A moribund shopping center at the intersection of three major thoroughfares has been brought to new life through contemporary architectural features and a visually aggressive lighting design. With outdated, inefficient, and poorly maintained light fixtures, the center was dark and uninviting at night. With new, sleek, minimalist light fixtures with energy-efficient and low-maintenance lamping, the center has become a vibrant destination within its community.

Beacon Park is the first in a series of neighborhood parks within a large-scale residential development. It is an iconic destination for homeowners and starting point for visitors. Working with landscape architects Valley Crest Design Group and architects Ware Malcomb, StudioK1 has brought magical energy to the first of multiple parks under design and construction within Orange County’s Great Park for FivePoint Communities. StudioK1 has created a night-time family playground, including the Coolest. Treehouse. Ever. Taking advantage of the multiple heritage trees throughout the park. tk1sc provided Full-service mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and Low Voltage engineering design. Mechanical Solutions: We selected the mechanical systems on the project to achieve the project goal of no rooftop equipment. The Welcome Center utilizes a VRF Heat Recovery system with an outdoor VRF unit located on grade. The fan coils are thoughtfully arranged in a mezzanine to maximize the ceiling height in the Multipurpose Room. The Multipurpose Room also featured two gas fireplaces. We closely coordinated venting solution for the fireplaces to ensure it meets the desired aesthetics from both the interior and exterior of the building. Lighting Solutions: Beacon Park is entirely lit with LED sources, allowing the design team to exceed California’s strict Title-24 regulations. We used the lighting scheme to enhance the geometry of architecture and landscape. Creating an inviting presence with warm white downlights paired with decorative pendants creates an inviting mood in the lounge-style learning space. Two different color temperatures of string lights wrap the mature trees adding to the magic. Integrated downlights within the metal trellis allow for the kitchen space to function into the evening. We lit the giant heritage trees with mid-grades from below, accenting the trunks and branches, while tree-mounted bullets are used within to illuminate the canopy. Contemporary style poles illuminate the pathways. We used asymmetric uplighting to accent the colorful decorative metal shade structures while powerful floodlights evenly light the multi-function court. Incorporating step lights into the guardrails creates a seamless look while providing light for the skywalk to the treehouse. Heritage trees salvaged from the decommissioned Marine base are now major focal points around the entire park, particularly at night with accent lighting and sparkle. The treehouse is the most eye-catching beacon of the park. LEDs create sparkle within three ancient Jacaranda trees as the steel and wood structure is highlighted with color to give it life at night. Recessed ingrade lights with the ability to change color per season or holiday create a fun light source for kids while illuminating the inside of the treehouse, making the space exciting from within and a focal point across the park. The design focused on the significant features within the park to keep the project within budget.

StudioK1, working with P+R Architects, has helped create a new look for Ralph's Fresh Fare in Sherman Oaks, California. Taking up a city block on Ventura Boulevard, this new concept for Fresh Fare brings an urban feel to the grocery shopping experience. The main entry features an atrium dominated by a luminous sculpture composed of over 100 LED light boxes of different shapes and sizes. The effect is felt from across the street, creating a new visual icon for the area.

In Irvine, California, Great Park Ice and FivePoint Arena combine the largest community ice complex in the region with a training facility for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Additional amenities include a pub, amphitheater, classrooms, and an array of outdoor public spaces. tk1sc provided Electrical, Fire Protection services, Architectural Lighting Design, Low Voltage system design services, and building commissioning for this project. tk1sc also completed design services for a 1.4-megawatt solar plant. This project was awarded a LEED Silver Certification. The $110 million, 280,000 square-foot project was designed around the vision of Ducks owners, Henry and Susan Samueli, to create a public resource to promote ice sports and health and wellness in the region. Great Park Ice was financed by the Irvine Ice Foundation, a nonprofit created by the Samueli's. At the end of the 50-year lease, ownership will revert to the community. The Great Park Ice facility is a 280,000 square foot ground-up facility within the Orange County Great Park sports complex, which features various outdoor sporting venues. The building features four indoor ice rinks — three NHL regulation rinks and one Olympic regulation rink — a full-service restaurant and bar, a café, and a gym. It serves as the new training facility for the Anaheim Ducks® National Hockey League team. The project's goal was to make a highly functional space for users that is energy efficient for all-day use, highly controllable for various event types, and aesthetically impressive through scale, palette, and integration. The rinks are illuminated with a total LED sports lighting solution connected to the building's dimming system for maximum controllability. One of the NHL rinks features 2,500 seats, a jumbotron screen with moving lights, and dmx controlled lighting for hosting an array of high-level entertainment and sporting events. The lobby, designed for high traffic volumes, features a double-height ceiling and wide circulation lit from linear pendants neatly organized within the acoustical baffle system at the ceiling. The baffles and lights are also arranged to align with the façade mullions furthering the architectural integration. The linear language is further celebrated at the entry portals to each rink and acts as wayfinding to lead users inward. The lobby illumination and varied blue-tinted glass façade create a lantern effect patterned in blue, white, and orange from the different visible surfaces from the exterior. The building uses a central control system and individual sensors to meet the strict energy code and reduce energy in unoccupied space, when daylight can be harvested from the tall glass façade, or when an event needs less light.

