Watson Tate Savory 

Location: Columbia, South Carolina

This LEED Gold project, Columbia SC’s first sustainable public facility, repurposes an abandoned automobile dealership to house municipal Water division staff, fleet and equipment. Through a rigorous programming effort, project requirements were streamlined, providing a clear strategy for efficiently utilizing existing site and structures while providing a new administration building for full-time staff and community engagement. While the administration building subtly recalls the glass and steel auto dealerships that once lined the boulevard, repurposed pre-engineered structures are re-clad as articulated, energy efficient warehouses. Improvements to the former brownfield site include naturally filtering 95% of stormwater and reducing water usage 73%.