Los Angeles Clippers Intuit Dome
Project Name
Intuit Dome
Size (sq ft)
915,000
HEI Project Profile - Long
The Intuit Dome is designed to anchor a 28-acre entertainment district and become the new home for the Los Angeles Clippers. The Intuit Dome is pushing the boundaries to become the first climate positive arena and is also aiming for LEED Platinum. Henderson Engineers is helping to bring this new dome to life by incorporating sustainable features throughout the mechanical design. Some key designs for this all electric building include: • Under seat displacement ventilation in the seating bowl allows for delivery of air at higher temperatures than traditional overhead systems. This increases system efficiency and economizer hours, leading to less energy usage. • Replacement of fossil fuels for space heating, domestic heating water, and cooking, thereby eliminating greenhouse gas emissions, A combination of heat recovery chillers, air source heat pumps, and high efficiency water cooled chillers provide all of the chilled and heating hot water needed for building conditioning. • 100% outside air in seating bowl, locker rooms, and player and coach areas. This strategy takes advantage of the local climate for energy savings and leads to better indoor air quality for patrons. ALTERNATE CUP write-up The Intuit Dome is designed to anchor a 28-acre entertainment district and become the new home for the Los Angeles Clippers. The Intuit Dome is pushing the boundaries to become the first climate positive arena and is also aiming for LEED Platinum. Henderson Engineers is helping to bring this new dome to life by incorporating sustainable features throughout the mechanical design. The central utility plant is a modular central plant, constructed off-site and delivered in seven modules to allow for quicker system startup. The plant is all-electric, helping the building to achieve its goal of being operationally carbon-free. Additionally, the primary makeup water source for the cooling tower is reclaimed water from the city’s purple-pipe system, a key element in drought stricken Southern California. Replacement of fossil fuels for space heating, domestic heating water, and cooking, thereby eliminates greenhouse gas emissions. A combination of heat recovery chillers, air source heat pumps, and high efficiency water cooled chillers provide all of the chilled and heating hot water needed for building conditioning. Under seat displacement ventilation in the seating bowl allows for delivery of air at higher temperatures than traditional overhead systems. This increases system efficiency and economizer hours, leading to less energy usage. There is 100% outside air in the seating bowl, locker rooms, and player and coach areas. This strategy takes advantage of the local climate for energy savings and leads to better indoor air quality for patrons. Alternate Writeup from 2024 VEN Tampa Bay The Intuit Dome is a ground breaking and audaciously ambitious new professional arena in Inglewood, CA. Henderson was tasked to be a partner in delivering the first climate positive arena in the NBA. Meeting such a goal demands an ability to think beyond the patterns of design and system selection that might be typical. All design decisions and methodologies had to be analyzed to ensure they were focused on the overall goal of establishing a new paradigm for what is possible in an indoor events venue. Being all-electric required opportunities for modularity within the central plant to be reviewed, using reclaimed water for the central plant, and focusing on displaced ventilation with underseat air distribution. This allowed for better control of the energy inputs necessary to condition the seating bowl and reduce the installed fan energy and overhead air distribution infrastructure that would typically be present in a venue of this type and scale. At completion later this year in 2024, the facility will achieve LEED Platinum. The project team was diverse, large in scale, and required intentional navigation and coordination across a myriad of partners and organizations. In most cases, there was no contractual relationship between Henderson and these partners; yet we depended on each other to work in lock step and meet decision making timelines to keep the project on track through fast track construction schedule and iterative deliverables. This engagement is an example of Henderson’s growing focus to unbundle a large scope and split it into portions to be successfully executed by local and XBE partners. Henderson then provides project management and quality assurance workflows and methodologies. We know this will be critical in the formation of the right team and the overall execution of the appropriate workflows for what is expected to be a locally-focused, diverse pool of consultants and team members.