in the third phase. The new facility will fulfill the city’s mission to provide a vibrant, high-performance and flexible environment that promotes the health and wellbeing for its employees.
General Contractor: Hensel Phelps