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19th Annual 

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BD+C’s Building Team Awards is the industry’s only recognition program to 

honor projects both for their design/construction excellence and the successful 

collaboration of the AEC team. This year, we honor 12 world-class projects. 

ABOVE 

The Onondaga Lakeview Amphitheater, 

near Syracuse, N.Y., seats 17,500. It is the 

first phase of a more extensive revitalization 

initiative that will benefit two nearby 

communities. The project won a Platinum 

Award in BD+C’s 19th annual Building 

Team Awards. More on page 26. 

PLATINUM AWARDS 26 / 30 

GOLD AWARDS 34 / 38 

SILVER AWARDS 40 / 42 

BRONZE AWARDS 44 / 48 / 50 / 52 

HONORABLE MENTIONS 54 / 56 

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is the nation’s grand tech boom 

REALLY AN INNOVATION FUNK? 

In a world with self-driving cars, holographic gaming, 

drone-delivered pizza, AI computers, hoverboards 

(ones that actually hover), 24/7 connectivity to every 

corner of the world, heck, even one-hour grocery 

deliveries, it’s diffi cult to comprehend the thought that 

we’re in a downcycle of technological achievement. 

The stuff of science fi ction truly has become 

reality: we’re wearing watches that allow 

us to make video calls; we’re running 

our businesses and lives from robust, handheld 

computers; we’re using deep data and connectivity 

to reinvent business models; we’re powering 

our homes, offi ces, and cars with wind, solar, 

geothermal, and battery sources; we’re programming 

robots to clean our houses, assemble our 

products, construct our buildings, even cook 

our food; we’re conducting advanced surgical 

procedures remotely, and in a fraction of the time. 

The list goes on and on. 

But is all this stuff—the gadgets, the apps, 

the micro-computers, the entertainment and 

media—actually enriching the nation’s standard 

of living? Is it igniting the economy to benefi t 

the greater good? Does it make us happier and 

more fulfi lled as a nation? 

By and large, no, argues American economist 

and Northwestern University social sciences 

professor Robert J. Gordon, in his new book, 

“The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. 

Standard of Living Since the Civil War” (http:// 

amzn.to/1qOPVr2). 

Gordon asserts that, despite popular belief, 

the country is not in a great age of technological 

and digital innovation. Actually, it’s quite the 

contrary—we’re in the midst of a tech innovation 

downturn, at least when compared to the last 

great innovation era: 1870 to 1970. 

During that time, writes Gordon, medical 

breakthroughs raised the average life expectancy 

from 45 to 72; transportation advanced from 

horse and buggy to car to plane (to spaceship!); 

communication progressed from paper to radio 

to television (email was invented two years later, 

in 1972). Homeownership skyrocketed (especially 

after WWII), and houses featured modern 

luxuries like electric lighting, indoor plumbing, 

and home appliances. 

Gordon contends that the century-long period 

following the Civil War is unlike anything we are 

ever going to see again. He posits that some 

inventions are more important than others, and 

that the post-Civil War era just happened to 

produce a multitude of game changers across 

nearly every major industry. The light bulb, internal-combustion 

engine, mason jar, condensed 

milk, refrigerator, elevator, anesthetics, X-ray, 

antibiotics, antiseptic surgery, waterworks, assembly 

line (and the 40-hour work week)—add 

them up and then consider your iPhone. Not so 

impressive, is it? 

In his recent review of Gordon’s book, BD+C 

Associate Editor David Malone suggests that 

Gordon’s modern tech slowdown could actually 

be the calm before the storm. The apps, 

the data, the gadgets, the evermore-powerful 

computers, the infi nitely connected world, the 

nanosciences—they’re in their infancy. The 

world’s brightest minds (human and synthetic; 

think IBM’s Watson) need time to invent, solve, 

ideate, collaborate, innovate, improve, perfect. 

I don’t know about you, but I choose to 

believe that we’re on the cusp of the next great 

era of innovation. The question remains: Will the 

results improve or diminish our quality of life? 

David Barista, Editorial Director 

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BY JOHN CAULFIELD, SENIOR EDITOR 

NATION’S SCHOOL BUILDING NEEDS FACE 

$46 BILLION ANNUAL FUNDING SHORTFALL 

The nation faces a projected annual 

shortfall of $46 billion in school funding, 

according to “The State of Our 

Schools: America’s K-12 Facilities,” a new 

report by the Center for Green Schools at 

the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), 

the 21st Century School Fund, and the 

National Council on School Facilities. 

The report features in-depth, state-by-state 

analysis of investment in school infrastructure 

and a perspective on 20 years of school facility 

investment nationwide. It also makes recommendations 

for investments, innovations, 

and reforms to improve learning environments 

in all U.S. public schools. 

Currently, six states (Massachusetts, 

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Chicago 303.36 216.22 198.16 211.88 

Cleveland 252.54 180.00 164.97 176.39 

Dallas 220.37 157.07 143.95 153.92 

Denver 236.71 168.71 154.62 165.33 

Detroit 263.52 187.82 172.14 184.06 

Houston 224.20 159.80 146.45 156.59 

Kansas City, Mo. 264.03 188.19 172.47 184.41 

Los Angeles 280.12 199.65 182.98 195.65 

Miami 221.90 158.16 144.95 154.99 

Minneapolis 281.40 200.56 183.81 196.54 

New Orleans 222.92 158.89 145.62 155.70 

New York City 335.02 238.78 218.84 234.00 

Philadelphia 294.93 210.21 192.65 205.99 

Phoenix 224.96 160.34 146.95 157.13 

Pittsburgh 262.76 187.28 171.64 183.52 

Portland, Ore. 259.18 184.73 169.30 181.03 

St. Louis 262.76 187.28 171.64 183.52 

San Diego 270.42 192.74 176.64 188.87 

San Francisco 317.91 226.59 207.67 222.05 

Seattle 264.29 188.37 172.64 184.59 

Washington, D.C. 249.22 177.63 162.80 174.07 

Winston-Salem, N.C. 222.41 158.52 145.28 155.34 

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School districts should be spending $145 billion 

a year on buildings, but are $46 billion short. 

Wyoming, Connecticut, Ohio, Kentucky, and 

Hawaii) pay for all or nearly all of the capital 

construction costs for schools in their state; 

12 states (Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, 

Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, 

Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wisconsin) 

provide no direct support to districts 

for capital construction responsibilities. In the 

remaining 32 states, the level of state support 

varies greatly, and the federal government 

contributes almost nothing to capital construction 

to help alleviate disparities. 

The report identifi es four key strategies for 

addressing the structural defi cits in the K–12 

public education infrastructure: 

• Understand public school facilities conditions 

and provide communities access to 

accurate data about school facilities. 

• Engage in education facilities planning 

using best practices from across the country 

and support local communities in proposing 

creative and practical plans to improve their 

public school facilities. 

• Support new public funding to provide 

what is needed to build and maintain adequate 

and equitable school facilities. 

• Leverage public and private resources to 

extend a community’s investments, utilizing 

a new generation of structures, funding 

streams, and partnerships. 

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MEDICAL OFFICES ARE BEST BET FOR 

HEALTH REALTY INVESTORS: CBRE 

Investors in healthcare buildings view multitenant 

medical offi ces as their best bet for 

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Nearly one-third (32%) of all respondents 

say they target transactions that fall between 

$20 million and $50 million. Another 31% 

say that their preferred transaction range is 

$10 million to $20 million. Nearly all of the 

respondents—96%—are most interested in 

medical offi ce buildings as the type of building 

that meets their acquisition criteria. The next 

preferred building type is ambulatory surgery 

centers (63%), wellness centers (41%), and 

assisted living facilities (39%). 

The total amount of equity that fi rms allocated 

for healthcare real estate investment 

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less than the $15.5 billion estimate from the 

2015 survey. But the 2016 number is still considerably 

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2011 through 2014, and is actually 132% 

of the total market transaction volume that 

traded in the healthcare sector in 2015. 

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BD+C CAPTURES TWO 2016 

JESSE H. NEAL AWARDS FOR 

EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM 

Building Design+Construction brought 

home two Jesse H. Neal Awards, 

considered the “Pulitzer Prize of the 

business press,” at the annual awards 

luncheon of Connectiv, the Business 

Information Association, a division of 

the Software & Information Industry Association 

(formerly ABM), on April 1. 

BD+C won in the Best Website category 

for its redesigned BDCnetwork. 

com and in the Best Range of Work by 

The BD+C team (l. to r.): John Caulfield, Senior 

Editor; Tony Mancini, Publisher, Group Director; 

David Barista, Editorial Director; Kevin Herda, 

Director of IT; and Robert Cassidy, Executive 

Editor. (Not pictured: Michael Chamernik and 

David Malone, Associate Editors) 

a Single Author category for articles by BD+C’s Senior Editor John Caulfi eld. BD+C also 

received two Neal Finalist honors, in the Best Technical Content category for its “Building 

Technology Tools” series, and in the Best Instructional Content category for its “What 

Went Wrong? Diagnosing Building Envelope Distress” education course. 

More at: www.BDCnetwork.com/2016neals 

building solutions via the Internet of Things. 

A new report from market research fi rm 

Navigant, “Wireless Sensors for Commercial 

Buildings,” estimates that global sensor 

sales will reach $188.2 million this year, and 

increase to $745.2 million by 2025. 

Sensors capture, communicate, and 

may even analyze energy and operational 

data, the report states. The resulting 

useful information will direct fundamental 

changes in operations that lead to energy 

effi ciency improvements with substantial 

cost savings. 

Asia-Pacifi c and European markets are 

expected to experience the highest growth; 

demand in North America will increase more 

modestly. Navigant does not see the Middle 

East, Africa, and Latin America as markets 

where there will be a high penetration of 

wireless sensors in the foreseeable future. 

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CHICAGO TO 

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Chicago will install 50 location-based 

sensor devices around the city this 

summer, and 450 more by the end of 

2018. The so-called Array of Things 

project will track temperature, air quality, 

light, and traffi c data in an effort to 

improve urban life conditions, according 

to the Chicago Tribune. 

Sensors will be installed into streetlight 

traffi c signal poles in the downtown Loop 

and in a yet to be decided neighborhood. 

The devices will be concentrated in areas 

facing such problems as poor air quality 

and highly fl uctuating temperatures. 

The project, a collaboration of the 

University of Chicago, Argonne National 

Laboratory, and the School of the Art Institute 

of Chicago, received a $3.1 million 

grant from the National Science Foundation 

last September. 

Data from the project will be released 

to the public via Chicago’s Open Data 

platform a few months after the fi rst sensors 

are installed. All software, hardware, 

parts, and specifi cations will be published 

as open source. 

The Array of Things website says that 

the technology will serve as a “fi tness 

tracker” for Chicago, allowing residents to 

monitor exposure to air pollutants and fi nd 

the least congested travel routes. 

More at: www.BDCnetwork.com/ChicagoSensors 

real estate (CRE) and how these trends are 

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• Threats. Any CRE strategies and policies need to account for an 

increasingly dangerous world with elevated geopolitical risk, security 

concerns, and uncertainty. Between October 2014 and October 2015, 

there was a 56% increase in politically motivated cyber attacks and a 

100% increase in criminal-targeted attacks, according to global risk 

assessor Control Risks. 

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have been integrating human resources and real estate. A poll of 277 

corporate-suite executives last October found that 75% expected to 

improve workplace productivity and 60% expected improvements in 

people and business productivity. More frequent interaction between 

company divisions should facilitate some of these gains. 

• Experience. More than three-quarters of respondents to JLL’s 

latest Global Corporate Real Estate Survey report that leadership has 

high hopes for enhancing workplace experience over the next three 

years. The physical environment will play a role here, as more companies 

make the connection between employee productivity and better 

lighting, ventilation, and temperature control. 

• Digital drive. By 2020, total mobile subscriptions could reach 9.2 

billion worldwide. The ubiquity of digital and third-platform technology 

will have a profound impact on real estate and its users. 

