Truebeck’s Thirty75 Tech office building was recognized by the Silicon Valley Structures Awards with the 2023 Award for Medium Office Project. On September 28^th, Mike Anderson, Sr. Vice President, and Mike Paye, Project Executive, attended the awards event held at the San Jose Marriott. The full project feature is below.

Thirty75 Tech is the Structures 2023 honoree for Office Project — Medium

If you’re going to impress someone, the world’s largest retailer is a great place to start.

In this case, developer MDY Properties Inc., builder of Santa Clara’s Thirty75 Tech office building, attracted Amazon Web Services (AWS) while building out the property, nabbing a commitment from the company for the 238,400-square-foot structure’s top two floors in 2020.

Spying an angular design by Verse Design LA that included floor-to-ceiling glass walls, however, Amazon ultimately leased out the entire building and began moving in when Thirty75 Tech was completed last year. Looking to avoid the appearance of a prototypical glazed façade, Verse Design devised a shading system that included 28 panel variations of alloy airfoil-shaped louvers hung from a steel catwalk. In all, the louvers total almost nine miles of linear feet and required a mock up of the system to ensure that the final version wouldn’t rattle once it was installed.

With an exterior that welcomes visitors by eschewing any barriers and a seven-story parking structure purposely obscured on three sides by a “green screen” of native, draught-tolerant plants strung along an elaborate cable system, Thirty75 Tech also features a street presence apropos for a project that replaced a 1970s-era single-story office building and is a key cog in the redevelopment of what was a light-industrial area.

Featuring widened sidewalks around the building, Thirty75 Tech also adjoins a walkway network connecting pedestrians to the bike and walking paths along nearby San Tomas Aquino Creek.

Key Facts

Address: 3075 Olcott St., Santa Clara

Size: 505,330 square feet, including 238,400 square feet of office space, a 266,930-square-foot parking structure and 17,980 square feet of plaza space and outdoor decks on a 2.7-acre site

Cost: $132 million

Status: Started July 2015, completed August 2022

Amenities: A west-facing entry plaza adjacent to Olcott Street allows for outdoor area with minimal noise and pollution from nearby San Tomas Expressway and Scott Boulevard.

Tidbit: Workers on the upper floors can see snow on Mount Hamilton 30 miles away during certain times of the year.

Key players

Leasing agents: Cushman and Wakefield

Developer: MDY Properties Inc.

General contractor: Truebeck Construction

Architect: Verse Design LA

Landscape architect: SWA Group

Civil engineer: MacLeod & Associates

Structural engineer: Walter P. Moore

MEP engineer: Glumac

Curtain wall subcontractor: Architectural Glass and Aluminum