Bartlett Cocke General Contractors : Building Value/Office Buildings


	World Savings & Loan Building #201, #203 & #205	World Savings & Loan Building #201, 203, 307 & 205 431,129 SF, Four (4), 2-Story and 3-Story New Office Building Owner: World Savings & Loan Association Architect: Lane & Smart Method of Delivery: CM-at-Risk Start/Completion: 07/01 - 02/04 Bartlett Cocke General Contractors expanded an existing and operational World Savings & Loan Association campus located off of State Highway 151 and Loop 1604 in San Antonio, Texas. The phased expansion included four (4) Call Center Office Buildings; one (1) cafeteria and Two (2) Document Storage Facilities. This expansion on the 110-acre corporate campus added 431,192 SF of space for a total of 1.2 million SF. Each of the four call centers consisted of a (2) two-story 95,000 SF office building over a 45,000 SF parking level. One of the call centers utilizes some of the lower level for a central plant and generator backup systems. The landscape and hardscape of this campus was carefully designed to accentuate the native hill country surroundings. It is in fact being used by the City of San Antonio as a model for tree conservation and recycling water usage. This first level of this call center consisted of the excavated covered parking level, mechanical and electrical rooms, and the building’s double elevator lobby and equipment room. The asphalt parking level meets and exceeds all of the state’s requirements for A.D.A. access to the building, thereby, reducing the costs of implementing such A.D.A. accessibility requirements in the outside parking levels. This parking level also provides areas for safe delivery and receipt of supplies, while maintaining a maximum level of security. The first-story offices sit on top of a post-tensioned slab supported by drilled concrete piers and beams. This system allowed for the clearances and spans needed in the parking level while meeting the strength requirements for the office space above. The reinforced concrete-filled double CMU exterior wall system is capable of withstanding sustained hurricane strength winds. Open office space consisting of modular furniture makes up the entire perimeter of the floor. The core of the building houses the building’s conference and meeting rooms, training rooms, storage areas and a few single offices. All data and communication lines stub up through the slab at locations predetermined prior to the slab’s pouring. The east, west, and south sides of the floor give access to the three stairwells. The north side of this floor contains an aluminum storefront vestibule, allowing access to the rest of the campus via a post-tensioned bridge and covered walkway. Communication lines run overhead suspended from the structure versus only utilizing floor penetrations. Finally, in place of the storefront entrance at the north face, a large bay window provides ample natural lighting and allows an observer to view the “commons area” between the building and the rest of the campus. In order to “tie-in” the new building to the existing campus, designers paid careful attention to utilize the natural features of the land, including existing plant life and terrain contours. Multiple winding paths constructed of stabilized decomposed granite and concrete meander about the site connecting the building to the new parking lots as well as the rest of the campus. These paths provide pedestrians a lighted and safe walk across the campus, highlighting the charm of the Texas hill-country. Other important features include structural boulder retaining walls, boulder seating areas, and a natural stone bridge spanning an existing dry creek. Landscapers used only indigenous planting around the building and other construction areas to minimize the transitions from undisturbed areas to the repaired areas surrounding the site.

	HEB Headquarters	300,000 SF, 6 Bldg. addition, remodeling & historical preservation to old U.S. Arsenal Owner: H.E. Butt Grocery Corporation Architect: Hartman-Cox & Chumney/Urrutia Delivery Method: CM-at-Risk Start/Completion: 06/84 - 08/85 The H.E. Butt Grocery Corporation Headquarters Building was successfully constructed on-time and on-budget, under the construction Manager-a-Risk delivery method. The project consisted of a 300,000 SF, six (6) building addition, renovation, and historical preservation to the old U.S. Arsenal located in downtown San Antonio. This project was delivered in nearly 14 months. Building methods utilized for construction included a structural concrete drilled pier foundation and lath and plaster exterior wall system. The roof structure consists of a combination of flat built-up roofs and sloped standing seam metal roof panels.

	Citicorp Data Services, Inc.	430,000 SF, Service Center Owner: Citicorp Data Systems, Inc. Architect: Lane & Smart Bartlett Cocke General Contractors has the most experience working Citicorp on the USCC Campus in San Antonio, Texas. We have completed three (3) projects for Citicorp at the USCC Campus in San Antonio, under the Design/Build delivery method, totaling nearly $57,300,000. All three of the building structures were completed on a fast-track basis under eleven (11) months. To facilitate such expedited schedules Bartlett Cocke General Contractors had to utilize non-traditional building methods such as starting masonry from the top and working down, utilize high-performance early-strength concrete, and start construction of the foundation and structure before the design was 100% complete. All three (3) of the Citicorp buildings consist of drilled pier foundations, structurally supported concrete slabs, cast-in-place concrete structures, masonry and glass exteriors, and modified bitumen roof systems. Each building is utilized as a call center for the Citicorp that operated 24 hours a day, seven (7) days a week. To maintain 24/7 operation each building has double redundant MEP systems including: multiple power feeds, two (2) water supply and waste water systems, four (4) main fiber optic phone lines, and emergency generator systems.

	Brook Hollow Office Building	107,000 SF, 4-story Office Building Owner: Orion Partners Architect: House Reh Burwell Architects Method of Delivery: CM-at-Risk Start/Completion: 08/98 - 07/99 The Brook Hollow Office Building is a 4-sotry, 107,000 SF office building that was successfully completed on-time and within budget under the Construction Manager-at-Risk project delivery method. This project consisted of a drilled pier foundation, slab on grade, concrete and steel structure, with masonry and glass façade, and a modified bitumen roof. Construction started in August of 1998. This project was constructed in 11 months and completed in July 1999.

	Pape Dawson Office Building	27,000 SF, San Antonio, Texas Owner: Eugene Dawson, Sr. Architect: RVK Method of Delivery: Negotiated Start/Completed: 12/96 - 08/97 The Pape-Dawson Engineers Corporate Headquarters consists of a two-story, tilt-wall and structural steel frame structure. Amenities include an entry/reception foyer, conference rooms, meeting rooms, offices, kitchen/break-room, work area for surveyors and surveying technicians, work area for draftsmen, and storage areas.