Westgroup Designs was recently named as one of Orange County Business Journal’s 2015 Best Places to Work in Orange County. The program began in 2009 as a way for the OCBJ and Best Companies Group to identify, recognize and honor the best places of employment in Orange County.

Organizations across the county entered into the two-part evaluation process. The first consisted of evaluating each employer’s workplace policies, practices and demographics worth 25% of the total evaluation. The second part consisted of an employee survey designed to measure the employee experience which was 75% of the total evaluation. Best Companies Group managed the overall registration and survey process and then analyzed the data to determine who the top companies were. The final ranking of the winning organizations will be released via a special section of the OCBJ’s July 27th issue.

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A new creative office building becomes the first speculative office building in Southern California to achieve LEED for Core and Shell Platinum certification.

A new creative office building becomes the first speculative office building in Southern California to achieve LEED for Core and Shell Platinum certification.

IN 2012, WESTGROUP Designs had the opportunity to create a new office building for Google at Impac Center in Irvine, California. The existing campus was a collection of office buildings and a freestanding restaurant set around a vehicular approach, which resulted in awkward geometries, limited pedestrian interaction and underutilized spaces

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Westgroup Designs is excited to announce that our Orange County office is growing once again.

We are currently under construction on our expansion space with renovation on the current office to begin shortly. Our anticipated completion is early March. As part of our community outreach, we were pleased to be able to donate 3,000 sf of ceiling tiles, lighting and air supply and return to the Legal Aid Society of Orange County. Legal Aid provides free and low-cost civil legal services to low-income families and senior citizens throughout Orange and Los Angeles counties.