Related Links: Engineering News Record Architectural Record Archstone 1st & M, also known as Square 673, is one of Washington, D.C.'s newest—and already one of its most popular—high-end apartment properties. The $100-million residential development features 469 rental units outfitted with high-end fixtures. The complex also has upscale amenities, including indoor and outdoor movie theaters, a sports club and lounge, a pet salon, a Starbucks, and a rooftop pool and spa.Constructing some of these amenities proved challenging. The outdoor movie-projection system, for instance, took extensive planning and coordination. After trying out several options, the project team opted to locate the projector
Related Links: Engineering News Record Architectural Record The Citron Apartments, a five-level, four-building residential complex located in Silver Spring, Md., illustrates the cost-effective use of wood-frame construction for commercial developments. The 222-unit apartment complex, which features 31 affordable housing units, earned LEED-Silver certification.Using high-density wood-frame construction brought significant cost savings, according to the project team. However, it also provided some challenges.For instance, the apartment complex, which featured a brick exterior, included two curved elements located at prominent corner elevations. The contractors' challenge was to build the desired architectural curve while maximizing the size of the interior units and allowing for
An applied-research facility located in Prince George County, Va., the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM) is a 63,000-sq-ft facility housing engineering and computational laboratories with integrated data-acquisition systems.
The 11-story, LEED Platinum-certified Rockville Metro Plaza II added 323,000 square feet of Class A space to Rockville, Md.'s commercial building inventory.
As a signatory to the American College and University Presidents' Climate commitment, the University of Baltimore is pursuing strategies to help eliminate global-warming emissions and achieve climate neutrality.
Design and construction of the Schuylkill River Parks Connector Bridge in Center City Philadelphia helped restore pedestrian access to the river and to the accompanying trail and greenway that had been blocked by a CSX freight railroad line.
Related Links: Engineering News Record Architectural Record The 1.2-million-sq-ft, 11-story U.S. Coast Guard headquarters project is situated on a severely sloping, 176-acre site. That factor was one of many that made construction challenging for numerous specialty contractors, including curtain-wall and window contractor Harmon Inc.Because some areas of the project site did not allow the specialty contractor to set up its equipment and work from the exterior, the firm was forced to install the curtain-wall system and windows from the inside of the building. Due to these limitations, Harmon's crews carefully guided the shop-glazed units into the building and then, from
In featuring the Best Projects winners in the region, ENR MidAtlantic honors complex, challenging and innovative work, delivered safely, in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. Many of the winners showcase remarkable teamwork among design and construction teams, using collaboration to address project-related issues.
Related Links: Engineering News Record Architectural Record Located at the heart of Philadelphia University's campus, a 38,500-sq-ft, four-story building was constructed to support the recently established Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce. It houses five double-height studio spaces and classrooms that can be reconfigured for different needs. A two-story, daylighted forum links the first two floors and serves as a central meeting space. On the first floor, a workshop for industrial prototypes offers overhead garage-door access in a space filled with natural light.The building features a curved, perforated aluminum screen, known as the "veil." The architect's selected finish material—a
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