Portfolio: Project Details
Marin Municipal Water District
Master Plan and Programming Study
Marin County, CA
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The Marin Municipal Water District (MMWD) provides potable and reclaimed water
to a population of approximately 168,000 people in central and southern Marin
County. The District maintains a 28,000-square-foot administrative office
building as well as a separate 5-acre corporation yard facility, which is
located across the street. As a result of changes in District staffing
requirements since the office building was first occupied in 1962, MMWD has
outgrown its current office space. That overcrowding combined with increases in
property value for the current building site, which fronts along Highway 101,
prompted the MMWD Board of Directors to investigate the potential for selling
their administrative office building, and constructing a new administration
building on the corporation yard site.
Interactive Resources was called upon to review space requirements and prepare a
programming study for all administrative, operations and maintenance functions
currently housed in both the District's corporation yard and administrative
office building. Following the analysis of space requirements, the firm
developed a number of master planning alternatives to determine the feasibility
of combining both uses on the existing site. The size of the site, the
operating requirements, and the need to provide a buffer between public access
and the corporation yard, required that a combined facility include below grade
employee parking.
In conjunction with District management, a preferred alternative was identified
and Interactive Resources developed a conceptual rendering of the combined
facility, which includes a 42,000-square-foot administrative office building
and a 18,000-square-foot shops and yard administration building. Interactive
Resources also developed a phasing plan for construction, associated cost
estimates, and a project implementation plan.
