San Mateo County Office Building 3

Posted by Kendall Rocco , November 11, 2022 - Featured Stories, Sponsor

Located in Silicon Valley, the new San Mateo County headquarters will be the first net-zero-energy civic building constructed with mass timber in the U.S. Achieving an 85 percent reduction in structural embodied carbon, this flexible workplace sets a benchmark for civic architecture. Civic leadership When San Mateo County leaders approached SOM to design a new county headquarters, they had ambitious sustainability goals. Climate leadership is needed now more than ever,…

The Whole Carbon Picture: Introduction to the SOM Team

Posted by Kendall Rocco , October 21, 2022 - Featured Stories

Carbon Sequestering: Synthesizing Passive House and Healthy Materials Passive House approach to operational energy with challenges of addressing upfront embodied carbon, as a key combination to address in approaching carbon-zero buildings. REGISTER NOW   Corey McCormack, AIA Associate Principal - Technical Architect at SOM Corey McCormack is an Associate Principal and Technical Architect in SOM’s New York office.  Since joining the firm in 2014, Corey’s work focuses on leading interdisciplinary…