Working under the US General Services Administration, ZGF, based in Oregon, will design various components of DHS such as Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
Located at St. Elizabeths, a National Historic Landmark and former mental health hospital that was previously operated by the US Department of Health and Human Services, the project will be dispersed between the historic West Campus and a new East Campus. The two campuses will be linked via a below-grade connector. The program includes the design of four new office buildings, the addition to an existing historic building, three parking structures, mail sort facility, cafeteria, and child care center. In total, the program is estimated to be 2,129,800 gross square feet. The project will be designed to achieve LEED-Gold certification.
This project is part of the overall DHS headquarters consolidation project, the Washington metropolitan area’s largest federal project since construction of the Pentagon in 1943. The entire campus will be comprised of 4.5 million square feet of workspace and 1.5 million square feet of parking.
The design team includes Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, Syska Hennessey Group, Olin and Thornton Tomasetti.
