"Okland was selected as the CMGC on the 224K sq. ft Gardner Commons building which included the Universitys first ground source heat system, providing the vast majority of the heating and cooling for the building. Their knowledge based experience on ground source systems was invaluable in the process, giving greater confidence to the University, to undertake this construction for campus. Okland was able to meet the challenging budget and time constraints of this large project, which is situated in the heart of campus and was able to creatively minimize the impact to students and faculty. Their ability to collaborate with U personnel, the A/E team, was in my 30 years of experience, unprecedented. The attention to detail from the construction team resulted in the best rated WBAT ever seen by the Commissioning Agent and the University. The building has recently proven to be the most energy efficient building on campus by our University sustainability group."