Item 23 - Agreement for Memorial Park and Aquatics Facility Renovation

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1 c. Firm and Team Experience els+swa ELS Architecture and Urban Design and SWA Group (els+swa) have collaborated on award -winning designs for more than 35 years and are poised to bring their robust combination of experience and knowledge for a significant Memorial Park East End Master Plan and Reimagined Aquatics Center. Our collaborative design work has resulted in a combined investment exceeding $500MM in multiple communities throughout California. ELS will serve as the prime consultant for the els+swa association. els+swa will tap our two firms' extraordinary resources, which include a suc- cessfully deployed and tested community engagement process throughout multiple California communities, and a multilingual, talented design team whose key staff are familiar with one another through similar projects. These factors together will ensure that the feedback generated by our community outreach process is comprehensively and considerately incorporated into the Memorial Park Master Planning and Aquatic Center Conceptual Design Process. ABOUT ELS ELS is an award -winning architectural practice with a 50-year tradition in de- sign for the public realm. A recipient of the prestigious AIA California Council Firm Award, ELS has been included in the Architect 50 for five consecutive years and in Architectural Records Top 300 Architecture Firms for 2022. We specialize in a diverse array of project types including aquatics, recreation, fitness and wellness facilities; historic renovation and adaptive reuse; cul- tural and entertainment venues; and retail, mixed use and urban design. We provide complete architectural services, from programming and conceptual design through construction administration and post -occupancy evaluation. We have extensive experience in the design and construction of award -win- ning aquatic facilities. These include the LEED Silver -certified East Oakland Sports Center for the City of Oakland, the LEED Gold -certified Canada Col- lege Kinesiology and Wellness Center, the Berkeley High School Natatori- um for the Berkeley Unified School District, the LEED Silver -certified Mor- gan Hill Aquatics Center for the City of Morgan Hill, the Dolores Bengtson Aquatic Center for the City of Pleasanton, and the Elk Grove Civic Aquatic Center for the City of Elk Grove. Our portfolio also includes world -class competition venues for three top -ranked NCAA programs: the Uytengsu Aquatics Stadium for the University of Southern California, the Avery Aquat- ic Center and Maas Family Diving Complex for Stanford University, and the LEED Silver -certified Legends Aquatics Center for UC Berkeley. We are also redesigning the George F. Haines International Swim Center in San- ta Clara, one of the premier competitive aquatics venues in the U.S. and one of the selected sites for USA Swimming's Arena Grand Prix Series; the new facility includes several community recreation features and is targeting LEED Platinum. ABOUT SWA For over six decades, SWA has been recognized as one of the world's design leaders in the fields of landscape architecture, planning and urban design. Their projects have received over 800 awards and have been showcased in over 60 countries. Their principals are among the industry's most talented and experienced designers and planners. Emerging in 1959 as the West Coast office of Sasaki, Walker and Associates, the firm first assumed the SWA Group name in 1975. Despite being one of the largest firms of its type in the world, SWA is organized into smaller studio -based offices that enhance creativity and client responsiveness. Over 75 percent of SWA work has historically come from repeat clients. In addition to bringing strong aesthetic, functional, and social design ideas to their projects, they're also committed to integrating principles of environmental sustainability. At the core of their work is a passion for imaginative, solution -oriented design that adds value to land, buildings, cities, regions, and to people's lives. EXPERIENCE WITH CONSTRUCTION MANAGER AT RISK (CMAR) PROJECT DELIVERY METHOD ELS Architecture and Urban Design, of els+swa, has 40+ years of successful collaboration, totaling $500MM+ in construction value, with general contractors on a range of CM project delivery types including CM at Risk, CM -Design Assist, CM -LEAN, CM -Design Assist/Donor Development Delivery-P3, and Design/Build. Several of our projects have fallen within one of these delivery models on both municipal and higher education projects. Some of our general contractor collaborators and partners include Bernards, Turner, Rudolph and Sletten, Pankow, Swinerton, Vance Brown Builders, Blach Construction and Kitchell. Following are some representative CMAR and CM projects delivered: • For the City of Oakland, we completed the East Oakland Sports Center, which was honored by AIA San Francisco and AIA East Bay for design excellence, and was delivered under a CMAR model. The $20MM LEED Silver certified project was a collaboration with Turner Construction. • For the University of California, Berkeley, we teamed with Vance Brown Builders for a two-phase Legends Aquatic Center and a major expansion to the existing Spieker Aquatics Stadium. Phase I, the $20MM California Legends Aquatic Center was honored by the AIA East Bay for design excellence. The Legends Aquatic Center was delivered under a CMAR process. • For Stanford University, our collaborative efforts with Vance Brown Builders, under a CMAR delivery process, led to six award -winning projects, including the renovation of the historic Burnham Pavilion, the Ford Centerfor Sports and Student Recreation, the Taube Family Tennis Stadium, the Avery Aquatic Center and Maas Diving Center, and renovations to Maples Pavilion. • For the City of Santa Clara, we are currently teamed with Rudolph & Sletten on a $100MM+ project that includes the re -visioning and re -building of the International Swim Center (ISC) and the Community Recreation Center (CRC). The ISC and CRC combine to provide four pools (a pair of 50M competition pools, a dive pool, and a recreation/fun-water pool) and 120,000 square feet of community recreation facilities including a gymnasium, cardio area, indoor track, rock -climbing wall, theater, community hall, and several multipurpose activity rooms. The project is positioned for a Public/ Private/Partnership delivery as a Design/Build/Finance/Operate/ Maintain (DBFOM) project. For the State Center Community College District, we complet- ed a $40MM historic renovation and seismic upgrade of the Old Administration Building at Fresno City College, which was one of the country's first junior colleges and was the first college in Cali- fornia's Community College system. ELS led a programming effort that repurposed the historic building into a state-of-the-art teaching facility for both lectures and distance learning, as well as a show- piece for performing arts. The project was delivered under a CM/ Multiple Prime format. ELS collaborated with Kitchell (as Bond Pro- gram Manager for the District) on this extraordinary project, which was honored by the AIA California Council, SCUP/AIA-CAE and the National Trust for Historic Preservation for design and preservation excellence. The Construction Manager for our project was Harris Construction. For additional information about our approach to collaboration in proj- ects delivered via CMAR, please see Tab Id.