NBCUniversal Campus Project

At NBCUniversal’s historic studio lot, LEVER and Field Operations transformed the broadcaster’s campus with new amenities and revitalized landscapes, drawing inspiration from Southern California’s natural beauty to foster creativity, connection, and a renewed sense of culture and place.  
 
Anchoring the revitalized studio lot, The Commons and One Universal are among the highest-scoring LEED v4 mixed-use office projects in the U.S., making Universal Studios the first Hollywood lot with LEED Platinum buildings. 

Energy efficiency drives the design, with daylight harvesting, demand response strategies, and high-performance facades reducing energy use by 25 percent. A central chiller plant employs ultra-low GWP refrigerants, cutting climate impacts. And during the design phase, lighter building materials such as unitized glass and an aluminum curtain wall were selected in lieu of concrete to reduce the embodied carbon of the project.  

The project successfully diverted 92 percent of construction waste from landfill during construction, saving over 9,100 tons of waste, while landscape and water systems integrate drought-tolerant planting and 100 percent recycled irrigation water from the Universal Studios theme park. Together, these measures advance NBCUniversal’s goal of carbon neutrality by 2035.