• Co-working. The number of co-working spaces worldwide grew 

to 7,800 in 2015, versus 3,400 in 2013. The number of people using 

co-working spaces could hit one million by 2018. 

More at: www.BDCnetwork.com/JLLcre16 

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HERZOG & DE MEURON has released new renderings showing a 

light well in the center of a concave roof for the NATIONAL LIBRARY 

OF ISRAEL. The Israeli fi rm MANN SHINAR ARCHITECTS & PLAN- 

NERS contributed to the design. www.BDCnetwork.com/IsraelLibrary 

The City and Port of Long Beach, Calif., closed on the $520 million 

LONG BEACH CIVIC CENTER PROJECT, which calls for a new city 

hall, port HQ, main library, public park, and street improvements. ARUP 

served as a lead advisor and oversaw fi nancial, commercial, real estate, 

design, engineering, and cost consulting on the PUBLIC-PRIVATE 

PARTNERSHIP. www.BDCnetwork.com/LongBeachPPP 

Construction has begun on RUR ARCHITECTURE DPC’S TAIPEI 

POP MUSIC CENTER’S SOUTH SITE, a mixed-use center dedicated 

to the production and performance of Taiwanese pop music. Plans call 

for a 5,000-seat Main Hall, an outdoor performance area for 3,000, and 

three live houses for smaller shows. www.BDCnetwork.com/TaipeiPop 

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Chicago’s historic COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL may be up for redevelopment. 

The century-old Beaux Arts–inspired structure, which has 

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A new chair lets employees set their own 

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In April, ANSCHUTZ ENTERTAINMENT 

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DREXEL UNIVERSITY’S $3.5 billion UNIVER- 

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next to the Schuylkill River, is being designed by 

SHoP Architects and West 8. BRANDYWINE 

REALTY TRUST shared plans for 700,000 sf of 

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About one in 10 households in the U.S. rent 

space from a SELF-STORAGE FACILITY. 

Some 15 million sf of storage space was 

added nationwide last year. Another 500–600 

facilities with a total 30 MILLION SF OF 

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primary customers: women. 

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Germany’s INGENHOVEN ARCHITECTS has 

designed two towers, a lifestyle residence and 

an offi ce high-rise, for Tokyo’s Toranomon District. 

At 220 meters, the 122,000-sm Toranomon 

Hills Residential Tower will be Tokyo’s 

tallest residential structure. The 175,000-sm 

Toranomon Hills Business Tower will stand 185 

meters tall. The project is being led by Japanese 

developer MORI BUILDING. 

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A San Francisco low-income mixed-use 

complex, a LOS ANGELES HOMELESS VET- 

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residential buildings at UMass Amherst were 

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AQUARIUM 

OF THE PACIFIC UNVEILS 

A WHALE OF A PROJECT IN LONG BEACH 

The Aquarium of the Pacifi c’s new Pacifi c Visions wing in Long 

Beach, Calif., will have a façade made of 800 light-diffusing glass 

panels that changes colors throughout the day. The panels, 

which total 18,000 sf, also will act as a ventilated rainscreen. Best 

of all, when the light hits the aquarium wing’s smooth contours 

just right, it will look, as Shakespeare’s Polonius once said, “very 

like a whale.” EHDD designed the addition, which features a 300- 

seat theater with a 32x130-foot screen, curved in a 180-degree 

arc. The wing will have a spacious front plaza that doubles as 

a community gathering space, a 6,000-sf exhibit gallery with 

live animals and interactive displays, and an art gallery. The $53 

million development is the fi nal phase of the aquarium’s campus 

master plan. 

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WEST 

PALM BEACH’S ‘MUSEUM IN A GARDEN’ 

WILL EMPHASIZE OUTDOOR GATHERING SPOTS 

Construction is moving along on an expansion to a museum that 

holds 7,000+ pieces of art, including works from Vincent van 

Gogh and Edgar Degas. Foster + Partners designed the new 

West Wing for the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, 

Fla. The fi rm calls the concept a “museum in a garden.” Outside 

the building, 20,000 sf of lawns and plantings will replace a 

parking lot; a 9,000-sf event lawn will be available for parties. 

Other renovations: 12,000 sf of new gallery space, a 210-seat 

auditorium, and a family gallery, which will have a 150-foot-long 

colonnade with large windows that look out onto the gardens. 

A 3,600-sf, 43-foot-tall great hall will serve as a gathering spot 

at the center of the building. The Building Team: CBT (executive 

architect), EDSA (landscape), and Gilbane Building Co. (GC). 


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3COMMUNAL SPACES DRIVE DESIGN OF 

HARVARD’S NEW CAMPUS CENTER 

The Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center at Harvard 

University will have common spaces galore. The university 

stresses open areas, believing that they help improve students’ 

intellectual, cultural, and social experiences. The building, to be 

situated at the center of the campus, will have a multipurpose 

indoor gathering space with room for exhibitions, retail, 

food services, studying, and performances. New gardens, 

landscaping, and plazas are planned for the site. On the 

Building Team: Hopkins Architects (design architect), Bruner/ 

Cott (executive architect), Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SE), 

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (landscape design), and 

Faithful+Gould (PM). 

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HUNTSVILLE’S 

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STARTS WORK ON $13M WELCOME CENTER 

The Huntsville (Ala.) Botanical Garden is adding a $13 million, 

30,000-sf Guest Welcome Center that is designed to resemble 

a traditional Southern-style home. Due to open next year, the 

center will consist of three rental facilities: a grand hall that can 

accommodate up to 350 guests, a more casual carriage house 

for 200 or so guests, and a glass conservatory for up to 40 

guests. It will include a 3,500-sf check-in area, as well as a café 

and gift shop. The Building Team: Matheny Goldmon (architect), 

4Site Inc. (CE), PEC Structural Engineering, and SSOE Group 

(MEP). Turner Construction Company provided preconstruction 

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In planning Salt Lake City’s newest tower, 111 Main, architect Skidmore, Owings & 

Merrill had to solve a natty problem: how to suspend a portion of the building over 

an adjacent structure. The 387-foot-tall building shares a contiguous parcel with the 

new George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater, which overlaps on the lower four 

stories and basement level of the tower. SOM designed the penthouse roof level with 

a balanced two-way steel hat truss system that supports the tower’s 18 perimeter 

columns. The central reinforced concrete core walls provide the only connection of the 

tower to its foundation and resist all gravity loads, as well as wind and seismic vertical 

and lateral loads. Also on the Building Team: City Creek Reserve (developer) and 

Oakland Construction (GC). 

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Enrollment at California Baptist University in Riverside has more than doubled in the 

past six years, to 8,540 students. The school needs more space, so it’s building 

a new events center and arena. The 153,000-sf venue will have 5,050 seats, with 

room to expand to 6,000+. The two-level multiuse facility will be the school’s largest 

indoor gathering space, and will host athletic events, orientations, commencement 

ceremonies, and chapel programs. The plan also includes locker rooms, athletics 

suites, and offi ces. SVA Architects and HOK designed the facility in the Mission Revival 

style that is prevalent on campus. The $73 million project is expected to be completed 

by April 2017. Sundt Construction is the GC. 

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19 TH ANNUAL 

BUILDING TEAM 

AWARDS 

Twelve building projects 

that represent the best in 

AEC team collaboration. 

Illuminated by daylight 

that floods through its 

oculus and reflector, 

the central atrium at the 

Chicago Public Library’s 

new Chinatown Branch 

functions as a lounge, 

exhibition, and prefunction 

space. 

PLATINUM 

26 Onondaga Lakeview Amphitheater 

30 Fulton Center 

GOLD 

34 Chicago Public Library, 

Chinatown Branch 

38 The Tower at PNC Plaza 

SILVER 

40 CHS Field 

42 LA MTA Division 13 Bus Operations 

& Maintenance Facility 

BRONZE 

44 Ravenswood Family Health Center 

48 275 Wyman Street 

50 New York City Police 

Training Academy 

52 John J. Hemmingson Center, 

Gonzaga University 

HONORABLE MENTION 

54 UCSD Medical Center Central Plant 

56 3737 Chestnut 

58 Meet the judges 

JON MILLER, HEDRICH BLESSING 


The Onondaga Lakeview 

Amphitheater, near Syracuse, 

N.Y., seats 17,500. It 

is the first phase of a more 

extensive revitalization initiative 

that will benefit two 

nearby communities. 

a performing arts 

center extraordinaire 

REVIVES A ONCE-TOXIC LAKEFRONT SITE 

Early coordination, prefabrication, and judicious value engineering contributed 

to the accelerated completion of this Upstate New York design-build project. 


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PLATINUM AWARD 

DAVID REVETTE/REVETTE STUDIO 

In September 2014, New York Governor 

Andrew Cuomo signed legislation 

that allowed for the construction of a 

new performing arts venue on Onondaga 

Lake, about fi ve miles northwest of 

Syracuse. 

One year later, on September 3, 2015, 

the Onondaga Lakeview Amphitheater, a 

gleaming, 74,000-sf outdoor event complex 

with a seating capacity of 17,500, 

held its fi rst performance, featuring country 

singer Miranda Lambert. This summer, the 

facility will host 25 concerts. 

The state-of-the-art amphitheater transformed 

an EPA-designated Superfund site 

into a destination that honors its surroundings 

and encourages a celebration of arts 

and culture. The facility was the fi rst step 

in a larger community revitalization initiative 

along the lake’s western shore, involving 

the village of Solvay and the town of 

Geddes. It’s the only vertical design-build 

contract that the Empire State has let go 

forward. 

With an accelerated construction period, 

early and constant Building Team collaboration 

and cooperation were essential 

for the on-time and on-budget completion 

of this project. That collaboration began 

even before the county awarded the 

contract, with the structural design team 

working at risk to deliver the steel mill 

order only eight days after the contract 

was signed. 

Project planning and early identifi cation 

of subcontractors were critical to the success 

of this project. BIM played a sem inal 

role in delivering accurate documents on 

time. The integration of structural analysis 

software (ETABS) and modeling software 

(Revit Structure) quantitatively reduced the 

drawing production time, while increasing 

the accuracy of the information. 

“The Building Team did a terrifi c job of 

melding with a stunning landscape, but 

not overpowering it,” said awards judge 

Beau Sanders, PE, SE, Associate and 

Project Manager with engineering fi rm 

Graef. “It’s apparent that they thought 

through all the details, from design to 

construction. It’s a beautiful project that is 

not just for concertgoers, but for the whole 

community to enjoy and appreciate.” 

BLENDING IN WITH THE 

NATURAL LANDSCAPE 

The site consists of capped industrial 

waste. Any attempt to remove it could 

have resulted in further environmental 

damage. To avoid this, the design minimized 

the need for signifi cant cut and fi ll. 

Gilbane Building Company, the general 

contractor, mandated 40-hour Hazardous 

Waste Operations and Emergency 

Response training for anyone who would 

be working in potential areas of contamination. 

Gilbane also calibrated on a daily 

basis air-monitoring workstations that 

tracked contaminants on site or dissipating 

outside the work perimeter. 

Over 80,000 cubic yards of existing 

industrial waste were excavated and relocated 

to an onsite staging area. Another 

130,000 cubic yards of infi ll were brought 

in. More than 230 steel piles were driven 

to support the amphitheater’s back-ofhouse 

and pavilion structures. 

To deliver power, water, and other 

services to the facility, Gilbane drilled horizontally 

underneath Interstate 690 without 

needing to close down any lanes. 

The building’s design and orientation 

take advantage of the natural land 

contours and lake views. So integrated is 

the building’s design with its environment 

that a bicycle path which circles the lake 

passes directly through the pavilion, underscoring 

the site’s function as a county 

park. The covered pavilion’s fascia, when 

backlit, correlates to the natural light at 

dusk on the lake waves. 

