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Johnson Controls Global Headquarters Expansion
5757 N. Green Bay Avenue
Glendale, WI 53209

Role: Consultant to the Construction Manager
Size: 413,000 sf
Architect: Gensler Architects
Summary: LEED Rating: LEED-NC Platinum Goal

(Journal Sentinel 12/27/07)
Johnson Control's LEED Platinum Campus Expansion Project in Glendale will rank among the Milwaukee area's biggest construction projects in 2008, involves a major corporate headquarters and includes efforts to boost minority-owned businesses while creating high-profile, environmentally friendly buildings.

"It's a large project," said Joan Zepecki, spokeswoman for Hunzinger Construction Co., the general contractor hired by Johnson Controls. "It's going to go for the better part of a year."

When finished in mid-2009, the expanded Johnson Controls corporate offices at 5757 N. Green Bay Ave. will have room for 1,100 employees, said Dennis Kois, a Johnson Controls spokesman. About 700 employees were assigned to the campus before work started this fall.

The 33-acre complex includes the company's global corporate headquarters; the headquarters for the company's automotive battery business, which Johnson Controls calls "power solutions"; and a power solutions research center.

Two buildings with a combined 134,000 square feet will be gutted and renovated for the corporate headquarters, Kois said.

The project will include two new buildings: a 94,700-square-foot power solutions headquarters and a 29,700-square-foot building that will include a cafeteria, meeting rooms and fitness center. Johnson Controls also is building a four-level parking structure for 400 vehicles.

The project involves 258,400 square feet of new and completely renovated office space.