Design Firm: Horne & King Architects
Client/Owner: City of New Albany
Project Description: The new, two-story 23,655 sq. ft. Police Facility and Cruiser Shelters provided the City of New Albany a modern structure that complemented the community’s unique architectural standards. After bad soils, unforeseen underground foundations and an untimely SBC delayed utility line relocation, the project was delayed two months to remediate the situations. To recover lost time, Gutknecht accelerated the precast installation and roof framing activities. The state-of-the-art police center features interior and exterior crown molding, an exterior railing system and bullet-proof glazing on all detention cells and lobby interior windows. The detention electronic control system (DECS) is the buildings complete security, communication and alarm system that allows integrated control of eight different systems from a single substation. Because the DECS system is unique, all of the integrated system rough-in requirements and accommodations were custom designed and managed by Gutknecht.
Design Firm: Sherm D. Moreland, AIA (DesignGroup)
Client/Owner: Mary Rutan Hospital
Project Description: The 36,673 sq. ft. expansion and renovation was performed by Thomas & Marker while the hospital remained fully operational. The project was completed in phases so that critical patient services were not interrupted. The new emergency department now handles more than 30 patients simultaneously without interruption to the procedure’s flow. The 17,460 sq. ft. addition to the hospital which houses the emergency room is a single-story brick and structural steel facility with a roof that was designed to accommodate a future second story addition. The main entrance is a steel and glass atrium. The addition was the first project phase and once it was complete, the area it previously occupied was renovated for other hospital services. The renovation and relocation included radiology, physical therapy and medical records departments, physicians’ lounge and a laboratory, and the relocation of the Corporate Health Center and the Information Systems Office to a separate hospital facility. Over 50 percent of the labor was self-performed by Thomas & Marker.
Design Firm: Moody Nolan, Inc.
Client/Owner: American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
Project Description: American Honda’s Midwest Consolidation Center was an expansion of the company’s midwestern U.S. parts distribution operations. The new facility houses a 500,000 sq. ft. domestic parts supplier distribution hub, a 50,000 sq. ft. procurement operations support office and an 80,000 sq. ft. mezzanine contained within the warehouse. The building’s cladding was constructed from architectural precast concrete reinforced panels with some aluminum storefront and glazing limited to the office area only. Conventional structural steel columns and structural steel bar joins were used to support the massive 600,000 sq. ft. roof made weather tight by a thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO) roof. The project was completed in eight months and earned a LEED Gold Certification. The center is designed to be highly efficient in water and energy usage, and innovative strategies used in design and construction focused on maximizing recycled and regional material, green energy use and employing green cleaning janitorial services.
Design Firm: W. Jerry Murray, AIA (RCM Architects)
Client/Owner: Bluffton University
Project Description: Bluffton University wanted to construct a new baseball stadium and memorial dedicated to the five baseball players who died tragically on their way to spring training in 2007. The budget relied heavily on donations, so Thomas & Marker worked with the university and architect throughout the design process to provide value engineering options. The field was donated and in place when Thomas & Marker began work on the project consisting of the memorial, the baseball dugouts, backstop, batting cages and netting. Since the field was completed before work began, all construction had to be built from one side, along with equipment ingress and egress. The memorial is a radiused half wall on one side of a centered, permanent bronze casting of a home plate. The plate is imprinted with the cleats and numbers of the deceased players and surrounded by the handprints of the surviving team members. Every contractor and supplier donated something to the project. The donations and emotions created some understandable challenges that the Thomas & Marker treated carefully, without sacrificing design and project goals.
Design Firm: Martel & Associates/JDRM Engineering
Client/Owner: Mercy Health Partners
Project Description: The Mercy Hospital is a 190,000 sq. ft. healthcare facility and Vaughn Industries expended 64,800 self-performed labor hours within 15 months to complete the electrical contract. The three-story steel structure has poured concrete floors, full basement, brick exterior and metal stud/drywall interior walls. The extensive electrical needs required 3,200-amp normal power bus switchgear and a 3,200-amp emergency power bus switchgear accompanied by two 1,000-KW stand-by diesel generators for emergency situations. Vaughn installed a complete nurses call system consisting of 829 nurses call devices and four master nurse stations. The facility includes 652 fire alarms, a complete CCTV system with 24 interior cameras, as well as a 20-KVA UPS unit for lab equipment and a 30-KVA UPS unit for data and telecommunications. Mercy Hospital was designed around a very aggressive schedule and Vaughn rose to the challenge by coordinating and installing the complex scope to ensure an on-time facility opening.
Design Firm: KA Architects
Client/Owner: The Glimcher Co.