The pavilion façade has 198 steelsupported, 

20-foot-high mesh panels that, 

when illuminated, play off the natural landscape 

beyond the amphitheater’s lawn. 

The fascia allows the transmission of 

highly amplifi ed sound from speakers at 

the stage and from behind the mesh to 

reach patrons with clarity. The rear lawn 

loudspeakers—12,500 of the amphitheater’s 

seating capacity is on an 80,000-sf 

lawn—are positioned directly behind the 

unobtrusive open mesh system, which is 

not only designed for sound integrity but 

also to provide a clean look at the rear 

skirt of the shed roof. 

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The performing arts 

center was designed to 

blend in with its surroundings. 

A bicycle path that 

encircles the nearby lake 

runs through the facility. 

The backlit fascia is meant 

to match the natural light 

at dusk. Illuminated panels 

mimic the local landscape. 

DAVID REVETTE/REVETTE STUDIO 

theatrical and A/V specialists conducted 

thorough reviews of the amphitheater’s 

audiovisual requirements throughout the 

design and construction stages. Acoustical 

consultant Jaffe Holden assisted on the 

sound parameters of the design. 

The covered area of 

the amphitheater is 

supported by eight 

trusses (each weighing 

84,000 pounds) 

with four unique end 

conditions to achieve 

a maximum span of 

190 feet. The covered 

area is designed to 

provide patrons with 

unobstructed views of 

the lake. Acoustically 

transparent fascia 

allows sound from 

the stage to reach the 

audience on the lawn 

with clarity. 

VALUE ENGINEERING 

BEATS THE BUDGET LIMITS 

The amphitheater’s original program was 

valued at over $80 million, but the taxpayerfunded 

contract was less than $50 million. 

Smart engineering and construction were 

imperative to meet the county’s goals for 

the building. 

The signature feature of the amphitheater 

is the pavilion canopy, which covers more 

than 5,000 seats and provides unobstructed 

views of Lake Onondaga. The design 

called for maintaining bolted connections in 

the fi eld, which allowed for swift erection to 

meet the project’s schedule. 

The pavilion’s roof design utilizes eight 

trusses with four unique end conditions; 

this system achieves a maximum span of 

190 feet. Each truss weighs over 84,000 

pounds and is supported by the steel at the 

stage and columns infi lled with 10,000-psi 

concrete. Ninety percent of the trusses are 

identical in their confi guration. 

Gilbane prefabricated the trusses off site. 

They arrived at the site in no more than 

three sections and were set in movable 

cradles for fi nal connection detailing. Completed 

trusses were erected in one pick, 

using a pair of cranes in tandem. 

Systems and spaces were shifted to 

save money. Relocating the fourth-fl oor 

Event Center to a lower level provides 

panoramic views of the lake and eliminated 

the need for two elevators. The 

third-fl oor mechanical room was moved as 

well, allowing the pavilion to be reduced in 

size from four stories to two, which saved 

considerably on costs. 

An average of 230 tradespeople were 

on site every day during construction. The 

project exceeded 200,000 total workerhours 

without a single recordable or losttime 

incident. 

—John Caulfi eld 

PROJECT SUMMARY 


Onondaga Lakeview Amphitheater 

Geddes, N.Y. 

BUILDING TEAM 

Submitting firm: Gilbane Building Company (GC); 

Westlake Reed Leskosky (lead designer, executive 

architect, interior design, SE/MEP engineer) 

Owner: Onondaga County, N.Y. 

Architect: C&S Companies 

Structural: QPK Design 

Site/civil: Savin Engineers 

Acoustics: Jaffe Holden 

GENERAL INFORMATION 

Project size: 74,000 sf 

Construction cost: $49.5 million 

Construction period: January 2015 to August 2015 

Delivery method: Design-build 


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The interior of Fulton Center is constructed 

of architecturally exposed structural steel, 

glass storefronts, stainless steel panels, 

GFRC column covers and ceilings, granite 

flooring, and a decorative cable net structure 

in the oculus. Spiral stairs, 15 ADAcompliant 

elevators, and 10 escalators 

convey 300,000 passengers a day between 

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NYC subway station 

LIGHTS THE WAY FOR 300,000 RIDERS A DAY 

Fulton Center, which handles 85% of the riders coming to Lower Manhattan, is like 

no other station in the city’s vast underground transit web—and that’s a good thing. 


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The 53-foot-diameter oculus looms over 

the grand atrium. Suspended under tension 

within the conical atrium is the “Sky 

Reflector-Net,” by James Carpenter Design 

Associates, Grimshaw Architects, and 

Arup. The artwork is composed of 112 tensioned 

cables, 224 high-strength rods, and 

nearly 10,000 stainless steel components; 

952 aluminum panels distribute sunlight 

down to the lowest levels of the station. 

The Metropolitan Transit Authority’s 

new Fulton Center transit station 

must seem like a miracle to the 

300,000 subway riders who trod 

its polished granite fl oors every workday. 

Instead of the usual stultifying dankness of 

the city’s 421 other subway stops, Fulton 

Center offers even the most jaded New 

Yorker that rarest of gifts: sunlight, glorious 

sunlight! Thanks to a 120-foot-high oculus, 

the station overfl ows with natural light during 

the day; at night, weather permitting, 

you can look up and catch a glimpse of the 

galaxies. What a treat! 

This lovely bijou—the MTA calls it the 

“Jewel of Lower Manhattan”—did come at 

a price: $1.4 billion, not to mention more 

than a decade of planning, design, and 

construction. But 

that’s chicken feed 

compared to the $15 

billion for the World 

Trade Center PATH 

station, which opened 

March 3 after nearly a 

dozen years of construction. Eat your heart 

out, Señor Calatrava! 

The centerpiece of the station is the oculus. 

Not only does it fl ood the transit hub 

with daylight, the frustum-shaped dome 

also acts as a reservoir for the heat that 

rises from the subway lines; this reduces 

the load on the air-conditioning system. 

(The project earned LEED Silver status.) 

Steel cables descending from the skylight 

are adorned with 952 diamond-shaped 

‘When public investment yields such magnifi cent 

results, the rewards reverberate for generations.’ 

—Peter Ousley, BTA Awards Juror 

aluminum panels. This giant art installation 

refl ects daylight downward and through the 

building. Behind the netting are three levels 

of retail space, totaling 66,000 sf. 

To detail and construct the oculus, the 

Building Team—led by Plaza Schiavone 

Joint Venture (CM), Grimshaw Architects, 

and Arup (SE/MEP)—created 3D models of 

the exterior stainless steel skin, developed 

a panelized pattern that mimicked the fi nal 

geometry of the dome, and incorporated the 


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JON ORTNER / ORTNER PHOTOGRAPHY 


Fulton Center (left) is the city’s only transit hub with all-digital signage—60 screens. 

A view up to the oculus from the main floor (above left). The Corbin Building 

(above), a 125-year-old brownstone landmark that abuts the site, was restored. 

‘I like the way Fulton Center pulls people into the 

subway system in a festive and welcoming way.’ 

—Gary B. Keclik, BTA Awards Juror 


panels, the structural supports, and the internal 

and external catwalks into the design. 

The panels were then prefabricated off site. 

BUILDING TEAM FOCUSES 

ON QUALITY AND SAFETY 

Maintaining the highest level of quality was 

central to the project. Subcontractors were 

given performance-based specifi cations 

that demanded a mockup for every critical 

aspect of the work. The construction 

manager’s Quality Control Team required 

each discipline to develop a “quality work 

plan” that included a rigorous inspection 

schedule. The team performed quality 

audits in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. Pacifi c 

Northwest to validate manufacturers’ quality 

programs and assure that materials met 

pre-established quality standards. 

The 300,000 daily 

riders who use the nine 

subway lines that feed 

into Fulton Center 

represent 85% of all downtown subway 

users. Keeping them safe during construction 

was of paramount importance to the 

Building Team. Plaza Schiavone brought in 

a full-time safety site coordinator (and sometimes 

two) to oversee a comprehensive 

safety plan. The steel erector had to provide 

fall protection at six feet. All trades were 

required to obtain a ladder permit on a daily 

basis to avoid any hazards in the work area. 

After 966,353 worker-hours, the lost-time 

accident rate on the project was 2.25. 

Fulton Center represents “a shift in the 

perception of the mass transit system 

and support facilities, while adding an 

attractive and inviting design to the urban 

streetscape,” said awards judge Gary 

B. Keclik, AIA, CSI, LEED AP, Green 

Globes Assessor, Keclik Associates Ltd. 

“It provides a welcoming way to make the 

subway experience more memorable for 

visitors and riders that’s vastly different 

from the traditional walk down steps into a 

dark tunnel.” 

—Robert Cassidy 



Fulton Center 

New York, N.Y. 

BUILDING TEAM 

Submitting firm: Plaza Construction (CM) 

Owner: Metropolitan Transit Authority 

Architect: Grimshaw Architects 

Structural/MEP: Arup 

Electrical: Woodward Engineering Inc. 

GC: Plaza Schiavone Joint Venture 



Construction cost: $1.4 billion 

Construction period: 2004 (first award) to 

January 2015 

Delivery method: Construction manager 


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chinatown library 

UNITES AND SERVES TWO EMERGING 

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high-rise at the center of 

the Loop or a grand new park along the 

lakefront. It was a small, pebble-shaped, 

glass-and-steel library that serves as the 

new beating heart of two neighborhoods 

on the city’s South Side. 

The 16,000-sf Chinatown Branch 

Library is strategically placed at the nexus 

of Chicago’s historic southern and emerging 

northern Chinatown neighborhoods— 

the intersection of Archer Avenue and 

Wentworth Avenue—with the 

goal of uniting the communities 

and serving as a catalyst 

for the developing area. It 

provides much needed public 

spaces—indoor and out—for 

the neighborhoods, and 

makes a bold architectural 

statement in an area that is 

rich in tradition. 

The library’s ovate form makes the 

most of the prominent, yet oddly shaped 

site. It adheres to Feng Shui principles by 

matching the existing alignments of the 

‘This is a beautiful jewel, built by utilizing 

tools and building systems readily 

available to the industry.’ 

—Bill Kline, BTA Awards Juror 

adjacent streets without creating aggressive 

corners, and is designed and sited to 

anticipate a future realignment of Wentworth 

Avenue that would encroach onto 

the site. 

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Furnishings and book storage, including 

eye-height shelving, are arranged to 

accommodate multiple uses, informal 

collaborative areas, and reading options. 



The interior spaces are situated around the 

library’s central atrium, which functions as a 

lounge, exhibition, and pre-function space. 

as a civic, educational, and social hub, the 

Building Team wrapped the structure in an 

ultra-transparent glass curtain wall, which 

extends the full height of the two-story 

structure. With minimal interior walls, the 

library offers patrons panoramic views of 

the surrounding neighborhood. Likewise, 

passersby can see deep into the fi rst fl oor 

of the library, especially at night, when the 

building glows like a beacon. 

The interior spaces are situated around 

the library’s central atrium, which functions 

as a lounge, exhibition, and pre-function 

space, and features a curved staircase and 

a single skylight oculus and refl ector above. 

Directly behind the staircase is a glasswalled, 

multipurpose community meeting 

room that is used for lectures, tutoring, 

quiet reading, lounge space, musical 

rehearsal, and special events. Acoustical 

curtains divide the room into smaller areas, 

and a double-door pantry allows library 

staff members to serve beverages to both 

the meeting room and the entry lobby. The 

fi rst fl oor also houses the children’s reading 

area. The adult reading area and teen 

spaces are on the second level. 

Throughout the library, acoustical fabric 

screens provide defi nition and separation 

when needed. Furnishings and book storage 

solutions, including eye-height shelving 

and community worktables, are arranged in 

a variety of confi gurations to accommodate 

multiple uses, informal collaborative areas, 

and intimate reading options. 

