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A joint venture of McCarthy Building Cos., based in St. Louis and Barnsley Construction Group, based in Tyrone, Georgia, surpassed the only government facility in Georgia built with solid wood as the primary construction material, McCarthy announced in a News release of October 14.
The budget for the 58,250 square meters The downtown project is $78 millionaccording to a press release the city issued last year, with $60 million set aside for construction. It started a year ago.
Brookhaven’s downtown will include the first purpose-built city hall since Brookhaven, Georgia, was incorporated in 2012, according to McCarthy’s release. The five-story structure, which anchors the downtown mixed-use project, will occupy a site adjacent to the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority’s Brookhaven rail station and replace a former parking lot.
City Hall will house administrative offices and city council chambers, according to McCarthy. The building will also include three upper levels occupied by city employees, a rooftop garden and a 70-space underground parking level, along with a multi-purpose room, catering kitchen and various public use support spaces. Approximately 60% of the building will be used by the general public.
The entire structure of the building will consist of exposed solid wood for all upper levels and concrete for the parking lot. JV McCarthy + Barnsley completed the complex assembly of the timber panels in September.
McCarthy said the team navigated several nuances that differ from concrete and steel construction, including loading and unloading logistics, familiarizing subcontractors with the correct directional positioning of wood prior to installation and maneuvering the large pieces of wood in a small space.
“Brookhaven City Center is an excellent representation of the flexibility and versatility inherent in solid wood, and we are proud to be part of a development that is moving forward,” Selina Schulten, president of Barnsley Construction Group, said in the statement .
