Culver City Hall & Parking Structure

The Culver City Hall is a three-story, 90,000 SF building situated on a 2¼-acre plaza.  Encompassing 16 departments, the building houses offices used by the City Redevelopment Agency, a credit union and a two-story council chamber that seats 150.  With extensive landscaping, public art and water accents, the outdoor plaza serves multiple functions.  The entire complex rests above a two-level, subterranean parking structure with space for 500 cars. Heery (as the JCM Group) provided a full range of project and construction management services for the project.  During the planning stages, value engineering workshops led by Heery identified several opportunities for lowering construction costs.  Savings in excess of $1 million resulted from this effort. The firm also successfully instituted a two-step public bidding procedure, unique to this municipality, that enabled the city to limit bidding to those general contractors who were pre-qualified in terms of financial strength and construction experience.