curtiss wright AWS

CURTISS WRIGHT PROJECT NAME: Curtiss Wright Nuclear Division LOCATION: Idaho Falls, ID CATEGORY: Non-Residential Located within the development of Snake River Landing, the Curtiss Wright Corporation’s Nuclear Power Division is a build-to-suit building with office, assembly space, lab, R&D, testing and specialty support spaces for a large corporate and government contractor working in the energy sector. The project is located in Idaho Falls to be in proximity to the Idaho National Lab. Curtiss Wright supplies systems and products to all of the nation’s nuclear utilities and many non-nuclear power plants. The building program facilitates software development for improving plant performance and addressing equipment obsolescence in existing nuclear power facilities, including an in-house manufacturing and assembly area, a complete test lab with certified test equipment performing production testing, limited qualification testing, and repair and refurbishment work. The building parti is composed of two football field sized building footprints connected by a shared 2-story lobby and reception area. The facility houses two corporate divisions: Plant Performance and Instruments & Controls. The architectural design draws upon the aesthetic of buildings in the historic downtown while expressing the high-tech nature of the Curtiss Wright work. Masonry clad wall systems are interrupted with angled glass curtainwall elements and cantilevered glass conference rooms. The building construction features integrally insulated tilt-up concrete wall panels punctuated with high performance glazing systems, brick and stone masonry, concrete with custom formwork and sunshades. A central landscape feature of crushed lava rock and undulating sidewalks “flow” between the buildings tying the two sides of the site together.

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INTERIOR VIEWS OF ASSEMBLY FLOOR AND CANTILEVERED CONFERENCE ROOM

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LOBBY - EXPOSED STRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL SYSTEM. EXTERIOR WALL EXTENDS THROUGH LOBBY

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CONCRETE, WOOD & GLASS RECEPTION DESK; THE DESIGN OF THE EXTERIOR LANDSCAPE PATH EXTENDS THROUGH LOBBY INSCRIBED ON THE FLOOR

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LOBBY ATRIUM WITH SCALE MODEL OF CURTISS FYLER

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