The Building Team Awards judges commended 

the project team for creating an 

iconic library and much-needed community 

anchor for Chinatown on a relatively modest 

budget. (The project’s fi nal cost/sf was 

within 5% of the similarly-sized, single-story 

Albany Branch Library completed in late 

2014.) 

To keep costs within reason, the Building 

Team created a highly fl exible, open-plan 

interior scheme, which eliminated excess 

circulation spaces, single-function rooms, 

and non-assignable areas. This allowed the 

team to downsize the original program from 

20,000 sf to 16,000 sf. Also, where possible, 

the team utilized off-the-shelf materials 

and systems—for example, the simple 

yet elegant vertical fi ns for solar shading, 

and the radiant mat heating/cooling system 

suspended from the metal decking, which 

doubles as a ceiling system—to create a 

truly one-of-a-kind structure without the 

exorbitant costs associated with a customized 

approach. 

Since opening in late August 2015, the 

library has quickly become a new gathering 

place in Chinatown. In the fi rst four 

months of operation, more than 95,000 visitors 

checked out some 55,000 items from 

the branch, an increase of 28% and 70%, 

respectively, compared to the same time 

period in 2014 at the previous facility. 

“This is a beautiful jewel, built by utilizing 

tools and building systems readily available 

to the industry,” said awards judge Bill 

Kline, VP, Healthcare Studio Leader with 

SmithGroupJJR, Washington, D.C. “Any 

team could do this, but this project shows 

the benefi t of actually doing it, and not just 

talking about it.” 

—David Barista 


GOLD AWARD 

Chicago Public Library, Chinatown Branch 

Chicago, Ill. 

BUILDING TEAM 

Submitting firm: Wight & Company (AoR, CM) 

Owner: Chicago Public Library 

Developer: Public Building Commission of 

Chicago 

Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 

Structural: Drucker Zajdel Structural Engineers 

MEP: dbHMS 




Construction period: May 2014 to August 2015 



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The Tower at PNC Plaza 

in Pittsburgh achieves the 

client’s sustainable business 

objectives. And its execution 

required a degree of testing 

and modeling by the Building 

Team that’s unusual for most 

U.S. office buildings. 

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ON HIGH-RISE GREENNESS 

PNC Financial Services Group 

is among America’s leading 

corporate sustainability advocates. 

Six years ago, when it 

started thinking about a new headquarters 

in Pittsburgh, PNC’s leadership saw the 

building as a means to advance the company’s 

three strategic pillars: to support 

sustainable urban growth, attract the best 

talent, and maximize advanced energy 

opportunities. 

The goal was no less grand than to 

build the world’s greenest offi ce tower. It 

can be debated whether PNC’s reach exceeded 

its grasp, but there’s no disputing 

that this approximately 800,000-sf tower, 

which rises to a height of 33 stories near 

the confl uence of the Monongahela and 

Allegheny rivers, is a testament to what 

can be achieved when a Building Team is 

in sync with an energetic owner. 

The Tower at PNC Plaza is designed to 


The tower’s lobby includes 

a 30-foot structure, The 

Beacon, which through 

LED lights provides visitors 

and workers with real-time 

sensor readings of the 

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water consumption. 

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use 50% less energy than a comparable 

building that meets ASHRAE 90.1 2007 

standards. Daylighting is available to 92% 

of the tower’s workspace. It is estimated 

that the building can be ventilated naturally 

for 42% of the year. 

To establish green benchmarks for its 

work, the Building Team toured some of 

the world’s highest-performing buildings. It 

also had to invent solutions that hadn’t been 

attempted to give PNC the effi ciencies the 

bank wanted. The team adopted a “passive 

fi rst” approach, starting with a south-facing 

orientation for the tower, that became a 

guiding principle on this project. 

The Building Team constructed a 1,200- 

sf mockup that replicated the tower’s 

southwest corner. The mockup allowed 

the team to test various systems for effi 

ciency, functionality, and potential impact 

on the building’s occupants. The mockup 

also helped to resolve issues before construction 

began. At one point, the Building 

Team discovered that the façade system 

wasn’t functioning as designed. Adding 

vents to the walls increased the ventilation 

and avoided more than $1 million in onsite 

repairs. 

CREATING AN UPDRAFT 

THROUGH THE CORE 

The building is designed to breathe like 

a living organism. Outside air enters the 

building through its double-skin façade 

and circulates through the interior via a 

solar chimney, a shaft that runs through 

the core of the tower. The chimney works 

with a rooftop solar collection panel that 

creates an updraft, drawing the air through 

the building without the need for pumps 

or fans. 

Air gates open automatically to vent a 

36-inch-wide cavity (“the porch”) between 

the interior wall and the exterior façade. 

The wood-accented interior walls have 

automated louvers for natural ventilation. 

Manually operated sliding doors allow 

offi ce workers to step onto the porch on 

any fl oor. 

Amenities within the tower include varying 

collaborative spaces, outdoor terraces, 

“neighborhoods” that openly connect 

fl oors, observation decks, and an indoor 

park on the 28 th fl oor. 

Depending on the season, an energyrecovery 

wheel humidifi es, dehumidifi 

es, heats, or cools the outside air as it 

fl ows into the building. The tower lobby 

and atrium feature radiant fl ooring. A 

30-foot tower, known as The Beacon, is 

suspended in the lobby; its LED lighting 

provides onlookers with real-time sensor 

readings of the building’s performance, 

including energy use and water consumption. 

“This high-performance, sustainabledesign 

building did a great job blending 

both passive and active systems for 

harvesting daylight and natural ventilation, 

while providing collaboration and interaction 

for people at the interior,” observed 

awards judge Gary Keclik, AIA, CSI, GGA, 

LEED AP, Principal of Keclik Associates. 

Keclik points specifi cally to the mockup 

as “an outstanding example of team 

cooperation that minimized budget and 

schedule impacts.” 

“PNC Tower is the epitome of sustainability 

and energy-effi ciency innovation,” 

said judge Josh Greenfi eld, PE, REP, 

CEM, BEMP, LEED AP, Vice President 

and Energy Services Group Manager with 

Primera Engineers. “It sets the bar very 

high—33 fl oors high—with respect to 

high-performance high-rise design and 

construction.” 

Last fall, PNC Tower, which accommodates 

approximately 1,750 PNC employees, 

achieved LEED Platinum certifi cation. 

—John Caulfi eld 


GOLD AWARD 

The Tower at PNC Plaza 

Pittsburgh, Pa. 

BUILDING TEAM 

Submitting firm: Paladino and Company 

(sustainability consultant) 

Owner: PNC Financial Services Group 

Architect: Gensler 

Structural/MEP: BuroHappold 

Mechanical/plumbing: 

Associated Mechanical Engineers 

Electrical: Woodward Engineering 

GC/CM: PJ Dick 


Project size: Approximately 800,000 sf 

Construction cost: Confidential at client’s request 

Construction period: Spring 2012 to fall 2015 



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A berm in left field provides a picnic-like 

setting for up to 1,000 fans at CHS Field. 

Brick warehouses highlight the setting in 

the Lowertown arts district. The concourse 

(left) allows fans to navigate 360 degrees 

around the 7,210-seat ballpark. 

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‘greenest ballpark’ 

PROVES A WINNER FOR ST. PAUL SAINTS 

CHS Field, the new home of 

the Double-A St. Paul (Minn.) 

Saints, bills itself as the “greenest 

ballpark in America.” Ryan 

Cos. (GC) and its design partners—Ryan 

A+E, Inc. (AOR), Snow Kreilich Architects, 

and AECOM (sports architect), envisioned 

a greenspace connecting the city’s Lowertown 

arts district to nearby riverfront 

parks and trails. 

The ballpark is the fi rst such venue to 

meet Minnesota’s B3 Sustainable Building 

2030 Energy Standards. The 13-acre site 

had to be completely remediated to remove 

chlorine solvents, coal tar, and lead from its 

days as a manufacturing hub. Five underground 

storage tanks had to be removed. 

Fifteen percent of the ballpark’s power 

is derived from 100kw solar arrays. CHS 

Field collects stormwater from the stadium—and 

from the roofs of nearby buildings. 

The runoff is treated via sand fi lters, 

tree trenches, and rain gardens to prevent 

direct fl ow into the Mississippi. 

The 7,210-seat stadium provides room 

for another thousand fans on its picnicfriendly 

“park within a park.” There are 

outdoor terraces at the suite level, berm 

seating and park space in left fi eld, and a 

terrace off the adjacent main street. Thirty 

bus lines stop at the front gates. 

The Building Team was responsive to 

the local community, which wanted an 

existing dog park at the site preserved, a 

public art courtyard in the ballpark, and a 

second entrance on the east side; all these 

requests were accommodated. Restrooms 

in the ballpark are kept open during the local 

farmers’ market. The front gates are left 

open during off-hours so that visitors can 

stroll around the concourse. 

Last year, the Saints went 74-26 to 

win their division. They averaged 8,091 

fans over 50 games—20% of their entire 

league’s attendance. 

Who said green doesn’t pay? 



SILVER AWARD 

CHS Field 

St. Paul, Minn. 

BUILDING TEAM 

Submitting firm: Ryan Companies US, Inc. (GC) 

Owner: City of St. Paul, Minn. 

Design/interior architect: Snow Kreilich 

Architects 

Architect of record: Ryan A+E, Inc. 

Sports architect: AECOM 

Structural: Ericksen Roed & Associates 

Mechanical: Schadegg Mechanical, Inc. 

Electrical: Hunt Electric 


Project size: 63,414 sf (enclosed); 347,000 sf (total) 

Construction cost: $63 million 

Construction period: July 2013 to April 2015 



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Perforated panels and purple photovoltaic 

assemblies distinguish the building from 

the surrounding urban concrete during the 

day. LED “stripes” and a glowing lantern 

make the facility pop at night. 

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bus depot 

SQUEEZES THE MOST FROM A TIGHT SITE 

Designing a functional, vibrant, 

and sustainable bus depot 

is tough enough. Giving the 

Building Team a fraction of the 

preferable space is another obstacle. 

Most metro bus depots are spread out 

across one level, but due to site constraints, 

the Building Team for the MTA 

Division 13 Bus Operations and Maintenance 

Facility had to confi gure 12 acres’ 

worth of programming in a multi-level structure 

on a 4.8-acre site in downtown Los Angeles. 

Even in a bit of a squeeze the building 

doesn’t lose its functionality or beauty. 

The 540,000-sf facility has a structured 

parking garage, a maintenance building, 

fueling and washing stations, exterior 

patios, and maintenance and transportation 

offi ces. The building supports 525 

employees and holds 200 buses. 

Perforated zinc panels and purple photovoltaic 

assemblies distinguish the building 

from the surrounding urban concrete 

during the day. LED “stripes” and a glowing 

lantern make the facility pop at night. 

The vertical separation of spaces led to 

some of the major design elements, such 

as the “ribbon roof” canopy that covers the 

internal ramps for buses. It also contributed 

to the sustainability goals of the project. Two 

cisterns, which can store a total of up to 

410,000 gallons of water, capture 100% of 

the rainwater that falls onto the building. The 

water is used to wash the buses. The facility 

also reuses 30,000 gallons of water a week 

from an adjacent county jail. 

A green roof has drought-tolerant 

vegetation, while the “open” garage design 

allows for natural ventilation. 

“From a programmatic standpoint, the 

team thought about all parties when creating 

this facility,” said awards judge Beau 

Sanders, PE, SE, Associate with Graef. 

“It’s a great place to work, and there are 

nice, comfortable spaces for the drivers to 

rest between shifts.” 

—Michael Chamernik 


SILVER AWARD 

Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation 

Authority Division 13 Bus Operations and 

Maintenance Facility 

Los Angeles, Calif. 

