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elcome to the 18th edition of CAM Magazine’s Special Issue. This year’s 12 honored projects reflect definite trends in today’s construction industry. Six of this year’s honored projects - half - are educational buildings, facilities and campuses. The improvements being made in our educational surroundings are clearly investments in the future and in our leaders of tomorrow.

NSO Bell Building Building a Place Called Home

Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum A Work of Art: Design and Craftsmanship on Exhibit at “The Broad”

Voyageur Consortium Academy Voyageur Academy’s Consortium College Preparatory High School: Energy-Wise & Beautiful

Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital - Organic Greenhouse & Interactive Education Center Building a Healthy Appetite: Auch Company Builds Organic Hospital Greenhouse and Education Center

The Crisler Center at The University of Michigan

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Healthcare facilities also continue to emerge at the forefront of construction; three outstanding ones are in this issue. Creating unique environments for healing is progress, as is a more organic, natural approach to nurturing patients and welcoming communities. Additionally, we’re pleased that one-third of our profiled projects are within the City of Detroit. Despite the challenges currently being faced by ‘The D,’ there are changes taking place helping to revitalize and enliven it. We hope you enjoy this edition of Special Issue 2013.

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Stepping Out of the Shadows: Crisler Center Provides Energy Infusion for Michigan Sports

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Chelsea Community Hospital Addition and Renovation The Good Earth and a Great Hospital: Chelsea Community Hospital Offers Private Rooms on a Wooded Site

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About the Authors... MARY E. KREMPOSKY Mary Kremposky graduated from Wayne State University with a Bachelor of Arts in English. As associate editor, she has been writing articles for CAM Magazine for over 20 years. She appreciates the opportunity to tour wonderfully crafted and beautifully designed spaces, and feels that learning about sustainability, urban restoration efforts and other vital trends is yet another bonus of working for the design and construction industry.

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Clare Desmond has been writing about construction for more than 25 years, first in Colorado for the Colorado Masonry Society and The Daily Journal, a daily tabloid published by the F.W. Dodge Division of McGraw-Hill. Returning to her home state of Michigan in the early 1990s, Clare worked for Michigan Contractor & Builder magazine as feature editor, traveling to project sites statewide to photograph works in progress and then write a weekly feature story about them. She also covered annual meetings, educational forums and other events by professional and trade associations. Clare has also worked as an independent contractor, writing news stories and creating educational materials for a variety of construction groups. Now retired, she keeps her hand in the game by taking on select writing/editing assignments.

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Building A Place Called Home By Mary E. Kremposky, Associate Editor or the 20,000 homeless in Detroit, the daily struggle for food, clothing and shelter rivals that of contestants on the popular reality television show, “Survivor.” While the winner of Survivor gains a million dollars, the “prize” for surviving the streets is just another day of the same. For the homeless, living with a sense of being forgotten by mainstream society is the equivalent of being voted off the show. The stigma of homelessness, and for some, the

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Photography by Christopher Lark, Inc. scars of mental illness and substance abuse are even heavier burdens to carry than their rag-tag possessions crammed into an assortment of plastic bags. An amazing new development has created a place for those without shelter to lay down their burdens, rebuild their lives and move into mainstream life. Neighborhood Service Organization (NSO), a 57-year-old private, nonprofit human service agency “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

As committed partners, Fusco, Shaffer & Pappas, Inc. (FSP), Farmington Hills, and O’Brien Edwards Construction Company (OECC), Detroit, helped the project survive against all odds. “The scope of this project presented many unique challenges that pushed the boundaries of innovation and ingenuity,” said FSP Principal and President James T. Pappas, AIA. Extensive value engineering trimmed the cost burden of unexpected building and environmental conditions. The cost analysis was so intense that OECC Vice President, Director of Business Development Terry Bailey still remembers the price of every brick even eight months after project completion in September 2012. “Every brick that was replaced cost $45,” recalled Bailey. “Our price for tuck-pointing was $4 a foot under a masonry allowance contract.”

serving Detroit, Highland Park and Hamtramck, as well as Wayne and Oakland Counties, has miraculously transformed the historic Michigan Bell Yellow Pages Building in Detroit into 155 apartment units of permanent supportive housing for the homeless. “Homelessness doesn’t equal hopelessness,” declares NSO Vice President for Real Estate Development Joseph Heaphy. NSO never lost hope throughout the daunting process of turning this 84-year-old Art Deco building into a haven for the homeless. The gauntlet of obstacles included the financial collapse of 2008 and the assembly of at least 12 different financing sources. Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

HOUSING FIRST Today, each apartment unit offers what was once only a mirage: a hot shower, a soft bed, and protection against the violence and chaos of the streets for 155 residents. “The residents’ reactions have been very powerful,” said Heaphy. “They feel a sense of dignity; they feel that they matter. But what struck me the most was when residents would say, ‘I feel safe.’ They had always been looking over their shoulder, and now they can go home, shut the door and not worry about anything happening.” Residents can live in a secure, comfortable and supportive dwelling not only for a single night but permanently. The NSO Bell Building provides one-bedroom apartments and a host of support services, including mental health assistance and addiction treatment. Job guidance is offered via an alliance with the building’s close neighbor and former owner, Focus: HOPE. For those whose lives become stabilized and who are able to earn an income exceeding the residency requirement, “we work with individuals closely to help them move on to the next level,” said Heaphy. NSO follows the cost-effective and humane Housing First model. Conventional thinking: The homeless should get their lives in order and then obtain housing. The Housing First Model: House the homeless first and support them in transitioning to mainstream life. “They found that the Housing First Model is actually less expensive for taxpayers,” said Heaphy. A past article in The New Yorker called “Million Dollar Murray” calculated the annual draw on police, medical and emergency services by a single homeless individual. It is far more cost effective to follow the Housing

First model than to leave individuals stranded in the wasteland to continually draw on Band-Aid services. Permanent supportive housing developments have been in place in New York, Denver and other large cities for over 10 years. Both FSP and OECC went to New York City to view well-done examples of these developments. Lessons learned on the tour aided in the creation of the NSO Bell Building – the first, large-scale permanent supportive housing facility in Detroit for the general homeless population. (A few modest Detroit developments provide 20 to 25 units, while Southwest Solution’s Piquette Square Apartments offer 150 units for homeless veterans.) MAKING HISTORY The project’s mission is all about transformation, not only of individuals but of a landmark building, a neighborhood and a city. The dedicated project team resuscitated this landmark building, originally constructed in 1929 and 1930 by the Michigan Bell Telephone Company and Western Electric as office, warehouse and garage space. With six stories of residential units in the main building and a narrow sixstory central tower, the 12-story building is a beacon of hope to the homeless and to the entire community in this struggling neighborhood north of downtown Detroit and near the Highland Park-Detroit border. “We took a historic building that was vacant, and that would have sat vacant for another fifty years, and we turned it into something new and beautiful,” said Heaphy. Something new and beautiful does indeed grace the tired streets of Oakman Boulevard and Woodrow Wilson. Coupled with the restored masonry, the power of the paintbrush on the interior has turned the corridors and concrete columns of this old warehouse into bright washes of bold color, thanks to the interior design of Davis & Davis, Southfield. The end result of years of work and $36 million in construction costs is a project that has already garnered many awards: A 2013 Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation, the 2013 Michigan Historic Preservation Network Award, a prestigious national award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a 2013 Engineering Society of Detroit Design & Construction Award. “We are very satisfied with the end result,” said Heaphy. “I wasn’t surprised by it, because we work in a very small world of folks who do this type of work, and who do it well.”

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The project team restored the historic Art Deco main entrance of this 84-year-old building stretching along Oakman Boulevard in Detroit.

HOUSE HUNTING The story began in 2005 when the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) and the Great Lakes Capital Fund, a nonprofit community development finance organization, approached NSO President & CEO Sheilah Clay about developing permanent supportive housing for the area’s homeless. As one of the largest social service organizations in the City of Detroit and in the State of Michigan, NSO took on the challenge. With Heaphy on board in 2007, NSO officially began the task of creating a development of size and significance in this category. The search for the ideal building led NSO to the Michigan Bell Building on Oakman Boulevard. The building fit NSO’s mission: the 273,000-square-foot facility has more than enough “rooms at the inn” to house a significant number of people; Focus: HOPE’s employment, education and training programs are located within walking

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distance; and the building is located within the borders of the HOPE Village Initiative. The Initiative is part of Focus: Hope’s vision for the redevelopment of a 100-block target area that includes 200 units of new housing and the redevelopment of the Davison Avenue Corridor with neighborhood-scale retail. Ultimately, NSO entered into a purchase agreement with Focus: HOPE for the acquisition of the former Yellow Pages Building in 2008. EXTRA CREDIT NSO then cobbled together a long list of tax credits, including MSHDA low-income housing tax credits. This persistent service organization applied for almost three years before securing these coveted credits. NSO also assembled federal and state historic tax credits for a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. Add now-defunct Michigan Brownfield tax credits and City of Detroit

and Wayne County HOME Funds to the list. “HOME Funds are essentially federal dollars reserved for affordable housing development passed through states and municipalities,” explained Heaphy. NSO also secured New Market Tax Credits, which required NSO to split the building’s use between the 155 residential units and commercial offices for 200 NSO staff in the lower level. The Kresge Corporation and McGregor Fund also made significant contributions to the roughly 12 different financing sources. A 110 PERCENT COMMITMENT The next step on this long road: securing investors. “Tax credits must be purchased by investors, who obtain a tax break as a result of the purchase,” explained Heaphy. The search for investors began at the worst possible time: during the 2008 financial and real estate market collapse. “At that time, all the institutional investors typically were “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

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banks, and they didn’t have any profits with which to get the tax breaks,” said Heaphy. “Others steered away from the project because it was in the real estate arena, which had led to the crash in the first place. To add to the pain, nobody wanted to invest in Detroit.” The dark fiscal clouds cleared when Morgan Stanley in New York purchased NSO’s low-income housing and federal historic tax credits through a tax-credit syndicator called the National Trust Community Investment Corporation. “This is the largest investment of this type that Morgan Stanley has ever made in the country,” said Heaphy. “They have been a great partner.” What factors persuaded Morgan Stanley to take this leap of faith? Heaphy credits the well-built financial package and the strength of the FSP and OECC team. “We assembled the A Team of folks who do these types of projects,” said Heaphy. “Morgan Stanley was very impressed with that.” Chosen through a RFP process, FSP and OECC brought a depth of experience and a high level of commitment to the project. Approximately 60 percent of FSP’s clientele are organizations with a similar social mission, such as senior affordable housing

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and nonprofit healthcare projects. “I personally think it is an important goal,” said Pappas, “and I find the work very rewarding.” Heaphy and FSP had worked together on affordable housing projects in Pontiac for another organization. As part of the Hope Village Initiative, FSP also designed two Oakman Boulevard developments directly across the street from NSO Bell: The Village of Oakman Manor, a Presbyterian Villages of Michigan 55-unit, affordable senior housing development, and Oakman Place, a Lutheran Child & Family Service of Michigan facility offering 24 units of affordable housing, including a portion reserved for youth aging out of foster care. OECC’s quality of work and its depth of relationships in the City of Detroit steered NSO to their doorstep. In business for over 50 years, O’Brien Construction formed a partnership with Edwards Construction five years ago. “They brought their own set of relationships from years of working in their own industry, which benefitted the project immensely,” said Heaphy. “Also, both FSP and OECC were committed to putting 110 percent into the project. Morgan Stanley said, ‘The financing is sound, the team is strong and NSO has its act together.’” FSP and OECC actually worked on the

project in the planning and development stages for about four years. “They didn’t charge us a dime for three years,” said Heaphy. “We did have a contract with FSP, but the bulk of the benefit from that contract came in once we closed. FSP was putting in a lot of risk time. We all stood a chance of losing a lot, plus it cost money for FSP and OECC to bring in other companies along the way.” Bailey describes OECC’s planning and preconstruction services. “We provided cost information, brought in subcontractors and tried to identify potential problems,” said Bailey. “We had probably five major subcontractors that we carried along the way over a three-year period. They stood by our side, and helped us in the value engineering process to get the best possible system for the budget.” These five dedicated companies include S & M Heating and Cooling, Inc., Southfield; Daniels Electric, Inc., Detroit; Jermor Plumbing & Heating, Inc., Detroit; Conti Fire Protection, Sterling Heights; and MacDermott Roofing, Livonia. Construction financing was the last piece of the puzzle to fit into place. Heaphy still remembers the fateful meeting with Morgan Stanley, MSHDA, Bank of America, City of Detroit, Wayne County and every other “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

major player gathered around the table. “Bank of America had not yet committed to the project, but the bank’s representative said to me, ‘I’ve never seen anything like it – a project in which you have all these stakeholders at a table wanting a project,’” recalled Heaphy. Introductions began around the table, and when it was the turn of the Bank of America representative to speak, the representative said in a surprise announcement, “We are from Bank of America, and we are providing the construction financing for this project.”

there as to the course of action,” said Bailey. For even swifter progress, the project team assigned a number to the different levels of work, the levels being no action required, minor cleaning, repair or replacement. “The engineer would just have to say, ‘This is a three,’ and the crew would know exactly what work needed to be done,” said Bailey. OECC also repaired or replaced the glazed

terra cotta, an attractive accent material that graces the narrow tower and the building’s terra cotta sills. The engineer again worked on-site with the contractors in determining the proper level of repair, re-glazing or replacement. OECC worked under an allowance contract for the entire masonry package. An allowance contract identifies the specific cost for each work item, whereas a typical

SUPPORT SERVICES The first sign of the building’s transformation was the removal of the iconic but structurally unsound Yellow Pages sign at the top of the tower. The three-story-tall phone book and its companion weather phone - a sign that actually flashed the weather forecast using a changing color code – had been a well-known landmark after the Yellow Pages took over the building in 1959. Fortunately, the main building’s robust reinforced concrete structure was rock solid. The two high-bay wings of structural steel that once housed Michigan Bell’s vehicle fleet didn’t fare as well. OECC had to repair or replace significant sections of the garages’ vertical steel frame. “The majority of the deterioration was not in steel that was visible, such as the roof, but was located in the vertical columns within the walls,” said Pappas. “There was a significant amount of repair work to remove the brick, replace or repair the steel and then re-install the brick.” The structural steel was susceptible to moisture damage, because of the nature of the garages’ original masonry construction. “The existing structure was not designed as a cavity wall with weep holes,” said Pappas. “It was built as a solid and continuous masonry structure with structural steel encapsulated within it.” In the main building, unexpected corrosion in the steel window headers, and in the steel relief angles supporting the brick masonry, increased the masonry budget from $1 million to $3.9 million. However, the project team was able to shave $1.8 million off the cost, resulting in a $2.1 million masonry budget. As a way to streamline both budget and schedule, the structural engineer from Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers, Inc., West Bloomfield, remained on-site throughout the steel and the support steel renovation. “The contractor would open up an area, the engineer would ride the lift and investigate the condition of the steel, making a determination then and Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

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spec simply directs the contractor to repair and replace the masonry as needed. This approach led to heightened monitoring as a means of trimming costs. “We knew exactly how many feet of mortar had to be repointed and how many bricks had to be replaced,” said Bailey.

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JUST VENTING The second unexpected condition was the need for a $3 million soil vapor mitigation system. Three different approaches were needed for the building’s three different foundation types: slab on grade, crawlspace and a basement. “The different foundation types are located in scattered areas,” said Pappas. “Crawlspaces connect the two basement areas in the main building. The majority of the slab on grade is in the garage on the far side, while the other garage is split evenly between all three types of foundation systems.” OECC worked closely with NTH Consultants, Detroit - one of 17 different consultants on this complex project - to install the proper venting system for each application, as well as test monitoring locations. In the basement areas, OECC installed a half-inch-thick geo-grid of heavyduty plastic over the existing concrete floor, followed by the placement of a sealed membrane over the grid. “The grid creates a slight cavity between the existing concrete floor and the grid surface,” said Pappas. “A series of pipes or vents extends from the cavity all the way to the roof, removing any soil vapor that might rise through the basement floor.” A vent system and the use of negative pressure in the crawlspace draw out the soil vapor in this foundation type. “Fans create a negative pull on the crawlspace, so any gas is drawn up into that vent system and exhausted out the roof,” said Pappas. For the slab on grade, “we cut trenches, installed the pipe for venting into the trenches and then poured the concrete over the top,” said Bailey. Another surprise down under was the discovery during site utility excavation of five-foot-thick concrete foundations from old buildings beneath the parking lot. Removing the concrete added half a million and installing soil vapor barriers added another $300,000, said Bailey. POSITIVE REFRAMING The project team undertook a rigorous value analysis of every building system to compensate for these costs. “We put together what I would classify as five “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

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different budgets across a period of time,” said Bailey. The project team conducted an extensive series of meetings for value engineering. “Our office, our engineers, OECC and their contractors all worked together diligently in meeting after meeting,” said Pappas. “There must have been 30 to 40 meetings.” The MEP systems were extensively value engineered. “We redesigned mechanical and electrical systems in alternate ways to provide the same individual control in every unit,” said Pappas. “There were also numerous reviews of the light fixtures.” The project team also achieved significant cost savings on the restoration of the building’s approximately 665 steel windows. “We created a design in aluminum that matched the profiles and appearance of the badly corroded, original steel windows,” said Pappas. Although slightly different than the original profile, the new design retained the historical character of the windows but at a more modest cost. FSP worked closely with window manufacturers and with Kristine Kidorf, a historical preservation consultant, to meet the standards of the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and the National Park Service (NPS). This intensive review and consultation process alone consumed three or four months. OECC tracked down a window manufacturer that offered the best price as well as met the design guidelines. “We could Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

not get our initial window manufacturer to move off his pricing, so we began to look for alternatives,” said Bailey. This calculated switch in materials and manufacturers resulted in a $400,000 savings. Today, these aluminum window assemblies mirror the profile of the original steel frames, but also feature energyefficient insulated glass to meet the needs of the 21st Century. Single-hung windows cover most of the front façade; fixed windows, with awning sections, mark the rear of the building and the sides of the garages, added Pappas. Using modern construction techniques, OECC completely rebuilt the high parapet crowning the narrow tower. “The combination brick and terra cotta parapet is 12 feet in some cases,” said Bailey. “The structural engineer came up with a better design than the original. We used concrete block covered with brick veneer, whereas the original parapet was built out of four brick wythes.” OECC worked on this demanding masonry package for eight months, beginning in the summer of 2011, taking a winter hiatus and reaching completion in June 2012.

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“This roof is so durable, it could handle three or four inches of water,” said Bailey. For tax credits, the project team had to preserve the building’s historic roofline, including saving the original brick smokestack and installing a screen system to hide the large air handlers and chillers from view. For code, the project team had to construct a second point of egress due to the large expanse of the roof and a proposed rooftop garden. The egress is a new stairway extension and enclosure “that was actually one of the most difficult things on this site,” said Bailey. “We had to cut a hole in the roof and go all the way down to the fourth floor to rebuild and support the new stairway.”

