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Dive brief:
- London-based Balfour Beatty has completed 560 Edgewood, an adaptive reuse project in Atlanta that converted an early Coca-Cola bottling facility into a modern mixed-use space for Asana Partners, the Charlotte, North Carolina contractor. announced on March 21.
- As construction manager at risk, Balfour Beatty transformed the 1915 building to accommodate 60,000 square feet of flexible space to meet the retail, lifestyle and creative office needs of the surrounding neighborhood, according to the release .
- The project team deployed modern technologies to transform the historic building, including a tool that digitally optimized the extraction planning process. With the program, Balfour Beatty and its partners would be able to access and update plans in real time, according to the release.
Diving knowledge:
Coca-Cola’s roots in Atlanta date back to the 1880s, when Dr. John Pemberton poured the first glass of the iconic beverage at Jacob’s Pharmacy at the intersection of what is now Marietta and Peachtree Streets. The beverage giant still maintains its corporate headquarters in the capital of Georgia.
Balfour Beatty combined original design elements with modern additions that included upgrading the existing windows and brick facade to preserve the building’s historic industrial design. He also reused materials to meet sustainability goals, such as the building’s existing brickwork and precast concrete double T-beams.
Modern touches came in the form of private undercover parking for 104 cars and a rooftop deck with views of the city centre.
“Our experts, in collaboration with our commercial and design partners, skillfully preserved the historic charm of the building while creating an integrated mixed-use environment on time and on budget,” he said Mike Macon, senior vice president of Balfour Beatty in Georgia, said in the statement.