Project Description: The retail, shopping and dining reconfiguration and renovation had multiple contracts that engaged the services of Romanoff. The project was a 90-day demolition of an existing, two-story Kaufmann’s department store and removal of all existing electrical service components. Romanoff had performed infrastructure and site lighting installation for the original mall, built in 2000. Romanoff was responsible for the re-installation of all applicable service to the restored project, including underground utilities, switchgear, cabinets and power drops and panels for individual new stores – to include a stand-alone restaurant outside the footprint of the existing enclosed space. The match lines – the lines for the new and existing Polaris Fashion Place – required ongoing coordination and an early match line discrepancy was discovered and corrected, causing rework in pad heights and certain portions of utility infrastructure. The final building is a series of single-entry, open-air store fronts with a ‘town square’ configuration enhanced by a transparent atrium.
Design Firm: Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc.
Client/Owner: Nucor Steel Marion, Inc.
Project Description: The Static VAR Compensator (SVC) provides fast reactive power compensation for high-voltage transmission networks to regulate and stabilize voltage. Nucor initiated installation of the SVC to help correct issues with the Marion-area power grid and was obligated to First Energy to have it running by mid-July. Cogburn Electric laid out a schedule to accommodate the three-month project and coordinated with a local millwright company to ensure manpower for the round-the-clock construction. Eighty-five percent of the labor was self-performed. The first task consisted of reconfiguring the existing 138KV substation to allow for a “take off” point for the new buss work to the SVC. The installation site was an existing employee parking lot so Cogburn erected a 40’ by 60’ circus-style tent to shelter and store equipment. A full-time expediter sifted through the thousands of SVC equipment parts shipped from Siemens to ensure the needed pieces arrived in the tent ready for the next shift. As the concrete pad was poured, Cogburn followed behind erecting equipment to ensure on-time completion.
Design Firm: Heery International
Client/Owner: Ferguson Construction Co.
Project Description: The Woody Hayes Athletic Center features players and coaches locker rooms, lounge, media room, strength and treatment rooms for use by The Ohio State University football team and staff. Forum’s scope of work included the fabrication and installation of architectural millwork and custom casework in phases spanning a year and a half. The locker room details required special attention to ensure that construction would hold up to heavy use by large football players. Additional challenges included the wide variety of materials as well as the considerable amount of required materials to be formed around radii. Four distinct wood species – oak, figured maple, pearwood and anigre, as well as plastic laminate, form resinous panels and Corian solid surface – were used. The veneer paneling on all walls is fabricated so that the wood grain is aligned vertically and there is a precise order to how the panels are sequenced across each space. Field measurements were taken and panels across each wall were numbered and adjusted for size in the mill shop so the installation crew could fit them in place on the project site.
Design Firm: Cedar Fair
Client/Owner: Cedar Fair
Project Description: The roller coaster received its name from Cedar Fair, LP CEO, Dick Kinzel, who was a fan of the Maverick TV series. ADENA completed 85 percent of the project with its own workforce on the 5.5 acre site. Since Lake Erie is directly next to the ride site, staging provided a challenge as 4,450 ft. of track sections, as well as ride columns, arrived from Switzerland. Several hundred foundations were installed over the site, and ADENA’s fabrication shop designed special templates that held each of the 2,180 anchor bolts in place just for the ride itself. ADENA’s work to build the Maverick included three separate contracts, the largest being for the steel erection of the ride and subsequent testing. This contract also included site excavation, draining and refilling the existing pond, and installing all foundations. The second contract was for the steel erection of the above-ground 400-ft. long tunnel placed approximately halfway through the ride. The final contract was for the installation of the ride station, where guests are queued and enter and exit the ride.
Design Firm: Richard E. Piloseno (URS Corp.)
Client/Owner: Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
Project Description: The water/theme park is located on the 30-acre former Wyandot Lake Amusement park site, which was acquired by the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. The project included a new front entry portal to create a single point of entry for the zoo’s three separate venues. Thomas & Marker served as construction manager for all park sections – Zoombezi Bay (water park), Jungle Jack’s Landing (dry ride/amusement park) and Colo’s Cove (picnic/shelter area). Because of an established grand opening, construction began when the design development was only 20 percent complete. Most of the existing infrastructure had to be replaced before the buildings and specialized rides began construction. With equipment and materials arriving from all over the world, lead times were lengthy and tracking nearly impossible. Toward the end of the project there was an average of 170 personnel on site, including specialized vendors and suppliers from other countries, speaking different languages. The entire project was designed, constructed and completed within 14 months.
Design Firm: Peterman Associates
Client/Owner: Bob LaRiche
Project Description: ACI’s project scope included constructing a new building for the car dealership, razing the existing buildings, and putting in a new car lot where the existing buildings sat. The new building consolidated and expanded both the service center and the sales department into one facility. ACI first joined the owner and architect during the design phase to ensure the project would meet the owner’s needs and budget. During construction, the dealer remained open for business despite the fact that the new building was 30 feet away from the existing building, which required careful coordination with all firms involved. The building is a 30,617 sq. ft. Nucor pre-engineered building with a stick-built interior. The foundation consists of concrete footings for the steel columns and a slab-on-grade floor for the non-load bearing walls. ACI’s finished product combines a service shop containing numerous specialty bays, showroom, parts department and sales office. There is a showroom for both Toyota and Subaru, a customer lobby and a children’s play area.
