Contra Costa County's East County has grown faster than its public infrastructure. For residents, accessing county services has meant navigating a fragmented system spread across multiple locations — a problem the East County Service Center is built to solve. The three-story facility in Brentwood will bring approximately 440 staff across nearly a dozen departments together under one roof, consolidating human services, public health, legal, elections, veterans services, probation, technology, and elected representation into a single accessible civic hub.

The building pairs flexible modern workspaces with indoor and outdoor public gathering areas designed to function as a genuine community destination. The program accommodates departments with meaningfully different operational needs — public-facing service counters, secure legal and probation functions, election infrastructure, and technology systems — requiring a facility plan that supports both common use and departmental separation.

The project is pursuing LEED v5 Platinum — a meaningful distinction from prior certification cycles. Where LEED v4 rewarded incremental efficiency gains, v5 requires a full decarbonization plan projected over 25 years, multi-attribute material optimization across health, social equity, and climate impact, and integrated design coordination that front-loads decision-making before construction begins. The East County Service Center is tracking 82 points against an 80-point Platinum threshold, driven by three core systems: geothermal heating and cooling, a mass timber structure selected specifically to reduce embodied carbon, and a microgrid with battery backup that makes the building off-grid survivable — keeping its two main assembly spaces operational as emergency cooling centers during outages. The project is already being studied across the design team's national studios as a template for integrating these systems under v5 rigor.

Webcor enters the project as the incumbent team from Contra Costa County's previous civic facility, the ADR Administration Building B — a relationship built on demonstrated performance that the county chose to extend into this next civic investment.