Located in Stanford, California, the Escondido Village Graduate Residences (EVGR) is Stanford University’s newest on-campus residential community. The complex comprises four residential buildings, each standing 10 stories tall with wings varying from 6 to 10 stories. The design aligns with the architectural style of the Stanford campus. Each building features a variety of amenities, including a student lounge, mail room, game room, music practice rooms, a marketplace, a wellness room, and a community room with a kitchen and lounge area.
The project utilized a total precast concrete solution, which allowed for a significant reduction in on-site activities—saving over 65,000 man-days. This approach minimized the need for onsite cars, parking spaces, idling trucks, and overall campus congestion. Clark Pacific’s solution integrates the structural components with the exterior cladding, achieving both the desired aesthetic and meeting the project’s enhanced resiliency requirements.
The residential buildings consist of approximately 14,700 prefabricated precast panels. Close collaboration between designers and engineers allowed for the optimization of panel designs and a reduction in the number of fabrication forms required. The exchange of BIM models was crucial to the project’s workflow, with the design team seamlessly converting Tekla models to Revit, which facilitated an efficient design-to-construction process. As a result, the buildings were installed in just 11 months, achieving an estimated time savings of 30-40% compared to traditional cast-in-place construction.
Additionally, Clark Pacific installed the glazing in the precast panels at the factory, further enhancing quality and reducing campus construction activity.
Project at a glance:
• 4 Buildings, 2434 Beds
• 1,835,000 SF Residences
• 1,025,000 SF Exterior Cladding
• Resilience: Designed to higher Class II Level than required by Code
• Building construction is expected to commence in Fall 2017 with completion in 2020/2021
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