For this $6.9-million design-build project, which was completed on budget and three days ahead of schedule, the team took an unconventional approach to designing a 400-ft-long retaining wall and a 90-ft embankment while removing 35,000 cu yd of debris.
Washington, D.C.’s first affordable housing residency for low-income grandparents raising children without a parent present was conceived by the founder of Bible Way Church.
This complex hotel renovation posed numerous logistical challenges, including converting a rooftop pool into a usable bar and meeting space as well as heavy repositioning of part of the existing hotel into a co-working area, the team says.
A previously disjointed five-building school complex was transformed into a unified, operational and administratively functional building that enhances its role as a community hub.
Taking a 21-in. northward lean out of this historic building, nicknamed the Leaning Tower of Granby, required what the team called an untested jacking plan that "had never been accomplished on a building that tall."
After four years of planning and site preparation, the team successfully integrated 19 historic buildings into a mixed-use development encompassing a full city block.
When an electrical service delay threatened to derail the schedule, the project team says it collaboratively orchestrated a plan to bring the project back on track.