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Delta Dental is renovating and expanding its headquarters campus to incorporate more sustainable design features. The renovations include expanding existing buildings for equipment storage and electrical systems, building a new remote data center, upgrading walkways and trails between buildings, and expanding an on-site pond. The site renovations aim to create a campus that provides habitat for wildlife and minimizes environmental impact through the use of sustainable materials and energy-efficient building systems.

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Delta Dental is renovating and expanding its headquarters campus to incorporate more sustainable design features. The renovations include expanding existing buildings for equipment storage and electrical systems, building a new remote data center, upgrading walkways and trails between buildings, and expanding an on-site pond. The site renovations aim to create a campus that provides habitat for wildlife and minimizes environmental impact through the use of sustainable materials and energy-efficient building systems.

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2,400 square feet and four bays for the provide a unique habitat for wildlife, the company says.
storage of grounds and building mainte- company explains. The sustainable features include:
nance equipment. Delta Dental plans to seek Wildlife ■ Roofs that meet the Environmental

The screenwall is an adjacent, 4,200- Habitat Council certification for its efforts Protection Agency’s cool roof specifica-
square-foot space that will house new to develop sustainable habitats on site, the tions;
electrical equipment and will be screened company says. ■ Energy-efficient building systems and

to match other buildings; the area will be Other gathering areas will be scattered equipment;
located south of building 1. throughout the site. ■ Smaller surface parking lots with land-

The company also is building a 24,000- “The spaces are planned throughout scaped areas, which will minimize the
square-foot remote data center on the east the campus, including the courtyards in heat-island effect;
side of the property. between buildings, trellis-covered paths ■ Refrigerants that don’t contribute to

bisecting the oval and a conversations pit global warming or ozone layer depletion;
Site Renovations located at the northern terminus of the ■ Building orientations and positions that

Walbridge is incorporating new walk- diagonal,” Walbridge says of the headquar- take the most advantage of natural heat
ways and walking trails to connect the ters’ landscaping. and sunlight;
heart of the campus, Campus Commons Delta Dental visitors will drive over the ■ Use of local, recycled materials;

Oval, to the rest of the site. pond on a new bridge that will direct them ■ An interior environment that facilitates

“A focal point containing space for to the main lobby. individual occupant’s preferred light and
sculptures and seat walls will be located The new visitor parking lot will be sur- heat levels; and
at the southern end of the diagonal path, rounded by gardens and fountains, the ■ Adequate ventilation to all occupied

creating a backdrop to the end of the company says. spaces.


pedestrian path,” the company says. “The inviting architecture of the new “Building green helps us create a work-
The pond near building 2 also will be construction will draw visitors and staff place that promotes health and produc-
expanded and upgraded and will include onto a new entrance drive located on tivity, and [it] reduces our impact on the
improved stormwater management the north side of the campus,” the com- environment,” Fleszar says.
measures. pany explains. “This underscores our mission of improv-
Walbridge will plant additional plants to Walbridge is building the Delta Dental ing health and reaffirms our core value of
rejuvenate the site’s existing vegetation and headquarters to LEED gold standards, the being a good corporate citizen.” ■

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