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HOME SWEET HOME The need for creative problem-solving continued within the interior. A grid of stout concrete columns, 20 feet on center, marks the interior of this former warehouse and office building. The flared cap columns threatened to limit the number of residential units. “When we utilized the typical column spacing, we were only able to achieve about 100 units,” said Pappas. “We

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revisited the concept design, and came up with a way to split the bays up such that out of every two bays we actually got three units.” The solution: the walls within and between every apartment are set on an angle to fit 155, one-bedroom units into the six floors of space. “We also shifted the bedrooms back away from the windows, making it more like a loft apartment,” said Pappas. “We then put in openings so that natural light would filter into the bedroom areas.” OECC first renovated the sixth floor, followed by the first, and then the fifth, fourth, third and second floors. As each floor neared completion, NSO staff would visit underpasses, shelters and other homeless haunts to contact potential residents who had been added to the waiting lists a month before. Prior to occupancy, volunteers would donate cash or actually shop for the supplies and furnishings of a typical apartment. Amazed residents would then move in to a fully outfitted dwelling while OECC worked on subsequent residential floors. Walking into the interior erases all stereotypes of assisted housing. Natural light pours into the main entry from clerestory windows. Look up toward the light and see the building’s original brick and steel. Moving into the main lobby, the interior walls and flared cap columns become a bright canvas of color. The original board-formed concrete is visible through openings in a series of floating soffits. Each opening offers a glimpse of the building’s original construction and hosts a contemporary pendant light fixtures. The main lobby sets the tone for the bright colors and broad curves of the residential corridors. “This building could be in downtown Royal Oak, Boston or New York and be considered market rate or even highend housing,” said Pappas. The residential units line the perimeter to bring natural light into every dwelling. Most of the floors have centrally located community spaces and services, including a fitness room, library, a non-denominational chapel, computer room, art room and recreation room. Residents pay up to 30 percent of their income toward rent with the balance being paid via a federal Section 8 subsidy provided through the State of Michigan. FROM GARAGE TO CONFERENCE CENTER A then-and-now tour of other interior spaces showcases the building’s dramatic metamorphosis. One of the original truck Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

garages now houses the resident entry with security; a gymnasium is on the other side of a newly constructed concrete block wall. The gymnasium’s combination of clerestory windows and the building’s original brick creates a great place to get healthy. The second and adjacent truck garage will be converted into a multi-purpose, easily partitioned space for conferences, NSO staff training or community use. The lower commercial level of the Bell Building was completed in late summer 2013. NSO moved its administrative staff, its Older Adults Service Program for mentally ill people over 55 and its state gambling, suicide and emergency services hot-line into the Bell Building in August. The building’s four entry points will include separate entrances for staff and for users of the future multi-purpose space. The project team restored the historic Art Deco main entrance on Oakman Boulevard. Because the steps hampered barrier-free access, the main entry was moved to the east side of the building, both for ADA compliance and to create a single, secure point of access for residents. NSO has future projects brewing,

including creating a federally qualified healthcare clinic for both the Bell Building residents and lower income people in the surrounding community. NSO also hopes to build other permanent supportive housing projects, as well as a new home for its Tumaini Center. Tumaini – meaning “hope” in Swahili – is a homeless shelter for those who cannot be placed elsewhere, due to an active psychotic, drug or alcohol-induced episode. “We provide bottom-rung homeless services, meaning we take the folks no one else will take,” said Heaphy. “It’s a sad but important place, because if we didn’t exist, many of our folks may end up dead on the street, especially when the weather is bad.” NSO also runs Life Choices for families and adults with developmental disabilities, as well as community-based initiatives for utility and food assistance at its Harper Gratiot Multi-Service Center. Thanks to this compassionate, effective organization and a committed project team, the Housing First model is taking hold in Detroit, and now 155 formerly homeless individuals have a place to call home. More than renovating a building, the NSO Bell development is rebuilding lives.

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This view from the landing, between the first and second levels of the museum, provides a glimpse of the spectacular staircase with its sharp and edgy design, and the unbelievable craftsmanship that make this entire structure so impressive.

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A Wo r k o f A r t Design and Craftsmanship on Exhibit at “The Broad” BY DOUG PAWLOSKI, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

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ow appropriate it was to stage a competition that would determine the design of the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, “The Broad,” a world-class art museum whose focus would be to help showcase up-and-coming artists and give Michigan State University an opportunity to be a player on the global art stage. Michigan State University (MSU) enlisted the services of Lord Cultural Resources, Toronto, Canada to develop a structure for the contest that featured five world-renown design firms, each producing a plan for their vision of a contemporary art museum to be built on campus. Each firm was compensated for their efforts and a panel of experts carefully evaluated each plan. When the dust settled, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) out of London, England was awarded the prize and a contract. These were exciting times, everyone looking forward to the groundbreaking. But within a few months, the project was stalled and in real danger of never getting off the ground.

More recently, discussions began between the University and Eli Broad that centered on adding an addition to the Kresge Art Center. It was at that point, according to Paul Stachowiak, president, AIA, Principal in Charge, Integrated Design Solutions (IDS), Troy, that Eli said ‘If we’re going to do this, let’s do it right.’” President Simon had similar thoughts. She stated, “Great art deserves great architecture and so does a great university.” On June 1, 2007 MSU announced the Broad’s multi-million dollar gift and their plans to host an architectural competition to design a new art museum.

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS Before exploring why the project stumbled, a quick look at the history of MSU’s art collection and what preceded this push for a new museum would be helpful. The Art Department was established in 1931 and steadily grew over the following decade. Three Mexican retablos (devotional paintings on tin) were donated to the department in 1945 giving birth to MSU’s art collection. From 1944 to 1950 the enrollment in the Art Department soared 350 percent, scattering classes between nine, mostly temporary, buildings. In 1959 the Kresge Art Center was built in the center of North Campus with $1.5 million dollars from the Kresge Foundation, to house the new Art Department and provide gallery space for MSU’s 200-piece art collection. The collection of 19th and 20th Century American art continued to grow and began including more modern and abstract works, prompting the 1967 addition of the North Gallery. The collection grew to 4,000 objects by 1984 and had a large enough staff that the Board of Trustees recognized it as the “Kresge Art Museum.” But it was not built to be a museum and, considering the collection’s growth, it was undersized and not equipped to support the longterm visions held by MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon and supporters of the arts, Eli and Edythe Broad. Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

A BOLD MOVE FORWARD The selection of ZHA’s entry in early 2008 was not that surprising when you consider their reputation for radical and cutting-edge designs and MSU’s ambition to have the museum make a statement and a difference in the community. Even the site along Grand River Avenue, the main drag and northern campus border, is testament to a desire for the museum to be a part of the East Lansing community. Project Engineer Justin Barnes, LEED, Barton Malow, construction managers on the project, said, “Early competition requirements were conceptual and programmatic in nature and allowed the architectural firms to envision what they felt fit and achieved the goal of connecting the community to an architectural and cultural landmark in East Lansing.” Project Representative Michael Osminski, Engineering and Architectural Services, MSU talked about MSU’s objectives as discussed with the contestants of the competition. “Not necessarily making the building itself blend within our traditional brick and gothic look, but the freedom to come up with your own idea of how to make this such a different and unique building in itself…that it stands out to the everyday person passing by…makes them want to come back and see what’s actually there,” he said. The building stayed very true to the concept that won the competition, and is a pretty good reflection of the schemes and models produced by ZHA in the beginning,” said Stachowiak. Of course, from concept to finished product, realities of budgeting and real world application come into play and impact everything, including what is ultimately built. The conceptual plan was presented for competition as a $40 million project, however, the construction manager and architects’ original schematic designs CAM MAGAZINE

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Light enters the spaces between galleries from the glass curtain wall on the building. The open areas with soaring ceilings are common throughout the museum, and art may be large pieces displayed along a wall, or a wall covering that is displayed floor to ceiling.

Looking down on a gallery from the second level, one can easily get a sense of the room dimensions and spatial relationship between the exterior and interior shape of the museum.

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and cost analysis estimated the project to be $120 million, an unbelievable $80 million over budget. This was a large enough discrepancy that it nearly derailed the project before it even began. “They thought, ‘If you love my building, just go ask Eli Broad for another $80 million and we’re all set.’ World renowned architects like that are used to budgets not being an issue,” said Stachowiak. Although the Broad’s contribution did increase over time to the current $45 million gift, there was no way to bridge such an enormous gap. ZHA’s local partner, KZF Design in Cincinnati, was not yet under contract with MSU and decided to bow out of the project leaving ZHA without a required U.S. partner, and the museum was again in real danger of being scrapped. ZHA was told to find another partner, get the project on budget, and develop a timeline that would show MSU how they planned to get there. IT’S GOING, GOING, SAVED…! Having interviewed IDS earlier in the process and having seen the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art, a recently completed IDS project, ZHA asked IDS to join them in an effort to get the museum back on track. “We had about two months to adjust and bring it back on budget and agree to a contract, or the project was going to just die,” Stachowiak stated. It was spring 2008, Barton Malow had just joined the team and was focused primarily on preconstruction, constructability and cost analysis. This led to discussions concerning thermal expansion and contraction between materials and microclimates within the building, all things associated with the building’s structural pleated metal panel exoskeleton. “We spent significant time evaluating those types of things and trying to look at opportunities for improvement,” said Barnes. The major cost reductions were achieved by making fundamental changes to the structure that shaved cost without compromising appearance. The ability to work together as a team that these companies exhibited in moving this project forward cannot be overstated. Originally, the metal was an entire envelop of structure, the metal and the pleats went in right over the roof and this proved to be extremely expensive. “It was more of a modular construction where the panels had the utilities integrated into it…fastened together to create an exoskeleton structure,” said Barnes. “The glazed openings were integrated into pleated panels, as well.” During preconstruction, they discovered that not Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

only was this costly, but there were few manufacturers capable of producing it. Instead, the building was designed as a traditional box with a rain screen skin over it, and the metal became the skin. As one might imagine, with complicated designs and cost-intensive structural challenges, the construction was no easy task, either.

NO ONE SAID IT WOULD BE EASY Groundbreaking took place in March 2010 with the securing of the site, earth retention, and excavation. The foundation is two feet thick and required tons of concrete to provide ballast and stability. By July, the basement and structural walls became visible and work on the architectural walls,

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Interesting textures and angular designs are seen here, looking toward the main lobby from a gallery on the first floor.

structural slabs, and interior concrete walls followed. “It is primarily a concrete structure with a steel infill to fill out the spaces,” said Barnes. “I think that the structure is really a hybrid.” But what made it challenging is that the walls meet at varying angles throughout the building and none of them are rectangular. The architectural concrete that would become the interior walls was also something that ZHA specified to exacting standards turning a routine process into anything but routine. This was one of the stages that had representatives from ZHA returning to the site often. “We got to those

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concrete walls coming out of the ground, that is one of her (Zaha Hadid) trademark materials to work with and it needed their approval,” said Stachowiak. Granger, the concrete contractor, produced numerous samples using self-consolidating concrete that was almost liquid. Small pieces were checked for color and finish while 15-foot high panels were poured on slopes and used to test the process and to see if they could pour the walls without trapping air or developing other issues. Special watertight forms were fabricated from wood and structural aluminum that were oiled so they would separate more “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

easily from the concrete and leave the desired finish. They literally experimented with additives and procedures to achieve the desired look. “Some of the things that we were introducing to the concrete to give it a better finish had some structural impacts, and some of the things we needed to do to make sure we had a strong wall were contradictory to what we wanted architecturally,” said Barnes. They ended up producing a quality control manual that outlined the process that needed to be followed. Once perfected, the mix was pumped to the bottom of the new forms to prevent the introduction of air bubbles during placement that would leave undesirable pockmarks on the finished surface. BIM (Building Information Modeling), a 3D program that allows users to virtually design and construct a project ahead of time, was used extensively during construction to help coordinate the installation and placement of mechanical systems, ceilings, concrete and steel. A true partnering effort was established early on between the trades to resolve issues before they became problems, especially in an atypical structure with complex, obscure angles and dimensions that are often just a point in space. It was not unusual to see team members walking around with the latest technology and modeling software on the site. “We were trying to lay out the restroom stalls and I had a plumber with his mechanical model, a carpenter with his architectural model, and ironworker with his steel model, and trying to debate who was supposed to be where,” said Barnes. “We had a two-inch bust and when it’s time to decide where we think our bust is and we try to lay it out on the floor, nobody in the room had a tape measure.” Barnes joked, “All it took was a tape measure to figure that one out.” THE TROUBLE WITH GLASS The glass panels that make up a large part of the exterior envelop would be another source of stress and delay. They needed to be coated for reflective qualities, energy efficiency and UV protection, but some of these panels were so large they had to be cut and coated in Germany. No American company could handle panels that large, some of them being 15 feet long and weighing well over one thousand pounds. They were installed with spider cranes, one large and one smaller, both capable of rotating nearly 360 degrees. Each crane was specially outfitted with a suction cup attachment that was programmed to the precise angles necessary to install each panel. Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

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Metal mullions and hidden fasteners were set to receive the panels while workers helped guide the crane operators. “You’ve got one-eighth inch there and one-quarter inch there and you’re trying to bring these multi-thousand pound pieces of glass together and not bang them into each other, chip a corner or anything like that… and anchor them in place,” said Stachowiak. They could install eight to 12 panels per day working with the smaller vertical panels but for the larger, heavier pieces installed at reverse angles, it took two or more hours to put each of them in place. In addition to being a slow, tedious process, it was discovered that some of the panels were damaged during shipping, or during installation because they simply did not fit. This meant new pieces needed to be ordered from Germany, a process that took 10 to 12 weeks to turn around. Due to settling or shifting, the size of some of the openings were not reflected in the computer models, so a decision was made to take digital measurements of plywood that was precisely cut to fit the existing openings and these measurements were sent to

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Germany. The plywood would then be used to temporarily cover the openings and, at one point, nearly one-third of the building was enclosed in plywood causing some in the community to wonder if they were seeing a finished look. The roof structure that was originally a metal and glass exoskeleton, was redesigned as a standard MSU inverted membrane roof very familiar to the University. The large chillers, normally located within a new structure, were placed alongside existing chillers located on a roof across the street. Piping was run under East Circle Drive, a road already under construction and accessible. Not only was this cost effective from a mechanical sense, it freed up premium space in the new structure. Many of these decisions helped reduce costs and brought the project back from the brink. IF YOU GOT IT, DISPLAY IT One of Eli Broad’s concerns was programmatic square footage. He wanted to maximize the area within the building where art could be displayed. “He was seeing

art storage as a glass wall that the public could see into,” said Stachowiak. The conference room in the lower level actually doubled as an exhibit area with a glass wall along the corridor. When the doors are open, visitors are welcome to enter and view the iconic photographs of Detroit along the walls; when the doors are closed, they simply look in as they walk slowly past the room. Nearly everything about The Broad, from the exterior design, the spaces inside and the staircase leading up to the galleries, is a work of art - or a place to display it. In order to display loaned collections in your museum, you have to be able to show that your building can maintain certain conditions relative to temperature and humidity. Stachowiak said, “If you want to borrow the Mona Lisa, you’ve got to have proof, long term trending, of what kind of environmental conditions you are exposing it to.” This makes establishing a vapor barrier critical for any museum. At The Broad, every inch of barrier was inspected and when needed, changes were made before the metal cladding was in place. “We actually have a dual monitoring system in place, one

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that you would see in your normal thermostats …and a second system that actively samples the air, takes it back to its own testing module in the mechanical room and data logs that information remotely,” said Barnes. The Broad is set to 72 degrees plus or minus two degrees, with a relative humidity of 40 percent in the winter and 50 percent in the summer, within a margin of plus or minus five percent. “I think the response has been tremendous,” said Osminski. “A lot of people were excited about the new cultural opportunity in the area.” Although there were comments early on from the community such as “It doesn’t fit in,” and “Not in my backyard,” they seem to have mostly gone silent. “There are certainly going to be people that aren’t fans of this style of architecture,” said Stachowiak. “But as you come into this building…you look at the crispness of the metal, the purity of the concrete, the millwork, the carving of the stone, and complexity of some of these things that had to be built…I think people leave marveling at the craftsmanship.” Perhaps this is what really silenced the opposition. Despite all the trouble this project experienced in the beginning, all the delays and problems that came about during the construction phase, the finished product is truly spectacular and definitely ready for prime-time. President Simon, referring to the bold concept of the new structure said, “The design reflects Michigan State’s ethos of connecting both campus and community, to world-class innovation, global vision, and transformative opportunity.” According to Osminski, “It really exposed people to types of art that they hadn’t seen before…it’s not just paintings and sculptures, but new media displays and 3D videos, and I think the naysayers have converted over.” The crowds keep coming and people seem to be enjoying the building and the exhibits within. “It really is turning into everything they thought it would be,” said Osminski as he reflected on a recent drive past The Broad when he saw students and visitors sitting outside on the retaining walls, or at the seating area, working on computers, talking, sometimes sketching or painting on easels. Whether or not ultramodern architecture is something you fancy, one thing is for certain. Art is meant to elicit a response and stimulate the senses, and maybe even be controversial at times. And if all of that is true, then The Broad is definitely a work of art.

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• Load-bearing, masonry cavity wall building envelope to provide thermal mass energy savings with a calculated R-value of 23.76... Check! • Less than 30 percent glazing-to-opaque walls, below the 30 percent recognized by some experts as “socially responsible.” Still, design decisions resulted in light-filled interior spaces... Check! • Made-in-Michigan Duro-Last® reflective roof membrane to reduce energy consumption and a vegetative “green” roof to control stormwater runoff... Check! • High-efficiency heating and air conditioning systems with occupancy sensors for lighting, heating and cooling... Check! • Cash rebates from DTE Energy for energy efficient HVAC, controls, electric motors and lighting... Check! ometimes, it’s hard to know where to start when describing a construction project brimming with intelligent design and building decisions that combined to create a bright, architecturally interesting and functional building that is also highly energy efficient. Many of those decisions yielded up-front cost savings as well as lifetime cost- and energy-savings. Energy-saving bells and whistles share kudos with other design choices, including varied structural solutions that serve specific purposes, on the project to construct and equip the Voyageur Consortium middle and high school in southwest Detroit. And, the school is a light-filled, fun place where students may find it easier and more compelling to learn. The 110,900-square-foot, two-story school is named the Voyageur Consortium College Preparatory High School, although it serves both high school students in grades 9 through 12 and middle school students in grade 5 through 8. Construction Manager (CM) on the $11 million project was The Monahan Company, Eastpointe, which last year celebrated its 90th year in business. Stevens Architects LLC, Port Huron, was tasked with designing a school with the high efficiency green technology criteria desired by the owner, Voyageur Academy, Detroit. “Everything was designed toward a LEED

standard,” said LeRoy Stevens AIA, NCARB, architect and principal. Construction ended in September 2012 following a construction start in mid-October 2011. Built on a seven-acre site, the new Voyageur school is a free public school chartered by Ferris State University and managed by the Leona Group LLC, an educational management company headquartered in Phoenix, AZ with offices in several other locations, including Okemos. Located at 4366 Military Street, Detroit, the school is the first one to be owned by the Voyageur Consortium, which previously held classes in rented space. The new building is across the street from Voyageur’s elementary school, which serves students in kindergarten through grade 4 to complete the K-12 campus. Landscaping, parking and playground space are shared by both buildings, with parent drop-off and pickup separated by age. In the new building, high school students occupy the second floor, while middle school students are served on the first floor. There are offices for administration and teachers on both floors, a media resource room, and a 770-square-foot student office for use by such school groups as the National Honor Society and the Student Council. The school contains 42 classrooms, an art room, dance room (the

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A 3,578-square-foot green roof, in the top photo covered in snow, helps reduce stormwater runoff while providing a learning experience for students.

school has a large dance program), a music room, and a kitchen and cafeteria, complete with a glass curtain wall opening onto an outside patio. Each classroom’s décor represents different college or university to encourage students to obtain a higher education. The facility also features two gymnasiums: one for the high school offering bleacher seating for 600, and a smaller gym for the elementary students with seating for 118. Each gymnasium has a high school-sized wood floor court and is equipped with locker rooms. LOVE THAT PATIO “The students love the patio off the cafeteria,” said Rod Atkins, superintendent of the Voyageur Consortium School District. He said the school has 950 students representing 54 zip codes in Michigan. They also “love” the big gym, he said. “The

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amenities are fantastic,” Atkins enthused, noting that the hallways are probably double the width of the halls in the rented space they previously occupied. The hallways have a floor-to-ceiling height of 11 feet 8 inches, and rooms have ceiling heights at least 9 feet high. School leaders want to make the school gated, closing off Military Street at both ends, Atkins said. Plans for that are pending approval by the city. The new school was constructed of loadbearing concrete and brick masonry, and features full fire sprinkler and alarm systems, occupancy sensors for lighting and heating, and high-efficiency heating and air conditioning systems. Each classroom has its own HVAC controls connected to a Webbased computer system with outside fresh air controlled by the sensors. The project was remarkably trouble-free, said Kevin Monahan, project director for The