BUILDING TEAM 

Submitting firm: RNL Design (architect) 

Owner: Los Angeles County MTA 

Structural: Nabih Youssef & Associates 

MEP: CJTSS 

Civil engineer: W2 Design 

GC: McCarthy Building Companies 

CM: Marrs Services 

PM: Maintenance Design Group 


Project size: 540,000 gsf 


Construction period: Sept. 2012 to Nov. 2015 

Delivery method: Design-bid-build 


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The clinic’s vibrant exterior is reflective 

of the staff’s energy for its patients. Colorful 

tilt-up concrete construction was 

used for its durability and low cost. 

DONALD SATTERLEE, SATTERLEE PHOTODESIGN 

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CATERS TO THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY 

The CEO of Ravenswood Family 

Health Center, Luisa Buada, 

wanted to create a medical facility 

that would rise to the same 

high standards as those provided by the 

largest healthcare institutions in Northern 

California, while still providing affordable 

care for thousands of low-income and 

uninsured families in San Mateo and Santa 

Clara Counties. 

The Building Team, led by Rudolph 

and Sletten (GC) and INDE Architecture, 

embraced Buada’s vision. The result: 

Ravenswood Family Health Center’s 

new John & Susan Sobrato Campus, an 

expanded community health center in 

Palo Alto. After 15 years of operating in 

modular buildings, RFHC fi nally has a site 

and structure to call its own. 

The 38,000-sf, two-level multispecialty 

building is intended to meet the needs of 

the poorest residents in the community. It 

consists of 53 exam rooms, 13 counseling 

rooms, conference rooms, active team 

areas, offi ces, labs and imaging areas, a 

pharmacy, and support spaces. The new 

space, which is almost fi ve times the size 

of the modular units, allowed RFHC to add 

pharmacy, optometry, X-ray, and mammography 

screening to its in-house services. 

In 2014, RFHC served 13,426 patients. 

Thanks to these additions and improvements, 

that number is expected to grow to 

25,000 within fi ve years. 

The clinic is designed to enable one-stop 

care and eliminate patient waiting lines, 

allowing more patients to be attended to 

at once. 

CSDA Design created a cost-effective 

acoustics solution to maintain patient privacy: 

a system of partial-height partitions 

and electronic sound masking to manage 

speech privacy between exam and 

consulting rooms. 

A memorial located on the premises is 

dedicated to a Native American tribe associated 

with archeological remains found 

during site excavation. 

—David Malone 


BRONZE AWARD 

Ravenswood Family Health Center – John 

and Susan Sobrato Campus 

Palo Alto, Calif. 

BUILDING TEAM 

Submitting firm: Rudolph and Sletten (GC) 

Owner: Ravenswood Family Health Center 

Architect: INDE Architecture 

Structural: Hohbach-Lewin Inc. 

MEP: Interface Engineering 

Acoustics: CSDA Design 




Construction period: March 2014 to March 2015 



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Floor-to-ceiling glass floods the interior spaces 

with daylight and provides scenic views of 

the wooded areas that surround the property. 

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offi ce complex 

BUILT DURING HISTORICALLY BRUTAL WINTER 

Massachusetts was ravaged by 

storms throughout the winter 

of 2014-15. Boston, for 

example, received a record 

110.6 inches of snow. 

The Building Team for 275 Wyman 

Street, the new home offi ce for Cimpress in 

suburban Waltham, remembers the season 

all too well. The team needed to build the 

315,000-sf offi ce building in just 14 months, 

and that meant working in brutally cold temperatures 

and during multiple snowstorms. 

The team used lean construction 

techniques and staggered the 10-12 daily 

deliveries based on scheduled construction 

activity. Most of the plumbing and electrical 

infrastructure was prefabricated off site, 

eliminating the need for storage. 

Commodore Builders took precautions 

and got as much work done before the 

winter as possible. The two-phase building 

was made watertight before the weather 

turned bad, and subs performed interior 

construction during the cold and wet days. 

The fi ve-story LEED Gold-registered 

building consists of two stacked sets 

of 30,000-sf plates centered around a 

bathroom core and shared lobby. Features 

include an amphitheater, green roof 

courtyard, below-grade 1,025-car parking 

garage, and a cafeteria with a living wall. 

MPA worked with Cimpress to customize 

275 Wyman. The fi rm designed a central 

monumental staircase in the lobby to ease 

movement between fl oors. The bathrooms 

were enlarged, and a fi tness center and 

game room were added. 

Cimpress chose an open, fl exible, nonhierarchical 

layout for the facility. The lobby 

contains casual seating areas with views of 

the outdoors. Employees can congregate 

in tech-enabled training spaces and conference 

rooms, or they can get work done as 

a group in daylit corner meeting rooms or 

individually at workstations in the library. 

—Michael Chamernik 


BRONZE AWARD 

275 Wyman Street 

Waltham, Mass. 

BUILDING TEAM 

Submitting firm: Margulies Perruzzi Architects 

(architect, interior architect) 

Owners: Hobbs Brook Management; Cimpress/ 

Vistaprint (tenant build-out) 

Owner’s rep.: Cushman & Wakefield 

Structural: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger 

MEP: AHA Consulting Engineers 

Acoustical: Acentech 

Lighting: Horton Lees Brogden, Sladen Feinstein 

Landscape: James Royce 

Civil: H.W. Moore 

GC: Commodore Builders 



Construction cost: confidential at client’s request 

Construction period: June 2014 to August 2015 

Delivery method: GMP 


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A mock environment at the NYC Police Training Academy mimics a 

subway station, minus the grime. In the night view of the main building 

(bottom), the LED light sculpture in the atrium is by Erwin Redl. 

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police academy 

They don’t call New York the Big 

Apple for nothing. Its new Police 

Training Academy is Big Apple big. 

At 720,000 sf, the academy can 

train two thousand recruits and law enforcement 

personnel at a time. It is arguably the 

most advanced self-contained facility of its 

kind in the world. 

The 480,000-sf academic/administration 

building (classrooms, library, admin/faculty offi 

ces) is linked via an aerial pedestrian bridge 

to the 240,000-sf physical training facility 

(running track, tactical gymnasium, scuba 

pool, mock situation environments), a central 

utility plant, and a muster court. 

The joint venture CM of Turner Construction/STV 

had to build on a 35-acre city landfi ll 

in the College Point section of Queens, near 

LaGuardia Airport. This led to one of the 

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most stringent environmental compliance 

efforts ever for a public facility in the city. 

Decades of household, industrial, and commercial 

waste had to be dug up and remediated. 

The entire infrastructure was propped 

up above the 100-year fl ood plain so that 

it could remain operational under extreme 

weather conditions. The project earned LEED 

Gold certifi cation. 

The project required 65 prime contractors 

and more than 300 subcontractors. 

To manage all this, the NYC Department 

of Design and Construction set up an integrated 

project offi ce for 100 stakeholders. 

“Zones of expertise” were formed to enable 

disciplinary leaders—architecture, structural 

engineering, interior design, etc.—to communicate 

readily and make timely decisions. 

This enabled the Building Team to start 

work on the foundation and order almost 

9,000 tons of structural steel before designs 

were 100% fi nalized. It was the fi rst time the 

NYCDDC had ever used a “big room” on a 

project, and it worked. 



BRONZE AWARD 

New York City Police Training Academy 

Queens, N.Y. 

BUILDING TEAM 

Submitting firm: Turner Construction Co./STV 

Joint Venture (CM) 

Owner: New York City Department of Design and 

Construction 

Architect: Perkins+Will, with Michael Fieldman 

Consulting Architects 

Structural: Robert Silman Associates; Guy 

Nordenson and Associates Structural Engineers; 

Weidlinger Associates 

Civil, geotechnical consultant: Langan 

Engineering and Environmental Services 

MEP: WSP Global 

Interior storefront systems consultant: 

Permasteelisa 

Lighting consultants: Bartenbach; Hillman 

Dibernardo & Associates 

Land use review consultant: FXFOWLE 

Architects 

Landscaping consultants: Balmori Associates; 

HMWhite 



Construction cost: confidential at client’s request 

Construction period: December 2009 to 

December 2015 


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BRONZE AWARD 

The main entrance is marked 

by a dramatic cantilevered 

structure inscribed with a 

quote from Very Rev. Adolfo 

Nicolás Pachón, Superior 

General of the Society of 

Jesus. At left, the building’s 

“main street” features several 

dining options, including a 

Starbucks. 

CHRISTIAN COLUMBRES 

student center 

IS BUSTLING SOCIAL HUB FOR GONZAGA 

Take a stroll through Gonzaga 

University’s new John J. Hemmingson 

Center and you might 

get the feeling of walking through 

a retail mall or airport terminal, rather than 

a student center. 

Day and night, the building’s “main 

street” is bustling with activity—students 

grabbing a coffee at Starbucks, shopping 

at the natural foods grocery, working at the 

tech center, or having a bite at the food 

court. Clusters of cozy furniture encourage 

students to relax, socialize, study, and 

meet for group assignments. 

A grand staircase and a series of bridges 

connect the building’s three fl oors, while 

fl oor-to-ceiling glass—interior and exterior— 

creates a sense of openness and transparency. 

In any spot, students are no more 

than 30 feet from a natural light source. 

“Every corner of this building is in use, 

even on nights and weekends,” says 

Chuck Faulkinberry, the facility’s Director. 

The LEED Gold facility is a sustainability 

showcase. Centralized geothermal heat 

pumps tap into an underground aquifer 

to meet the center’s heating and cooling 

needs. A rooftop greenhouse yields 

organic produce for student dining. 

The Building Team, working under a 

modifi ed design-build contract, developed 

clever solutions to several complex issues. 

Problem: How to accommodate food 

service needs for a 650-seat food court, 

900-seat ballroom, and retail dining areas. 

Solution: The team placed the central 

kitchen below grade and stacked the 

dining and ballroom functions to increase 

effi ciencies. 

Problem: How to cost-effectively glaze the 

atrium spaces. 

Solution: The team worked with code 

offi cials to develop an alternate path that 

allowed the perimeter walls of the atrium to 

be fully glazed without a fi re rating. 



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John J. Hemmingson Center 

Gonzaga University 

Spokane, Wash. 

BUILDING TEAM 

Submitting firm: Hoffman Construction (GC) 

Owner: Gonzaga University 

Architects: Opsis Architecture (design), Bernardo- 

Wills Architects (associate) 

Electrical, Structural: DCI Engineers 

Mechanical, Plumbing: MW Consulting Engineers 




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$860 million, 245-bed UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center. Since 

the 40,000-sf plant would be visible to staff, patients, and visitors 

in the 10-story medical center, the Building Team developed an undulating 

roof and façade scheme that masks the plant’s mechanical 

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that vexes many urban churches: how to fund the 

modernization of its cathedral (circa 1855) and maintain operations. 

Luckily for PEC, the cathedral and its two rectory buildings sit on 

coveted land near Philadelphia’s booming University City innovation 

district. Church leaders partnered with Radnor Property Group to 

demolish the rectory buildings to make way for a 25-story, 276-unit 

multifamily tower and a three-story, 33,000-sf offi ce building that 

includes below-grade parking and offi ces for church staff. The creative 

development strategy provided much-needed funding for PEC 

and upgraded facilities for the church’s operations and programs. 

“What’s remarkable about the project is that they were able to pull 

it off—to fi nd common ground, to save the church,” said awards 

judge Peter Ousley, Project Executive with Lendlease. “It’s an impressive 

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Submitting firm: BLT Architects 

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Owner: Radnor Property Group, 

Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral 

Interior architects: Hartman Design 

Group, SPG3 Architects 

Structural: The Harman Group 

MEP: Bala Engineering 

Acoustics: Metropolitan Acoustics 

Lighting: Grenald Waldron 

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GC: Intech Construction 




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Jason Chandler, AIA, LEED AP 

SVP 

Director of Project Management 

Epstein 

Chicago 

Bill Kline, AIA, OAA, EDAC, 

LEED AP, CAA 

VP, Healthcare Studio Leader 

SmithGroupJJR 

Washington, D.C. 

