SOCOTEC USA's Optima Onyx Tower Receives USGBC Florida 2024 Building Design + Construction Award
Optima Onyx Tower Receives Prestigious USGBC Florida 2024 Building Design + Construction Award
SOCOTEC USA is proud to announce that the Optima Onyx Tower, which achieved LEED Platinum Certification in October of 2024, has been recognized with the USGBC Florida 2024 Building Design + Construction Award. This honor celebrates the tower’s exceptional commitment to sustainability, innovation, and design excellence.
Known as the Onyx Tower, this remarkable project is part of the Aventura Optima development, located along S. Federal Highway in Hallandale Beach, Florida. This striking project embodies both architectural beauty and environmental responsibility. The development spans a remarkable 709,503 square feet, encompassing a 390,514-square-foot parking garage, a 23,757-square-foot two-story financial building, and a 295,232-square-foot twenty-story office tower. The tower, which sits atop the garage, boasts a gross floor area of 282,000 square feet. The space primarily functions as offices, with additional retail-shell spaces on the lower levels. Among its unique offerings are 272,302 square feet of office space, 12,508 square feet for a bank, 1,767 square feet for a café, and 47,650 square feet of beautifully designed garden and reflecting pool decks located on the fifth and ninth floors. The facility also includes 851 parking spaces, strategically situated in the basement and garage.
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OPTIMA ONYX TOWER
Redefining Sustainability & Design
Sustainability is at the heart of the Onyx Tower’s design. Achieving 30% energy savings, the building incorporates a rooftop solar panel array, reducing its environmental footprint while enhancing efficiency. During construction, the project generated less than 15 pounds of waste per square foot, a notable achievement that exemplifies sustainable building practices. Additionally, the tower earned a Safety First Pilot credit, ensuring green cleaning and disinfecting protocols, particularly in response to pathogens such as COVID.
SOCOTEC USA’s Energy & Sustainability team in West Palm Beach, Florida, played a critical role in the project’s success by providing sustainable consulting services. This achievement reflects the expertise and hard work of SOCOTEC’s team and its partners. Special recognition goes to team members Juliette Desfeux (LEED), Ernesto Collazo (CxP), Santiago Sanchez, and Steve Samenski (EM), whose contributions were integral to the project’s success.
Sustainability is at the heart of the Onyx Tower’s design. Achieving 30% energy savings, the building incorporates a rooftop solar panel array, reducing its environmental footprint while enhancing efficiency. During construction, the project generated less than 15 pounds of waste per square foot, a notable achievement that exemplifies sustainable building practices. Additionally, the tower earned a Safety First Pilot credit, ensuring green cleaning and disinfecting protocols, particularly in response to pathogens such as COVID.
SOCOTEC USA’s Energy & Sustainability team in West Palm Beach, Florida, played a critical role in the project’s success by providing sustainable consulting services. This achievement reflects the expertise and hard work of SOCOTEC’s team and its partners. Special recognition goes to team members Juliette Desfeux (LEED), Ernesto Collazo (CxP), Santiago Sanchez, and Steve Samenski (EM), whose contributions were integral to the project’s success.
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USGBC Florida 2024 Building Design + Construction Award
The USGBC Florida Leadership Awards recognize projects, businesses, and individuals that demonstrate a commitment to creating healthier, more sustainable spaces. The Building Design + Construction Award highlights developments that showcase innovation in sustainability, environmental responsibility, and cutting-edge design. The Optima Onyx Tower exemplifies these principles, standing as a model for the future of green building.
SOCOTEC USA is honored to have been part of this extraordinary project and is grateful for the collaboration with dedicated industry partners who helped bring this vision to life. The recognition of the Optima Onyx Tower reinforces SOCOTEC’s commitment to pushing boundaries in sustainability and design.
The USGBC Florida Leadership Awards recognize projects, businesses, and individuals that demonstrate a commitment to creating healthier, more sustainable spaces. The Building Design + Construction Award highlights developments that showcase innovation in sustainability, environmental responsibility, and cutting-edge design. The Optima Onyx Tower exemplifies these principles, standing as a model for the future of green building.
SOCOTEC USA is honored to have been part of this extraordinary project and is grateful for the collaboration with dedicated industry partners who helped bring this vision to life. The recognition of the Optima Onyx Tower reinforces SOCOTEC’s commitment to pushing boundaries in sustainability and design.
About SOCOTEC
SOCOTEC, who employs over 650 professionals in more than 25 offices in the U.S., is an industry leader in the building and infrastructure sectors, offering the combined highly technical expertise of an expansive and holistic network of experts across seven service lines: (i) Building Envelope; (ii) Energy & Sustainability; (iii) Code & Planning; (iv) Life Safety; (v) Project Advisory; (vi) Dispute Resolution; and (vii) Specialty Engineering.
SOCOTEC Group, a leader in construction inspection and a major player in TIC for the construction and infrastructure sectors, the SOCOTEC Group has 200,000 clients with operations in 26 countries, 11,300 employees and over 250 external recognitions.
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