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LEED Silver combined multifamily & hospitality development comprised of 2 hotels, 16 stories of residential space, retail, and impressive amenities.

Location: Austin, TX
Products: M Series Residential
Architect: bKL Architecture
Lighting Designer: SBLD
Engineer: Blum Consulting Engineers, Inc.
General Contractor: Ryan Companies
Developer: Magellan Development Group
Photography Credit: Thomas McConnell

Sienna at the Thompson (5^th & Brazos) is a luxury 32-story mixed-use complex that seamlessly integrates four floors of trendy restaurants, high-end retail, and commercial office space with two hotels and 16 floors of residential units.

The two Hyatt Brand Hotels, the Thompson & Tommie offer 411 guestrooms while those looking for this Austin oasis to be their permanent residence have 331 residential units to choose from and state-of-the-art amenity spaces.

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M Series Residential

The M Series Residential family is part of DMF’s most versatile, M Series product offering.  Centered around a compact, four-inch, plug-and-play LED module with an integrated driver the M Series delivers the optimal balance of form and function.  Paired with one of the award-winning M Series Housings, you can achieve fire, sound, wet location, and other ratings required for the most demanding projects.  The M Series, true to all DMF offerings, provides outstanding illumination and color consistency while being simple to specify, install, and maintain.

About bKL Architecture

bKL Architecture is dedicated to creating projects that enhance their contexts, addressing the needs of clients and communities while anticipating future uses. The team, comprising passionate designers and practitioners, specializes in diverse markets, designing sophisticated and forward-thinking spaces. Their open studio environment encourages a collaborative exchange of ideas among a culturally diverse team, fostering a vibrant atmosphere. At the core of their approach is in-depth analysis, intensive experimentation, and collaboration, resulting in projects that enrich sites and cities globally.

About SBLD

Founded and led by Susan Brady, one of the leading experts in architectural lighting design, SBLD Studio is certified as a woman-owned business (WBE) enterprise with staff based in New York, New Jersey, and Tennessee. When you work with SBLD Studio lighting designers, you harness the technical acumen and creativity of trained architects, engineers, interior designers, industrial designers, teachers, and mentors.

About Blum Consulting Engineers, Inc

Established in October 1945 by Herman Blum, Blum Consulting Engineers, Inc. is committed to becoming the world’s premier engineering firm. The firm prioritizes delivering top-notch engineering services across diverse projects, emphasizing functionality and comfort. Dedicated to energy conservation, owner satisfaction, and timely design schedules, Blum Consulting Engineers, Inc. maintains unwavering commitment to engineering excellence and client satisfaction. Actively promoting “green” building design, the firm boasts expertise in the US Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Rating Systems. With a dedicated and diverse staff, Blum Consulting Engineers, Inc. focuses on teamwork for on-time and on-budget project completion, emphasizing superior customer service and engineering design.

About Ryan Companies

Ryan Companies, a national leader in commercial real estate services, emphasizes understanding the ‘why’ behind each project. Driven to uncover unique client stories, they bring together the right collaborators for deeper engagement, building more than physical structures – they create backdrops to life’s narratives. At Ryan, core values like Safety, Integrity, and Excellence define their culture, guiding decisions and shaping the belief that they offer something distinctive. Embracing these values daily, they contribute to better buildings, enjoyable client experiences, vibrant communities, and safer project sites.

About Magellan Development Group

Magellan Development Group is renowned for its expertise in designing and developing award-winning spaces across diverse sectors, ranging from multi-family residential to commercial, institutional to governmental, and educational to medical projects. The company’s stellar reputation for excellence is deeply rooted in the visionary guidance of its Co-Founders, Joel Carlins and Jim Loewenberg. With a commitment to pushing boundaries, Magellan has garnered over 60 prestigious awards from prominent organizations locally and internationally. The company takes pride in its innovative approach, ensuring that each project undertaken reflects a dedication to unparalleled quality and creativity. Magellan Development Group stands as a testament to a legacy of visionary leadership and a commitment to shaping exceptional spaces.

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Announcing a New Series on Multi-family & Hospitality Solutions

DMF has been the go-to downlighting solution for multi-family and hospitality spaces for over a decade and continues to tailor and develop products specific to the needs of these mixed-use spaces. As a way for us to share with you the knowledge we have gathered through the years, as well as a way for us to synthesize all of our brand-new product offerings into a digestible format we are excited to launch DMF Digest, our Multi-family & Hospitality Insights Newsletter. Multi-family & Hospitality Insights will be a compilation of new product overviews, space-by-space application guides, technical bulletins, case studies, and more. All delivered to your inbox on a monthly cadence.

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DMF Lighting is proud to have its LED Downlight System and Surface-Mount LED carrying the Declared Label and be Living Building Challenge compliant since 2020. The Living Building Challenge is an international sustainable building certification program. Similar to LEED, Green Globes, and other standards recognized by local, state, and international governments, it’s the world’s most rigorous proven performance standard for buildings. People from around the world use its regenerative design framework to create spaces that give more than they take.

Living Buildings are:

• Regenerative buildings that connect occupants to light, air, food, nature, and community.
• Self-sufficient and remain within the resource limits of their site.
• Create a positive impact on the human and natural systems that interact with them.

“An LBC certified building has to use construction materials – including lighting equipment – that do not contain certain toxins. Using an LBC Compliant product meets this mandate, eliminating adverse environmental, health, and social impacts.”

Benjamin Chen
Product Architect, DMF Lighting

DMF’s commitment to better living

Efficiency and sustainability are core values at DMF, pushing us to design ever-more energy efficient lights and informing the materials we use to build our products. Projects using DMF’s downlight system and surface-mount cylinders, are on the pathway to reaching the top classification of Living Certified.

LBC Red List Approved under the Declare program, DMF’s downlight and cylinders fulfill the disclosure credit requirements under LBC Materials Petal Imperatives in fostering a transparent materials economy free of certain toxins and harmful chemicals deemed non-sustainable. In addition, the Declare program is also an officially recognized compliance path in LEED v4 under the Building Product Optimization credit.

Regulatory Incentives

Developers who choose to become LBC compliant ensure the sustainability of their project, and may even qualify for certain regulatory incentives. “In Seattle, projects in certain zones with LBC certification could build up to 25% more floor area and height than regulations allow,” stated Chen. While in Miami Beach, LBC compliant projects may be eligible for a full rebate on mandated sustainability fees. Moreover, LBC certification increases a building’s long-term value, and makes it more desirable for clients interested in reducing their environmental footprint. Compelling incentive case studies can also currently be seen in Vancouver, Washington, Ohio, and Oregon.

Using non-LBC compliant  products puts developers and designers at risk of including toxic materials in a project. By using LBC Declared and compliant products like DMF’s LED lighting solutions, projects are one step closer to pursuing the highest level of sustainability and regenerative design.

For more information on DMF’s Living Building Challenge compliance, please visit our Declare Products page.

Learn more about the International Living Future Institute.

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