LEED and Green Building

The Airport Atrium building in Torrance, CA is a multi-story 97,000 square-foot Class A office building. This beautiful building includes a 4-story glass atrium with a feature fountain and large office spaces for tenant use. In 2015, Athena Engineering was contracted by the new owners of the building to perform on-site surveys for existing [...]

The Bus Maintenance & Operations Facility was designed to optimize Los Angeles County Metro's bus transit service throughout the Central Los Angeles region. The new sustainable facility accommodates a fleet of 200 CNG (compressed natural gas) buses. The project entailed construction of a cast-in-place concrete parking structure housing the Metro [...]

Beverly Hospital is a general medical and surgical hospital in Montebello, CA, with 102 beds. In 2016, over 15,000 patients visited the hospital's emergency room. The hospital had a total of 7,180 admissions. Its physicians performed 1,204 inpatient and 2,952 outpatient surgeries. Athena Engineering, Inc. was engaged by the mechanical engineer, Ted Jacobs Engineering, [...]

Athena Engineering, Inc. won this project with Schneider Electric as an Energy Services Contract (ESCO) design-build. The system designed and provided for the LACCD LA City College included renovation and additions to the entire campus infrastructure. All construction and retrofit was performed while the campus was fully occupied and the facility was operational. Other pieces [...]

The Los Angeles Community College District - Southwest College School of Career and Technical Education (SOCTE) provides practical, hands-on training to diverse, multi-generational user groups in a safe and inviting campus facility. Large expanses of glass and open-air corridors, lobbies, and courtyards exhibit the professional training and instruction taking place on the inside. Athena [...]

The Piper Spirit Office Complex project required Athena Engineering, Inc. to design and build two state of the art office buildings from the ground up. Both buildings are located on a 75,000 square foot lot (1.7 acres), and construction involved the coordination of several dozen trades. Athena Engineering served as the general contractor, mechanical HVAC, [...]

The two-story, steel-framed buildings is home to 650 students and occupies a 3.96-acre site. In addition to 26 classrooms, the 58,000-sq-ft school has administrative offices, play fields, a library, multi-purpose room, food service facility, lunch shelter and surface parking. This project is Certified LADWP Savings by Design & Certified High Performance Schools Verified. Athena [...]

Athena Engineering, Inc. was selected by McKinstry Essention as the HVAC and building automation design-build partner for this retrofit project at the LAUSD Santee Education Complex. This project was funded by California's Proposition 39, a bond measure providing an estimated $2.75 billion over five years — to support energy efficiency and clean energy projects in K-12 schools and [...]

Athena Engineering, Inc. was responsible for the mechanical HVAC scope of work and building automation security, access and mechanical controls at this 35,600 square foot, ground-up Catholic educational facility located in Duarte, CA. The project included a multi-story new building with subterranean parking, a 40-classroom building, kitchen, playground and office space. Following completion of [...]

The El Monte Busway and Transit Center, owned and operated by Los Angeles Metro, is the largest bus facility west of Chicago and offers interstate, regional, and local bus services to an average of 40,000 passengers daily. The scope of this project doubled the size of the previous center with a two-level bus terminal. El Monte now [...]

This design-build building automation project consisted of the construction of a new central plant for the main cooling and heating media of the LACCD Southwest College campus. The project was a design/build that utilized thermal storage or ice tanks for cooling. The chilled water side of the project includes two air-cooled chillers that are primarily used [...]