Apple Begins Site Work for Cupertino Headquarters

Apple has initiated site work for the Apple Campus 2 in Cupertino, Calif. The new headquarters will provide 3.42 million sf of office and R&D facilities on a 176-acre campus designed to accommodate 14,000 employees. The project centerpiece is a four-story, 2.8 million-sf circular building with a glass curtainwall and 700,000 rooftop photovoltaic panels, the construction cost of which is $5 billion. A 120,000-sf auditorium, a 100,000-sf fitness center, 100,000 sf of utility plant space, and parking structures will also be built. The project team includes design architect Foster + Partners, planning consultant Kier & Wright, and engineering firm ARUP. The joint venture construction managers are DPR and Skanska. The first phase of the Apple Campus 2 is expected to reach completion by 2016. A second 632,000-sf phase providing additional research and development facilities is also planned.