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Hard Hat Tour: Direct Relief
May 8, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Free – $15
Hard Hat Tour May 8th – Direct Relief
Location: 6100 Wallace Becknell Rd (Off Hollister Ave in Goleta)
Date: Tuesday, May 8th @ 4pm
1 LU/HSW
Description – Direct Relief is the leading non-profit, non-partisan disaster relief organization in the world that was founded in Santa Barbara in 1948. For the past 5 years DR has been planning, designing and building a new 155,000 SF Corporate Headquarters and Distribution Warehouse facility on City of Santa Barbara Airport property. Come get a first hand look and a behind the scenes tour of this significant community benefit project currently which is under construction and nearing completion. Hear firsthand from the Client, the Architect and Landscape Architects about the unique “function first” facility planning, the state-of-the-art building systems and the leading edge environmental features core to Direct Relief’s values and inspiration for the design of their new world headquarters. Tour will be lead by Michael Holliday FAIA along with representatives from Direct Relief, CJM::LA and the General Contractor. There will be some stairs required to be climbed to view the second floor areas.
KEYT VIDEO ON DIRECT RELIEF – http://www.keyt.com/news/santa-barbara-s-county/direct-reliefs-construction-of-new-headquarters-warehouse-taking-shape/603640801
Parking – Parking will be available on site in the construction area accessed off of the north site entry or along Botello Road.
Where to meet? – Meet outside the construction trailer in the NW corner of the project site adjacent to the parking.
Design Architect – DMHA Architecture + Interior Design
Landscape Architect – CJM::LA
Contractor – ARCO
Waiver
If you are interested in attending, and have not yet sent in a waiver for 2017, please fill out this waiver and send to Tara Rizzi at tararizzi@aiasb.com