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Middle East Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | SOM Middle East Middle East EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN AND PLANNING SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL | SOM MIDDLE EAST Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is one of the leading architecture, interior design, engineering, and urban-planning firms in the world, with a 75-year reputation for design excellence and a portfolio that includes some of the most important architectural accomplishments of the 20th and 21st centuries. SOM draws on several decades of experience in more than 50 countries around the globe to inform its design solutions. The firm has an international reputation for excellence, and was recently named the most innovative architecture firm in the world by Fast Company Magazine. Since its founding, SOM has received more than 1,600 awards, including the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) highest honor for design excellence in a collaborative practice. It is the only firm to have received this award twice. In recent years, the firm’s expertise has expanded, from the innovative planning and design of high profile office and mixed- use projects, to include an increasingly comprehensive range of programs and uses. Today SOM is an industry leader in the architectural design and engineering for sites and buildings dedicated to education, public infrastructure and transportation, aviation, health and science, and government. The firm’s longstanding commitment toward greater innovation extends not only to the design and engineering of its built work, but also to the application of its expertise and resources, as reflected in several initiatives including the SOM Journal and the creation of the Center for Architecture, Science & Ecology (CASE), in collaboration with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. These initiatives continue the tradition of integration of disciplines upon which the firm was originally founded. Currently, the firm maintains offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., London, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, Shanghai; with local representatives located in Riyadh, Mumbai and Mexico City. National Commercial Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL | SOM MIDDLE EAST Professional Services SOM was founded as a collaborative practice, organized to reflect the integral relationship between architecture, interiors, planning, and engineering. Our worldwide staff includes over 1000 professionals with expertise in the following disciplines: ARCHITECTURE URBAN DESIGN & PLANNING INTERIOR DESIGN SUSTAINABLE DESIGN STRUCTURAL & CIvIL ENGINEERING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PLUMBING ENGINEERING Digital DESIGN GRAPHICS INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Rolex Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL | SOM MIDDLE EAST Recipient of the 2010 AIA 25 Year Award Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) received the 2010 American Institute of Architects (AIA) 25 Year award for the King Abdul Aziz International Airport Hajj Terminal. The AIA 25 Year award recognizes architectural design of enduring significance and is conferred on a project that has stood the test of time for 25 to 35 years as an embodiment of architectural excellence. Projects must demonstrate excellence in function—in the distinguished execution of its original program and in the creative aspects of its statement by today’s standards. The award jury commented, “The architects created a highly sustainable project well ahead of the green movement… The terminal presents a sense of place, ecology, economy of means, and culture—not imposing on but learning from the local culture and environment.” Completed in 1981, the Hajj Terminal in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia becomes a temporary city for Muslims who decamp from planes and await transportation to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina during the six weeks of the Islamic faith known as Hajj. SOM created a series of tent- like structures beneath which up to 80,000 pilgrims circulate at a time. The 120-acre terminal consists of two identical roofed halves separated by a landscaped central mall. The first half of the terminal contains air-conditioned buildings; the second half is a vast, open-sided temperate waiting and support area. In addition to the 25 Year Award, the Hajj Terminal also received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1983. King Abdul Aziz International Airport - Hajj Terminal, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL | SOM MIDDLE EAST Sustainable Design Building a Sustainable Future SOM is committed to advancing the ideas of sustainable living, environmental responsiveness, ecological balance, biodiversity, and high-performance design for every project that it engages in. To this end, the firm has developed an in-house Performative Design Studio™ comprised of engineers, architects, planners, researchers and technical experts to incorporate high-performance and sustainable strategies from the inception of the design process. As an industry leader in advanced engineering design services, we are committed to providing efficient and cost- effective solutions to the particular challenges that India faces today. Through the development and incorporation of sustainable building ideas, such as next-generation technology, passive design, smart materials, intelligent Weyerhaeuser Corporate 7 World Trade Center U.S. Census Bureau Memorial Sloan-Kettering building, and energy efficiency, SOM’s designs address Headquarters New York, New York Headquarters Research Center the specific needs of Middle Eastern cities as they relate to Tacoma, Washington 2006 Suitland, Maryland New York, New York water supply, sewage treatment, solid waste disposal, and 1971 2007 2008 transportation solutions. Owens-Corning Fiberglass, LEED® CS Gold Certified LEED® NC Gold Certified LEED® Silver Certified Energy Conservation Award, In-house experts evaluate a host of strategies including 1973 natural day lighting, natural ventilation, water harvesting, thermal massing and solar protection systems that directly respond to the Indian climate. Beyond passive strategies, The incorporation of sustainable At the district and block scale, urban The use of intelligent and integrated The sustainable design process building ideas such as green building, planners, architects and engineers building technologies such as wind recognizes that building materials— efficient building systems, integrated renewable energy intelligent building, and energy collaborate to develop communal turbines and double skin walls all and the energy required to extract production, advanced building control systems, efficient efficiency has long been an integral spaces and buildings that make aim towards developing a highly- or create them—are not infinite and water strategies, and waste reduction principles are applied part of SOM’s design excellence. We the best use of the micro climate, sustainable structure. The team must be carefully considered during implement these concepts—through solar orientation, and storm water places a high value on creating spaces all aspects of design and construction, to achieve an overall efficient and sustainable design. advanced building control systems, management. At the building and that leave a minimal environmental and even post-construction. climatically responsive layouts, waste object scale, SOM’s multidisciplinary footprint through maximized efficiency reduction principles, and natural team applies strategies such as day and flexibility for growth. SOM uses Additionally, a sustainable building day lighting—in projects executed lighting, thermal comfort, water and a variety of tools such as advanced incorporates natural systems from throughout the world. energy efficiency designs. building control systems, climatically daylight to fresh air, providing responsive planning, waste reduction a superior environment for the SOM is an original and active member The sustainable design process principles, natural day lighting, occupants as well as a better long- of the U.S. Green Building Council recognizes that building materials— orientation, urban redevelopment, term contribution to the surrounding (USGBC) and has participated in and the energy required to extract thermal massing, intelligent building environment. the development of the Leadership or create them—are not infinite and systems, building simulation, and in Energy and Environmental Design must be carefully considered during building performance rating. (LEED) Green Building Rating System. all aspects of design and construction, and even post-construction. Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL | SOM MIDDLE EAST BIM / Technical Expertise Building Information Modeling & Advanced Digital Design As an industry leader in the implementation and advanced use of computational tools, SOM has integrated Building Information Modeling (BIM) as an inherent part of its creative design and project delivery processes. Continuing its rich 40-year legacy of computational design, SOM was one of the first firms to embrace modern BIM in early 2000 and continues to be a key participant in defining its role in the industry. Dramatically improving the efficiency of traditional design, documentation production, and design team collaboration efforts are all benefits that have been realized to date. SOM’s project-based architects and engineers are fluent in a broad spectrum of tools, positioning teams to work creatively, intelligently, and efficiently. Among the teams, a group of specialists with advanced professional and computational knowledge can guide teams even further, including
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