2016 Building Team Awards jury members (left to right): Josh Greenfield, 

PE, REP, CEM, BEMP, LEED AP; Gary B. Keclik, AIA, CSI, LEED AP, Green 

Globes Assessor; Beau M. Sanders, PE, SE; Peter Ousley; Jason Chandler, 

AIA, LEED AP. Not pictured: Bill Kline, AIA, OAA, EDAC, LEED AP, CAA 

Josh Greenfield, PE, REP, 

CEM, BEMP, LEED AP 

VP, Energy Services 

Group Manager 

Primera Engineers 

Chicago 

Gary B. Keclik, AIA, CSI, 

LEED AP 

Green Globes Assessor 

Keclik Associates 

Hoffman Estates, Ill. 

Peter Ousley 

Project Executive, 

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Chicago 

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hospitality facilities 

BUILDING TRENDS ANALYSIS 

BY JOHN CAULFIELD, SENIOR EDITOR 

Multiunit operators 

like Wood Ranch BBQ 

& Grill (pictured) must 

balance their brand 

image with customers’ 

expectations for 

something new. 

COURTESY STUDIO MCCORMACK 

SushiSamba’s 14,000-sf 

restaurant in Las Vegas is 

distinguished by a colorful, 

arching interior design. 

iCrave was the architect, PWI 

Construction the GC. 

LAST YEAR, for the fi rst time, 

Americans spent more on 

dining out than on groceries. 

Through March 

of this year, sales at restaurants 

and bars totaled $157.5 

billion, compared to $151.8 

billion at grocery stores, according 

to the U.S. Commerce Department. 

This shift in spending has taken on enormous 

signifi cance for the U.S. design and 

construction industry. “Food has become a 

major solution for saving brick-and-mortar 

retail,” stated CallisonRTKL, in its recent 

“Mall of the Future” white paper (http://bit. 

ly/1Sc6owH). 

Lifestyle centers were the fi rst retail 

development model to emphasize dining as 

a magnet for shoppers. And as the “foodie” 

generation seeks out new culinary experiences, 

restaurants are pivotal to the success 

of the 445 lifestyle centers that, according to 

FACTORS 

GUIDING 

RESTAURANT 

5DESIGN 

1. Developers are encouraging 

restaurants to make bold 

statements that will also attract 

shoppers to retail stores. 

2. Chefs and owners are taking 

the lead in design. 

3. A more “democratic” market 

should not mean a downgrade 

in quality. 

4. Technology is elevating the 

dining experience. 

5. Artwork can enhance the 

element of surprise. 




TODD JOYCE FOR LIBERTY CENTER 

When the developer Steiner + Associates opened a freestanding 

Brio Tuscan Grille at its Easton Town Center in Columbus, 

Ohio, too many shoppers passed it by. So the Brio at 

Steiner’s Liberty Center near Cincinnati (pictured) is flanked 

by two smaller retailers. It also has a front and back patio. 

the International Council of Shopping Centers, 

have sprung up across the country. 

Liberty Center, a $350 million, 1.2 millionsf 

lifestyle center that opened near Cincinnati 

last October, will eventually offer 21 restaurants. 

The 600,000-sf Hill Center Brentwood, 

a lifestyle center situated between Nashville 

and Franklin, Tenn., is scheduled to open 

this fall with at least three standalone restaurants: 

the 8,000-sf Mexican casual Uncle 

Julio’s, the 3,500-sf Nami Sushi bar, and the 

2,800-sf fast-casual YEAH! Burger. 

Tom Rogers, Director of Community 

and Economic Development for Mill Creek, 

Wash. (2015 population: 19,760 est.), says 

the tenant base in the city’s “town center” 

has changed dramatically since its opening 

in 2004. “Our original vision as mostly highend 

retail boutiques has evolved to become 

more service oriented, like chiropractors and 

restaurants—things you can’t buy on the 

Internet.” The 500,000-sf town center, about 

20 miles north of Seattle up Interstate 5, now 

hosts 15 sit-down restaurants and another 

eight food and beverage shops with seating. 

“Restaurants bring an energy to town 

centers that not all retail can,” says Beau 

Arnason, EVP/Asset Manager for developer 

Steiner + Associates, whose six town centers 

include Liberty Center. 

The following trends show the central role 

that restaurants—at 14.4 million, the nation’s 

second-largest employer, according to the 

National Restaurant Association—play in 

the future of brick-and-mortar retail, and in 

customers’ lifestyles. 

1. Lifestyle center developers are encouraging 

restaurant tenants to make a 

bold statement and attract shoppers to 

their retail stores. 

Lifestyle centers set out to create walkable 

mini-communities with distinct, often nostalgic, 

architectural styles from which their 

developers usually don’t permit much deviation. 

Chain operators and drive-throughs are 

prohibited at Mill Creek. 

Hill Center Brentwood’s developer, H.G. 

Hill, is “very strict” about maintaining the look 

of the neighborhood, says Matt Nicholson, 

Business Development Manager in Turner 

Construction’s Nashville offi ce. Turner was 

the contractor on the project. 

But lifestyle center developers are open 

to new realities, which may explain why Hill 

Center Brentwood’s design includes more 

glass for daylighting than is typical for such 

projects, says Nicholson. 

Mark Eclipse, AIA, LEED AP, Principal with 

Prellwitz Chilinski Associates, says PCA’s 

recent experiences designing lifestyle centers 

have found “developers really want the 

restaurants to stand out.” At the 475,000-sf 

Marketplace lifestyle center in Lynnfi eld, 

Mass., restaurant tenants must offer outdoor 

seating. So PCA’s design included canopies 

over the seating areas. 

Lifestyle center developers are a bit more 

fl exible when it comes to design parameters 

for restaurant interiors. Gensler’s Washington, 

D.C., offi ce is working with a client whose 

restaurant will anchor a lifestyle center. “The 

developer is doing backfl ips to accommodate 

the chef,” says Kimoy Lallement, AIA, LEED 

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The design originally called for a quarter 

of the space to be outdoors. No, no, said 

the chef, it must be completely enclosed, 

but with more windows. The changes are 

being made, because the developer is convinced 

the restaurant will attract shoppers 

to the center. 

2. Chefs and owners are taking the 

lead in design. 

Chefs and owners are getting more and 

more involved in the design process. “Customer 

expectations are so much higher,” 

says Rick McCormack, President of design 

fi rm Studio McCormack, Costa Mesa, Calif. 

“That’s caused us to raise our game.” 

Mariela Alvarez, a designer with the New 

York fi rm iCrave, suggests that “many of 

them feel that if they don’t design the restaurant, 

it’s not theirs.” 

Food halls such as LeDistrict in New York City have become very popular with diners and vendors alike. 

This HPH Hospitality-operated, iCrave-designed hall includes 13 culinary stations and 500 seats. 

For the 30,290-sf Le District food market, 

which opened in March 2015, Alvarez 

recalls having several meetings with the 

owner (HPH Restaurant Group), the chef, 

and the director of operations devoted 

entirely to picking materials. 

Chef/owner involvement can be a 

double-edged sword for Building Teams. 

“Experienced owners know the customers 

they are targeting, and can provide us with 

ERIC LAIGNEL FOR ICRAVE 

20,000 LEEKS UNDER THE SEA 

In August, Champalar Holdings Pvt Ltd. will open a five-star luxury 

resort on Huravalhi Island in the Maldives. The venue will include an 

underwater restaurant, the second of its kind in the world. Both were 

designed by M.J. Murphy Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand. 

General contractor Fitzroy Engineering spent 10 months building 

and outfitting the restaurant, which was submerged onto piles near a 

coral reef in the Indian Ocean in March (bottom photo). 

The 410-ton restaurant measures 18 meters long by 5.4 meters wide. 

It is 13 meters tall, about 30% longer than a similar underwater eatery 

M.J. Murphy designed 11 years ago for the Conrad Maldives Hotel (top 

photo). The new facility will accommodate 24 diners. 

The acrylic arch covering the new restaurant, five meters wide and 

130 mm thick, lets diners feel engulfed by the ocean and aquatic life. 

The end wall has a panoramic, 190-mm-thick acrylic 

window that allows for spectacular views along the 

sloping reef. Japan-based Nippura Co. was the 

fabricator. 

A week after the restaurant was submerged, three 

concrete slabs inundated with live coral were lifted 

onto steel outriggers. They will create a coral garden 

to attract fish to the restaurant. 

The restaurant will be accessible via a spiral 

staircase. Most food will be brought in from an onshore 

kitchen via dumbwaiter. A small kitchen in the 

restaurant’s lobby will be used to prepare a limited 

The world’s largest underwater restaurant—1,264 

cm—will open this summer 

at a resort in the Maldives. Its interior 

will resemble the first of its kind (above), 

which opened a decade ago. 

amount of food and drinks. 

In February, Tranzcarr Heavy Haulage moved the restaurant the five 

miles from Fitzroy’s factory in New Plymouth, NZ, to Port Taranaki. Two 

cranes with 400-ton capacities hoisted the structure onto a ship that 

transported it to the Maldives over a three-week voyage. 

The project team included Heavy Force (pilings contractor), Jackson 

Engineering Advisers (air-conditioning consultant), Stuart McKechnie 

Architects (interior design), Origin Fire Consultants (fire engineer), and 

LHT Design (electrical consultant). 

Mike Murphy, M.J. Murphy’s Managing Director, told BD+C that the 

final cost of the restaurant itself will fall somewhere around US$6 million, 

not including the access jetty back to the shore, the above-water 

lounge-bar, the kitchens, toilets, and A/C plant room building. 

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a lot of input,” says Gregory Gatserelia, 

Partner, Gatserelia Design, 

Beirut, Lebanon. (His latest work 

includes the Art Deco–style, 1,000- 

sm Play Restaurant & Lounge that 

opened recently in Dubai.) “I don’t 

believe in design for design’s sake,” 

he says. 

In Lebanon, he notes, diners “like 

to see and be seen”; the “arrival 

experience” is salient to a restaurant’s 

design. In Europe, restaurants 

are seen as “cozier,” more intimate 

spaces: everything, but especially 

the acoustics, must be fi ne-tuned 

for privacy and discretion. 

McCormack, a former VP-Design 

for the Cheesecake Factory, does 

a lot of work with multiunit restaurant 

operators like Matchbox 

and Wood Ranch. He says such clients 

have a hard time adapting their design and 

branding concepts for different markets and 

demographics. “Our clients are focusing on 

materials, colors, and fi nishes, and we’re 

encouraging them to go farther.” 

Working with chefs who have a strong vision 

is “a plus,” says PCA’s Eclipse, whose 

fi rm has had long-term relationships with 

restaurant owners like Legal Seafoods. 

PCA’s job, he says, is to help clients realize 

their vision, even when it is not entirely clear 

what that vision might be. 

That job sometimes entails reining in a 

client whose vision has outdistanced the 

budget. Forté Specialty Contractors’ CEO 

Scott Acton singles out his work on SushiSamba, 

a Brazilian/Japanese/Peruvian fusion 

restaurant in the Venetian hotel, in Las 

Vegas. The designer, iCrave, hired Forté to 

fabricate and install a series of red ribbons 

throughout the dining room spaces. Forté 

reduced the cost by $170,000 by recreating 

the ribbons with plastic bands that 

the contractor hung from wires in its shop 

while it attached urethane side walls and 

cast glass fi ber reinforced gypsum in place 

to create different shapes for subsequent 

installation. 

PassionFish Bethesda in Maryland, a 10,000-sf seafood restaurant that opened last September, is divided 

into several dining areas, one of which is dominated by a mural of swirling fish. The Building Team included 

Gensler (interior design), Face Consultants (MEP) Rathgeber Goss Associates (SE), Potomac Construction 

Services (GC), Lighting Workshop (lighting consultant), and SK&I (base building architect). 

3. A more “democratic” market should 

not mean a downgrade in quality. 