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated is a global commercial real estate services company that provides investment management services worldwide, including services to institutional and retail investors and high-net-worth individuals.‍Needing a bigger workspace after acquiring HFF, JLL relocated their Irvine headquarters to a new 35,000 square-foot office at Intersect located at 17877 Von Karman in Irvine, CA. The new office space can accommodate approximately 150 employees with collaboration, teamwork, and transparency in mind. ‍tk1sc provided mechanical, plumbing, and lighting design services on this project. The design required collaboration with the architect on larger open ceiling conditions and full-height wall construction, and proper HVAC zoning from base building VAVs with electric reheat. In addition, we collaborated during design and construction with the architect, general contractor, mechanical sub-contractor, and building landlord regarding proper openings in wall construction to ensure return air paths back to main floor return air fans.

The 20-story 200 Spectrum Center Drive, Orange County, California’s tallest building, is a modern, flexible work environment with direct connections to the Irvine Spectrum shopping and entertainment center.‍The office tower is approximately 450,000 square feet and includes a six-level parking garage with 1,466 spaces. LPA worked with architect Pei Cobb Freed & Partners of New York to create a tower clad in a linen-finish stainless steel curtain wall with high-performance floor-to-ceiling glass.

Brown Jordan, the creators of high-end exterior furnishings since 1945, turned to StudioK1 to design the lighting in its West Coast flagship showroom at SOCO in Costa Mesa, California. The lighting scheme mimics the quality of exterior light, simulating how their customers would typically see the furnishings. Large, internally illuminated drums provide the cool ambient quality of daylight, while high output LED accents provide intensity and color temperature to represent sunlight. The entire installation is LED, providing a crisp, bright showroom with a fraction of the energy consumption of conventional fixtures.

A multi-family residential community strives to bring five-star resort elegance to its residents. The 500-unit development has amenities and finishes that place it in a rarified tier of rental housing. The challenge was to provide a level of detail and integration to the lighting that would match the finish and harmonize with the Palladian architectural motifs while creating a serene, visually comfortable, yet safe nighttime environment. To do this, we tightly controlled the color temperature of all luminaires to a warm, residential 2700K, and we took care to accentuate key elements while providing sufficient contrast between lit and unlit surfaces to create dramatic interest. Hewing to the country’s most stringent energy code, with maintainability a priority, every luminaire on the project is LED. The entry drive and gatehouse are lit to provide a sense of warmth and welcome using 2700K sources while preserving a formal symmetry. The gatehouse is uplit with LED in-grade luminaires to provide a focal point, while decorative poles provide sparkle and a formal rhythm along the walkways. Custom pendants provide a sense of elegance, while uplit columns allow for silhouetting the cypress trees, using light and shadow for dramatic effect. Custom pendants mounted to trellis structures enhance the formality of the walkways, while discreet step lights and vertical illumination on the foliage ensure safe light levels. Double height breezeways have their verticality accentuated with decorative backlit panels. Elegantly ornate armatures on decorative sconces provide a sense of architectural detail. Internally illuminated columns support a canopy structure next to one of the five pool decks, while integrated miniature LED downlights provide task lighting. The central pool deck is elegant in its formal simplicity while providing owner-mandated light levels for safety. A dramatic colonnade of uplit palms provides a central spine to the property and provides visually comfortable illumination of the main pathway. Luminaires integrated into the walls of the bocce court allow for nighttime play.

Park Place Apartments is a 980 unit luxury apartment community adjacent to mixed-use development and part of an overall master-planned community by The Irvine Company. The community features an array of amenities that includes three saltwater pools, a cardio theatre fitness center, and outdoor courtyards with barbecue areas and fireplaces. The Architecture was done by MVE+Partners, with landscape architecture by EPT Design and lighting design by tk1sc's StudioK1.

