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Health Sciences and Emerging
Technology Center
Del Mar College
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180,000 SF, New Health Sciences and Emerging Technology Center
Owner: Del Mar College
Architect: WHR Architects
Method of Delivery: CM-at-Risk
Start/Completion: 10/04 -10/06
This 180,000 SF multi-use complex is composed of four buildings. The Emerging Technology Center creates a new campus center, defining a main mall and several secondary courtyards. The terra cotta brick and bold geometry reflect the region’s culture and architecture. The complex will house the college’s nursing programs, allied health programs, radiology programs, dental programs, physical and occupational therapy programs, the college’s aviation mechanic program, as well as a free community medical and dental clinic.
One of the most distinct architectural features of this complex is the cast-in-place concrete Hyperbolic Canopy that is suspended between the Emerging Technology towers. The canopy is 59’ x 59’, composed of sixteen (16) 14’ x 14’ squares, turned and rotated. The remaining three Health Science buildings are all connected by a 1st floor walk way, which is curved inward at an 85 degree radius from the Emerging Technology facility. Each of the Health Science buildings contain staircases that were constructed of glass block and steel, inspired to appear like a bird cage.
This project received the 2007 Associated Builders &
Contractors Excellence in Construction
Award. |
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Teaching/Learning Lab - Laredo
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
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38,313 SF, Teaching/Learning
Lab Building
Owner: The University of Texas Heath Science Center at San Antonio
Architect: Kell Munoz
Method of Delivery: CM-at-Risk
Start/Completion: 04/06 - 09/07
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Teaching/Learning Laboratory Building -
Laredo is the second building
of a proposed complex of buildings. The Teaching/Learning Laboratory
Building is dedicated to instruction. The primary activity areas
include an instructional skills lab, clinic simulation, instructional
classrooms, library, office administration, a shell area for
future laboratory space and support space.
The new Teaching/Learning Lab - Laredo building is a two story
structure of approximately 38,313 gross SF. Wall materials
consist of a stone base and entry surrounds field surfaces
of brick with a running bond pattern and stone/stucco accents.
Detail in the new building include articulated
cornices and red tile sloped roofs, similar to many of the buildings
in Laredo. Also, Laredo’s historic buildings' traditional
use of ornamental tile was incorporated into the design
of the domed tower element.
Site improvements include new drives for access to the new building,
landscaping consistent with the first building and parking for
approximately 100 cars. The project also included renovation
of approximately 1,250 SF in the existing D.D. Hachar
Building.
This project received the 2007 Associated Builders &
Contractors Excellence in Construction
Award. |
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Ruth Taylor Art & Music Building
Trinity University
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39,000 GSF/24,428 ASF, Ruth Taylor Art &
Music Building
Owner: Trinity University
Architect: Kell Munoz
Method of Delivery: Negotiated
Start/Completion: 10/04 - 04/06
The project consists of additions and renovations to three existing
buildings. These include a two story liftslab building (5000
SF footprint) and a one story concert hall built in 1955 and
a three story liftslab building (6000 SF footprint) built in
1961. Ruth Taylor Art and Music Center increased in size about
20,000 square feet of space for a total of 70,000 SF.
The 1955 liftslab building consists of a 9” thick second
floor liftslab and a 7” thick roof liftslab. The slabs
consist of normal weight concrete and mild reinforcing. The
roof liftslab was demolished by lowering it down 10 ft onto
the second floor and saw cutting. Extensions were added onto
the existing columns to raise the floor liftslab up 6 ft. A
new steel framed floor and steel framed saw tooth roof were
constructed above. On the site of the new art & art history
wing (formally the home of the music department,) the roof was
lowered, cut into pieces, and removed. In its place, a series
of angled skylights were constructed to allow for natural light.
During the planning stages of the new facility, careful attention
was paid to public art spaces, natural light and student work
areas that would meet the needs of the department. The art &
art history wing will feature studios for specific types of
art, printmaking, digital arts, photography (including a dark
room), woodworking, jewelry making and stone sculpture. Special
MEP work was done and proper ventilation systems were installed
to make sure the art department was equipped to handle potential
hazards materials.