Last fall, the National Restaurant Association 

polled 1,575 members of the American 

Culinary Institute. The second most-cited 

trend, behind “locally sourced meats and 

seafoods,” was “chef-driven fast-casual 

concepts.” 

Chefs are extending their brands down 

market to meet the growing demand of 

Americans to eat out. Alvarez notes that 

food, in general, is “becoming democratized.” 

And there are “a lot of customers 

out there who can’t afford to go to high-end 

restaurants,” adds Charlie Dusenberry, 

CEO/President of ICS Restaurant Builders, 

a GC in Fallbrook, Calif. 

Gatserelia notes that Alain Ducasse— 

who currently holds 21 Michelin stars, and 

whose restaurants are among the priciest 

on the planet—recently opened a restaurant 

in Paris that has helmet racks in the 

booths because so many patrons arrive by 

motorcycle or bicycle. 

This does not mean that targeting a 

wider patron base must mean sacrifi cing 

quality in the dining experience. As the 

website FastCasual.com recently posted, 

when it comes to restaurant design: 

1. Don’t ignore the experience. 

2. Don’t assume cuisine or healthfulness 

can replace culture. 

3. Don’t focus on the template; fi nd your 

differentiator—in other words, no cookiecutter 

designs, please. 

4. Technology is elevating the dining 

experience. 

Restaurant developers, restaurateurs, and 

their Building Teams are relying on technology 

more than ever to create new experiences 

for diners. 

Lighting has rarely been as crucial to 

restaurant design as it is today. “Lighting 

sets the tone,” says iCrave’s Alvarez. Her 

in-house team worked with lighting supplier 

Cerno on the design of the 11,400-sf, 

350-seat Ocean Prime Beverly Hills, which 

opened in 2014, and on the 275-seat Ocean 

Prime New York, which opened last year. 

Gensler’s Lallement is working with a 

lighting designer who is proposing to connect 

Ketra-brand LED lamps to a touchpad. 

This would allow the restaurant staff to 

“curate” the lighting for different times of the 

day and night, all but eliminating the need 

for a conventional dimming system. Two 

other sources for this article also pointed 

approvingly to the Ketra lighting system. 

Carbone, a 10,000-sf Italian restaurant, 

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chandelier hovers over 

the dining area in Carbone 

restaurant in Las Vegas. 

Bergman Walls & Associates 

was the architect, Ken Fulk 

the designer, Forte Specialty 

Contractors the GC. 

opened last October in the Aria casino-hotel 

complex in Las Vegas. The client originally 

wanted its main dining area to include a 

chandelier suspended from a dome with 

acoustical panels and gold leafi ng. But to 

achieve the desired sound transmission 

class rating, Forté, the project GC, lined the 

dome with a perforated stretch ceiling material 

(Barrisol), which helped prevent diners 

from hearing each others’ conversations and 

maintained the dome’s intended shimmer. 

5. Artwork can enhance the element of 

surprise. 

While dining out might not be the special 

occasion it once was, people “still want to 

be wowed when they eat out,” says Alvarez. 

So, restaurateurs are incorporating more art 

into their venues to meet the expectations of 

their patrons, particularly Millennials. 

Charles Doell, who owns Mister Important 

Design, a design boutique in Oakland, has 

been hiring well-known street artists to develop 

murals for its restaurant clients. These 

include the Australian artist Tyrone Wright 

(aka Rone); Ben Watts, a English fashion 

photographer known for his gritty New York 

street-life images; Marco Battiglini, an Italian 

specializing in hip-hop versions of classical 

paintings; and the Australian graffi ti artist 

Hush, whose work has an Asian infl ection (he 

was once a toy designer in Japan). 

The inclusion of art adds to a restaurant’s 

sense of place and authenticity. McCormack 

points to Tap, a 9,500-sf bar and restaurant 

he designed for the MGM Grand casino, in 

Detroit, into which he sprinkled local memorabilia 

that his fi rm purchased from an old pub 

owner who had collected and kept this stuff 

for decades. McCormack thinks this concept 

could be adapted for other markets. 

Art and bold colors can sometimes present 

design dilemmas. Lallement says Gensler 

is working with a restaurateur who favors 

“whimsical” art, “like a six-foot rooster.” So 

Gensler “creates a neutral canvas that can be 

an elegant backdrop to the art,” she says. + 

FORTÉ SPECIALTY CONTRACTORS 

Scott Acton, CEO 

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Charles Doell, Principal 

Mister Important Design 

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Charlie Dusenberry, CEO/President 

ICS Restaurant Builders 

Fallbrook, Calif. 

Mark Eclipse, AIA, LEED AP, Principal 

Prellwitz Chilinski Associates 

Cambridge, Mass. 

Gregory Gatserelia, Partner 

Gatserelia Design 

Beirut, Lebanon 

Kimoy Lallement, AIA, LEED AP, 

Design Manager 

Gensler 

Washington, D.C. 

Rick McCormack, Principal 

Studio McCormack 

Costa Mesa, Calif. 

Mike Murphy, Managing Director 

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Auckland, New Zealand 

Matt Nicholson, Business Development 

Manager 

Turner Construction Co. 

Nashville, Tenn. 

Andrew Schulman, SVP of Leasing/N.A. 

McArthurGlen Group 


Tom Rogers, Director 

Community and Economic Development 

Mill Creek, Wash. 

BRANCHING OUT IN RESTAURANT STYLING 

The food court is no longer the only dining option for outlet shoppers. “Today, 

outlet centers offer many more alternatives for dining, including sit-down restaurants 

that serve high-quality food,” Andrew Schulman, SVP of Leasing for North 

America with McArthurGlen Group, an outlet mall developer, told rebusinessonline.com. 

In Torrance, Calif., the recently renovated and expanded Del Amo Fashion Center 

added four semi-detached restaurant pads. Tenants include Frida, an 8,800-sf Mexican 

restaurant whose colorful concept was devised by chef Vicente Del Rio, Founder of Frimax 

Hospitality Group. Charlie Dusenberry, CEO and President of ICS Restaurant Builders, 

the GC on this project, says Frida provides power stations for recharging mobile 

devices at each of its booths and along its bar. A 68-foot-long sliding glass door opens 

onto the patio. ICS will install a rollback roof this summer. 


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PREVENTING AND TREATING DISTRESS IN 

brick veneer cavity walls 

Lateral displacement of brick veneer 

(shown here) can be caused by 

poorly designed expansion joints and 

insufficient or failed anchorage of the 

veneer to the backup. 

COURTESY HOFFMANN ARCHITECTS 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES 

After reading this article, you should be able to: 

+ IDENTIFY the basic components of a brick veneer 

cavity wall and explain their function as part of the larger 

assembly. 

+ DEVELOP an appropriate inspection and maintenance 

program for brick masonry façades, to promote the 

longevity and integrity of the wall assembly. 

+ DESCRIBE applicable codes and standards governing the 

design and construction of brick veneer cavity walls. 

+ RECOGNIZE the observable symptoms of common types 

of masonry distress and accurately attribute the outward 

signs of trouble to the underlying problem. 

BY ERIN L. KESEGI, AIA, AND ROBERT A. MARSOLI, JR., 

HOFFMANN ARCHITECTS 

Erin Kesegi, Senior Architect with Hoffmann Architects (www.hoffarch.com), applies 

her expertise in building envelope remediation to address underlying causes of 

brick masonry distress. Robert Marsoli, Jr., Project Manager, provides engineering 

services to resolve structural concerns for a range of building types, including brick 

masonry construction. Both work from the firm’s main office in Hamden, Conn. 

Masonry construction is one of the oldest methods of creating 

built structures. However, the brick wall has changed 

considerably since the fi rst fi red clay bricks were laid nearly 

8,000 years ago. To address problems and considerations with modern 

brick masonry, it’s important to understand the components of the wall 

assembly, how they behave, and what can go wrong. 

Today’s complex brick cavity walls share little in common with the 

solid masonry construction of Romanesque church towers or early 




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Common brick masonry problems include corrosion of steel shelf angles (1), mortar joint failure (2), efflorescence (3), and insufficient expansion joint 

width (4). Of all the problems associated with brick masonry construction, those resulting from water penetration are the most common. 

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load-bearing high-rises, with their thick, stout walls. With multiple 

layers, or wythes, of brick bonded together, these historic masonry 

walls relied on the unifi ed structural capacity of the wall thickness 

to withstand horizontal and vertical forces and to provide weather 

protection. 

In contrast, modern brick veneer cavity walls anchor a single wythe 

of face brick across an air space, typically two to four inches wide, 

to a backup material. Part of a drainage system that includes fl ashings, 

drip edges, and weep holes, the air space creates a pathway 

for moisture to exit the wall assembly, while a steel, concrete, or 

masonry backup provides structural support. 

What may seem on the outside to be a wall composed of a single 

material—clay brick—is actually a composite wall system, with materials 

ranging from steel and concrete to fl exible fl ashings and sealant, 

in addition to traditional brick-and-mortar elements. How and where 

these materials come together, and why they behave the way they 

do, is of critical importance to the weather protection, integrity, and 

longevity of the wall assembly. 

As modern masonry construction has grown increasingly 

complex, so too has the design, detailing, and installation of brick 

cavity walls become more demanding. Where once a skilled mason 

was all it took to achieve a durable exterior wall, proper construction 

now demands the efforts of numerous tradespeople working 

in collaboration with the design professional to achieve a watertight, 

structurally stable, aesthetically appealing masonry exterior. 

Prevention of water infi ltration, structural failure, and other woes by 

means of appropriate design and meticulous workmanship is the 

ideal, but for existing buildings, the mission becomes timely and 

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THE BASICS OF BRICK WALL DESIGN 

As reinforced concrete and steel framing have eliminated the need for 

load-bearing masonry, building design has evolved new approaches 

to waterproofi ng protection. Early brick walls relied on the mass and 

depth of the masonry to absorb rainwater and ambient moisture, 

and to release it back into the atmosphere. Given the nominal thickness 

of modern brick veneers, the mass of masonry is insuffi cient to 

absorb and release environmental moisture without allowing water 

penetration into the building interior. Therefore, cavity wall design provides 

for a space between the back of the brick veneer and the face 

of the backup material, so that water that breaches the brick exterior 

can drain out of the wall system without reaching the building interior. 

Flashing system and waterproofing. Where transitions must exist 

between the brick veneer and the backup, such as at shelf angles, 

lintels, and the base of the wall, fl ashing—a fl exible, impermeable 

material—is used to collect water and drain it to the exterior. Serving 

both to direct water and protect the brick masonry from moisture 

damage, the fl ashing is in turn protected by counter-fl ashings, which 

are attached to or directly laid into the backup. At the face of the wall, 

drip edges, or downward bends in rigid fl ashings, encourage water 

to form droplets that fall away from the wall surface, rather than travel 

back up under the fl ashing and into the wall assembly. 

Copper, lead-coated copper, and stainless steel are the traditional 

materials for fl ashings, and they remain the most durable and reliable 

options. However, these materials are expensive, so fl ashing tends to 

be composed of fl exible plastics, fabric, and composite metals. Given 

the projected lifespan of a modern wall assembly, it’s best to avoid 

materials that degrade quickly, such as polyvinylchloride (PVC), which 

may last as little as fi ve years. 

Water collected by the fl ashings is drained to the exterior by means 

of weeps. While open head joints in the brick course above the fl ashings 

provide a simple, effective weep system, vents, screens, and 

other inserts may be used to disguise the open joints and prevent 

insect ingress. 

Lateral support. Masonry anchors secure the wall assembly to 

the building structure, while masonry ties connect multiple wythes of 

masonry together or join a masonry veneer to a backup wall composed 

of another material, such as concrete masonry units (CMU) 

or metal studs with sheathing. All of the metal accessories for a masonry 

cavity wall should be stainless steel and spaced at appropriate 

intervals, as determined by building codes, industry standards, and 

the design professional. 