Monahan Company. Monahan credited the project’s success to the owner and designer bringing the CM into the process early on. “The owner and architect gave us a ton of information as to how we were going to manage the project within their limited budget,” he said, allowing that he likes being involved early on in a project. “The preconstruction was the success of the project, in my opinion.” Credit is due particularly, Monahan offered, to Joseph Rush, former president of the Voyageur Academy Board of Directors, who acted as the “Owner” and was critical to the project’s success. “He made the daily decisions, approved changes and coordinated Owner vendors such as furniture, technology, etc.,” Monahan noted. “At the beginning of the project he was School Board President but that position rotated, and Joe stayed through the completion of construction rather than try to transition to another point-person for the Owner.” Joseph Monahan was the CM’s project superintendent. The few issues that the team did face occurred and were handled within the first two months of the construction schedule, Monahan noted. Among those early issues was finding about two-and-a-half feet of unsuitable soil on the site; it was stockpiled and used on-site for berms. Additionally, early on the construction team discovered the existence of fiber optic cable that had to be re-routed. MASONRY – DURABLE AND COST-WISE After utilities were installed and spread footings and foundation were poured, construction began on the building envelope by Masonry Developers Inc., Rochester. The multi-wythe exterior envelope is an 18-inch-wide load-bearing masonry cavity wall consisting of 8-inch x 8inch x 16-inch backup concrete masonry units (R-1.14), followed by three inches of spray-applied closed cell polyurethane insulation (R-20.4), a 3-inch airspace (R-0.97), and finished with 4-inch x 12-inch utility brick (R-0.4). Adding minimal R-value for inside and outside air film completed a total calculated R-value of R-23.76, more than 200 percent the code requirement, according to architect Stevens, who sought to provide for “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

energy efficiencies at least 20 years into the future. The achieved R-value of the building envelope is above the 2007 ASHRAE 90.1, Stevens said, and it also exceeds the requirements of Michigan’s code. The bulk of the R-value was achieved with the three inches of foam insulation, which is also a class II moisture vapor retarder, said Masonry Developers’ owner and president, Kevin Ryan. The project received guidance from Dan Zechmeister PE, executive director of the Southfield-based Masonry Institute of Michigan (MIM), Stevens said. “Dan Zechmeister and MIM helped a lot with the masonry construction,” Stevens emphasized. “They helped us in the design phase too, particularly in getting the maximum insulation value.” He said MIM sent a field representative to the jobsite at no cost to help ensure that the details of construction were carried out to maximize energy efficiencies. “They did a great job with those details and the efficiency of those details,” Stevens enthused. “Originally, the wall was designed for four inches of rigid insulation,” Matt Clor, project manager for Stevens Architects, said. “Kevin Ryan suggested, and MIM corroborated, that we could get the same R-value using a 3inch spray-on closed cell polyurethane foam insulation, and that it could be done because we were having such a mild winter.” The building would have had a 2-inch air space with the rigid insulation, Clor said, and there wasn’t time to change the design when the decision to go with the spray-on insulation was made. There was no down time on the project for winter weather. “Masonry worked well for this project in terms of cost, sound absorption, and durability,” Stevens declared. A mixture of tan and salmon-colored utility brick and natural colored burnished CMUs create a clean, modern and inviting look on the exterior. The utility brick “was a value engineering choice and cut approximately $66,000 from the cost for labor and material,” mason contractor Ryan said, “and it reduced construction time, as well.” Numerous interior masonry separation walls add to the fire safety of the structure. Burnished CMUs add architectural interest to enhance the appearance at the school’s main entrance on the exterior and interior, and at various other positions. The addition of Alucobond® aluminum panels, from 3A Composites, Statesville, NC, at the front entrance and into the first floor vestibule contributes to the modern clean line. The panels consist of two sheets of 0.02-inch aluminum sheets thermobonded to a Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

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Students have access to the outdoor patio off the cafeteria. A glass curtain wall on the east elevation and clerestory windows permit lots of natural light to fill the space.

polyethylene core. The use of masonry and CMUs adds a feeling of permanence and solidity in an older area of Detroit scarred by impermanence and urban decay. The new school’s owners, designers and builders can’t hide their delight in creating this facility that gives inner-city kids and their parents a school they can be proud of. “I didn’t change anybody’s life (on other school projects),” Ryan said, noting that he had worked on schools in Birmingham, Grosse Pointe and other suburban communities. “God bless the people who put this deal together and cared enough about these kids to build them a school they can be proud of and that will affect them, profoundly affect them, in many positive ways.” Stevens concurred, noting that many of the school’s students come from schools that are 50, 60 even 70 years old. “We built an out-of-the-box great school and in a location in need of a facility they could be proud of and in which they could learn,” Stevens said, emphasizing the school’s high-efficiency HVAC systems that provide good-for-learning fresh air and air conditioning. “And we built it at a reasonable cost.” AND THAT’S NOT ALL The judicious use of high-performance Advanced Architectural Glass windows from Guardian Industries, Auburn Hills, used on all exterior windows, allows interior spaces to be light-filled despite a glazing-to-opaque-wall percentage of only 19.3 percent. Exterior corner glass curtain walls, clerestory windows and windows between interior spaces that lead to exterior walls ensure a bright interior, enhanced by a light-colored paint palette. A wall of glass at

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the east end of the cafeteria allows for natural light in that large space, and opens onto the popular patio. Glazing for one second floor classroom overlooks the green roof, providing not only light but a learning experience, as well. The 3,578square-foot vegetative roof, constructed of materials provided by Spring Lake-based LiveRoof® consists of 6-inch and 4-inch-deep container trays, each 1-foot by 2-feet, planted with drought-resistant plants native to Michigan. The green roof was chosen to help reduce the volume of stormwater runoff, and to serve as a learning science laboratory for students. To serve as roof deck underneath the green roof and 2nd floor corridor, and as floor deck for the entire second floor, the architects and structural engineer Keith Flemingloss PE, Professional Engineering & Construction Services LLC, Port Huron, selected 8inch precast concrete hollow core planks from Kerkstra Precast, Grandville. The roof structure was covered with an 8-inch layer (two 4-inch layers, each with an R-value of 25) of rigid closed-cell polyisocyanurate insulation from Johns Manville, which met an R-value of 50 that the architect required. “We chose the precast concrete hollow-core planks for several reasons,” Clor said. “They’re a fire separation between the first and second floors, they’re relatively thin and met the span requirements, and they offer noise abatement.” The precast planks under the vegetative roof were topped with 60-mil. slip-sheet membrane manufactured by Saginaw-based Duro-Last® Inc. to provide a weed barrier, Clor said. Over that, a layer of Duro-Last’s 40-mil. single-ply white reflective proprietary thermo“Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

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One of 42 classrooms in the new Voyageur middle and high school constructed last year in southwest Detroit.

plastic roof membrane finished the roof. The product was selected in part for it reflective ability that reduces the heat island effect, areas where heat tends to build up. The 40mil. Duro-Last membrane was also used for the remainder of the school’s roof. Zimmer Roofing & Construction, Port Huron, did the installation. MAKE IT BEAUTIFUL & QUIET Flemingloss selected acoustical cellular roof decking from Vulcraft (division of Nucor Corp., Charlotte, NC), along with 8 inches of rigid insulation, for the two gymnasiums and the cafeteria. “It’s one of the design choices I’m really proud of,” Flemingloss said. “It looks great and provides sound absorption, and it also effectively hid the roof fasteners.” The acoustical deck is composed of two metal pans with factory installed rigid insulation in between. The bottom pan is flat and perforated, while the top pan has 1-1/2-inch-high raised ribs, the hats, every six inches on center that contain the insulation, which is installed at the factory. Approximately 24,000 square feet of the cellular deck was used on the Voyageur school, according to Al Stark, Vulcraft’s local representative in New Hudson. The Voyageur project “effectively blended several different structural systems to come

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up with the best solutions for the school,” Flemingloss noted. Besides the acoustical deck and the precast concrete hollow core planks, there are also steel beams and joists used for the roof structure over classrooms where the project team knew they were going to need dropped ceilings to contain mechanicals. Care was taken as well to provide sound absorption and R-value in the gymnasiums’ walls, Flemingloss said, using Kingspan® insulated metal wall panels, Deland, FL. The panels consist of 4-inch-thick interlocking tongue and groove galvanized metal sheets with foam insulation in between, offering an R-value of 32. The panels are lightweight, weighing only three pounds per-squarefoot, and they are manufactured from recaptured metals. Cementitious wood fiber acoustical panels from Tectum Inc., Newark, OH, were applied over the Kingspan to provide sound absorption. The Tectum panels also added to the school’s sustainable construction goals because they are manufactured from renewable wood including Aspen trees that don’t require replanting, and other sustainable raw materials. Both the Kingspan and Tectum wall panels may contribute to LEED certification. Other construction details that add to the

energy-conserving properties of the building include low-flow plumbing fixtures to reduce water use, and lighting systems that meet or exceed required levels while reducing energy consumption. The building’s high-efficiency heating and air conditioning systems included the installation of occupancy sensors that reset airflows and temperatures when the classrooms are not occupied and turn off lights. Efficient, small heating and air conditioning units were installed in each classroom that may be controlled somewhat by teachers. Those controls, however, are connected to a Web-based computer system with outside fresh air controlled by the sensors for the proper freshness. The school received cash rebates from DTE Energy’s “Energy Efficiency Program for Business” incentive program due to its energy efficient HVAC, control, electric motors and lighting. Floors in the new school are polished concrete, with some of them containing color. Most interior walls are constructed with painted 8-inch x 8 inch x 16-inch CMUs. Navy blue lockers, topped with granite for durability and a touch of luxury, line the hallways. Students were able to start school on time and moved into the new facility on Sept. 17, 2012. As the man said, it’s a great school … at a great cost! “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

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Building a Healthy Appetite AUCH COMPANY BUILDS ORGANIC HOSPITAL GREENHOUSE AND EDUCATION CENTER By Mary E. Kremposky, Associate Editor

other Nature’s own House of Flavors is now open for a tour. We’re not talking rocky road or mint chocolate chip. Think fresh tomatoes and fragrant basil. Just beyond the rows of dill, chives and radishes growing in Henry Ford West Bloomfield (HFWB) Hospital’s new organic greenhouse is nature’s own garden: a broad pond fringed with wetland grasses and alive with bird song. This is the serene setting for HFWB’s recently opened Greenhouse and Education Center, courtesy of Henry Ford Health System, Hobbs + Black

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Photos by Ray Manning, Henry Ford Health System

Architects, Ann Arbor, and the George W. Auch Company, Pontiac. HFWB is not only the first Michigan hospital to host an organic greenhouse, but also the only hospital in the country to have a hydroponic greenhouse - a method of growing plants in nutrient-laden water rather than soil. This garden under glass is connected to a companion Education Center, a building whose fieldstone piers and wood trusses perfectly complement this peaceful oasis in the middle of a bustling metropolitan area.

Paired with HFWB’s Demonstration Kitchen, this new facility not only teaches proper nutrition and healthy food preparation, it also invites school children and other visitors to taste, smell, and eat a cornucopia of natural foods, ranging from tomatoes directly plucked from the vine to fresh herbs like oregano, thyme and parsley – all alternatives to the daily sugar high. Planting the seeds of healthy habits and growing foods without pesticides are now part of HFWB’s wellness program, thanks to this small patch of Eden crafted by a “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

September 2012, this national prototype has attracted visiting healthcare professionals from across the country and around the world. Visitors from the Netherlands, Japan, China and Saudi Arabia have toured this cutting-edge facility, said Michelle Lutz, the hospital’s resident farmer and an organic farmer for more than 18 years. The Greenhouse produces approximately 15,000 heads of lettuce per year for the hospital’s Demonstration Kitchen, patient rooms and the in-house Henry’s Café, according to HFWB’s website. “The facility, however, is primarily used as an educational vehicle for school children and seniors,” said Mazzara. “I think it is the first such educational tool in the country.” Over 2,000 middle-school children from the area have already taken part in the facility’s nutritional and educational programs. For children who think green beans grow in cans, entering a greenhouse is a completely new take on the foods on their dinner plate. Given the rising rates of childhood obesity, tasting fresh vegetables may be a life-changing revelation made possible by the expertise of HFWB, Hobbs + Black, architect of record, and the Auch Company as construction manager. “Food is medicine; food is health,” declared HFWB President and CEO Gerard van Grinsven at the grand opening. “We are thrilled that we have this incredible facility as a wonderful addition to the vision of taking health and healing beyond the boundaries of imagination.”

talented and dedicated project team. The project team deftly placed these two structures on a tight site hemmed in by the hospital’s loop road and its pond and protected wetlands. The 1,500-square-foot Education Center is heated and cooled with a geothermal system, adding to the challenge of fitting the facility on such a small sliver of land, but creating a sustainable development in harmony with HFWB’s mission. Modest in size but complex in detail, the Education Center’s diverse materials and varied angles include the bowed arc of a decorative entry trellis, tapered stone piers, exposed wood trusses and flared overhangs – all increasing the complexity of building this 3,000-square-foot greenhouse and “lodge” by the lake. With its own tapered stone piers, even the Greenhouse is not a Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

conventional glass box. “The project had its complications in terms of placing the building on the site, but we hit our schedules and we hit our budget,” said Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) Director of Facility Design & Construction William E. Mazzara, AIA. “It was a very tight budget, but the budget, the aesthetics and the high level of detail were all successfully maintained.” Today, visitors can follow the loop road to the back of the main hospital, walk through the doors of the Education Center and take in a grand view of the pond through the almost floor-to-ceiling windows. This is nature’s own version of hydroponics: a big platter of blue water loaded with a healthy crop of water lilies, sedges and arrowhead, a plant with edible tubers similar to potatoes. Since its grand opening in mid-

PLANTING THE SEEDS The seeds of this unique facility were planted during HFWB’s initial planning stages. “We began to talk about it from the very beginning of the main hospital’s development,” said Mazzara. “The first designs probably started in 2008 at the time the hospital was first being built.” Mazzara and HFHS Manager of Interiors Bobbi Marvin shaped the design concept. Not wanting to detract from the peaceful views of pond and forest visible from the patient rooms, “we wanted to make the Education Center as transparent as possible, so that the eye could continue across the beautiful campus,” said Mazzara. For this reason, glass is the material of choice for most of the walls. The Center’s design embraces Michigan’s Great Outdoors. “We wanted to reflect the natural theme of Michigan, so the Education Center has wood timbers, wood overhangs, and an openness to the pond via the glass,” said Mazzara. Rustic in tone, the fieldstone piers also echo the stone piers of the main CAM MAGAZINE

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hospital. To turn its vision into reality, HFWB brought on board the same team and some of the same individuals who crafted the hospital’s amazing Main Street – a veritable boulevard of wellness that includes Henry’s Café, a restaurant now serving the herbs and vegetables grown in the new greenhouse. Over the years, Hobbs + Black, the Auch Company and HFWB’s facilities department

have cultivated a spirit of team work capable of delving into and successfully resolving projects marked by a host of intricate details. PRUNING THE BUDGET Dollars are the nutrients needed to turn the grandest of ideas into an actual building. The Greenhouse and Education Center is a philanthropic gift from an anonymous

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donor. Making the most of every donated cent was the job of the Auch Company, working closely with the entire project team. “Taking the client’s vision and using a team approach, we value engineer every component, CSI division by CSI division, working from the foundations all the way through to the mechanical and electrical systems,” said Auch Vice President/Project Director David E. Williams, LEED®AP. Having the Auch Company on board as construction manager from the very beginning of the project eased any budgetary concerns. “Working together from the earliest stages is how you bring a project in on budget,” said Mazzara. The design and construction version of “pruning” brought the $1.1 million budget into alignment. On the Education Center, the project team switched from a standing seam metal roof to asphalt shingles. Few would notice the switch in roofing materials, because large, exposed wood trusses dominate the building exterior, adding a chalet-like charm to the Education Center. Converting the west side wall from glass to drywall aided the budget without detracting from the power of the space, because the visitor’s attention is immediately drawn to the grand vista of the pond. Courtesy of the glass south wall, the pond visually pours into the interior, blurring the line between building and nature. The side wall can now be put to use for visual displays during conferences and educational events. “We would have had to install a screen for that purpose anyway,” said Mazzara, “so eliminating the glass probably saved even more dollars.” “Pruning” the Greenhouse involved eliminating the fieldstone detail on the foundation knee wall. While the massive piers are formed of fieldstone, the knee wall is formed of concrete subdivided into boulder-like shapes. “A form liner creates the stone look without incurring the cost of purchasing and laying stone,” said Williams. This alteration does not impact the Greenhouse’s appeal, because the eye is drawn to the massive piers formed of actual fieldstone rather than stone veneer. Secondly, the knee wall will soon be covered by a lush growth of native plants. The building actually rests in a conservation easement, meaning the “lawn” must be planted with a wild seed mix of native plants. “The lawn can only be mowed a few times a year,” added Auch Project Manager Jim Chernosky.

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HFWB is the only hospital in the country to have a hydroponic greenhouse - a method of growing plants in nutrient-laden water rather than soil. This extremely efficient method utilizes less water, allows more crop diversity and offers an accelerated growth rate - lettuce can be grown from seed to leaf within 30 days.

