The University of California San Francisco Housing at the Tidelands has been honored with the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute’s 2021 Sidney Freedman Craftsmanship Award. The prestigious annual award recognizes PCI-certified plants for excellence in manufacturing and craftsmanship of architectural precast concrete and glass fiber-reinforced concrete (GFRC) structures and individual components.
Judges selected Clark Pacific’s plant in Fontana, Calif., for its work on the two six-story buildings on the college campus. The innovative project features 545 flat precast concrete and sculpted glass fiber-reinforced concrete (GFRC) panels. To minimize solar heat gain, the buildings feature horizontal and vertical sunshades built directly into the GFRC panels on the sun-facing elevations, which will maintain temperatures consistently 2 degrees F to 4 degrees F cooler than a flat façade.