Lafayette Library and Learning Center

Critical Solutions Inc.

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Project Details:

• Client: City of Lafayette
• Status: Completed

• Project Size: 33,000 square feet
  
• Unique new public library building
• Three-story
• 30,000 square feet of under-building parking (79 on-site parking spaces)
• Home of the Glenn Seaborg Learning Consortium:
  - includes a dozen Bay Area educational cultural organizations
  - provides additional resource and learning opportunities to the LLLC. 
• Environmentally green and technologically advanced project includes:
  - Community Hall with 161-seat capacity
  - Outdoor plaza and amphitheater
  - Friends of Lafayette Library bookstore
  - Lafayette Historical Society study and display
  - Bookmark Café- located outside the main entrance to the Library
  - Incorporates solar energy (42kW photovoltaic panel system to reduce the building’s energy demand)
• Green Building Materials used include:
  - Recycled teak siding
  - Durable granite walls
  - Low-odor / zero-VOC (volatile organic compounds) paint
  - Low emissions carpeting
  - Low-emission adhesives, sealants and composite wood
  

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