This master-planned apartment community in San Jose encompasses over six city blocks, with almost 1,800 units of residential luxury, a large community park, swimming pools, and retail. The project included roughly 26,000 square feet of retail space-oriented along North First Street, Lyster said. A five-acre city park is also part of the community. Faced with the sustainability measures set forth by Build it Green standards, Crescent Village is among the first Northern California communities to implement the state-wide stormwater treatment requirements while using recycled water to irrigate the landscape. tk1sc provided electrical engineering and architectural lighting design services for all phases of this project.

Pacific City Apartments is a new high-end LEED-registered residential apartment community located on 14 acres with a design inspired by the crashing waves of the nearby ocean. The project consists of six buildings sitting atop a two-level continuous underground parking garage. Residents can see our lighting design team's work throughout the property, which includes 516 units with resort-style amenities such as a 5,000 square foot outdoor pool, fitness center, clubhouse, and conference facilities, with cohesive landscape architectural features throughout the 17-acre site. This project also includes a two-acre public park. ‍The team was challenged with making the many areas sexy, hip, and inviting while adhering to a strict energy code and appeasing a client who wanted the world but didn't want to spend too much money. The entire property uses LED sources, standardizing at 3000K or warmer. Simple dusk to dawn photocells controls the lighting. The pool deck is the focus of the property, while multiple courtyards spread throughout the property between the apartment buildings bring interest while keeping light focused on those spaces as not to impede on the tenant's private spaces. Coordination with the architect and landscape architect was essential to gracefully incorporate the lighting into the fun while bringing the project at thirty percent under California's Title 24 Energy Code.

tk1sc’s boutique lighting design team, studioK1, provided architectural lighting design services on this new, mixed-use project. This development is comprised of 332 apartments, amenity spaces, and 10,000 square feet of retail. The apartments are geared towards the student population at SDSU. The complex consists of a 4-story contemporary building arranged in courtyard configurations. Connections from the pedestrian spine to the internal courtyard spaces link the community gathering spaces with the more passive courtyard spaces. Internally, the project provides a variety of amenities and spaces that enhance the user’s experience. Amenities include a clubhouse, pools, a social lounge, a chill zone, and plenty of outdoor recreation areas for residents to gather for a game of sand volleyball, bocce, or picnicking.

The latest addition to the sequence of parks and trails throughout Orange County’s Great Park Neighborhoods, this park provides aquatic and playground fun for the whole family. Playful shade structures and palm colonnades are accentuated, while the walkways through the park meet Irvine’s demanding Security Code. Developed by FivePoints, with architecture by LPA, Inc., and landscape architecture by BrightView. Full MEP/Low Voltage/A/V services provided by tk1sc.

This mixed-use development is a 41-story apartment tower with a four-story retail and restaurant podium. The building features a pool deck, spa, and fitness center on level 4 and an amenity deck at the roof. A three-story podium linking the development's south side houses double-height commercial spaces on the ground level and residential units and amenity spaces on the floors above. The public plaza along Broadway consists of landscape features, such as a water jet fountain and reflecting pool. Our in-house lighting studio, StudioK1, provided lighting design. The project won an IES Award of Merit for Exterior Lighting Design. The vision for Pacific Gate was to indulge residents in an upscale lifestyle with both oceanfront and urban offerings. Lighting the project's residential portion was executed with hospitality-like refinement, while the exterior podium and retail plaza engaged the vibrant downtown setting. High-end finish selections provide the elevated aesthetic but also tie the building to its core ocean-inspired concepts. The light "stripe" delineates the ellipsoidal building form, effectively redefining the San Diego skyline. The lighting composition reinforces the curved building inspired by sea waves and interlocking arcs of a seashell. The golden earth-toned curved wall at the porte-cochère is highlighted from underwater accents drawing visitors into the lobby where the undulating curved glass walls are grazed to simulate waves. The concave wood-paneled walls on the opposite side are softly uplit by inground recessed luminaires – the walls metal trim catching this subtle illumination creating balance in the space. Brass circles embedded in the terrazzo floor mirror three large interlocking rings of light draw eyes to the high ceiling. Miniature downlights discretely provide ambient illumination throughout the lobby. Various lighting techniques tastefully highlight the elegant natural finish selections that make the project rich with textures and colors from the exterior through the lobby and amenities. The budget was a major concern for the client – the project design being far from simple; the lighting team worked closely with the design-build contractor, the owner, and the architect. By procuring value-engineered alternatives and improvising on installation ultimately lowered costs and maintained the effects. The façade's soon-to-be iconic stripe is an evolutionary fruit of this collaboration, starting as an architectural story, turning into a custom metal detail by the window contractor. Corridor lighting is another result of this effort: the intent was to indirectly illuminate the residential corridors by washing the core walls instead of traditional downlighting. The cost of perimeter lighting on all 41 levels was virtually prohibitive. However, using a value-engineered surface luminaire installed in a cost-effectively built architectural ceiling slot, we achieved the desired results with almost 50% savings. The 41-story glass tower is more than just a visual marvel on the waterfront. The building is an enormous architectural mass on San Diego's Pacific Coast Highway. With such size comes much responsibility to neighbors and the environment. We finely selected the architectural lighting to minimize impacts on both city and neighboring natural habitats. The building's lighting is controlled through a central dimming system allowing for programs to lessen the nighttime effects. This includes the stripe along the architectural edges, which can dim variably along its length to avoid impacting neighboring San Diego Airport residents.