GREENHOUSE VARIETIES Like seeds and vegetables, greenhouses come in all varieties. As one of the first tasks, the project team carefully selected a greenhouse with “the right components at the right cost,” said Mazzara. Hobbs + Black and the Auch Company did their homework to find the ideal shelter for growing the bushels of lettuce, herbs and all the other leafy greens needed to help stem the tide of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. This unconventional greenhouse also shared a concrete block wall with the Education Center and included four massive stone piers, plus a variety of decorative elements uncommon to your more basic greenhouse. “Designing and getting pricing for the Greenhouse was our first package out on the street, because it is the biggest component,” said Chernosky. “We had to compare several different proposals. We had to make decisions on the glass, the metal,

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the systems and the venting. They were all unique, so as a team we had to select the one with the best fit.” Because there is no local greenhouse manufacturer in Michigan, said Chernosky, the project team researched greenhouses across the country, ultimately selecting the Nexus Corporation, a greenhouse manufacturer based in Northglenn, Colorado with a plant in Illinois. A long-time friend of the hospital, Planterra, a commercial interior landscape design and plant maintenance company based in West Bloomfield Township, also contributed their own assessment of the greenhouse “variety” suitable for southeastern Michigan’s climate and growing conditions, said Mazzara. Aesthetically, the selected greenhouse has rows of ornate finials lining the roof peak and eaves. “In part, we selected Nexus as the manufacturer because they could also

provide these decorative elements, said Hobbs + Black Associate/Project Architect Walter P. Wyderko, AIA. Functionally, the single-pane glass does the heavy lifting of heating although a few unit heaters are provided for the bonechilling days of winter. Definitely not your garden variety Quonset hut, sensors in the Greenhouse’s weather station monitor temperature and humidity, regulating the automatic power vents at the roof and upper-level windows, as well as the deployment of an automatic horizontal shade cloth. When needed, a series of retracted shades expand to form a white canopy that shields the plants and the delicate seedlings sprouting in their cups of coir, a renewable and sustainable material made from coconut fiber. “In the winter, the shade cloth starts to pull over the greenhouse very early in the afternoon,” said Lutz. “It works as a blanket “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

to capture heat. In the summertime, the shade cloth works to quite significantly reduce the temperature in the greenhouse. We are not gluttons about our resources, so our thermostats are only set to 70 degrees F. This high-tech greenhouse can even be monitored remotely. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can log in and override the system from a remote location, if needed,â&#x20AC;? said Lutz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also have an emergency backup system, and if our greenhouse goes above or below our emergency temperature settings, the system automatically calls my cell phone.â&#x20AC;? BUILDING ON GOLDEN POND The Auch Company launched construction, installing the footings for both buildings and constructing the Greenhouse, along with the steel frame of the Education Center and the block wall dividing the two buildings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We sealed the concrete block wall to protect it from the moisture and humidity of the Greenhouse,â&#x20AC;? said Wyderko. The pond-side site complements the hospitalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission, but was less than ideal for the design and construction of this unique facility. The buildingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; footprint is located

only five feet from the large expanse of protected natural wetlands and only a few feet from the edge of the hospitalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loop road. According to Wyderko, two factors further constricted this already tight site: The Education Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two extensive glass walls led to the enlargement of the centrally located mechanical room and the installation of a larger geothermal field. Ultimately, the original placement of the buildings and the site grades had to be adjusted and altered from the original drawings. The resulting geothermal system is a stacked horizontal field two layers deep. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A horizontal field is typically one layer,â&#x20AC;? said Williams, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but because of the constraints of the nearby wetlands, the road and everything else, we went to a two-layer system.â&#x20AC;? Work space was severely curtailed on the edge of the wetland. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once they set up the scaffold on the pond side, there was no way anyone could get around the building,â&#x20AC;? said Chernosky. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had to feed materials and equipment into the building from the sides.â&#x20AC;? Working â&#x20AC;&#x153;sidewaysâ&#x20AC;? did not impact

production. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The plan was communicated well to the trade contractors, so any potential loss of productivity was already built into the competitive bids,â&#x20AC;? said Williams. Working only feet from the boundary of a natural site had its trials and its rewards. The crew had the pleasure of seeing deer on many a morning, but Michiganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite hoofed ungulate would sometimes knock down the construction fencing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we poured the slabs, we were concerned that we were going to have deer tracks in the concrete,â&#x20AC;? said Chernosky. In addition, careful research was conducted to select a bird deterrent that would keep feathered friends at bay without detracting from the building, said Wyderko. The selected deterrent is a barely visible, thread-like metal wire strategically placed and hidden below the overhangs. Despite these design and construction challenges, the pond site was selected, because it is a valuable tool for attracting visitors, offering them an immersion in a natural environment. As a future benefit, the pond will link with another phase of HFWBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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With fieldstone piers matching the main hospital, an ornate trellis and wood trusses, this greenhouse and education center offers an inviting oasis for patients, visitors and staff.

wellness program: the creation of a nature trail that will circumnavigate the pond and enter the surrounding woods of the 160acre campus. As a source of exercise, the trail could be part of HFWB’s 5210 Program, a plan that captures the daily guidelines of a healthy lifestyle for children in four simple steps: five fruits and vegetables daily, two hours or less of screen time, one hour of physical activity and zero sugar-sweetened beverages. MASTER BUILDERS FOR MASTER GARDENERS Post Greenhouse construction, the project team turned its attention to the construction of the Education Center. This little schoolhouse, devoted to all things edible and healthy, is composed of a host of well-crafted details. The entire project team worked closely together to produce a facility capable of nourishing both the body and the eye. A decorative metal trellis of fluted columns and delicate metal tracery welcomes the visitor to the Education Center. Both bowed and arced, “the design of it was probably constant,” said Mazzara. “Somebody was relentless (meaning

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himself ).” Sketch after sketch was produced to achieve the desired appearance. The individual pieces of this decorative entry trellis were actually selected out of a catalogue. “The off-the-shelf pieces were fit together with individual clips and anchors that had to be sketched and decided upon during fabrication,” said Williams. Because it is a stand-alone trellis with its own foundations and footings, “we had to run the connections through our structural engineer,” said Wyderko. “We had to make sure we had the right connections at the curved beams and for connecting the columns and footings into the ground.” Many of the details for the trellis and other elements had to be fully implemented in the field. The building’s intricate workmanship is a product of hundreds of hand sketches and field discussions between HFWB, the Auch team, Hobbs + Black, and the trade contractors in the field. “You need to have respect for your tradespeople, because they have a lot of information,” said Mazzara. “No architect – and I am an architect – can sit in an office and design something like this with without

interfacing with the contractor on site.” Mazzara and HFWB’s facilities department took their own advice. HFWB was heavily immersed in the project throughout design and construction. WORKING IN THE FIELD On the exterior, the Education Center’s corner details showcase the quality craftsmanship produced by such intense field coordination. Multiple materials converge at the corners: the steel beams support the exposed wood trusses; the ends of the exposed steel beam appear to drive right through and bisect a limestone cap and the top of the fieldstone pier. The whole assembly seems to rest on a second limestone cap nestled in the L-shaped “shelf” near the top of the massive pier. “The detail on the masonry around those steel beams is beautiful,” declared Williams. “The trades did a great job.” To get to beautiful, Hobbs + Black worked closely with Auch superintendent Rob Martin and the trade contractors in the field to craft this clean detail, said Wyderko. Add varied angles to the building’s complex details. “The stone piers are not “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

just square; they taper in both directions,” said Wyderko. The overhang of the roof extends beyond the wood trusses. Simple enough, but in this building, “the overhang flares down and tapers from one foot at the peak to about six inches at the eave,” said Chernosky. In addition, because “the roof system is an 8-inch-thick, structurally insulated foam panel,” said Wyderko, the flared overhang had to be custom fit. The intricate level of detail continued in the marrying of the wood trusses to the aluminum-frame transom windows. The transom windows bring more light into the space and heighten the level of transparency coveted by the client, but the project team had to take into account the “different fabrication and erection tolerances of the different materials,” said Williams. “The aluminum frame of the transom windows has a different fabrication and erection tolerance than the loadcarrying wood trusses. Basically, those wood trusses are going to deflect, so we had to figure out how those two components would fit without creating any issues.” The end result of this formidable effort is a gem of a building. Thanks to the professional expertise of the project team and trade contractors, visitors are drawn to

this attractive building in a peaceful setting. They may not even be aware of the high level of detail that makes the building beautiful, just as one can appreciate a field of flowers without knowing a thing about photosynthesis. Enter the interior, look up at the exposed wood trusses and skylight, look out to the pond glittering beyond the window and look down at the unique flooring. The flooring is a light, coppery brown swirl of color that almost resembles a creek bed and makes a fitting foreground to the wild plants and pond beyond. The floor is formed of three different layers, the first being a basic “coating on the concrete, followed by a marbleized swirl of color, and then several layers of epoxy clear coat,” said Chernosky. This stained and epoxy-coated concrete is attractive, durable and easy to maintain. “It really is an effective way of doing a floor, costs are very manageable,” said Mazzara, who opted for this same floor treatment in some of the retail spaces of the hospital’s Main Street. GROWING PAINS Beyond craftsmanship, savvy project management brought the building out of the ground, despite a few growing pains.

The challenge in the Education Center: the Arkansas-based wood truss fabricator unexpectedly went bankrupt two weeks before the expected shipment of the materials. “We had already been through two rounds of shop drawings,” said Wyderko. “We had worked out all the details of the truss steel plate connections and the finishes on the connections, because the exterior ones were galvanized to withstand the weather and the interior ones were not.” The quick-acting Auch Company found another supplier over a single weekend. “Over a weekend, we found another supplier and then within a couple of days – it was definitely less than a week – we had another contract negotiated, in place and work begun,” said Williams. The new supplier “actually reproduced the shop drawings and fabricated the materials without us having to go through another three-month process of designing new shop drawings,” said Chernosky. In the Greenhouse, the growing method was switched from raised beds to hydroponics halfway through construction. “The reason why the leadership chose hydroponics is that they really did want to create a memorable educational experience for people,” said Lutz. “They wanted to offer

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The building borders on a broad pond fringed with wetland grasses, adding to the peaceful setting but creating demanding site logistics for the project team.

something that perhaps people haven’t seen before. People can go to other venues and see a soil-based system.” The hydroponic system is also extremely efficient. “We utilize a lot less water,” said Lutz. “We are able to have a lot more crop diversity in that small space than if we had just put in some raised beds.” But perhaps most amazing is the accelerated growth rate of the hydroponic system. “We can turn lettuce over within 30 days from the time we start seeds,” said Lutz. “It is safe to say that we reduced the amount of produce that the kitchen brings in on an average of 10 to 20 percent. We have the most significant impact on fresh herbs and greens.” For the hydroponic design, Hobbs + Black and the Auch Company worked with Howard Resh, Ph.D, a pioneering hydroponic researcher, author and practitioner now working in the Caribbean, according to HFWB’s website. “We created the system based on about 30 hand-drawn pages of information showing the nutrient tanks,

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waste tanks and placement of the propagation benches,” said Chernosky. De-Cal, Inc., Warren, was the plumber who installed the actual system. “This is a relatively new type of system,” said Mazzara. “De-Cal is a very competent plumbing company who also installed our medical gas systems in the hospital.” Lutz worked with the tradespeople in the proper installation of the system. The Auch Company had to excavate inside the already built greenhouse to carve out a place for the hydroponic system’s tanks and piping, which had to be brought in through the doors of this glass house. The system includes a 500-gallon holding tank that feeds nutrient-laden water to this hydroponic garden, said Chernosky. The water re-circulates internally but must be pumped out and replaced occasionally, courtesy of another 300-gallon tank. The finishing touch was brick paver installation as a flooring material in the Greenhouse. “If water spills in the greenhouse, it drains through the brick

pavers,” said Williams. “Brick is the perfect material: it drains, it is durable and tractable, and it looks good, too.” Moreover, the brick pavers are perfect for a flexible space. “The brick pavers are amenable to the various layouts in the Greenhouse that change over time in response to their different needs and different programs,” Williams added. THE EDIBLE SCHOOLHOUSE Today, this remarkable facility is used as an educational vehicle for school children, seniors and other groups. Lutz presents a nutritional program in HFWB’s Demonstration Kitchen and then brings the children to the greenhouse “to show them where the food was grown that they just ate,” said Lutz. The educational program also includes a lady bug release that emphasizes the “benefits of bugs” over pesticides. “The lady bug release is a way to make sure children understand that 98 percent of the insects in our environment are actually beneficial,” “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

said Lutz. “When we spray pesticides we lose a lot of our pollinators and other beneficial insects.” Physical and occupational therapy patients have utilized the Greenhouse directly or at least used the plants for their own personal healing. “We brought a cart of plants over to the patient floors, and the patients replanted some of the seedlings to larger pots as part of their occupational therapy,” said Lutz. If able, patients are welcome in the Greenhouse as are visiting family members. “We have a great deal of visits from family members of loved ones in the hospital,” said Lutz. “Recently, a young girl whose mother was receiving chemotherapy in the hospital came to the Greenhouse. She just needed to spend her energy someplace other than the hospital. Sometimes, people just need a break.” Lutz has plans to grow the program by expanding into aquaponics, a system of raising fish and growing plants in which the fish fertilize the plants and the plants filter the water for the fish. Aeroponics circulates water and air underneath the roots of plant

cuttings and grafts as a means of cultivation. Whether in need of healing, excited about nutrition and hydroponic farming or just craving a calming fix of the natural world, Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital’s new Greenhouse and Education Center is a welcoming and amazing place. “The children really love this space, so having this facility really makes my job quite easy,” said Lutz. Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, Hobbs + Black Architects, and the George W. Auch Company have clearly bequeathed a unique and inspiring facility to the community. After years of hard work, the harvest is in: the entire region has a wonderful tool for trimming our collective waist lines and healing our bodies and our environment through organic, pesticide-free gardening. Beyond disease prevention, the Greenhouse and Education Center offers a peaceful natural setting for exposing children to the magic of the green world and the “exotic” taste of natural foods freshly plucked from the garden. Bon Appétit from Mother Nature and Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital.

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Stepping Out of the Shadows Crisler Center Provides Energy Infusion for Michigan Sports By Doug Pawloski, Contributing Editor Photos Courtesy of TMP Architecture / U-M Public and Media Relations o longer content to have Crisler Arena simply exist in the shadows of “The Big House,” their legendary football stadium, the University of Michigan embarked on a long and welldeveloped expansion and renovation plan that has given it a new name and an identity all its own. Crisler Center is the new basketball arena on campus, but it is much more than that. It includes the William Davidson Player Development Center (WDPDC), Crisler Club,

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Kids Go Blue Club, an interactive game area presented by the University of Michigan Credit Union, and the Michigan Sports Television Production Studio. With so many things added or improved, the new 12,693-seat basketball facility leaves fans most familiar with the old digs wondering what remains of the old arena. “Very little” is an appropriate response to the question. Facility construction has changed considerably since the original arena was “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

they needed to offer something more, something big, to the athletes and the fans. Discussions took place, meetings were held, and decisions were made that would dramatically turn up the excitement level in Ann Arbor. “We had an old facility in a game that you have to constantly be looking for improvements to stay competitive,” said Damon Grosz, facility manager for Crisler Center. “A new facility is a recruiting tool and sports is a revenue game. For all those reasons we needed drastic upgrades.” With the new WDPDC athletes can practice, train, and develop their skills on their own schedule, independent of the arena’s schedule. Since the WDPDC was already completed when arena renovations and expansions began, players, coaches and staff had a place to call home, away from the sights and sounds of construction. On November 5, 2012, the new Crisler Arena opened for the men’s first game to great reviews and thousands of fans excitedly streaming in to see their Wolverines in action, and there certainly was plenty of that during the 2012-13 season. The men’s basketball team hit a No. 1 ranking for the first time since the 1992-93 season and went all the way to the finals of the NCAA tournament in Atlanta before falling 82-76 to the Louisville Cardinals in the championship game.

The bright tunnel that leads from the student entrance to “The Maize Rage” student section features a Block M graphic that helps build excitement before games. It is identical to one the team rallies around before taking the court.

built in 1967. Like many stadiums of that era, Crisler Arena had dark and narrow corridors, inadequate space for today’s concessionaires and merchandisers, and no premium seating or gathering space anywhere. The old Crisler had a lot of concrete and metal, but much less glass and open spaces that are commonplace in today’s modern facilities. Although the diehard Wolverine fan was no doubt proud of their team and arena, the University came to realize that it was becoming increasingly difficult to remain competitive. They knew Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

FAN APPRECIATION This facility upgrade was as much for the fans as for the athletes themselves. From the outside, fans can immediately see the difference and sense the improvements that await them inside the new center. Gone are the three imposing flights of concrete steps, grassy hillside, and dark featureless doors looming at the top of the landing. The twostory glass vestibule that includes a water feature trickling across the iconic, maizecolored Michigan “M” wows fans as they enter. Modern lighting, large-scale graphics, and glimmering metals add dimensional highlights to this impressive main entry and ticketing area. “It’s interesting, after master planning the whole thing, the new entry is where the old steps were so the way you enter has a historic legacy to it,” said Dave Larson, AIA, TMP Architecture’s senior vice president, and TMP’s chief design officer for the Crisler Center project. The escalators at the main entrance take fans to a brighter, more open concourse area bathed in natural light from the glass curtain walls. Fans will also see the words of their fight song “The Victors” etched in large lettering in the terrazzo flooring, one stanza

at a time, as they travel around the concourse. While doing so, they walk through Michigan sports history as the walls come alive with giant action photos of athletes from nearly all of the University’s varsity sports on display, surely a treat for fans and visitors alike. The concourse now offers expanded concessions providing more choices and new retail space offering the latest Michigan souvenirs and spirit wear. The retail space is more inviting, enclosed in glass and visible from inside and outside of the arena. The dedicated student entrance, with its bright maize flooring and tunnel, guides students to their seats in “The Maize Rage” section. This entrance also features the Block M floor graphic identical to the one the team crosses over in the tunnel that takes them to the court. The team and the fans rally around their respective M adding to the excitement before each game. “If we are going to ask people to buy tickets, we want to provide them with a nice venue and a competitive team,” Grosz said. Without a doubt, the University provided Wolverine fans with both. SELECTING THE TEAM Planning for Crisler Arena began in earnest early in 2007 with the selection of the design team of TMP Architecture, Inc. (TMP) from Bloomfield Hills; the sport arena consultant, Sink Combs Dethlefs (SCD) from Denver, Colorado; and the engineering consulting firm Peter Basso Associates (PBA) from Troy. TMP and SCD began with a master plan for Crisler Arena and PBA started with an infrastructure study. “At that time, it was envisioned that there would be a practice court and possibly a wrestling facility within the center,” said Bill Frederick, AIA, TMP principal and project manager. As TMP and SCD developed plans that outlined a framework for this facility, the University sought approval to proceed with a separate, possibly freestanding, player development center. So TMP and SCD started planning what would become the WDPDC and the University started planning a total renovation and expansion plan for Crisler Arena. “The arena was in need of infrastructure upgrades since very little had been done to it over the years. This is what became known as the ‘Crisler Renovation’ and it became the first step that would prepare the structure for the subsequent ‘Expansion’ project,” said Frederick. At the time the expansion was being discussed, TMP worked closely with SCD who had broad experience in the field including the renovation and expansion of CAM MAGAZINE

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Just inside the main entrance, escalators shuffle fans up to the concourse. The Block M at the top is part of a large water feature that pumps water to the top of the dark blue wall where it flows gently over the edge and streams back down.

the University of New Mexico’s arena. “When you consider points of sale, and how ticketing would work, and how television media would be integrated into the facility, they were an invaluable partner in terms of validating the functionality of all of this,” said Larson. Although plans for the WDPDC, the expansion, and the renovation projects developed simultaneously, the University executed them separately. Frederick suggests this could have been due to a combination of financial and logistical constraints. However, after all the plans were complete, what emerged was a total sports development and entertainment complex with all the parts integrated into one, interconnected Crisler Center. At that same time, PBA had to determine what the University needed, what type of mechanical systems would fit their needs for functionality and, with a maintenance department that was already stretched thin, provide serviceability without bogging them down. David A. Conrad, PE, senior associate, PBA and lead mechanical

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engineer for the Crisler Center, summed up the biggest challenge on the project. “The biggest challenge for us was trying to upgrade and extend the existing utilities in Crisler that were serving adjoining buildings,” said Conrad. These buildings had to be operational during construction and could not afford to be offline.” The WDPDC and the Junge Family Champions Center were two such structures in use that needed plumbing, heating, cooling, and electrical during the expansion phase. “We had to make sure they had mechanical systems operational, so they could maintain their everyday life,” said Conrad. Many meetings were held to determine how to phase the project and see how long it would take to make the connections that would keep these facilities comfortable. The final pick for the Crisler expansion team was Spence Brothers, Saginaw, the general contractors who interestingly built the original arena back in 1967. “This was a project we had been eyeing since we heard of its inception and we were very motivated

to do it, and to do it with this team,” said Project Director Chad Nienhuis, LEED AP BD+C, Spence Brothers. They joined the team after the master planning and, of course, just before the expansion and renovation began in early 2012. When asked at which phase they entered the process, Nienhuis simply said, “Behind.” The design team was active since 2007 and it wasn’t bid out for construction until late 2011. Spence was awarded the bid in December 2011 and construction started less than a month later. “This was a competitive design-bid-build delivery project and Spence came in on a competitive bid environment,” said Nienhuis. “Being a GC project, sometimes certain things are established early on… and you don’t have that design, build or CM (construction management) environment.” This can sometimes isolate a contractor at a critical point in the process when they are trying to play catch up, especially when a project has such tight schedules. However, due to their long-standing relationships with TMP and the University, this project was “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

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completely different. The members of this team genuinely like and respect each other and are familiar with each other’s decisionmaking styles. “We weren’t hired all at once but it worked out that way,” Nienhuis said. Larson added, “We were very excited that Spence was selected for the expansion project because they did the original. The stars lined up.”