To control shrinkage cracks in masonry, as well as to tie multiple 

wythes of masonry together and to anchor masonry veneers, horizontal 

joint reinforcement is incorporated into the exterior wall system. 

Two or more longitudinal wires with perpendicular (ladder type) 

or angled (truss type) cross wires are laid in the mortar joint, with the 

longitudinal wires parallel to the face of the wall. 

Provisions for movement. Building materials expand or contract 

when exposed to external stresses, such as changes in temperature 

(thermal movement), moisture/humidity (moisture movement), dead 

and live loads and external lateral forces (elastic deformation/creep). 

As brick draws in moisture from its environment, it will increase in 

size over an extended period of time. Most of the expansion typically 

occurs in the fi rst few months after the brick is fi red, but continues at 

a lower rate over the following years. 

Another main contributor to movement of brick is thermal expansion 

and contraction. Because both thermal and moisture volume 

changes are related to the height of the wall assembly, their cumulative 

effect can be signifi cant, particularly over tall sections of veneer. 

Just as brick expands over time, concrete tends to shrink. As a 

composite wall system that often incorporates both of these materials, 

a brick masonry cavity wall must accommodate these tendencies. 

Typically, provision for movement is achieved through horizontal 

and vertical expansion joints and shelf angles, along with adjustable 

veneer anchors that allow the two materials to move differentially 

within their planes, while still providing anchorage to resist out-ofplane 

forces, including wind and seismic pressures. 

To accommodate vertical movement, steel shelf angles (also 

known as relieving angles) may be installed at intervals along the 

wall elevation, typically at each fl oor, to support the masonry above 

a horizontal expansion joint, allowing for vertical expansion of the 

brickwork. Use of shelf angles depends upon the type of structure, 

height of the building, size and location of windows, type of masonry 

anchorage, and a variety of other factors, including building code 

requirements. 

Along with shelf angles, vertical and horizontal expansion joints 

are used to separate the masonry wall into segments and thereby 

prevent cracking. As dissimilar materials in the assembly change 

in response to temperature, moisture expansion, elastic deformation, 

settlement, and creep, each will move according to its own 

tendencies. Horizontal expansion joints are particularly important for 

masonry veneers attached to a reinforced concrete frame, as the 

concrete backup tends to shrink, while the brick tends to expand, 

a phenomenon known as frame shortening. Composed of fl exible 

materials, expansion joints can close and stretch as building components 

shrink or expand. 

Spacing of vertical expansion joints is determined by considering 

anticipated wall movement, size of the joint, and compressibility of 

the joint materials. Typically, expansion joints are placed near corners, 

where stress may be greatest, as well as at or near window and door 

openings, as appropriate. 

Coursing and dimensions. The appearance of brick masonry 

walls is characterized by the type and dimensions of the brick units, 

the mortar type and tooling profi le of the joints, and the coursing, or 

pattern, of the brick layout. In contemporary brick cavity walls, the 

brick veneer is secured with metal wall ties to the backup material. 

However, façade designs may incorporate false headers in the veneer 

to simulate traditional coursing patterns. 

Brick size is standardized according to “nominal dimensions,” 

which account not only for the size of the brick unit itself, but for 

the completed assembly in the wall system, including mortar joints. 

Bear in mind that openings, corners, and wall heights must take 

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increments based on the size of the brick. 

Mortar joints. Regardless of the type of masonry construction, 

all brick units are held together using mortar, a mixture of cement, 

aggregate, and water that is buttered, or spread, between bricks 

during stacking. There is no single best mortar type for all structures 

and situations, but a good maxim is to select the weakest mortar that 

will do the job. Mortar that is too hard does not permit movement of 

adjacent brick and can cause cracks and spalls, in which pieces of 

PERIODIC INSPECTION AND 

MAINTENANCE FOR 

brick masonry walls 

If properly designed and constructed, brick masonry can be highly 

durable and tends to demand little in the way of routine repairs. However, 

it is still important to conduct regular inspection of the building façade 

to identify emerging problems and to plan for replacement of materials 

approaching the end of their lifespan. For tips on inspection and maintenance, 

visit www.BDCnetwork.com/BrickTips 

the brick face are forced off. 

Different joint types provide different weathering capabilities, with 

concave, rodded, or V-shaped joints providing the best durability and 

water penetration resistance. Struck, raked, beaded, or extruded 

tooling profi les should be used with caution, as they tend to provide 

poor weather protection and degrade more quickly. 

Code requirements. The detailing and structural design of masonry 

is dictated by the governing building code, which often references 

ACI 530 – Building Code Requirements for Masonry Structures, a 

consensus standard from the American Concrete Institute (ACI), 

the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and the Masonry 

Society (TMS). In addition to the standards set forth in these codes, 

technical publications from the Brick Industry Association (known as 

Tech Notes) are typically used when designing and detailing masonry 

structures. 

Building codes and standards include prescriptive requirements for 

the attachment of the veneer to a variety of backup materials, such 

as wood, metal framing, and CMU. Wind and seismic design requirements 

for each type of construction are typically based on ASCE 7 – 

Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, or on the 

governing building code, which often references ASCE 7. 

COMMON PROBLEMS AND THEIR CAUSES 

Like all building assemblies, brick masonry is not without problems 

inherent to the material, the type of construction, and shortcomings 

in the design and construction of the wall assembly. Astute observation 

of the early warning signs of masonry distress enables prompt 

remediation of the problem, which often provides a cost savings over 

the long term. Emerging problems are best addressed well before 

they become emergencies. 

Of all the problems associated with brick masonry construction, 

those resulting from water penetration are the most common. 

Efflorescence. Observable as white stains or salty streaks on the 

surface of masonry walls, effl orescence occurs when moisture within 

the wall assembly leaches water-soluble salts from the mortar or masonry. 

The main cause of effl orescence is water infi ltration, whether 

from poor mortar joints, cracked brick, or other sources. Also, sloppy 

workmanship can clog the wall cavity with excess mortar and prevent 

water from reaching fl ashings and exiting the wall. Forced to fi nd 

another means of escape, trapped moisture travels through the brick, 

resulting in effl orescence. 

Once the problem has been identifi ed and remediated, it may be 

diffi cult or even impossible to clean away salt deposits that have 

bonded to the masonry surface. If moisture has reached the building 

interior, water damage and mold may also need to be addressed. 

Freeze-thaw damage. In temperate climates, water that penetrates 

masonry walls may lead to structural damage, as low temperatures 

cause trapped moisture to freeze and expand, applying 

pressure to the surrounding materials. Typical causes of excess water 

infi ltration in masonry structures include mortar profi les that trap 

water and direct it into the veneer, poor fl ashing details around openings 

or penetrations that allow moisture into the wall system, and roof 

leaks that travel down into the wall assembly. 

Condensation. In some climates and conditions, differences in 

humidity and air pressure between interior and exterior can drive water 

vapor into the wall, where it may condense and lead to moisturerelated 

problems. Design provisions to reduce air infi ltration, vapor 

permeability, and thermal bridging can help to control condensation. 

Flashing problems. Flashing detailing is particularly important at 

intersections and terminations. Where the segments of continuous 

fl ashing intersect, they should be lapped and sealed using a method 

appropriate to the material. Discontinuous fl ashing, as at a window 

or door opening, should extend beyond the end of the lintel, with the 

ends turned up to prevent water from running back into the wall from 

the edge of the fl ashing. 

Plastics, composites, and thin metal cannot be formed into a drip 

edge. Instead, these materials should be terminated within the veneer 

to prevent degradation or drooling, in which heat and ultraviolet radiation 

cause rubberized fl ashing to soften and exude from the joint. 

Restricted movement. When expansion joints are too narrow or 




spaced too far apart, there is insuffi cient accommodation for brick 

expansion, forcing sealant out of the joint and eventually leading to 

cracks and failure of the surrounding masonry. Failure to include expansion 

joints at building corners is a common cause of distress. As 

the masonry expands along the plane of the wall, the brick on each 

side of the corner comes together, leading to long vertical cracks or 

brick displacement at building corners. 

Structural distress in brick masonry cavity walls is often related to 

the corrosion of embedded steel elements, which can lead to cracks 

and displacement. As water penetration causes steel lintels, reinforcement, 

anchors, ties, and accessories to corrode, they expand, exerting 

tremendous pressure on the surrounding façade, which can sometimes 

fail dramatically as a result. Insuffi cient or failed anchorage of the veneer to 

the backup can lead to bowing or lateral displacement of the masonry. 

Readily identifi able by their tapering shape, defl ection cracks may 

occur at steel shelf angles attached to spandrel beams that defl ect. 

Uneven settlement in the foundation due to unstable soil conditions 

may also be the cause of stress cracking in masonry walls, as one 

portion of the structure settles more than another. 

PRESERVING MODERN MASONRY FAÇADES 

Popular for their superior resistance to rain penetration, sound transmission, 

fi re, and heat transfer—and for their cost-effectiveness—masonry 

cavity walls are ubiquitous across all building styles and types. Although 

cavity walls did not even feature in building codes until the late 1930s, 

the extensive testing, research, and fi eld performance data that have 

emerged since then have refi ned brick cavity walls to the degree that the 

Brick Industry Association calls them “the premier masonry wall system.” 

Like all building assemblies, even the dependable masonry cavity 

wall can succumb to leaks, cracks, stains, and deterioration if not 

correctly designed, built, and maintained. To treat persistent problems, 

and, better, to prevent new ones from emerging, it is important 

to understand the basics of brick cavity wall construction and to 

recognize the symptoms of distress and failure. 

By aggressively addressing incipient design, detailing, workmanship, 

and age-related problems, Building Teams can prolong the life of the 

building and avoid the expense and disruption of major rehabilitation. 

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TO KEEP UP WITH HEAVY FOOT TRAFFIC 

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on a daily basis. Now imagine a Starbucks in the Mong Kok district of Hong 

Kong, one of the most densely populated places in the world, at 130,000 

people per square kilometer. To ensure that its fl oors would maintain a clean, 

attractive, unblemished look, the retailer specifi ed a semi-dry cementitious 

screed, called Isocrete K-Screed, and a seamless epoxy resin terrazzo system, 

Mondéco Earth, from Flowcrete. Isocrete K-Screed provides a strong, level, and 

reliable platform that allows for the application of a Mondéco Earth fi nish. An 

almond-colored fi nish was used to achieve the performance necessary and to 

complement the urban aesthetic that is central to the Starbucks brand. 

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custom-engineered windows and a curtain wall system that were installed in a staggered 

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In 2013, the owners of the 755,000-sf TD Garden arena in Boston—Delaware 

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and control system, in place since the facility opened in 1995, could no 

longer keep up with new technologies. They retained Sylvania Lighting Solutions, 

which took a single-source approach to the problem. SLS replaced 

what had been a mix of metal halide and fl uorescent lights with 16,000 

energy-saving Osram LED luminaires, operating on 3,000 circuits controlled 

by SLS’s Encelium Light Management System. The system also connects 

to 200 non-lighting control points. Last year, TD Garden’s owners asked 

SLS to further tweak the system for even greater effi ciency. SLS installed 

software that allows for wireless control. It also rescaled the LEDs to better 

match their positioning and usage. Ongoing adjustments will accommodate 

the arena’s expansion plans, which call for a 10,000-sf addition to its 

entrance and 64,000 sf of new space to fl oors three through nine. 

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project in Bronx, N.Y., decided to forgo its original plans for a brick-and-block 

structure and opted for the clean, modern lines and custom colors offered by 

Dri-Design. The 0.08-inch-thick aluminum wall panels in four shades of gray and 

cream give the building a smooth, luminous look. Dri-Design provides a true dry 

joint, pressure-equalized rainscreen system without the use of caulk, sealant, 

or gaskets. This means the building will not get any material streaks or stains. 

Of the 84 rental units, fi ve were designed to be fully accessible for the mobility 

impaired; two are accessible for the vision impaired. The design architect was 

Michael Depasquale RA Architect & Planner. 

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