California Air Resources Board Southern California Headquarters
Mary D. Nichols Campus Testing Facility & Laboratory

Riverside, California

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Photo credit: Connie Zhou

Photo credit: Connie Zhou

Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering

Government, Laboratories, Life Sciences

LEED Platinum

Net-Zero Energy

CalGreen Tier 2 Building Standards

204,903 Square Foot Photovoltaic System

10th Annual Sustainable Innovation Award (Un-Built Honor), USGBC, 2020

California Air Resources Board

ZGF Architects, LLP

Hensel Phelps

Affiliated Engineers, Inc.
OJB
AVL Test Systems

216,800

square feet of laboratories

$418M

construction cost

19

acre site

403,306

total square feet
California Air Resources Board Southern California Headquarters <br /> Mary D. Nichols Campus Testing Facility & Laboratory

Home to the one of the largest and most advanced vehicle emissions testing and research facilities in the world, the California Air Resources Board Southern California Consolidation Project also includes a light duty facility, a heavy-duty facility, a shared facility and a chemistry lab. The project has a fueling island with two 6,000-gallon above-ground fuel tanks, compressed natural gas facility, liquid nitrogen tanks, hazardous waste building, car and truck/bus washing areas, loading dock, fuel drum storage, fuel bus parking, front entry plaza, surface parking for vehicles and bicycles, electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, photovoltaic panels, thermal energy storage tanks, lunch patio, access drives, landscaping, and eight-foot tall perimeter wall with a metal fence.