March 26, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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500 County Center Rd.
Redwood City CA 94063
Two Events | One Day | Redwood City
Interior Design and Planning of the Cordilleras Mental Health Campus
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Sustainable Design and Outcomes of the San Mateo County Office Building 3
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025
3pm-4pm Cordilleras Mental Health Campus Presentation
4pm-5pm San Mateo County Office Building #3 Tour
Location: 500 County Center Rd., Redwood City, CA 94063
Format: In-Person
Cost: $25
First at 3 pm, please join us for an insightful presentation exploring the innovative interior design and planning strategies implemented at the Cordilleras Mental Health Campus in San Mateo County. The campus includes four single-story, 16-bed rehabilitation cottages focused on specific populations and their tailored treatments, for clients with severe mental health issues. This presentation will delve into how thoughtful design can create therapeutic environments that enhance mental health and well-being. The speakers will discuss the planning of the facility, including the K-shaped form, the programs included to address patient comfort and the needs and healing journey of the patient population. Attendees will learn how the selection of materials, furniture, and spatial arrangements contribute to restorative healing, and highlight the impact of integration of nature and natural light in the design on patient outcomes.
At 4 pm we’ll tour the San Mateo’s County Office Building 3 that has the distinction of the nation’s first net-zero energy, mass-timber civic building. The project, a five-story, 208,000 sq. ft. building, which includes glue-laminated columns and beams and cross-laminated timber (CLT) floor and roof systems, is designed to achieve net-zero energy and LEED Platinum certification. The project has also received the 2025 Green Building Award from Sustainable San Mateo County, and ENR California’s Best Regional Projects: Best Government / Public Building and Excellence in Sustainability. Guided by the COB3 project team, the attendees will tour the completed office and meeting spaces and learn about the project’s strategies for workplace wellness and sustainable design. The tour format encourages questions and discussion, and attendees can get an in-depth view and successful outcome of the project.
Interior Design and Planning of the Cordilleras Mental Health Campus
Image Credits: Courtesy of CannonDesign
Learning Objectives
- Emotional Impacted Design | promoting physical environments that allow mental health clients to receive care in a therapeutic and least restrictive setting.
- Biophilic Design | incorporating natural materials and colors, and daylighting supports both physical and mental well-being by creating a more human-centered, therapeutic environment.
- Flexibility and Adaptability | implementing designs feature flexible, multi-functional spaces and opportunities for patient personalization to promote a sense of control and ownership.
- Patient-Centered Design | adopting design to prioritize patient dignity and privacy, with private spaces and family involvement areas to support recovery.
Project Team:
Owner: San Mateo County
Design architect and architect of record: CannonDesign
MEP engineer: CannonDesign
Structural engineer: KPFF
Construction: Skanska USA Building
Furniture: OneWorkPlace
Presenter | Jacky Yung
Jacky is a Senior Vice President at CannonDesign, bringing over 30 years of healthcare design experience in California. He excels at navigating the unique challenges of both large and small healthcare projects. Jacky understands that effective solutions go beyond the design of physical spaces, incorporating creative insights to enhance operational efficiency and provide planning flexibility that adapts to evolving business and care models. His extensive experience on the West Coast, particularly in the healthcare sector, provides a strong design perspective that not only benefits projects in California but also supports CannonDesign’s global healthcare initiatives.
Presenter | Sarah Laffoday
Account Manager, One Workplace
Sarah joined One Workplace in 2013. She has 25 years of industry experience in contract furniture and over 4 years specifically supporting government entities. Working collaboratively with the Designer, Project Manager and Coordination team, she synchronizes the efforts of our team, the various manufacturers, contractors, design firms and architects to ensure a successful, timely and efficient project. Her primary clients are Sutter Health, and County of San Mateo.
Presenter | Jennifer Brody
Senior Designer, One Workplace
Jennifer works on all aspects of the furniture application design process for the project development. This includes programming and performing work setting analysis, verifying field conditions, designing furniture space places, writing specifications, installation documents, and electrical plans – as they relate to the furniture – and choosing finish selections. Her client list includes Kaiser Permanente, UCSF and County of San Mateo. Jennifer joined One Workplace in 2012 and has a Bachelor’s degree from Sacramento State University and extensive experience in commercial office furniture design.
Read: A Building Design + Construction feature on Cordilleras’ net zero energy features
Sustainable Design and Outcomes of the San Mateo County Office Building 3
Image Credits: Courtesy of Dave Burk © SOM
SMC Office Building 3 Bestowed with Awards and Honors
The project has also received the 2025 Green Building Award from Sustainable San Mateo County, and ENR California’s Best Regional Projects: Best Government / Public Building and Excellence in Sustainability. Guided by the COB3 project team, the attendees will tour the completed office and meeting spaces and learn about the project’s strategies for workplace wellness and sustainable design. The tour format encourages questions and discussion, and attendees can get an in-depth view and successful outcome of the project.
Learning Objectives
- Integrating sustainable design principles into the building’s architecture, including the use of mass timber construction, renewable materials, energy-efficient systems that contribute to reducing the facility’s environmental impact, and improving occupant health well-being.
- Examine specifications for low carbon materials used in the project, including alternative acoustical solutions implemented in the workplace.
- Evaluate construction techniques, including prefabricated timber components that improved the efficiency in the transportation logistics, and the assembly process.
- Assess how the building’s design and programmed public spaces promote community engagement and well-being and fosters a sense of community.
Project Team:
Owner: San Mateo County
Design architect and architect of record: SOM
MEP engineer: Meyers+
Structural engineer: SOM
Construction: Truebeck
Furniture: OneWorkPlace
Presenter | Sam Lin
Sam Lin, Director of Project Development Unit, County of San Mateo, oversees a team of 25 project managers that supervise approximately $1B of diverse portfolio of new ground-up construction projects for the County of San Mateo. Prior to joining the County, Sam has more than 30 years of Bay Area and international project management experience in the private sector, he held Senior Program Management positions at Intel and Apple Corps. Sam’s passion resides in bringing the innovative and sustainable design into the government architecture, while continue to focus on the collaboration amongst the stakeholders. Sam received Master of Architecture from University of Oklahoma.
Presenter | Matthew Wasylciw
As a Workplace Interiors Specialist at SOM’s San Francisco studio, Matthew brings a wealth of experience and innovative ideas to his projects. His strong portfolio includes hi-tech campuses, retail, and financial service interiors of up to 350,000 sf. Matthew has a keen interest in improving workplace processes through design. In addition, he embodies a commitment to sustainability, and is a LEED Accredited Professional. The relative speed of interior architecture and the personal engagement draws Matthew to making spaces that are logical and comforting while relevant and simultaneously timeless.
Presenter | Marco Innocenti
Marco is a Sr. Project Manager with two decades of experience in the construction industry. He has been at Truebeck since 2016, where he has been integral in several technically challenging, large-scale projects, including the San Mateo County Office Building 3 in Redwood City, Alexandria Center for Life Science campus in San Carlos and work for Vantage Data Center. Currently working at the UC Santa Cruz Kresge Non Academic Renovation Project including 14 dormitory buildings. Experienced in both ground-up and interior build-out projects, Marco has a broad portfolio of related commercial, healthcare, life science, mission critical, and public work. Marco received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Santa Clara University. At Truebeck, he’s very active in our Team for Tomorrow community outreach program.
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