The 1961 liftslab building slabs consist of 10” thick
lightweight concrete with post-tension reinforcing. The roof
slab was raised a total of 16 ft in two lifting sequences. The
floor was raised 11 ft in one lift. Extensions were added on
the existing columns twice for the three lifts. The new music
facility contains several practice studios, an electronic music
classroom with new and updated equipment, a piano lab with 15
electronic pianos, and even a lounge, where students can study
or relax between classes. The Ruth Taylor Concert Hall was also
updated. The back of the stage was extended, making room to
store musical instruments and equipment and provide room on
stage for more musicians. The concert hall is now able to accommodate
a chorus and a full orchestra at the same time.
The liftslab method allows floors to be cast on floors below
similar to stack casting wall panels for tilt wall construction.
This simplifies formwork requirements. Steel collars are cast
around the columns in the slabs to allow for threaded rods to
be attached to lift the slabs up using hydraulic jacks sitting
on top of the columns. The jacks lift the slabs by inch increments
using 15 second cycles. Steel blocks below the collar are welded
to the column to support the slabs in there final position.
This project received the 2006 Associated Builders &
Contractors Excellence in Construction
Award. |
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Farrington Science Building
Sam Houston State University
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61,732 SF, Renovations and New 3-Story Science Building, Huntsville,
TX
Owner: Sam Houston State University System
Architect: Watkins Hamilton & Ross
Method of Delivery: CSP
Start/Completion: 03/04 - 12/05
Bartlett Cocke General Contractors was awarded the
renovation to the present Farrington Science Building and construction
of a new three-story, 61,732 SF science building at
Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. The new facility
will house the chemistry and forensic science programs, while
physics will remain in the present Farrington Building.
The renovation of the existing 51,000 SF building and
construction of a 61,732 SF building will provide the
Chemistry, Physics and Forensic Science departments with state-of-the-art
facilities. The new science building includes 21 state-of-the-art
laboratory and office facilities for the chemistry and forensic
science programs. Specific amenities include: three (3) freshman
teaching laboratories, two (2) preparation laboratories, one
(1) criminology laboratory, one (1) instrument laboratory, one
(1) forensics computer laboratory, four (4) forensic research
laboratories, two (2) upperclassmen teaching laboratories, and
seven (7) chemistry laboratories. This three-story, 61,732
SF facility includes: a drilled pier slab on grade
foundation, concrete and steel structure, brick masonry façade,
chilled water system connected to the university central plant
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Arts & Architecture Building
Prairie View A&M University
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102,000 SF, 3-Story Arts & Architecture Building, Prairie
View, TX
Owner: Texas A&M University System
Architect: HKS - Gerald Ward; Design Architect, Roto - Michael
Rotondi
Method of Delivery: CPS
Start/Completion: 07/03 - 04/05
This building houses the newly formed College of Arts and
Architecture. Inside, it is designed for extremely fluid
interior spaces creating innumerable places for social exchange
and dialogue that is critical to the development of an educational
community. On the north façade, the brick peels away like
curtains to allow slots of light into the classrooms and center
of the building. At the edge of the school is the Cultural Center,
a brick figure that is linked to the rest of the building through
a structural module and proportioning system thus remaining
an identifiable element, but also a part of the whole. The brick,
which blends with the surrounding native prairie grass landscape,
is corbelled at varying degrees to form these undulating curtain-like
forms.
This project received the 2006 Associated
General Contractors Award Outstanding Project between 10 to 30 Million. |
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Wehner Building Expansion
Texas A&M University |
60,250 SF, 4-Story Expansion Wing, College
Station, TX
Owner: Texas A&M University System
Architect: Kirksey Architects
Method of Delivery: CSP
Start/Completion: 01/02 - 04/03
The E.L. Wehner Building at Texas A&M University is home
of the Lowry Mays College and Graduate School of Business. This
project included of a four-story, 60,250 SF expansion
to the existing structure. Expanding onto the 190,000 SF $40,000,000 facility, Bartlett Cocke General Contractors
has added space for a new lecture hall, nearly two (2) floors
of classroom space with stadium seating, several conference
rooms, and nearly two (2) floors of faculty office space. Each
classroom in the Wehner Building is equipped with an identical
suite of audiovisual and computer equipment. This provides a
wide range of teaching and learning tools, including immediate
access to the internet.
The addition consisted of a drilled pier and structural concrete
foundation, cast-in-place-concrete four-level structure and
limestone, granite and masonry facade. |
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