TEAM EASES CONCERNS When plans for Crisler Arena were first approved, David Brandon, director of athletics for the University, was not in his position. When you consider that the University was investing $75 million in a 1960-era arena to renovate 180,000 square feet and expand another 67,000 square feet, it is not surprising that Brandon would have some concerns. “What I wondered, when I

walked in, was it going to feel like an old suit with a new tie,” said Brandon. The design team worked hard to alleviate his concerns, staging meetings and providing 3D imaging to show Brandon and other stakeholders how the finished structure would look. “They (the design team) were responsive to any input that I had, or anyone else from the athletic department,” said Grosz. The designers met with everyone from the head office to the ticket office, from the athletic trainers to the athletes themselves. All ideas were considered and details were reviewed multiple times so they had “buy-in” from all parties before breaking ground. “Our kids and our coaches are going to be treated to a fine facility with all of the amenities and all of the support that they deserve; it is spectacular,” said Brandon. Grosz agrees that the results are fantastic and that the design team did an excellent job with meetings and models that helped his department visualize. Regarding the “old suit” scenario, Grosz adds, “I feel confident that nobody thinks that. Most people come up and say, ‘Man, this looks like a new place!’” Indeed, they literally upgraded, expanded, and improved nearly everything. BREAKING DOWN THE STRATEGY Once construction began in January 2012 it was a whirlwind of activity. For Spence Brothers, “It meant bid the job, get everything you can get together, and meet these dates because they are not moving,” said Nienhius. “You’re not going to postpone the basketball season, and you’re not going to postpone the football season.” He added, “Guns were blazing and we were full steam ahead.” Ideally you would like to begin a project like this during the off-season but extremely tight deadlines and the start of the upcoming football season made this literally impossible. It began during the basketball season with deadlines and restrictions in effect and continued through the start of football with new deadlines and restrictions. Phase 1 of the operation consisted of foundation and other work on the exterior of the building that did not affect the daily operations. Once the last basketball game was played, the construction team placed their barriers and within one week all exterior walls except two were down, and the exterior envelop went up around them. A complete new ring of construction was added around the arena and over the WDPDC. “We were essentially building over the top of that (WDPDC) facility, which is never an ideal situation with an owneroccupied facility below it,” said Nienhuis.

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Work was scheduled around the athletic operations to minimize the effect of construction. Considering the amount of work going on, there was just one three-week period when the athletic department temporarily moved out of the WDPDC. Beyond that they were able to maintain business as usual. Over that three-week period, Spence worked around the clock getting as much done as they could and often worked in the offhours or whenever it was convenient for the athletic staff. Nienhuis said, “It was kind of interesting; there was one door between the WDPDC and Crisler Arena, and on one side you hear music going from the team working out, and on the other side it was the chaos of a construction project, and to my knowledge there were no major problems as far as noise.” Larson quickly joked, “So the music didn’t bother your construction guys too much?” Grosz added, “The disruption to what I had to support, with my athletic department responsibilities and the basketball team’s, was as good as we could have hoped for.” Phase 2 began March 1 and had the

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merchandising, so it was critical to complete these areas by the deadline. Phase 3 ran concurrent with Phase 2 and required completing the remaining concourse areas and the main entrance to the arena. They finished on October 25 and the basketball season started 11 days later. The final phase was the club area that was completed before the start of the Big Ten season in January 2013, when the Wolverines hosted the Iowa Hawkeyes.

In addition to the new seating throughout the arena, premium seating is now available for the avid Wolverine fans, something the old arena lacked.

upcoming football season as a deadline. It included completing work in the west and southwest concourses, areas used for checkin, ticketing and Will-Call services, and for bag-check procedures for football games. There is also a large team store in that area that the athletic department counts on for

ENERGY EFFICIENT PERFORMANCE Just as important to the University as having a world-class facility, is the energy consumption and efficiency of that structure. Because the design called for a new two-story entrance and much more glass than the building previously had, it was critical that the facility function as efficiently as possible. Crisler Center will typically have 13,000 fans entering the building on a cold January night sending rushes of freezing air into the building, and the staff in this area need to be comfortable while they perform their duties. “We’re not going to stop it. But how do we treat it so it doesn’t become a nuisance?” said Conrad. The answer was a dedicated mechanical system that pumps enough warm air into the vestibule areas to offset the rush of cold air from outside. Another example of efficiency is the treatment of the Michigan Sports Television Production Studio within Crisler Center. This area is in use 12 or more hours per day but is a relatively small area. Rather than attempt

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to use one of two 1,400-ton chillers that cool the entire center, PBA equipped that area with its own air-cooled chiller with a heat recovery and economizer cycle. This cools the media center comfortably without the use of the larger chillers, resulting in an energy savings for the University. The use of variable speed fans on all the air handling units and CO2 sensors in the larger spaces work together to minimize the amount of outside air brought in. “The system can dial it back if it’s not occupied, or if there are only a few people in a large room,” said Conrad, “which reduces the energy needed to heat and cool the Center.”

philosophy really, and that is to have their facilities reflect the sense of pride the University holds for their athletic programs, and to improve their athletes and their teams and add value for their fans and alumni. As you walk the concourse around the outside of the arena bowl, over the words to “The Victor” and past the larger than life photographs of the athletes gracing the walls, you are struck with an

overwhelming sense of pride for Wolverine basketball, and for all Michigan sports. If you stand on the big Block M at the student’s entrance and listen close, these words seem to ring out loud and clear: Hail! to the victors valiant Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes Hail! Hail! to Michigan The leaders and best!

TEAM CRISLER TAKES GOLD From an industry perspective, there are energy codes that need to be met, generally determined by state and federal laws. The University requires that their buildings exceed those requirements by 30 percent, meaning the energy savings must be at least 30 percent higher for all new construction, and this requirement was exceeded. The industry standard Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a suite of rating systems that assigns points to various aspects of the design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings. Hoping to satisfy the University and earn LEED Silver, the team was very excited when they learned they achieved LEED Gold Certification. “For a project this big, with this much glass… that’s a huge accomplishment,” said Larson. The minimum number of points required to earn gold is 60 and the Crisler Center earned a total of 67 points. THE HOUSE THAT CAZZIE BUILT AND TEAM CRISLER STRENGTHENED “The House That Cazzie Built” is now the house that the University and TMP, SCD, PBA, and Spence Brothers have honored, restored, and strengthened, by adding new technologies and energy efficiencies, outstanding colors, textures, and lighting schemes, and enough shine and ‘Wow Factors’ to last a lifetime. Coaches from just about every sport on campus now make sure to put Crisler Center on their tour stop to show recruits and their families the direction that Michigan sports is taking with their athletes and facilities. At the WDPDC, players and recruits are now able to take advantage of some of the best practice, development and recovery facilities available to athletes, collegiate or professional. When the University decided to undertake this project they were acting on a Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

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Vacant for nearly 30 years, the 85-year-old Broderick Tower returns to her former glory, with four floors of commercial/retail space and 124 luxury apartments.

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A ‘Jewel’ Shines Again THE BRODERICK TOWER By Clare Desmond, Contributing Editor

t was a long time coming, but on Nov. 3, 2012, the historically significant Broderick Tower in downtown Detroit was finally and officially re-opened after being empty for almost three decades. Following a nearly seven-year-long (from initial design to completion) renovation and restoration project, when the ribbon was cut that day in November last year, leases had been signed on all of the residential units. Five residents moved in immediately, and 50 more did a few days later. All 124 apartments in the new Broderick Tower, located at 10 Witherell Street across from Grand Circus Park, were occupied as of March 2013. It may have taken almost 30 years for the long-shuttered 85-year-old landmark

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structure to be resuscitated, but the result was surely worth the wait. The renovation transported the 34-story Broderick Tower back to 1928, when it first opened and was considered a “Beauty by Day, a Jewel by Night,” as noted by historicDetroit.org. With nearly 30 years of abandonment under her belt, the Broderick had transformed from a state of neglect back to its former glory. The crowds were there to show their pleasure at the transformation, and the Broderick did not disappoint. Indicative of a renewed interest in living in downtown Detroit, or perhaps for the opportunity to say hello to an old friend, more than 1,000 people showed up for tours at an Open House in April 2012, hosted by the building’s owners,

Motown Construction Partners LLC, Detroit. It was Opening Day for the Detroit Tigers baseball team as well, and the Tigers’ ballpark is only one of several outstanding views visible from the Broderick’s residences. “The historic building was completely renovated from obsolete office to state-of-the-art residential,” said Brian Rebain, RA, NCARB, CSI, project architect and studio director for Kraemer Design Group, Detroit. Inside, high-end finishes glisten in the rental units: granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, porcelain tile on the floors, upscale bathroom fixtures. It’s got them all, plus a host of amenities, including a 24-hour fitness center, 24-hour security, and

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Machinery and Equipment Appraisals The Who, When, Why, and How of M & E Appraisals. lients often asked me why it is important to have machinery and equipment appraisals performed. There are numerous reasons why a machinery and equipment appraisal should be considered. The most typical appraisals include buy/sell agreements, mergers & acquisitions, business valuations, partnership dissolutions, insurance, bankruptcy, property taxes, financing, and SBA lending. Other reasons would be divorce, estate planning or other estate issues, retirement planning, cost-segregation analysis, and litigation support.

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What is the Useful life of an Appraisal? Typically, an appraisal is good for 3 years. However, this depends on the current market, economy, and industry. An appraisals useful life also depends on the availability of the type of equipment being appraised. The value of a piece of equipment can drastically change with economic factors such as supply and demand. If I am buying or selling a business, is it beneficial to have a machinery and equipment appraisal? Absolutely. Buyers want to know the breakdown between real and personal property. This is a cost segregation analysis or study. Appraisals are completed for many reasons, but most importantly for tax purposes. The analysis breaks the assets into different categories for depreciation purposes. What information and documentation will an appraiser require? The appraiser will need to know the manufacturer, model, serial number, and age of the equipment. This crucial information can typically be found on a plate attached to the equipment. Most of the time it will be someplace visible, however in some instances, locating this plate can be rather tricky. For example, restaurant equipment

will occasionally have a kick plate which covers or hides the information plate. Other machines have the plate attached inside a compartment or near the motor, while others may not have one at all. When a machine does not have an identification plate, it is very helpful if the owner has the original manual or sales invoices that should list most of the information. Additional information the appraiser will ask for relates to condition, special features and any upgrades. Important questions to keep in mind would include; does it work well? Has it had any major repairs or in need of them? Is it maintained according to manufacturer specifications? The appraiser may request to see the maintenance logs or ask what special attachments or upgrades were added? Is its software up to date? An appraiser will want to evaluate and photograph each piece of equipment. When this is not possible, the appraiser will note in their report which equipment could not be visually inspected and explain they are relying on the representations of similar machines condition and other pertinent information. What is a “qualified appraisal”? A “qualified appraisal” is clearly defined in IRS Publication 561. The basics of this

standard lists: • The appraisal is made, signed and dated by a “qualified appraiser” in accordance with appraisal standards • Does not involve a prohibited appraisal fee • Includes (but not limited to); description of property, condition, date of value, terms of the engagement agreement, qualifications of the appraiser, method used to determine value, and basis for value. Generally, an appraisal is considered qualified if it follows USPAP (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice) which are developed by the Appraisal Standards Board of the Appraisal Foundation. What qualifications should I look for in an appraiser? When searching for an appraiser, only use a ‘Qualified Appraiser’. This is an individual, as defined by the IRS, who has earned an appraisal designation from a recognized professional organization for demonstrating competency in valuating property. Also, qualified appraisers regularly prepare appraisals for which they are compensated, and demonstrates verifiable education and experience in valuating the type property being appraised.

Residential apartments at the Broderick Tower feature stainless steel appliances, granite counters, tile floors and other high-end finishes.

View from the living room area of one of the luxurious multi-level penthouse apartments.

separate entrances and lobbies for residential and commercial lessees. Parking is available to lease in the Grand Circus Park underground facility across Witherell Street for an additional $95 per space per month. All but a handful of the residences have laundry facilities in the units. The apartments range in size from 440-squarefoot studio apartments to 2,200-square-foot penthouses. Several of the residences on

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floors 5-24 and almost all of the penthouse apartments offer multi-floor living. In addition to its residential units, the Broderick offers approximately 25,000 square feet of commercial space on floors 1 through 4. Construction began in January 2011 on the $53 million project by Construction Manager J.C. Beal Construction Inc., Detroit. The project benefited, start to finish, from the expertise of Kraemer Design Group’s

principals, Robert Kraemer, RA, NCARB, IIDA, and Maureen Kraemer, IIDA, NEWH, ISHP, who founded their firm in downtown Detroit in 1996. Both are architects and managers, and both are highly qualified interior designers. Both also have a keen interest in historic building restoration. That expertise was close by, with KDG’s headquarters located about a block away from the Broderick. The firm’s Heather McKeon, LEED® AP, who heads the firm’s interior design studio group, also worked on the Broderick project, continuing to fulfill an aspiration to work for a firm playing a part in Detroit’s revitalization. KDG has played significant roles in a number of historic buildings downtown, including the Harmonie Club in Harmonie Park, the ParkerWebb Building on Grand River Avenue, and the Elliott Building on Woodward Avenue at the corner of Grand River Avenue. In its heyday, the Broderick Tower provided top-rate office space for Detroit professionals in one of the city’s most beautiful locations, across the street from Grand Circus Park. Doctors, dentists, lawyers, accountants and other small businesses had their private offices there. On the ground floor, high-end retailers like Capper & Capper custom shirts and the Meyer Jewelry Co., as well as the Flaming Embers restaurant, added to the building’s luster. Radio station WJLB was located on the 31st floor for several decades, as well. The neo-classical/Chicago School architecture style of the building was enhanced with baroque Beaux Art detail at its capital. Typical of Chicago School style, the Broderick Tower was constructed with a base, column or shaft, and a capital, on a structural steel frame encased in concrete with terra cotta, limestone and masonry on the exterior. Speckled granite interrupted by large windows in cast iron surrounds and mullions grounds the lower floors and creates the base. The column is covered with Indiana limestone on the Woodward and Witherell façades, and on the façades of the top nine floors all around, while buff colored brick completes the facing on the south and east elevations. The capital is formed by bands of terracotta, pilasters between windows, and a setback above the 30th floor that emphasizes the loggia at the top. A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY The Broderick opened in 1928 as the Eaton Tower, named after its owners, a prominent Detroit family. It was the second highest skyscraper in the city, and probably in Michigan at the time. Theodore H. Eaton arrived in Detroit in the 1830s. He was a “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

part did not damage, the coffered barrelvaulted ceiling in the lobby off Witherell Street, according to project architect Rebain. The black marble Belge Noir walls lining the lobby also fared pretty well over the years, he said, but a small trim profile area at the top of one of the walls required some faux painting on hardwood to nicely reproduce it. Decorative bronze elevator doors cover the five elevators in the residents’ lobby. Additionally, a new canopy over the Witherell Street entrance was built, and the ground floor storefront was replaced with new, brass-clad glazed doors to compliment the resplendent historic character of the building. The Witherell Street lobby serves the residential occupants, while a separate lobby accessed off Woodward Avenue provides entry for commercial lessees. In 1976, local businessman Michael Higgins acquired the Broderick Tower. Despite a few setbacks over the years, he held onto it and he is still one of its owners, known collectively as Motown Construction Partners LLC, a Michigan corporation formed specifically for the recently completed project. Despite its long vacancy, the interior of the Broderick Tower wasn’t in terribly bad shape when pre-construction services were begun in 2005 for the current project, Rebain said. Kraemer Design worked with the owners and construction team for about seven years from initial design until financing was secured in December 2010, and actual construction started in January 2011. The opening of the Broderick Tower had been highly anticipated in the metro Detroit area, and was viewed as a symbol of the recovery of the downtown and Midtown residential markets, Rebain noted.

The original black marble walls and barrel vaulted coffered ceiling were restored to their former beauty in the main lobby off Grand Circus Park.

salesman and entrepreneur and developed a thriving business importing and selling dyes and other chemicals. In 1904, his son, Theodore Jr., bought the site of what would become the Eaton Tower. Several hotels, Turkish baths and some small office buildings had previously occupied the space. In 1925, Theodore’s son, Berrien, demolished the six-story Gladwin Building, then occupying the site, and built the Eaton Tower. Famed Detroit architect Louis Kamper and his son, Paul Kamper, designed the new building. The Eaton family sold the building to David Broderick in 1944, who

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renamed the building. In the early-1950s, the Flaming Embers restaurant opened on the building’s ground floor and became a showcase downtown restaurant for many years. It remained open for more than 40 years and was the last tenant to leave the otherwise empty building in 1993. Broderick died in 1957 and his family held onto the building until 1966. A series of owners then followed, including one who did a 1960s-style renovation that included dropped ceilings, florescent lights and air conditioning. That remodeling covered up, but for the most

COMPLEXITIES AND CHALLENGES The Broderick’s renovation was a “highly complex process” Rebain said, noting in particular the building’s oddly angled geometry and relatively small and somewhat oddly shaped floor plate. Its Woodward Avenue and Grand Circus Park elevations are roughly 65 feet long, while the east and south elevations are approximately 85 feet long, Rebain explained. The Witherell Street elevation follows the curve of Grand Circus Park so it angles slightly toward the northeast. Those issues forced some creative energy as to how to fit in stairwells, hallways, elevators and mechanical shafts. Then the team was left with some different shapes in which to place the apartments, Rebain said. “So the apartments had to be very efficient,” he noted. The jobsite is also very tight, and the city’s People Mover runs alongside it on “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

Witherell and Broadway Streets, compounding the difficulties in delivering materials, staging and laydown. Modern electrical, plumbing and HVAC systems were installed throughout the building. The exterior of the building was also completely restored, with all of the original limestone and terra cotta repaired. The mostly window-free east elevation was decorated in 1997 with a 108-foot-tall mural of a whale, done by artist Robert Wyland. The whale mural remains. Among the exterior repairs done on the project was salvaging the decorative limestone on all four corners, many of which had deteriorated badly. The corners were in such disrepair that two large pieces of the limestone corners fell from the 18th floor during a storm due to rusted anchoring and freeze/thaw damage. The task could have been daunting financially, but Akins Construction Inc., Detroit, responsible for masonry restoration and façade work, partnered with masonry repair supplier Helifix of Streetsboro, OH to find a solution that would repair and preserve the deteriorating exterior limestone corners. Replacing them on all 34 stories would have been cost-prohibitive. Helifix recommended its patented DryFix Remedial Tying system, a pinning and tying system that provided re-connection, stability, and retrofit strengthening to the existing damaged corners on all 34 floors. The helical ties, made from 10mm austenitic grade (304) stainless steel, were installed into the existing masonry, eliminating the need for tear down and rebuild, while retaining the visual aesthetics of the building. Helifix remained on site to assist Akins during the installation of a variety of lengths and sizes of ties, from 10-inch to 15inch. The process involved power-driving approximately four to six anchor ties into position via a small pilot hole. A special installation tool embedded the ties so they were recessed below the outer face to produce an “invisible” finish. The corners had no sound backup anchor stone available, so the ties were anchored into adjacent limestone corners on each side. In addition to securing all four corners of the building’s 34 floors, some re-anchoring was done in other areas of the building, as well. WINDOWS ARE ‘SIGNIFICANT’ New energy efficient, thermally broken windows were installed the entire height of the 370-foot tall building, with their shape and dimension conforming to the appearance of the original glazing. At floors two, three and four, the original cast iron detailing surrounding the floor-to-ceiling Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

windows was fully restored by creating original molds of the existing details. From these molds new infill pieces were cast from a composite polyurethane material to create a seamless appearance between old and new. Construction Manager J.C. Beal made the molds and installed the replacement pieces. “It may not be commonly recognized, but windows are one of the most significant features on any historic restoration project,” Rebain noted in KDG’s July 21, 2011 Newsletter. “The National Park Service has tight standards for window restoration/replacement that recommend maintaining existing window sightlines as ‘closely as possible’. ” The extremely deteriorated condition of the existing window components created a restoration challenge, Rebain said, and removing all the windows was also problematic because of the danger of damage to the structural integrity of the building façade, and to the existing plaster and limestone finishes. Since modern windows are manufactured with an aluminum frame that requires more size and depth than the steel windows original to the Broderick, Kraemer Design Group worked with Don Vainer, owner and president of Environmental Glass Inc., Livonia, to find a solution that would satisfy the owner’s needs and meet the requirements of the National Park Service. The solution was to “pocket” the new windows, Traco TR-9700 Historical Profile Single Hung, into the existing frame, which was left in place. All the old windows’ components (sashes, balances, pulleys, etc.) were removed, creating a pocket wide enough to permit installing new windows into the existing frame. A panning system was mounted on the interior and exterior to cover the existing frame. Windows in the residential units are all operable; in the Broderick’s commercial spaces, the windows are fixed. Up-to-date mechanicals, large, energy efficient windows, original restored plaster and other details, along with unobstructed views of the city, are just some of the features of the “new” Broderick Tower. The renovation fully adhered to the Secretary of Interior’s Standards for the Rehabilitation of Historic Properties, Rebain said, and the project received both state and federal historic tax credits. The completeness of the 2012 renovation makes it easy to feel that the Broderick will go forward with the City of Detroit for the next 85 years, and beyond. Hopes are high for the same optimism that is enveloping the Broderick will shine on the city, too.