This brand new 120,000 square-foot cutting-edge educational concept space provides students with refuge to study, collaborate, and recreate for both middle and high school students. Seamless integration of outdoor learning area with indoor study create unconfined classrooms produces a highly efficient use of programmed space. reducing the non-educational area such as corridors and foyers. Elevated pedestrian walkway interconnects all buildings and serves as an easily identifiable pathway and sense of direction. tk1sc provided electrical, low voltage, lighting, fire alarm, and audio-visual services.

This project is a two-story building of approximately 23,163 square feet. The Newport Harbor Yacht Club is located on 720 West Bay Ave., Newport Beach, CA. The project is designed as a replacement to the existing building. The various space functions include offices and conference rooms, bar, lounge, dining area, ballroom, library, locker, and showers. tk1sc provided full-service engineering/ consulting services for Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Low Voltage systems. Architectural lighting design services were also provided by our boutique lighting team, studiok1.

After 40 years, this Flagship airport hotel received an extensive renovation of the registration, restaurant and lobby areas, and the 16th floor lounge. The existing building has limited ceiling clearances, antiquated lighting controls and an electrical system that was near capacity. There was a lot to overcome, and this operational hotel never closed its doors during renovation. Working with the hotel brand’s design team, a sleek, modern interior design with rectilinear forms and tightly integrated lighting and mechanical details emerged. Square and rectangular fixtures were selected to reinforce this design vocabulary. While a variety of LED fixture styles were used, a common fixture family was selected for ease of maintenance, and the reduced loads did not require upgrades to the existing electrical service. Architectural, structural, mechanical, food service and even art elements were carefully coordinated with lighting placement to minimize fixture views and potential glare, ensuring the best fixture placement and integration. Architecture by TCA.

Nestled on the shore of Lake Tahoe in Stateline, Nevada, this rustic modern destination resort sits six thousand feet above sea level with the snow clad Sierra Nevada Range and Jeffrey pine trees as a backdrop. The 169,000 SF luxury lodge compliments an existing Clubhouse and offers 154 guest rooms and suites, and well-appointed amenities - all surrounded by the world famous 18 hole Edgewood Golf Course. Architecture by CCY Architects and Interior Design by Hirsch Bedner Associates.

StudioK1, working with architects Pacific Design Group and Hong Kong-based interior designer Joey Ho, has taken a historic hotel from the 1930s, and given it a radical, contemporary twist. The DusitD2 Hotel Constance in Pasadena has opened to much fanfare, revitalizing the eastern end of Colorado Boulevard and bringing new life to a faded glory. tk1sc also provided electrical engineering services on this project.

This project's sustainable elements highlight the design while also providing an efficient place for students to live, study, and socialize. With smaller than average room sizes, more common areas, study alcoves, kitchens, terraces, a classroom, and café were built with the saved space. To achieve it's LEED Gold status, our design team implemented the following sustainable building systems. Active and passive controls, motion-sensor lights in all spaces, special triggers to disable HVAC use when the operable windows are open, solar fins that shade west-facing windows for additional energy savings, and geopier footings in place of typical cast-in-place concrete, which saved time and money.Constructed on the last available parcel of campus land, the Blackstone Residence Hall was squeezed between a major college entrance, a busy street and two existing structures, with no green space on site. To make the design work, the project team employed the latest building information modeling and document-control technologies to create an angular building design that maximizes the number of units while leaving room for outdoor amenities. The result is an efficient LEED Gold building, highlighted by smaller-than-average, 150 SF dorm rooms. The saved area was allocated for more common space, study alcoves, kitchens, terraces, a classroom and a café. The 61,000 SF structure provides 15% of its area as amenity space for residents. It also created a new secondary campus entrance.

