The $133-million LEED Platinum project serves as Montgomery County’s crown jewel in green energy and as an industry-wide model for sustainable construction.
Located on a half-acre site, the two-story, 20,786-sq-ft mass timber library marks the first time self-supporting dowel-laminated timber (DLT) has been integrated into a folded plate roof design, according to the project team.
This seven-story hotel on a tight half-acre site is the first major construction project in National Harbor’s downtown district since the 350-acre property’s initial development.
Arlington County’s first net-zero energy building—the Lubber Run Community Center—was constructed on a 4.5-acre site that includes outdoor recreational space with a connection to nature and a strong sense of place, the project team says.
The T-30 Cell Processing Modular Facility is the first large-scale prefabricated and multimodular Current Good Manufacturing Practices manufacturing facility to be built in the nation, the project team says.
To expand the student population to more than 400 students per school year from 200, this $91-million middle school modernization included a 40,000-sq-ft addition and renovation of the existing 110,000-sq-ft school.
The central aims of this complex $96.6-million project were to replace the U.S. Route 422 Schuylkill River bridge with a modern, wider prestressed concrete beam bridge as well as to widen and reconstruct one mile of U.S. 422 between the state Route 23 and Route 363 interchanges.