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Sangren Hall A 21ST CENTURY SCHOOLHOUSE By Mary E. Kremposky, Associate Editor estern Michigan University’s (WMU) new Sangren Hall is a 230,000-square-foot “teachable moment.” Going for LEED Gold, the building teaches sustainability and offers lessons in collaborative learning, an interactive “idea exchange” of the digital age made possible by new classroom technology and flexible design. A host of inviting seating pods and generous electrical outlets offer students both face time and screen time in a building filled with natural light, open spaces of great volume and height, and a material palette of cork, bamboo and tile. Welcome to this 21st Century schoolhouse in Kalamazoo and the new home of WMU’s College of Education and Human Development, the place that trains the teachers and human service professionals of tomorrow. “Sangren Hall is probably one of the most technologically advanced buildings on campus,” said Interim Dean of WMU’s College of Education and Human Development, Walter L. Burt, associate professor of educational leadership, research and technology. “Students can communicate with people around the world. With this new advanced technology, our faculty is better able to provide up-to-date instructional strategies to improve student learning.” Built in 1964, the former Sangren Hall and the new facility are as different as night and day. Transformation is the business of design and construction professionals. With the new Sangren Hall, SHW Group, LLC, architects/engineers, and Miller-Davis Company, the Kalamazoo construction manager, have clearly transformed this quadrant of WMU’s central campus. The former Sangren: Precast panels on the perimeter were plagued by water infiltration problems; its mid-20th Century infrastructure and building systems could not support new technologies and energy efficiencies. The new Sangren: the new building is equipped with a cutting-edge Media Classroom and other interactive digital “blackboards”. A high-performance building envelope, coupled with an energy recovery system and other sustainable MEP strategies, are expected to save WMU a quarter of a million dollars annually in utility costs over the now demolished facility, according to Gary L. Wegenke, PhD, professor emeriti, College of Education and Human Development. Not to mention an amazing rooftop photovoltaic system is expected to produce 19 percent of the building’s electricity. On the exterior, the new building is sheathed in high-performance glass curtain wall and durable limestone, brick and metal panels. On the interior, almost every space enjoys a generous 17-foot floor-to-floor height and is blanketed in sustainable materials. “The materials are timeless, beautiful and extremely sustainable,” said Associate Vice

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Photos by Justin Maconochie President Peter Strazdas, WMU Facilities Management Department. “Today, everyone says the building looks wonderful, and in my humble opinion, 20 to 30 years from now, people are still going to say it looks beautiful.” Quality never goes out of style. For its first major WMU project, SHW should go to the head of the class. With 20 to 30 WMU projects under its belt, Miller-Davis also brought its A Game to this $60 million undertaking. Just as the building is a teacher, Miller-Davis could probably conduct a course in organizational management and executive-level problem-solving for its seamless delivery of a complex and massive building on a tight site. The building was built in two halves and not a detail was overlooked, resulting in zero accidents, a 92 percent recycling rate and a quality building, delivered on time and within budget. “It was brilliant the way it was constructed,” said SHW Partner Tod Stevens, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, NCARB. “There was an ability to shift the work from one side to the other and just stagger it all the way through.” Strazdas lavishes the project team with praise. “I think that Sangren Hall is the best building ever built in the history of this campus,” said Strazdas. “SHW and Miller-Davis are not just good firms, they are exceptional firms. I really mean that, because I have been around this business a long time. I could show you some good buildings, but this one is exceptional in its design, selection of materials, the trades, and in how it was constructed.” The project team hit the ball out of the park for WMU. “Everyone was a Derek Jeter (a New York Yankees baseball player and Kalamazoo native) on the project team,” said Strazdas. “You can have the best, but the project won’t be a success if you don’t work together as a team. What made this building exceptional is the best working together as a team.” Miller-Davis transformed the surrounding site, as well. Once a road and then a parking lot, the southern slice of the site has been turned into an amazing pedestrian mall, thanks to Hamilton Anderson Associates, Detroit, working under a separate contract with WMU. Now part of WMU’s main east-west pedestrian route, the walkway is host to a water course cascading down the sloped site, trails of Lake Michigan limestone, and a landscape of blooms. Together, new building and landscape create a new edge and front door to WMU’s central campus. The entire project team has created a building that promises to boost and retain student enrollment. Miller-Davis President Rex L. Bell attests to the magnetic draw of this wonderful facility. A friend’s son had already decided on another university, but after touring Sangren Hall, he chose WMU as his college of choice. “That is an absolutely factual CAM MAGAZINE

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The design of the new Sangren Hall is based on “playful rigor” – a pacing and rhythm of materials breaking down the scale of a building that is longer than a football field.

example of the type of unforeseen impact that a building such as this can have,” said Bell. “That is one of the desired effects that a university wants to have when they invest in a building of this quality.” Retention of existing students was another compelling reason for building a new facility. As the workhorse of WMU, Sangren Hall has always had the largest number of classrooms and has hosted the largest number of students, including first-year WMU undergraduate students in the arts and sciences. “The old Sangren Hall was often the first building new students experienced at WMU,” said Wegenke. The first impression: unimpressed. “The new Sangren Hall is now the students’ first impression of WMU, and students are being wowed,” Wegenke added. DESIGN: PLAYFUL RIGOR The design of the new Sangren Hall is based on what Stevens terms “playful rigor” – a pacing and rhythm of materials breaking down the scale of a building that is longer than a football field. With the building’s upper levels primarily filled with faculty offices on the south and classrooms on the north, the façades could have become a monotonous march of windows. “We struggled with that fact that the building could have become very bureaucratic with the façade being window after window,” said Stevens. “Using what we call ‘playful rigor,’ every office was allowed five feet of glass, but some offices had two windows of three and two feet, and others had one 5-foot window. This three, two and five-foot pattern created playfulness in the façade.” The entire building has the same 3, 2 and 5-foot pacing, creating an appealing pattern and flow on the exterior and interior. On the south exterior, the two-story curtain wall and the two-story arcade’s brick and limestone columns repeat the pattern; above, the two upper level windows and white metal panels take up the same pacing. Even the plants on the arcade’s vegetated roof grow in distinct stripes following the same 10-foot module broken down into 3, 2 and 5-foot intervals. On the interior, the terrazzo floor, the seating pods and even the recycling stations all march in step to this almost musical play of materials. A central tower of glass and limestone “interrupts” the pattern for the purpose of creating a pronounced front entrance. On the interior, the tower becomes a series of light-filled, double-height conference rooms clad in the building’s signature bamboo and porcelain tile.

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On the exterior, the material selection includes limestone at the entries and metal panels with small, accordion-like folds on the upper levels that “spark when they catch the light,” said Stevens. “Because it is often overcast on the west side of Michigan, we were looking for a material that even on a dull day added a little ‘spark’ to the building.” The interior is composed of four materials: cork, tile, terrazzo and bamboo. Subtle variations of these four elements, like four musical notes artfully arranged, create a grand harmony of cohesive spaces. The programming was calculated to “create a home for the College with a heart or sense of identity and place,” said SHW Principal Chris P. Mackey, AIA, LEED AP. For this reason, lecture halls housing general education classes line the concourse but do not penetrate deeply into the building interior. The second floor is reserved for the heart of the College: the Media Center and Computer Center are located in the east half and administrative, advisory services and the Dean’s office in the west with Flossie’s Café in the center. CONSTRUCTION: A SPLIT DECISION Sangren Hall’s amazing transformation began in earnest in 2009. SHW joined the project in spring 2009, helping the University decide whether or not to renovate the existing building. Strazdas summarizes the reasons not to renovate: the existing building had an inefficient building envelope and other systems nearing the end of their usable life; it couldn’t accommodate the new programming requirements of contemporary classrooms; the floor-to-floor ceiling heights couldn’t accept the large mechanical systems needed to meet contemporary ventilation codes; and relocating classes during a two-year renovation would incur the cost of retrofitting existing older replacement buildings. Miller-Davis joined the project in the design development and construction document phase, first participating in partnering sessions with SHW and WMU to build team work and an interpersonal bond that could withstand the rigors of bringing a complex building out of the ground. Launching construction in fall 2010, Miller-Davis built this massive building on an extremely tight site – the old Sangren Hall was only 15 feet away. According to Mackey, the project team had to fit the building into a narrow site bounded by the existing building to the north, the “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

pedestrian mall to the south, a large underground utility bank to the west, and Henry Hall to the east (a fire separation had to be maintained between Henry and Sangren Halls). “Everything was dialed in,” said Bell. “Adding to the challenge was the extreme topography of the site.” The site slopes strongly from south to north and 16 feet from west to east. “Working with the grades, working in the middle of campus and shoehorning in the emergency generator made this perhaps the most challenging site in the history of this campus,” said Strazdas. “We knew going into this that we had to find one of the best construction managers that could handle this extremely complex project.” Enter Miller-Davis and Senior Project Manager Michele J. Wreggelsworth, LEED AP, CM-BIM. One of the key tactics for managing work on this tight site was “consolidating the hoisting of equipment and materials,” said Wreggelsworth. “As construction manager, we provided two cranes and a variable reach forklift for most of the job, instead of having every contractor that needed a crane bring their separate crane on to the site. We had logs and sign-in sheets to coordinate the big loads.” The construction of the building was split in half right at the location of a large expansion joint crossing the middle of the building like a fault line. Dead center, landing platforms jutted out from each of the floors, allowing the equipment to unload materials directly into the building. “Because they worked from a center point, the materials could be unloaded either left or right,” said Stevens. Miller-Davis bused in the workforce – even at the 220 peak – to manage the tight site, and even installed port-a-johns inside the building during construction to increase the efficiency of the workforce. Miller-Davis worked efficiently to deliver this 25-month job in a 23month window of time and even delivered the five-phase site work package two weeks early. Mother Nature assisted the cause with impeccable soil conditions, namely sandy soils that rivaled the beaches of Lake Michigan and eased placement of the concrete foundations, said SHW Associate Patrick D. Kanary, AIA, NCARB. A mild winter even permitted the unusual placement of site concrete in March. Miller-Davis orchestrated the simultaneous construction of the west and east halves of the building, erecting steel in the west followed by installation of the mechanical system and HVAC ductwork. While the trades installed the mechanical system in the west, the structural steel frame rose in the east. This staggered construction continued in every project phase. “At one point, the fourth floor was just about finished, and we were just enclosing the first floor,” said Wreggelsworth. “You could walk upstairs and see the drywall and carpet on the Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

floor, while we were still installing metal studs and concrete floors on the first floor.” This dividing line offers a convenient split of Sangren Hall’s two indoor mechanical rooms linked by a walkable tunnel and located in the two different halves of the facility. Each of the two-story-and-a-half mechanical rooms serves different halves of the completed building. WMU elected to build a chilled water addition to serve Sangren Hall and the entire

campus. Miller-Davis coordinated construction with another project team tasked with building the addition. “The system has existing piping, so introducing potentially compromised chilled water with sediment from old pipes into a brand new system was our concern as a constructor,” said Wreggelsworth. “We went through a great deal of cleaning and flushing of their system, and then testing before we opened up the gate valve between the two

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Bamboo ceilings, porcelain tile walls and terrazzo floors blanket the grand stairway and the entire interior in a cloak of timeless materials.

systems.” She also coordinated work with the numerous colleges and campus organizations impacted by Sangren Hall’s construction, which included virtually every building on the central campus to some degree, including the administration building and the Kanley Chapel. Construction took place right in the middle of the chapel’s busy June wedding season. “We met sometimes weekly with the College and with every entity that this project impacted on a regular basis,” said Wreggelsworth. Despite all obstacles, the grand opening of this grand building was in time for the fall term of 2012.

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COLLABORATION: LAPTOPS AND LATTES The recently opened Sangren Hall embodies and accommodates several of the transformative forces of the 21st Century. “I think from a student’s perspective there have been three major shifts since the 21st Century began,” said Stevens. “The first is social media with Facebook being a prime example. We created collaborative and interactive spaces for students to work together, and secondly we provided the technologies for them to connect in the way that they need. The third one is sustainability. Hurricane Katrina was a prime example that our actions have ramifications, so

that is one of the reasons why we worked so hard and diligently to make sure this building works well with where it sits, and with the environment.” The schoolhouse as a collaborative enterprise marks virtually every space within Sangren Hall. Step under the exterior arcade of Sangren Hall, walk into the main concourse – a soaring, light-filled space that serves as a circulation route for the entire campus – and the first of many collaborative spaces come into clear view. Comfortable nooks and pods with banquette seating line the concourse. These pods effectively “extend the classrooms into the corridors,” said Stevens, for these nooks are right outside the door of the general lecture halls, conference rooms and seminar spaces along this grand, double-height concourse. Every corridor on every floor of this fourstory building is lined with banquette seating. For more study hotspots, walk up the grand staircase with its bamboo railings, etched glass panels and large pendant light fixtures Stevens refers to as “earrings” dangling from the height of this two-story space and then turn east into the new Media Center. This hub offers individual and group study spaces, along with a series of glass-enclosed casual study “pockets” that offer great views of the concourse below, the flower-dotted pedestrian mall outside and a clear sightline from within one pocket to the row of similar glass pockets lining the Media Center. “We consolidated the books into moveable stacks, affording us the ability to offer more study spaces,” said Stevens. “We have some data showing that our Media Center usage has increased tremendously since being in this new building,” said Dean Burt. “We have more usage of the Media Center than ever. In addition, the word on the street is that many students from other WMU colleges love to come here and congregate, because it is such an inviting building.” The building offers great spaces to gather, and has a new second-level full-service eatery called Flossie’s Café. All of this wonderfulness is a calculated affair. SHW conducted student surveys to assess students’ needs and habits, using an easily understood, visual tool: three differently colored dots. Students place one color dot on the best places for “hanging out,” another on the best study places, and a different colored dot for the best eating spot. “It is not coincidental that all three dots will always align,” said Stevens. “Food, socialization and study all happen concurrently. Sangren Hall is designed and specifically tailored around this idea of bringing these three activities together in open, environmentally wonderful ways.” SUSTAINABILITY: GREEN LEEDERS The new Sangren Hall is a textbook of sustainability with long “chapters” devoted to a “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

high-performance building envelope, an energy recovery system and the extensive use of rapidly renewable materials. It all began with a question from the new WMU President John M. Dunn, “How many LEED buildings do we have?” “WMU’s has always been ahead of the curve on energy conservation,” said Strazdas, “and has about a dozen buildings that could have achieved LEED certification.” Under Dunn’s leadership, the campus now has eight LEED-certified buildings, and Sangren Hall is expected to be anointed as WMU’s first LEED Gold in New Construction. This massive building has a light carbon footprint and lower utility bills, thanks to SHW’s pairing of an airtight building envelope with an energy-efficient MEP system. Three inches of spray-on insulation yields a building with an R value of 24 for the exterior wall assembly; the code required minimum is 16. “Five or seven years ago we might have only used two inches on the building,” said Kanary, “but because this is a LEED Gold building, we used an additional inch to get a higher R value. We have two inches of additional insulation on the white EPDM roof to elevate the R value in that area to 24, as well. The code required minimum is 20.” The end result for this masonry cavity wall

envelope is an extremely impermeable air vapor barrier designed to keep the conditioned air inside the building and block its escape out into the environment. The contractor must work carefully to cover the envelope in a continuous insulated “blanket” on a large building and in variable conditions. “The envelope in this building is huge not only on square footage but also in the volume of a facility that is roughly 17 feet floor-to-floor,” said Wreggelsworth. “The contractor had to understand the critical nature of their work in ensuring that every bit of vapor barrier and spray-applied insulation is done correctly and is flashed correctly so that it actually performs as designed. When you are doing sprayapplied insulation it is not a controlled environment. You’ve got the wind, adjacent buildings, and you are working 77 feet in the air at the highest point of this structure. The constant vigilance of all the workers was needed to do the job properly.” SHW also designed a high-performance glass curtain wall, along with a frit pattern on select window sections to reduce heat gain. The green-tinted, low-Emissivity, argon-filled, insulating glass has a high shading co-efficient for reducing light transmission and heat gain.

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Like a visor on a hat, shaded louvers, as well as the building’s “strong brim or arcade protects the glass and keeps the summer heat out of the building,” added Stevens. SIPPING ENERGY The building envelope, shading devices and the MEP system works hand-in-glove to produce this energy-efficient building now on the brink of LEED Gold. SHW Mechanical Engineer Joe Lapinski, PE, LEED AP, explains the HVAC system, “An optimized, variable air volume HVAC system serves the building, and this system has a full ventilation air energy recovery system that captures and returns energy that would normally leave the building.” An energy recovery system captures the heat and “coolth” of the building’s exhaust air and uses it to condition the fresh incoming air, reducing the amount of energy needed to condition the building interior. Creating even greater efficiencies, “the configuration of these energy recovery devices at Sangren Hall allows the building’s multiple air-handling units to share the energy recovery system between them,” said Lapinski. In addition, the use of ultraviolet radiation

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system,” said Lapinski. Carbon monoxide sensors can determine the occupancy load and trigger the HVAC system, added Wreggelsworth. Occupancy sensors also monitor and control the building’s lighting. “The lighting in this building is incredibly intelligent and responsive,” said Kanary. “When building occupancy is low the building rests in a really low energy state. The lights will be off and the space will not be conditioned. With an unoccupied load, the building sips energy.” The building also has “a large selection of high-efficiency lighting fixtures with T5 or LED sources, as well as dimming and multi-zone control of all classroom lighting and daylight harvesting sensors in select locations,” said SHW Group Electrical Engineer, Jeff Walenciak, PE, LEED AP.

