Project profile: H-E-B at Mueller

H-E-B at Mueller is an 83,587-square-foot retail store and fresh food market, including a pharmacy, café, community meeting room, outdoor gathering spaces, and fuel station. It serves 16 neighborhoods and is located in Mueller, a sustainable, mixed-use urban Austin community. Strategies include a collaborative research, goal-setting and design process; integrated chilled water HVAC and refrigeration systems; the first North American supermarket propane refrigeration system; optimized daylighting; 169 kW roof-top solar array; electric vehicle charging; all LED lighting; and reclaimed water use for landscape irrigation, toilets, and cooling tower make-up water.

Building program type(s): Food Sales – Supermarket/Grocery

H-E-B at Mueller; Austin, Texas; Lake|Flato Architects, H-E-B Design + Construction, Selser Schaefer Architects

(2016 AIA COTE Top Ten award recipient)