NEWS
Coldwater Creek achieves LEED Certification
August 2008 - With Schnackel Engineers' help, Coldwater Creek's Boulder, CO Twenty Ninth Street Shopping Center location attains LEED Certification for Commercial Interiors from the US Green Building Council. Schnackel is instrumental from a design, commissioning and USGBC documentation standpoint. View Documents
Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center
Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center Remodel wins Retail Traffic Superior Achievement in Design and Imaging (SADI) Award.
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June 1, 2008 - View KGMB9 News segment
Over the past 4 years, Schnackel Engineers, as MEP engineering services provider, has been a part of the renovation of the 29-year-old Royal Hawaiian Center in Waikiki. The $84 million project turned an outdated center with heavy concrete walls into a 310,000-square-foot open-air mall with Hawaii-inspired design and landscaping. Schnackel Engineers was instrumental in the design of outdoor common areas including the Royal Grove, which includes unique water and lighting features. Coordination of tenant utility upgrades and revisions to services were closely reviewed and phased in order to minimize any disturbance to existing occupied tenant spaces. Great care was taken in the renovation design to maintain the building's original aesthetics while modernizing it's mechanical, electrical, telecommunication, fire protection, and plumbing systems. Schnackel Engineers' ability to provide coordination for the project and to meet the unique environmental challenges and construction logistics of Hawaii was instrumental in the design process as well.
Hard Rock Hotel
June 1, 2007 - Schnackel Engineers is proud to be the Engineer for the MEP/FP Design Services at the new Hard Rock Hotel in Palm Springs, CA. This high profile project is a signature building of over 770,000 square feet located in the heart of Palm Springs’ vital and active downtown area. Immediately adjacent to the Palm Springs Convention Center, this project incorporates the latest in technological innovation and requires careful and sensitive design coordination with the cutting-hedge five-star hospitality market it serves. The property features a convention center, signature restaurants, full-service spa, night club, massive adult water park, professional recording studio, and over 500 hospitality units.
This project is yet another example of Schnackel Engineers’ experience in the Hospitality marketplace, and Urban Design and Mixed-Use areas as well. The attention to design aesthetics that our company brings to any project in which we are involved, is another strong suit of our “overall success” design practices.