The interior offers a facility of grand height and intimate collaborative spaces. The main concourse is a soaring, light-filled space that serves as a circulation route for the entire campus and introduces the first of many nooks and pods with banquette seating.

inside the building’s air-handling units prevents microbial growth on the interior surfaces of the air-handling unit. “This means the air supplied throughout the building is cleaner and healthier, and that the surfaces inside the air-handling unit need less frequent cleaning – cleaning which usually involves

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chemicals,” said Lapinski. A host of sensors and monitors continuously analyzes the building’s environmental conditions and the occupancy load. “If conditions allow, the system lowers the amount of outside air being brought in and greatly reduces the energy needs of the

LET THE SUNSHINE IN The building sips energy but drinks in great drafts of natural light from expansive glazing at the end of every corridor and from the open stairways in the building’s midpoint. “The stair towers are wide open,” said Wreggelsworth, “because instead of a conventional fire separation, a fire shutter drops down and the pedestrian doors actually fold into them as they drop.” The building not only draws in natural light, it uses it as power. “The roof is host to a 230 kW photovoltaic array with two central inverters,” said Walenciak. “It is modeled to produce 19 percent of the building’s total electricity needs. The photovoltaic array came on-line in early June 2013 and has produced roughly 38 percent of the building’s total electricity needs to date. We look forward to monitoring its actual production over the upcoming year.” A building automation system panel in the lobby allows students to witness the building’s use of solar power in real time. SHW designed these energy-efficient systems for ease of access, maintenance and durability over time. “It’s not just about a cool solar panel and low-flow faucets, sustainability covers the full spectrum, including if the owner can maintain the building cost-effectively and if the systems are accessible,” said Strazdas. “This team came together extremely well to give us those levels of accessibility. Some architects and contractors want to design it and move on, but in this project this professional architectural firm and contractor gave us a lot of ideas of how we are going to maintain the building.” THE FOUR ELEMENTS In sustainable Sangren Hall, students open the bamboo classroom doors and walk to their seats on a cork floor that blankets the entire room and is the flooring surface for the vast majority of classrooms. “Cork is a very sustainable product that has both sound “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

absorption properties and is also microbial,” said Stevens. Cork tack boards are also posted outside the classroom and office doors in lieu of conventional white tack board. Cork in the classrooms and terrazzo in the corridors complete much of the building’s flooring. “The terrazzo has recycled brown glass and glossy flecks of an iridescent shell material,” said Wreggelsworth. Bamboo, a rapidly renewable grass product, is also used throughout the building, including in the stair railing and as two different types of acoustical wall and ceiling panels. “The wood ceilings and wood panel products were a challenge,” said Wreggelsworth, “because of the coordination effort with the MEP systems that are installed in them. We wanted the systems to be accessible for maintenance down the road. Also bamboo is incredibly sensitive to humidity, so we both humidified and dehumidified during construction.” Porcelain tile, a durable, easily maintained material with a long life cycle is another piece of the sustainable puzzle. A beautiful, grayish textured tile is the dominant material blanketing the corridors and public spaces; white porcelain tile covers the walls of the conference spaces in the central tower. “The

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tile wasn’t difficult, but it was challenging in terms of the workforce,” said Wreggelsworth. “The workforce and the tile craftspeople in Michigan had contracted to such a point due to the economy that when we were in the throes of the finishes last summer, there weren’t enough tile setters to do this project. We were calling contractors and business agents from all over the state.” THE RECYCLING BIN Miller-Davis recycled a remarkable 92 percent in construction waste and demolition debris from the phased demolition of the former Sangren Hall. “We recycled well in excess of seven million pounds,” said Wreggelsworth. “Our demolition contractors Bierlien for Phase I and Homrich for Phase II – did an incredible job of recycling.” Miller-Davis’s “recycling bin” included steel, concrete and drywall. “We have a landfill in the area that crushes drywall and uses it as a binder in their roadbed,” said Wreggelsworth. “All the demolished concrete went to another facility and was also crushed for their roadbeds.” For construction of the new Sangren Hall, the Midwest is blessed with an abundant

supply of post-consumer steel from Chicagoland that turns steel into an easily achieved LEED point for use of regional materials. “Steel for us is 98 percent postconsumer recycled content, which is a huge piece of your recycled content dollars,” said Wreggelsworth. “It has synergies of being both regional and recycled.” Sustainability also marked the project’s stormwater management strategies. The stormwater system is designed to handle a 25year storm event via three large retention zones located on the north, south and east flanks of the building. The installation of a strip of pervious asphalt in the building’s newly constructed north parking lot aids the cause. “All the parking in the north lot actually sheet drains into the collection area of the pervious asphalt and percolates down,” Kanary added. TECHNOLOGY: THE WIRED SCHOOLHOUSE The portrait of Paul Sangren watches over this remarkable building. Sangren was the second president of the University and the longest-serving, having led WMU from 1923 to 1960 and having guided the institution through its 1950s building expansion. His portrait now gazes on classroom technologies

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and changes in pedagogy that would probably amaze the building’s namesake. Traditional lectures haven’t vanished, but the professor as “the sage on the stage” pontificating to the note-taking masses is not the only form of instruction, said Wegenke. Today’s classroom is in motion. “Nothing in today’s classrooms is bolted to the floor,” said Strazdas. Light, mobile, wheeled and easily moved desks and chairs can be

Services, 13 session rooms are linked to observation spaces and seminar rooms equipped with the latest in digital video recording and training technology. The video recording system, Meti Learning Space, is used in training by several medical schools around the country and features the ability to annotate video recordings with supervisor comments and observations made during live viewing of counseling sessions. “The new counseling training clinic is one of the first to implement the system for

The second-level is the new heart and home of WMU’s College of Education and Human Development. Flossie’s Café and study areas dominate the center, while the Media Center and Computer Center are located in the east half and administrative, advisory services and the Dean’s office are located in the west.

re-arranged on the fly for break-out sessions in classrooms without an official front. “With its emphasis on interactive kinds of activities, it is an entirely different form of pedagogy,” said Wegenke. The computer and digital revolution have broken down the walls of the traditional classroom. Sangren Hall is host to a cutting-edge media classroom offering Epson instructional technology. Groups of four to six students work together in pods, with each pod linked to an Epson projector and display board. “Students link to the projector with their own laptops, writing or even drawing solutions that would then appear on the board,” said Kanary. “The teacher roams the room visiting each cluster of students and perhaps pointing out innovative solutions of one group to the entire class. This system is designed to allow students to work in small groups and learn from each other.” The professor becomes a type of coach offering overall guidance and promoting critical thinking skills, but allowing students to play their own game. This is the first and the only facility on the WMU campus with this type of technology at this time. “All the conduit and the raceways are in place for a similar room across the hall,” said Wreggelsworth. “Getting the right technicians to set up the space and make it work was a real challenge, because this is not something that is done all the time.” Miller-Davis managed the building’s challenging audiovisual and furnishings package. Almost all of the building’s 50 instructional spaces are equipped with a projector system for the instructor’s computer, a split screen approach with a projection screen on one side and a white tack board on the other, along with a special help button for audiovisual assistance. The building is also host to a variety of specialty spaces. Student teachers benefit from a TeachLive System that records their training sessions for post-review. In the Center for Counseling and Psychological

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counseling training and is among the finest counselor education and counseling psychology training facilities in the nation,” said Professor and Chair, Department of Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology, Patrick H. Munley, PhD, ABPP. Other specialty spaces include the Dorothy J. McGinnis Reading Center & Clinic designed to help children improve reading skills and the Merze Tate Grants & Innovation Center, the only space on campus with a series of flexible, demountable partitions designed to accommodate the changing needs of diverse researchers. WMU’s Facilities Department is also a forward-thinking owner, electing to use the project’s Building Information Model (BIM) to maintain the building. “The BIM model is a bottomless filing cabinet of information and knowledge that needs to be used throughout the building’s life-cycle,” said Strazdas. “We know that 20 to 25 percent of the total life-cycle of a building is design and construction, while the other 70 to 80 percent of the cost of a building is operating it for the rest of its life. The cost of building a facility is pocket change compared to the cost of operating one over its life span. We want to expose this rich amount of BIM information to those who have to maintain the building. We envision having a technician carrying a tool-box in one hand and a tablet in the other.” In creating collaborative learning spaces, in crafting sustainable systems, and in using technology as an ally in the classroom, Western Michigan University is clearly part of the grand evolution in higher education. Fortunately, WMU also has professional allies in the design and construction industry, such as SHW Group and the Miller-Davis Company. More than delivering a sustainable, high-tech and collaborative facility, both firms have crafted a beautiful building, creating a wonderful space for the entire WMU campus. “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

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AN ENVIRONMENT FOR HEALING Children’s Hospital of Michigan Specialty Center: It’s all About the Children By Doug Pawloski, Contributing Editor magine two scenarios from two different points of view. In the first scenario, a healthcare professional goes to work at a facility that is processing nearly ten times the number of patients it was designed to serve. Clinical space and equipment are limited to the point where the staff has developed workarounds in order to do their jobs and care for their patients. They can only imagine how it must be for some of their colleagues who work in newer facilities around the country. In the second scenario, parents arrive with their child at the same facility seeking outpatient services. The entire family is there, the child is not feeling well, and everyone is a little uneasy. They are late because parking was difficult so they rush into

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Photography by Christopher Lark, Inc. the building and navigate the large hospital facility. They endure the registration process and set off to find their physician’s office only to play the waiting game until their name is called. The Children’s Hospital of Michigan Specialty Center-Detroit (CHMSCD), opened its doors on June 5, 2012 to eliminate the issues described in those two scenarios. The new facility, on the Detroit Medical Center (DMC) campus, was a long time in planning and construction, but the owners and the team that designed and built it can take a much-deserved bow and join the medical staff and patients who are celebrating with them. The CHMSCD helped address multiple patient-care needs with an “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

both clinically and emotionally.” Second, this new specialty center provides more clinical and administrative space for the medical staff, helping them perform more effectively and work more collaboratively, with less stress. “Our physicians have seen their peers throughout the country practice medicine in beautiful modern buildings, and they never thought they would see this in their lifetime,” said Ewald. COMMUNITY OUTREACH In planning the CHMSCD, the DMC reached out to the community to share its plans and invite their feedback. The facility would be located between the Medical Center Apartments to the north and Tolan Playfield to the south, so residents were very concerned about their access to the park. “The plans had to be approved by the Citizens District Council, a group of nine or ten individuals who either live or work in this general area,” said James Wright, corporate vice president, Facility Engineering and Construction, DMC. “That was a good process because residents had input into the look and feel of the building and how it was going to meld into their neighborhood.” In response to their concerns, access to the park was provided via a pathway through the healing garden. DMC’s commitment to the community is also evident in its internal policy requiring 30 percent of construction revenues be distributed to Detroit-based, minority and woman-owned businesses. Project Engineer Nicole Blocker, Brinker LLC said, “We had to make sure that we exceeded those goals because we were the first project out of the box for this whole program.” Hundreds of vendors were invited to attend group meetings where they discussed the CHMSCD project and were given the opportunity to register for inclusion on an “approved vendors” list that larger contractors relied on when they needed to add trades. Brinker also required each contractor to have 30 percent of its contract value go to minority run businesses. Some organizations found creative ways to meet the inclusion requirements, such as buying material from minority companies.

The large, bright canopy at the building’s east entrance welcomes visitors and shelters them from inclement weather. The porous concrete parking plaza in the foreground provides on-site stormwater discharge.

emphasis on achieving two of the hospital’s main objectives. First, the new facility provides its young patients and their families more convenient and easier access to their physicians, helping get them in and out much quicker. “We knew we had to pull the outpatient services out of the inpatient structure across the street for accessibility, ease of parking, and ease of maneuvering around the building,” said Luanne Thomas Ewald, FACHE, vice president of Business Development and Strategic Planning, Children’s Hospital of Michigan. “The thought behind this building was to provide an easily accessible, healing environment; we believe that the surroundings also help promote healing for children and family, Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

FOCUS ON THE CHILDREN While the search for qualified trades continued, the site was being prepared for excavation. The architects had been working on master planning with the DMC since 2005 and were excited to see their plans begin to take shape. “Our program goal for this overall project was to elevate Children’s Hospital’s institutional identity, to integrate a new building with the campus, and to present a fresh face for this progressive institution on Beaubien Street,” said Elise Woodward, AIA, principal in charge, Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott (Boston, MA). “We wanted to provide an environment that focused on health and well-being in a welcoming way…and was able to expand and strengthen the services that had been housed in a very cramped facility.” The use of brick, glass, curtain wall, and metal panel was intended to evoke the qualities of the existing campus. For convenience and accessibility, the building was placed as close to Beaubien Street as possible making it very easy to find. “We took advantage of the curve in Beaubien Street to locate the healing garden right at the front door… as you come into the facility, you see the healing garden and you’re reminded of the wellness that is offered in this facility,” said Patricia DeLauri, AIA, project architect, Shepley Bulfinch. You see circle patterns etched in the glass on the front of the building and a large canopy that welcomes arriving visitors. “A patient’s family arriving with many members can pull up underneath a gracious canopy, and in a very relaxed and sheltered way, enter the clinic,” said DeLauri. These are features meant to have a calming effect on CAM MAGAZINE

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The interior color scheme accommodates colorful art created by the children and displayed throughout the center. This waiting room features a generous space with large circular patterns of color on the floor and themed art on the walls. Circle patterns are a unifying element on the floors and walls throughout the center.

the children and families who visit, but there are so many more features inside. The focus inside challenged the designers to bring daylight into the building and develop the right color palette for the interior. There are many clinics and services located on the garden level, so it was important to bring in as much light as possible to those areas. “The foundation of the building is actually a little bigger than the footprint because there is a skylight that allows light to wash into the waiting space below,” said Elaine Garrett, AIA, project manager, Shepley Bulfinch. “We focused on using those large windows and high ceilings to maximize daylight in the treatment areas.” For the color palette, the designers worked with patients and staff to identify a new image. “The goal was to achieve a look that was colorful and childlike without being childish, and to reinforce the sense that the center is by children, for children,” said

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Woodward. The colors allowed artwork from the institution’s art program, from area schools and local artists, to be installed. Art is created with seasonal or other themes that change over time, and displayed in the lobby area and throughout the facility. One program brings parents in to see their children’s art and have their pictures taken next to their artwork. “We actually have a wait-list of schools that want to do that, so it will be ongoing,” said Ewald. The children in dialysis were given disposable cameras and asked to take pictures and some of those pictures were blown up and displayed in the unit. Layout considerations improved the patient/visitor experience, as well. There are two entrances, one off Beaubien Street and the other off the parking lot under the canopy. Registration and many ancillary services, such as the pharmacy, are located on the main floor near the lobby, easily accessible on a drop-in basis. The plan for

separate rooms gave way to an open dialysis unit when Children’s Hospital President Dr. Herman Gray and the staff in dialysis told the design team how the children enjoy interacting and playing games while undergoing long treatments. There is a physical therapy department that is reminiscent of a Gymboree center with primary colors everywhere, a climbing wall, and large exercise balls. There is no mistaking this facility for anything other than a place for kids, where they come to feel better. DIGGING THROUGH THE CLUTTER Before the center could begin its healing work, it had to be constructed. And before the foundation could be dug, there were old roads, water and sewer mains, and most critically, a major electrical duct bank that had to be relocated. Resolving this issue would be tough and involved working with the City of “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

Detroit, Public Lighting Department, Detroit Water and Sewerage, and DTE Energy. When efforts to expedite the process in a timely manner were unsuccessful, the construction team of Brinker LLC, Detroit, a partnership of L.S.Brinker, Detroit and Barton Malow, Southfield, devised a plan to divide the construction in half. Essentially, they started on the eastern portion first and allowed the other half to catch up once the utilities were moved. The benefits of the strong partnership that the DMC developed with the City of Detroit are manifest in their dealings with the City’s bureaucracy. “The City stepped up and got Director Nate Ford, Buildings, Safety Engineering and Environmental Department, City of Detroit, involved and he got all the bureaucracy stuff out of the way,” said John Miller, Jr., AIA, program manager at AECOM, the project management company hired to assist with DMC’s master plan. Ford’s assistance was instrumental in streamlining the permit approval process throughout the project and that kept things moving. Foundation work began by shoring up the earth along Beaubien with a wooden retaining wall where the building footprint was too close to the roadway to achieve a proper grade. Crews uncovered some interesting pieces of history, including unopened bottles of pharmaceuticals and other relics, in what must have seemed like an archaeological dig. “We actually found an 1800-era water pipe made out of a tree trunk,” said Donald Burnau, Jr., project superintendent, Brinker LLC, the project’s construction manager. “The city confiscated the pipe because they wanted to put it in their museum.” RAINY DAYS AHEAD The weather was another challenge. “The schedule was aggressive and we got clobbered with a horrible winter in terms of rain and snow,” said James Cole, AIC, CPC, LEED AP, president, L.S. Brinker. Monsoonstyle rains started to fall as they began digging the footings. “We documented 11 or 12 inches of rain during the foundation build, and it was just pumps on top of pumps,” said Burnau. “We’d lose the temporary roads every other week because of the mud; once the soil here gets wet, it gets slippery and you lose it.” Burnau credits the foundation contractor, Amalio Corporation, Sterling Heights, for their quality foundation work in those conditions. As they poured up into the structural steel, anchors for the structural steel and curtain wall were set in the concrete with accuracy and the rest of the structural system went up without a hitch. Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

Not so with the glass, however. The original glass company contracted went out of business leaving about 10 percent of the building exposed. “The biggest challenges were scheduling difficulties when the contractor didn’t finish the work and dealing with the bonding companies,” said Cole. It happened six weeks before the building was scheduled to open, so Brinker LLC asked

Lexon Surety Group to step up. In a timely manner, they guaranteed payments to the suppliers and took on the obligation to complete the work. Materials once again began flowing to the site. “It was finished by a local contractor,” said Wright. “If this market hadn’t been so deep in established subcontractors, it might not have happened.” Inside the structure, installation of the

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there digging the parking lot. It was all contaminated soil, as most projects are in Detroit,” said David Martin, project director, Brinker LLC. “We went down three or four feet and brought it up to grade with stone.” The plaza has no visible drains and is designed to allow water to flow through the porous paving material and stone to the subsoil, reducing the amount of water that would normally be routed to the sewer. Another attribute is the parking lot’s lighter color that reflects, rather than absorbs, the heat. THE AWARD GOES TO… The parking plaza also earned two awards, one from the Michigan Concrete Association and one from the State of Michigan for the Commercial Parking Lots “Special Innovation” Award. These awards underscore the DMC’s commitment to the environment and sustainability. The hospital is also making a commitment to ongoing maintenance of the parking lot. The hospital was awarded LEED Certification on this project with diverse elements factoring into the achievement. “The parking lot is a very large installation of porous concrete and we manage most of the rainfall here on this site,” said Miller. Water is a big expense for hospitals, so lowflow plumbing fixtures and high-efficiency water heaters and boilers were used to reduce costs. Electrical fixtures have daylight monitoring to minimize energy use. In addition, nearly 160 tons of demolition and construction waste was recycled, rather than dumped in a local landfill. The team used iPads and a system called VELA to record the punch lists, and instead of crossing off items on a printed list, they checked off items on their tablets. Incomplete or damaged items were logged into the system and the contractors would check the list for their own items. Once the issue was resolved, they checked it off on their iPad triggering a message to Brinker LLC. When the work was verified, Brinker LLC closed the item out. Drawings were also loaded on the tablets. “Normally you’d have to carry around a half-sized set of drawings and there would be five engineers and you’d need a table with you,” said Martin.“Now you could scroll to the area, do a pinch and squeeze to make it bigger, and look at the floor plan.” As far as security and safety go, the DMC has a well-trained security force. Most of them are former Detroit police officers, and they are highly visible, armed, and have the authority to make arrests. They provide escorts to and from vehicles or across the “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

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– O P E N 7 D AY S A W E E K – By Clare Desmond, Contributing Editor Photos by Michael R. McManus, Contracting Resources, Inc. ou probably won’t see candles or incense at the new 2/42 Community Church in Brighton. Nor are you likely to see an organ, but if you do, it will probably be secondary to guitars, keyboards and drums for decidedly modern arrangements. But if a church is a place where people “celebrate, connect and contribute together,” as Lead Pastor David Dummitt says, and do that more than just on Sundays, then the new 2/42 Community Church is definitely onto something. Attendance at the church has grown steadily from the 30 individuals who started it back in 2004, to approximately

