Mar. 19, 2010 (Business Wire) -- The Working Artists Ventura (WAV) project is a state-of-the-art community designed for artists and creative businesses. The project consists of 69 new units of affordable housing, all serving low-income families and individuals from across the region. Fifteen of the units are designed to provide permanent supportive housing, intended to house recently homeless families and individuals from across Ventura County.
RBF Consulting (RBF) provided professional engineering, surveying, mapping and construction support services for the new, mixed-use, high-density project, which has been submitted for consideration as the first LEED certified affordable housing project in Ventura County and the second in the State of California.
The WAV community was designed and built to the high standards of green building technology (LEED certified), including recycled building materials, car sharing, water and energy conservation, and renewable solar power. The project is pursuing a LEED for New Construction v2.2 rating of Silver and has the potential of attaining a Gold rating.
RBF prepared the vertical subdivision map, topographic survey, grading plan design, improvement plan design, utility analysis and offsite improvement plan preparation. RBF Senior Vice President and Office Manager Darin Johnson stated, “With over 60 LEED Accredited Professionals, RBF applies sustainable design principles to assist clients in reaching their goals. This was an unprecedented project that involved input from many sectors of the community and we were privileged to be a part of that process.”
For more information, you may contact Darin Johnson, Camarillo Office Manager, at 805-383-3373, or visit the RBF web site at www.RBF.com.
City of Ventura/PLACE Partnership:
The City of Ventura worked with PLACE (Projects Linking Art, Community & Environment, www.placeonline.us), a nonprofit organization based in Minnesota. PLACE has developed this live/work project to provide permanently affordable housing for the Ventura community's growing population of artists. PLACE has worked with the renowned architecture firms of CardeTen (www.cardeten.com) and Santos Prescott & Associates (www.santosprescott.com) to design this innovative project, with the active participation of the wider community and the local Conceptual Oversight Group. For more information about PLACE, visit www.placeonline.us.
About RBF Consulting:
RBF Consulting currently maintains 16 offices across the Western United States with award-winning projects nationally and internationally. The firm provides a multi-disciplined approach to projects ranging from transportation and water resources to GIS, urban design, environmental analysis and survey/construction management with innovative solutions and technologies. RBF is currently listed #79 with Engineering News-Record. RBF Consulting is one of America’s leaders in design and sustainability of the world around us. For more information, please visit www.RBF.com.
