San Clemente, California
Capuzzi Consulting Group staff served as Project Manager (Matt Capuzzi) for this new 45-acre sports park in San Clemente, CA. Matt’s team included an architect for the design of the building structures and associated MEP consultants. The team also included a pool design firm. Vista Hermosa Sports Park includes a large grass area for smaller games, two soccer fields, three baseball fields, a football field, a playground, and an aquatics center. Other features include two restroom buildings, shade structures, batting cages, sports lighting, and parking. The aquatic center includes an Olympic-size swimming pool, a warmup pool, a water play structure, the Aquatic Center building, a pump house, extensive shade structures, a fenced off grass area with picnic tables, and solar-thermal to heat the pools. The building includes a reception area, changing rooms with restrooms and showers, office space, educational space, and meeting space. The playground, Courtney’s Sandcastle, is a half-acre and all play elements were custom designed to be accessible with ramps leading up to higher levels on the larger play structures.