Pastor Center Arthur M. Blank family residences
Atlanta
Better project
Sent by Brasfield and Gorrie
Owner Pastor Center
Lead design firm Jew Trammer Rule + Rubio
Gc/cm Brasfield and Gorrie
Structural engineer Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates
Civil engineer Kimley-Horn & Associates
MEP engineer SHUMAT MECHANICAL
From work Brent Scarbrough & Co.
Dollar $ 105 million dollars center Arthur M. Blank Family Residences expands the current capacity of the center, adding a 16 -story residential tower. The 348,000 square meters of housing, 165 units, provides facilities to families to help offer the best possible result for patients who go through the recovery and rehabilitation that change their lives.
The first floor includes detailed space along with the meeting rooms and huddle rooms, a recreation room and a fitness room. The 15th floor has additional meeting rooms, a resident club room, a library and terraces that are overlooked by Buckhead and Atlanta Skylines. The project also includes a parking lot of 231 spaces.
The building includes a complex structural curved ceiling element, along with the window wall, the window wall and the metal panel facade. The outer spaces include a half -acre therapy garden with hike paths, grills and a fountain to provide an outdoor retirement area.
Although the building is mainly used for families of housing patients, the building also has additional space for patients with spinal cord injuries. All the units needed to fulfill the standards of wheelchair chairs at the shepherd center, which go beyond and differ from the ADA requirements. The examples of these specific units modifications include ravaged showers in each unit; Grab bars in each shower and each toilet; Pocket doors with paddlenels instead of swollen doors; Wider doors; The sinks of the kitchen and the bathroom; And the comfort sales points were 4-in. higher than typical to require less scope.
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While excavating, the crews discovered the foundations of an earlier structure that had been buried and not reported by the place surveys, which included multiple areas of buried garbage and inadequate soils. Faced with a two -week delay, Brasfield and Gorrie readed their autonomous concrete structure to overcome the impacts of the calendar.
The prefabricated erection was almost a month when a quality control inspection on the prefabricava plant raised worries. After Brasfield and Gorrie were notified about the problem, plans were made to eliminate the 63 pieces of prefabrication that had already been installed and then replaced by renovation panels. The project team, including the owner and design team, set a plan to safely eliminate the prefabrication, start production for replacement pieces and create a calendar to minimize lost time.
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There were also problems with the construction of the structural roof of the building. The team contacted numerous companies to help engine a solution. The result was a scaffolding system that was suspended on the 16th floor to provide contractors for safe access for roof construction.
The team also had to consider several potential security concerns, including the proximity of the project to the residential neighborhoods; the inability to close the sidewalks adjoining the building of Peachtree Road; erection of the prefabricated facade; and the complex elements of the roof restrained of the structural steel that would be covered in metal panels. The team offered training opportunities, such as swing training training, to ensure that all subcontractors working at work were properly trained for any high -risk tasks.
The team delivered the 22 -month project before the calendar and $ 4 million below the budget without registered incidents in Osha and without lost accidents.
