Due to factors including significant
renewed growth in the nuclear service industry, Westinghouse Electric Company
chose to relocate its corporate headquarters from the Monroeville area to a new
office park development north of Pittsburgh, in Cranberry Township,
Pennsylvania.
IKM architects working as part of a joint venture
team with a local engineering firm designed the new Westinghouse Corporate
Headquarters complex. The Westinghouse
Headquarters achieved a LEED-Certified designation with the US Green Building
Council. To achieve certification, the design incorporated several sustainable
practices related to the project site, the surrounding environment, energy
efficiency and the quality of the working environment.
The nearly 1 million SF campus was
originally planned in phases as three buildings with building one completed in
Phase 1 with occupancy that began in June 2009 and Buildings 2 and 3 completed
in 2010. With the success of the first building, a fourth building of 120,000
square feet was recently added on the site, and scheduled for completion in the
Fall of 2010.
The four building complex will provide
space for approximately 4,500 individuals. The first building will hold 1,700
seats on floors two thru five in workstations, meeting rooms and private
offices. Building 1 will also comprise other programmatic spaces including
labs, fitness room, graphics and reproduction departments, cafeteria, kitchen,
food court, auditoriums and private dining rooms. Buildings 2 and 3 will each
hold just under 1,000 employees.
Building 4 will have a similar design contributing to the campus
approach of their new location; it will house approximately 500 more employees
and staff divided on four floors also in workstations, meeting rooms and
private offices.
As the client, Westinghouse asked
for a “timeless” building design but not necessarily traditional. The
combination of the masonry and metal panels afforded many opportunities in the
design.