The new 14,000-SF single-story Eye Clinic is located on the northeast corner of the VA Loma Linda Medical Center campus. The Eye Clinic is one of the most visited clinics and prior to the upgrade, it was operating within a 2,100 SF space. The new Eye Clinic Building consists of 20 eye exam rooms, 2 laser rooms, 1 procedure room, 4 specialty exam rooms, teaching wet lab, eyeglass display and fitting area, and support spaces.
Our sustainable strategies aimed to achieve high performance in health outcomes, provide comfort to the occupants, and improve building performance. Public and staff areas were placed with access to outside views, allowing for maximum daylight. Workspaces were designed to allow occupant control over lighting and thermal comfort, and finally, a flexible building layout will easily allow for future conversion of spaces into additional exam and treatment rooms.
The following are the Eye Clinic’s main sustainable features:
• Diverted 97.8% of waste construction from landfill
• Utilized 67.49 % sustainable sourced materials
• Reduced the energy cost up to 48% with the high performance building envelope and allocation of 235kw of renewable energy generated from existing PV arrays on the campus