Situated on a 59 acre tract in southwest Austin, the 875,000 square-foot Lonestar Campus was created to consolidate AMD’s Austin-based design and administrative staff. The buildings were designed and oriented to reduce the solar heat load, while preserving access to spectacular views and utilizing the healthy daylighting. The innovative interior space plans provide efficient, collaborative, open offices supported by “huddle rooms” for optional privacy. A raised access floor for air and power coupled with 100% modular workstations provides flexibility and greatly reduces ongoing costs associated with rearranging spaces. Buildings and roads are confined to the smallest and most habitat-favorable locations and surface parking was eliminated, preserving 25 acres of undisturbed green space while relocating thousands of trees and plants from the construction footprint. Rainwater is harvested from the buildings’ roofs in a series of cisterns totaling 1 million gallons, providing irrigation to the site and 15% of the water for the campus’s cooling towers as well as reducing the impact of site storm water collection tanks by over 100%.

GSC’s design demonstrates a fierce commitment to sustainable building principles, earning a LEED GOLD certification from the US Green Building Council.