Earth Day Marks One Year Until Santa Monica’s Greenest Building Opens

April 22, 2019 1:01 PM
by Joel Cesare

Earth Day 2019 marks an important milestone in Santa Monica, not only as a day to demonstrate support for protecting the environment but marks the City Services Building’s final year of construction and anticipated grand opening on Earth Day 2020.

The new City Services Building (CSB) is a community facility for Santa Monica that will save taxpayers money and provide more efficient services at our Civic Center. It will be the first building the State of California has permitted to capture and treat rainwater onsite for drinking, and the first city building in the country to operate with composting toilets. No stormwater will leave the CSB, further protecting our environment and coastline from pollution. 

A 40,000-gallon fiberglass cistern being installed will store collected rainwater before treatment

CSB construction remains on schedule and the project team recently oversaw the concrete pour of the building’s ground floor, a huge construction milestone for the project. The building will continue to rise through the summer and currently scheduled to complete vertical construction also known as topping out this fall. After top out, the building’s façade will be glassed-in prior to the end of 2019.

City leadership has embraced the CSB as an opportunity to make a global environmental statement at our City Hall and we look forward to celebrating Earth Day’s 50^th Anniversary with the CSB grand opening on April 22, 2020. 

To learn more about the CSB project, visit the project website here.

Authored By

Joel Cesare
CIP Project Manager