Civil Engineering
WHB Engineers has broad experience in designing and supporting biotech. Recently, the company has been serving as the civil design consultant for Healthpeak’s new Vantage life sciences campus in South San Francisco.
Over the past 20-plus years, WHB (dba Wilsey Ham) has worked closely with PMA, Healthpeak’s trusted local project management advisor, on projects throughout the Peninsula. Vantage is Healthpeak and PMA’s latest biotech project, and it is strikingly gorgeous. Phase 1 features two aggressive research & development buildings that can best be described as ships passing in the night, along with an amenity building, landscaped programmable areas, and surface parking.
WHB prepared the grading design for a series of tricky landscape elements, including land bridges over terraced bioretention moats, raised decks, sports fields, and planted berms. The company also designed a large underground stormwater hydromodification tank that will slow runoff from the site with consideration to sensitive local habitats.
WHB prepared designs for the site water and sewer utilities, parking layout, hardscape grading, and bioretention treatment facilities. As part of the overall Phase 1 effort, WHB also managed the plan preparation for the offsite improvements that include new median turn pockets, lighting, landscaping, and retaining walls for the Rule 20 undergrounded utilities.