Design Firm: George Parker and Associates
Client/Owner: Delaware County Commissioners
Project Description: The Delaware Co. Council for Older Adults project consisted of a new 57,892 sq. ft. senior citizen facility with over 13 acres of site development. ACI was the general trades contractor and self-performed over half the labor including site work, concrete, steel erection and carpentry. The council is comprised of three main sections: the pool addition containing a 770 sq. ft. pool, a social services wing and the activity wing. The social services wing houses 27 offices used to run many other services provided out of the building. The activity wing has two large conference rooms totaling 4,300 sq. ft. which are separated by an operable partition. There are four smaller activity rooms on the ground floor as well as a kitchen and dining area. The activity wing’s basement houses the exercise area, computer lab, library and locker rooms. Although eight inches of snow fell before pouring the basement slab, ACI kept the project moving by constructing the first floor through the use of all-terrain scissor lifts and a crane. The basement slab was poured later using concrete buggies through a four foot doorway.
Design Firm: Glavan Feher Associates, Inc.
Client/Owner: Pizzuti, Inc.
Project Description: The appliance and parts distribution facility had an initial design-build contract for the 1.6 million sq. ft. building, including a 19,000 sq. ft. two-story office. Romanoff provided all electric service – including interior and exterior lighting, conduit and cable, switchgear, ancillary power provisions, and dock and pole lights – for the facility which encompasses 28 full-size football fields. The project consists of two separate warehousing sections, connected by three pass-through areas designed large enough to accommodate oversize forklifts. It features 29 bays that are each 80-ft.-long and defined by column rows per half, with a minimum of 30 ft. clear span to the bottom center of the bar joist. Romanoff commenced the installation of underground utilities and temporary project power in February, with substantial completion in Sept. 2008. Although cable and ancillary materials were stolen from highly-secured storage areas and partially installed electrical configurations on three occasions, Romanoff’s personnel repaired or replaced the damaged and stolen materials within 24 hours.
Design Firm: Brian Sabla, AIA (CDS Associates, Inc.)
Client/Owner: Union Rural Electric Cooperative
Project Description: As general contractor, Thomas & Marker built the one-story, 8,900 sq. ft. steel-frame with brick veneer and masonry siding addition and renovated the existing 17,770 sq. ft. headquarters for Union Rural Electric Cooperative. The project had the goal of LEED Gold Certification which required many unique elements. A geothermal heating and cooling system was installed and 150-ft. deep wells were dug since each work station had its own floor-level vent which can be set for comfort by the individual. The floor is raised 18 inches from the slab base as a platform and acts as a giant duct for the geothermal systems and other utilities. Each room has odd angles and windows are placed to capture and take advantage of natural light while artificial lighting is on sensors to respond to the amount of natural lighting. Other LEED-related features include a pervious concrete parking lot with bioswales to filter and soak up storm water run-off and pollutants, and rain guards and rain gardens are set to collect the water from downspouts which is stored and used for plant irrigation.
Design Firm: 360 Architecture, Inc./Prater Engineering Associates, Inc.
Client/Owner: Nationwide Realty Investments
Project Description: The 20-story, 224,000 sq. ft. Condominiums at Northbank Park was fabricated using an all-glass exterior with post tension and cast-in-place concrete floors and columns. Vaughn Industries was responsible for the mechanical and HVAC installations. The building is situated overlooking the Olentangy River and the limited footprint of the site had no area for material storage, so timing of deliveries and material installation was crucial. The fourth floor had already been poured when Vaughn was awarded the contract and began hanging ductwork and piping on the second floor, continuing up to the penthouse where the piping loop for the 121 heat pumps is located. The buildings’ HVAC system is primarily water source heat pumps, with a cooling tower and a brazed plated heat exchanger for loop heat removal in the summer, and in the winter the loop is tempered by two natural gas boilers. Each floor has five water source heat pumps to serve tenants, and Vaughn worked with each individual unit since each one had its own duct configuration.
Design Firm: Wachtel & McAnnallly Architects/Planners, Inc.
Client/Owner: Ruscilli Construction Co., Inc.
Project Description: The Residence Inn situated in the historic Buckeye Bank Building is an interesting blend of the old and new, which Forum emulated through their architectural millwork. The scope included the fabrication and installation of millwork and custom casework in the public areas of the inn. Several pieces were both radiused and sloped, including the overhead feature in the rotunda which was made with a combination of medium density fiberboard, poplar, flexible moldings and fiberglass columns. The custom coffee buffet, which incorporates relocated safe deposit boxes from an old safe, was shop-fabricated with metal and laminates, a granite countertop and perforated stainless steel screens. Primary woods chosen were ash and cherry, and the dark stains were matched to samples provided by the design team. With the exception of the rotunda’s overhead piece, all work was shop fabricated and disassembled for shipment. All products were fabricated precisely to the architect’s design and specification then custom fit into place.