Our team provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing, technology, and lighting design services on this 60,000 square foot medical office building project located on the existing Kaiser Baldwin Park campus site. The new construction can house 42 provider offices, 50 exam rooms that accommodate orthopedics, urology, imaging, and RAD public square. The project goal was to create a technologically advanced Medical Office Building using a building automation system and specialty lighting systems integrated into various complex ceiling systems.

This new 4-story, 100,000 square-foot medical office building is located on the City of Hope Medical Center Campus in Duarte, CA, and provides office and administrative support to the Medical Center.

StudioK1 provided lighting design services for the new North Wing addition. This 30,000 square foot addition doubled the Bower's exhibition space and comprised a 300 seat state-of-the-art auditorium, two 5,000 square foot galleries, and a central atrium designed to host special events for up to 500 guests. The project also included designing the lighting for a new entry and garden, exterior courtyard, and parking lot.

The new, state-of-the-art, 30,000 square foot Old Town Newhall Library offers more than 135,000 literary items, 68 public use computers, private study spaces, and meeting rooms. Additional highlights of the Library include a children’s library, teen study area, a fireplace reading room, community meeting areas, an outdoor courtyard, art and photographic displays, an artistic replication of Beale’s Cut, and original works of art. Tk1sc provided electrical engineering services with studioK1 providing lighting design. StudioK1 has received recognition for lighting excellence for this project from the IES.

This project is a pedestrian/cycling bridge that spans Irvine Boulevard in Irvine, CA, uniting two family-oriented neighborhoods with an extensive park and trail system. While the City of Irvine created the bridge for safe pedestrian and bicycle passage from point to point, it is also a destination. The bridge provides a glowing beacon for its travelers at night, with strategically located lighting to illuminate the grand vertical gateways and guide walkers, runners, and bikers along the pathway. With Irvine priding itself as the safest city in the country, the bridge has as much functional purpose as aesthetics. The challenges were to provide an exciting new walkway between the neighborhoods more unique than former bridges while still meeting the strict security requirements of the city. With a simple, elegant – and fun - lighting scheme, the new neighborhoods have an iconic element that promotes walking and cycling, encouraging healthy, active families. The architecture was done by Ware Malcomb, with Electrical Engineering by tk1sc and lighting design by StudioK1.

Built in 1994, the 1800-seat Fred Kavli Theatre underwent recent renovations over an expedited three-month period that included new paint, carpet, seats, color-changing fixtures, and new lighting design upgrades.

The new Costa Mesa High School Performing Arts Center consists of a 25,000 square feet, 360 seat theater, black box, and performing arts classroom building. An iconic curvilinear screen wraps the front elevation and provides sun shading for a three-story glass lobby that opens toward the west. The new building also contains an orchestra pit, catwalks, student performance prep spaces, restrooms, support areas, theatrical rigging, theater lighting, and sound support systems. The new Costa Mesa High School Performing Arts Center serves as the School District’s main venue and accommodates various theater and drama productions. This project meets the LEED Silver rating.

This design-build project is a 38,900 SF two-story law enforcement training center. The building design was certified by the California Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training. The facility includes classrooms, training simulation labs, a fitness lab, locker room, an armory and mat room for physical combat training.

UC Irvine’s Gavin Herbert Eye Institute is Orange County’s premier eye-care provider, providing state-of-the-art ophthalmic services, ranging from routine ophthalmic evaluations to complex medical management and surgical care.tk1sc provided mechanical, electrical, and plumbing services for this 70,000 square foot, three-story ground-up design-build project. Key features of this project include:

The Grace on Spring consists of a 24-story tower that features 300 apartments, 7,500 square feet of ground-floor retail space and numerous amenities. It follows it’s sister project across the street at 755 Spring Street, which houses 275 luxury apartments. The set of 24-story mixed-use development includes the following Luxury amenities for residents: observatory rooftop lounge, two-story fitness center, yoga studio, and business center conference rooms, resort-style swimming pool and an entertainment lounge. The project, which combines for 563,250 square feet. Tk1sc provided LEED consulting services and comprehensive energy modeling and analysis services and achieved The level of LEED Silver Certified.

