Winner: Adidas East Village Expansion

Entered by Turner & Townsend

The East Village Expansion (EVE) project in Portland, Oregon, is Adidas’ new North American headquarters, housing 1,000 employees. It is a global example of offsite construction and the first in the US to use a unique structural hybrid design system that combines mass timber with precast concrete.

Initially developed by the project team in response to a challenging two-year construction schedule, the system helped save three months during construction, as well as cutting embodied carbon compared with the original design concept. Despite a two-month delay when site activity was paused because of the pandemic, the five-storey building was finished on time and under budget. This was aided by schedule savings at the start of the programme, with the team devising a novel multi-phased approach to the planning process through close co-ordination with the City of Portland, reducing the project schedule by a total of six months. The Turner & Townsend team used their experience of pre-application planning in the UK by engaging with the local authority throughout the planning stage rather than as a final design submission.

The project team also adopted a design-assist approach to MEP packages to allow full integration of the build partners through the latter half of the design. On top of this, by sourcing and fabricating timber in Oregon, the project reduced construction miles.

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