A start-up virtual reality developer takes its new home on the first floor of a1970s office tower. Given the company's virtual product, an effort was made to accentuate the "real" in the working environment and inspired the design team to use cutting-edge technology. The concrete corbelled ceiling and the office HVAC, electrical, and network systems are exposed and highlighted, providing an industrial aesthetic. Wall surfaces and doors are heavily textured, with the lighting designed to accentuate these elements. Given the digital nature of the workforce's tasks, we carefully considered lighting control, allowing fully dimmable options for direct and indirect illumination. Light is focused on the work surfaces, letting the walls fade back not to washout the multiple TV monitors. With limited fixture types throughout the project and all the fixtures being 100% LED, maintenance is minimized. Interior Architecture was done by Bolette N. Albertsen, with full mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and technology services by tk1sc and lighting design bystudioK1.

Jumpman's new flagship store is a 24,000 square foot tenant improvement of a historic building located in downtown Los Angeles. tk1sc designed the new mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and lighting systems that the landmark building required, including a pinnacle product lounge, sports-science-equipped Flight Lab, and a full regulation-size rooftop basketball court.

As its first flexible workspace on the west coast, Hana offers 62,000 square feet of turnkey co working spaces, private offices, and on-demand meeting rooms within Park Place, the landmark mixed-use campus in the heart of Irvine. Hana provides co working and office space for solo professionals and high-growth businesses to thrive. The project team designed a high-density flexible workspace office tenant improvement to meet the owner's needs of flexibility, privacy, and upscale amenities for short-term office solutions. Providing mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and lighting design services on this project, tk1sc designed solutions to meet the unique needs of this type of environment.

Monster Energy's new six-story, 142,000 square foot headquarters houses 500 workstations and 175 private offices. It also features a creative "test lab" for employees and athletes to sample new beverage products, VIP areas, conference room seating on each floor, and design elements and graphics throughout the building that reinforce the Monster brand. tk1sc provided mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering, voice/data cabling design, access control, security camera system design, data center design, with StudioK1 providing lighting design. This project showcases all of tk1sc's design capabilities.

This 12,514 square foot state-of-the-art library features a campus-like environment, with central public gathering spaces and outdoor learning courtyards. In addition, the facility includes adult, teen, and children’s reading areas, an early childhood/family area, a programming space, a homework center, two group study rooms that feature unique lighting fixtures to help delineate the different spaces. The project also includes a 100-seat community meeting room with an audio/visual system, express-service checkout machines at the lobby, information services pods, public access computers, Wi-Fi, staff areas, and public restrooms. ‍

This 160,000 square foot pedestrian mall includes three water features and The River of Light – a 600 foot long kinetic light sculpture representing the Santa Ana River, around which the City of Anaheim was founded. This project has received international recognition for its lighting design excellence and the control systems' sophistication, which integrate all lighting and water effects. tk1sc provided electrical engineering services, with Lighting design by studioK1.

The brief for the new 16,000 square-foot Southern California headquarters of a healthcare architecture firm, Taylor Architects, was to embody their motto: Promoting wellness through architecture. tk1sc provided a full range of consulting services, including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, lighting design, technology design (including low voltage and structured cabling), and commissioning.

Situated in Newport Beach's historic Marina Lido Village, this unique 16,000 square-foot building provides a dynamic co-working environment to the public while also housing SAPs Research and Development center. With guidance from our project leader, Ron Zawadzki, the tk1sc team provided mechanical and technology system design services on this project. The breathtaking open concept of this design allowed us to show off our HVAC design, combining aesthetics with utility.

tk1sc provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and technology engineering services, with studioK1 providing lighting design services on Henkel's new Culver City office location. The headquarters includes a multi-branded Academy of Hair learning center with full salon capabilities and a showroom stage lighting system where Henkel can host customers, social influencers, and professionals. Our work on this tenant improvement project included the renovation of two floors totaling roughly 42,000 square feet, a test salon with color-tunable lighting, six new conference rooms and a shower room on the second floor, a conference room, shower room, AV room, and telepresence room on the third floor. The project also included updating lighting throughout the building to LED luminaires and new lighting controls that met current Title 24 standards.

The project was approximately 223,000 square feet of second-generation tenant improvements, split into two historic roads – Pacific Coast Highway and Route 66 – that serve as a gateway to unite employees across brands and departments. The spaces include a formal meeting room, training and war room, data and innovation areas, an indoor-outdoor space featuring a large patio with tiered seating. tk1sc provided full design for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, audiovisual and low voltage engineering, and lighting design engineering from our boutique lighting design firm StudioK1.