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2,600 as of August 2013 who regularly attend one of two services on Sunday and one on Saturday. And now, the church has a freshly renovated and enlarged church building of its own in which to celebrate, connect and contribute – the church’s ‘Three Cs.’ “We encourage the people we come in contact with to celebrate in a weekly service, connect in a small group and contribute to the work of God in our community and around the world,” Dummitt notes on the church’s website. And grow! By 2011, regular attendance had grown enough to support “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

the purchase of the closed Brighton Athletic Club building, which had been vacant for nearly eight years. Following a $7 million renovation and addition to the deteriorated steel structure by Construction Manager, Contracting Resources Inc. (CRI), Brighton, the new 2/42 Community Church’s growing popularity is evident. It has become a go-to venue all week long – just what its founders wanted when they deemed the church a community center as well as a house of worship for Livingston County residents and anyone else who cares to walk in. The 2/42 Church was started in August 2004 by 30 people, some of whom emigrated here from Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois, following Dummitt, then serving in Burlington, KY in a practice called church “planting,” which is to say, they started the church from scratch, without affiliation with any other church. Dummitt was recruited to be Lead Pastor by Brighton resident Bob Smith, a retired police officer who, with his wife Kim, had been interested in starting a new church for several years. Smith is the Brighton Campus Pastor. When the new

church held its first public service in rented space in early 2005, approximately 500 people attended. By the time the church held its first service in its own renovated building, on February 13, 2013, about 3,000 people participated. And the church has been known to attract a whopping 3,800 people. The 2/42 Community Church in Brighton is open from 8 am to 10 pm, seven days a week. In 2009, the church opened a campus in Ann Arbor; Kevin Davis is the Campus Pastor there. NAME, APPEARANCE PIQUE INTEREST Since a founding idea for the church was to encourage people to come to it all seven days of the week, Dummitt and Smith engaged the community in discussions early on to find out what it wanted in the new church/community center. “We wanted a place that people would come to and congregate - and not just on Sundays,” they agreed. The name alone encourages people to inquire about the church, Dummitt noted. It comes from the Bible’s Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 2:42-47, which says, in part: “They devoted themselves to the

apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer… they gave to anyone as he had need… they broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts.” Besides the unusual name, the church’s appearance also encourages inquiry. It exterior is inviting, exciting even, and hard to miss with its multi-colored façade, angled entrances and signage that calls out to a “Kid Community” and “Family Entrance.” The renovated facility is attracting large numbers of enthusiastic people seven days a week, just as its founders had hoped. So many, in fact, that parking already is not sufficient, and additional seating is being added in the mezzanine area of the sanctuary. The church’s sanctuary provides seating for nearly 1,000 plus nine wheelchair spaces on the ground floor, and 168 more in stadium style seating on the mezzanine, also recently renovated in a separate project. An elevator was installed near the entrance to the sanctuary on the building’s east elevation, so that both levels of the structure are accessible to the handicapped. The new facility also offers a host of

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Seen here is the fireplace in the café area in the new addition. A second fireplace, in the outside patio, backs up to the interior one.

amenities and activities in its Community Center area, called The Commons. Besides office/administrative space, there is a café, an indoor regulation U9 (under nine years of age) soccer field, and a large indoor kids’ playscape, designed by Worlds of Wow, Argyle, TX. The playscape includes a rock climbing wall and features entry from both inside and outside, the latter via a curved slide. There are meeting/conference rooms and rooms dedicated to different age groups: young children, teens and adults. There are music and art rooms with lessons available (Lead Pastor Dummitt’s wife, Rachel, directs the art school), as well as youth and teen worship spaces and a recreation or “hang-out” space. There are day-care facilities and a Kid Community for children 2-5 years of age, entered from a hallway decorated with an artistic streetscape highlighting Brighton landmarks and the Detroit skyline, created by Plain Joe Studios of Irvine, CA, working directly for the owner. Plain Joe Studios did the artwork throughout the center, which includes numerous informative and instructional banners and wall hangings. One series of posters provides a brief history of the church. FROM DEAD & BROKEN TO LIVING & ACTIVE “It doesn’t exactly look, smell or feel like a church,” said Jason Whitlock, AIA, LEED AP, regional director for the architect, Visioneering Studios, Denver, CO. The vision of the church, he noted, included the “redemption of that old building, transforming it from

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dead and broken to living and active. It’s an attitude to redeem and reclaim things that are discarded and make them strong.” As an example, he said, the church has a Free Stuff Van used to carry “stuff” to people in need and to give away popsicles, bottled water, sports drinks, ice cream, candy, household supplies, etc. at local businesses, festivals, and to low-income housing residents. “Showing God’s love in practical ways,” Dummitt explained. “The church partners with several local and international organizations to help those in our community, estimated to be roughly 67 percent, who have no church home, and the estimated 20 percent of the people worldwide who live on less than $2 a day. The church has an Impact the World wall of art that encourages people to learn about an immediate need and meet it. One need is to supply laundry detergent for a month to those experiencing financial crisis or poverty. Another need is to provide clean drinking water in Haiti. The church’s RainCatchers Program in Haiti builds rainwater collection and storage systems for individual families.” Whitlock and his colleagues at Visioneering Studios - Jana Edelbrock Simison, AIA, LEED AP®, project architect, and Brooklyn Allen, RA, LEED AP® - designed a colorful exterior featuring several eye-catching entryways. Speaking to the church’s mission to reclaim the discarded, the designers employed reclaimed materials on the exterior and interior, and used them in ways that are fun, inviting and hard to ignore. Old wood sliding barn doors, for example, lead into one conference room, and a steel shipping container was used “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

for the Snack Shack. The old 680-foot-long athletic club structure, used primarily as a tennis club, was a pre-engineered steel building and was in â&#x20AC;&#x153;significant disrepairâ&#x20AC;? after being vacant for about eight years, said Contracting Resources President James Barnas, AIA. In addition to Barnas, also involved in the project were the contractors: John Jickling, director of pre-construction services, who interfaced with the architect; Dave Melville, project manager; Mike Cirka, project engineer; and Ian Perry, project superintendent. Civil engineering services were provided by consultant Wayne Perry PE, Desine Inc., Brighton. The project called for selective demolition of the existing structure and construction of an approximately 30-foot to 35-foot-deep by 150-foot-wide addition to the north and east elevations. The 88,800-square-foot project renovated 73,500 square feet of space (60,900 square feet on the upper level and 12,600 square feet on the lower level), and added 15,300 square feet (4,800 square feet on the lower level and 10,500 square feet on the upper level). The existing structure was modified for added dead and live loads. The addition created a completely new faĂ§ade that differed significantly from the other building elevations, Barnas said. What was there before was a fairly plain masonry wall of buff-colored bricks, a portion of which was retained and the addition extends north. Two new entrances were constructed on the north elevation for the addition, one of which enters directly into the cafĂŠ and leads to the administrative offices. The cafĂŠ has indoor and outdoor seating and indoor and outdoor fireplaces, the latter facing an ashlar patterned stamped concrete patio surrounded by a 3foot-tall cultured stone wall. The fireplaces were placed back to back so they look like one, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re actually two separate fireplaces. Two more entrances were created on the east elevation: one to the Kid Community and the other to the main sanctuary. INTERNET-BASED CONFERENCING Contracting Resources Inc. worked closely with the 2/42 owners during the design phase, CRIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jickling said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Due to the fact that Visioneering is based in Denver, design review meetings were conducted via internet-based conferencing programs,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We helped communicate the design intent to the client, and our presence at these meetings helped guide Bob (Smith) Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

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and Dave (Dummitt) through the evolution from schematic design to construction.” The cost implication of every design decision was weighed on cost/benefit, he added. “The challenges of making the old, tired building functional and creating the dynamic spaces proposed by Visioneering required creative solutions to keep the project within budget,” Jickling continued. “Some of those solutions included leaving the existing asphalt tennis court surface in place and pouring a 3-inch concrete topping over it; keeping existing racquetball court walls in place wherever possible, and the judicious use of substitute finishes and systems while keeping to the design intent.” The existing pre-engineered metal building was too large of an area for the assembly use, architect Whitlock explained. Therefore, the existing structure was completely reanalyzed and then compartmentalized into three fire areas. Jickling said separating the building into three fire areas with two full-height masonry 3-hour firewalls would allow up to 2,850

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36-foot LED screen center-stage aided by a pair of slightly smaller screens to each side and high-end electronics behind the stage. Lighting for the stage is controlled remotely from the back of the room. There is a fullsized baptismal pool that by June 2013 had been used 280 times, Dummit noted. The church, which Dummitt says conducts funerals free of charge, maintains an extensive website and Facebook page, and multiple videos of services can be seen on YouTube.com. On the website, Lead Pastor Dummitt explains the mission of the church: “Our weekend services are designed to present basic biblical truths and how they apply to our everyday lives. They reflect our belief that you shouldn’t have to disconnect from the things you enjoy, the music you like or your sense of humor, just because you are in church.” In its design and usage, it seems the new 2/42 Church and Community Center has achieved what it set out to do: create a multi-use facility that engages spirit and body, and which creates a friendly, viable and growing community.

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metal drums were reused to surround the Bvent of an indoor fireplace in the soccer field. Another fireplace installed in the patio area outside the soccer field also features what appears to be a vent stack surrounded by more 55-gallon drums, but the drums there are just for visual effect. The soccer field is covered in rubberized synthetic turf from Shaw Sports Turf, Kennesaw, GA. Operable glass overhead doors on the east side of the field – through which the reclaimed shipping container barely fit – open onto the patio constructed of concrete stamped to look like wood planks. Before any new construction could begin, however, the site required grading and foundation repair which included the installation of 87 helical piers, some as deep as 40 feet, Perry said. In addition, the existing floor level had to be elevated one foot in an area approximately 30 feet x 120 feet toward the north end of the existing lower level in order to bring it up to the grade elevation of the slab south of it. Services in the sanctuary are enhanced with state-of-the-art electronics, a 12-foot x

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UDM LAW CLINIC CENTER OPENS IN HISTORIC FIREHOUSE By Clare Desmond, Contributing Editor eorge J. Asher was just a teenager when his immigrant parents died, leaving him head of a household of siblings during the Great Depression. He quit high school, got a job to support his two brothers and two sisters, earned a GED diploma, and over time became a successful non-attorney union negotiator for a local law firm. He was a hero to his younger brother, Anthony, who was only eight years old when their parents died. With the encouragement of the attorneys he worked for, George managed to start law school. In 1963 he was close to graduating from the

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Photography by Christopher Lark, Inc. University of Detroit, now University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) School of Law, while still defending workers’ rights as a labor negotiator, when he died at age 40 of complications from hemophilia. Anthony was a first-year law student at UDM at the time. Almost 50 years later, on Dec. 11, 2012, with a principal gift from the younger brother who idolized him, the George J. Asher Law Clinic Center at the UDM School of Law held its grand opening in the renovated former Detroit Fire Department’s Engine 2 Firehouse. Anthony Asher’s gift was to honor his brother’s life-long legacy of “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

helping others. The new clinic office fittingly represents a commitment by both George Asher and the UDM Law School to serve the underserved. The Law Clinic Center, at 585 Larned Street, Detroit, houses the law school’s urban law clinics that provide legal counsel to people who otherwise couldn’t afford it. “He was always a ‘giver’ and he never complained,” Asher said of his brother, adding that his other brother also died of hemophilia, at the age of 38. He praised UDM Law School’s clinical program. “It’s a great project for the law school and the Jesuits,” Asher said, noting that the law clinics are a product of an “esteemed academic institution and are open to people who really need the help.” Asher is CEO and managing partner of the Southfield-based law firm of Sullivan, Ward, Asher & Patton PC, named last year as one of Fortune Magazine’s “2012 Top Ranked Law Firms.” The new law clinic building became a reality with major gifts, as well, from the heirs of Walter Buhl Ford III, the McGregor Fund, the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, and others. The building has been named the Walter Buhl Ford III Hall. As the Law Clinic Center held its grand opening in December 2012, it also celebrated the 47th anniversary of the law school’s first Urban Law Clinic, which began offering legal aid to the poor in 1965, among the earliest law schools in the country to do so. Begun in a storefront a little south of the new building on Larned Street, the Urban Law Clinic made national news at the time. That anniversary was shared in 2012 with the UDM School of Law’s 100th anniversary. The Law Clinic building is only a half-block away from the UDM Law School’s main Riverfront campus, Dowling Hall, on East Jefferson Avenue. Recently retired UDM Law School Dean, Lloyd A. Semple, was a major force in getting the Law Clinic Center project rolling.

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URBAN LAW CLINICS Last year, the school’s law clinics assisted 1,450 people. Student lawyers are supervised by UDM Law School faculty and serve clients in separate clinics: Urban Law; Immigration; Mediation and Mediation Training; Veterans/Project SALUTE; Veterans Appellate; Criminal Trial; Appellate Advocacy/State Appellate Defenders Office; Youth Justice; Mortgage Foreclosure Defense; and Juvenile Law Appellate. The UDM Law School is the only law school in the country to operate a mobile law unit – Project SALUTE – that travels throughout Michigan and the nation providing free legal advice to veterans. Since 2008, Project SALUTE has traveled to 28 states helping veterans gain approximately $1.5

million in pension and disability benefit claims. It travels the country in recreational vehicles, one donated by General Motors and the other by an anonymous donor, offering free legal services to veterans, while developing and training a national network of pro bono attorneys to continue the work in their states. The old Detroit Fire Department Engine House 2 is now “putting out fires of a different kind,” said UDM Clinical Programs Director and Associate Professor C. Michael Bryce. “This building has really made a difference and will allow us to provide more and better services to the Detroit community, which the University of Detroit Mercy has been doing since 1965,” Bryce said. UDM President Antoine M. Garibaldi, Ph.D., has been quoted on the law school’s clinical program: “Service is one of the pillars of University of Detroit Mercy’s mission, and for 47 years UDM’s School of Law clinics have made a significant impact on the lives of many individuals in this community and across the country.” At least two more alumni also donated substantially to the new center: Robert S. Molnar, JD, vice president and chief executive officer, Wm. Molnar Roofing Inc., Riverview, on behalf of his father, William, president, and brother, William B., vice president and chief operating officer; and Joseph S. Daly, JD, assistant dean of the law school since 1984, and president and general counsel and one of four brothers who own Daly Merritt Properties, Wyandotte. Daly donated architectural and engineering services of the firm’s Wayne Dutton to the project’s LEED certification efforts, which were a priority of the school. “I believe in the clinical program,” Daly said. “It is very necessary to assist people in need, and it’s a fantastic program for our students as well, providing them with hands-on experience. It’s wonderful.” Daly extended kudos to the architect of record, Tom Roberts, AIA, Thomas Roberts Architects, Wyandotte. “He’s a very talented guy,” Daly enthused. The Molnar Company donated materials and labor for the roofing system “and a whole lot more,” said Theodore (Ted) Smith, project manager with Construction Manager (CM) McCarthy & Smith, Inc. (no relation), Farmington Hills. “It’s amazing; the man was willing to do just about anything and everything to help,” Smith emphasized. “It wasn’t just roofing material and a little bit of labor. He provided a whole scope of work… he was very, very helpful.” Dwight Blakey was the CM’s field superintendent on the project. CAM MAGAZINE

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The reception area of Law Clinic Center is warm, inviting and light-filled. The photo in background shows George J. Asher on the right, for whom the center is named, and Anthony Asher, JD, his younger brother who donated a principal gift to UDM for the center to honor his brother’s legacy of helping those in need.

UDM Law School Assistant Dean/Operations and Chief of Staff Amy K. Smith, JD, said that while Molnar was a UDM law student “he told me that when he was in the clinical program he didn’t feel as though he could give back as much as he wanted because he had a family business to run. When he heard about this opportunity, it was his way of giving back.” “I got a tremendous education from UDM,” said Molnar, who achieved his JD degree in 2010. He said he selected to work in the veterans’ clinic while a student to fulfill an academic requirement. Molnar praised the clinics for helping low-income clients, and particularly for helping veterans obtain benefits. In addition to the roof system, the Molnar firm also provided carpentry assistance in re-building a stairwell shaft. Roofing for the Law Clinic Center consists of a 60 mil. solar-reflective white membrane from Versico Roofing Systems, Carlisle, PA, over a wood deck. There was some deterioration to the wood roof structure that had to be replaced, architect Roberts said. “We also added mechanical units onto the roof that were not there before, so we had to deal with that, a structural loading issue.” The clinical program now resides in a historic two-story building that provides 6,748 square feet of renovated space, out of a total 9,372 square feet. The renovation included all but the basement, which may be renovated sometime in the future. The project included new windows, exterior renovation and major systems upgrades. In addition to the new HVAC system and upgrades to the

Two red spiral staircases in the old engine house, used by firemen back in the day, to help to retain the historical feel of the newly renovated building.

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mechanical and electrical systems, the scope of work also included masonry limestone tuck-pointing on the exterior; new interior finishes (ceilings, lighting, drywall and paint); refinished floors; preserving and refinishing old wood paneling; woodwork and wainscoting; and a new front door at the Larned Street entrance. The modernized interior includes a reception area; offices; meeting rooms; open workspaces with cubicles for students; and restrooms for students, faculty and clients. The building is fully wireless and linked to the main law school. A DOOR IS A WINDOW TO… OR MAYBE NOT The historic property was built about 1909 and used as the Detroit Fire Department’s (DFD) Engine 2 Firehouse from 1918 until the DFD sold it in the 1940s. It has had several owners since, the last being the heirs of Walter Buhl Ford III. Ford had mostly gutted the interior, but he left much of the building’s architecturally significant details intact, including white glazed subway tile walls, two red spiral staircases, interior wainscoting and other woodwork, a lookout tower and the double doors the fire trucks used. The fire poles were removed in prior renovations, but the holes they came through are still there. Assistant Dean Smith wanted to keep even more of the white glazed subway tile, but plenty is there to remind visitors that the building once housed a fire department crew. Even the nicks and gouges that pepper the glazed tile bring to mind firemen accessing engine bays from those spiral staircases. Both Roberts, who has provided architectural services for numerous restoration/renovations projects on older buildings, and Smith said they also would have loved to have kept the wood floors on the second floor, which in the end were replaced as a practicality. And those fire-engine red doors on the St. Antoine Street side? They look like the original doors, but those were not salvageable. Since the University had a desire to maintain as much of the building’s historical character as possible, Roberts designed faux doors. The doors are actually part of the wall system that was made to look like the old double doors from which fire trucks used to enter and exit. And, they were painted bright red. The building was purchased in February 2012, the design completed by May, construction started in July, and ended in early December. The focus of the approximately $1.2 million project was to Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

create an inviting and functional space that maintained several of the original design elements of the former working fire station, while retrofitting the building to create an accessible two-story space that was efficient to operate and which created a comfortable office environment. Among attributes of the newly renovated building that particularly please its owners is the amount of natural light coming into all spaces. “The light that comes in here is absolutely incredible,” Bryce enthused. Lowwalled office cubicles and lots of interior glass allow natural light to penetrate from the windows on the east side of the building. The narrow building has no windows on its west side, which abuts another building. All new historically accurate double-hung windows were installed, with those on the first floor featuring custom-made decorative ornamental steel security shutters. The windows, which are operable on the second floor, were supplied by Graham Architectural Products, York, PA. “We were able to replicate the original windows, although they’re not wood,” Roberts said.“Two or three windows in the hose tower are original to the building

and the architect used them to match their shape and profile in the new custom windows. Another design feature the owners wanted was to keep the “academic” look of the building by retaining the stained wood wainscoting, in order to carry over design elements from a previous renovation of the main law school building. All the furniture and other finishes, selected by UDM’s Smith, were chosen with that in mind. Bryce noted that the center’s clients appreciate the new offices, too. “It was a huge change for the clients,” he said. “For clients coming in now, it’s just like coming into a law firm.” The center has seen an increase in clientele, “particularly in getting more walk-ins.” OLD BUILDINGS = CHALLENGES The rapid timeline was a major challenge for the construction manager. “It was a challenging project for all of us, taking a building of this vintage and doing something with it,” the CM’s Smith said. “Tom’s drawings were very good, but we found a lot of things in the building that were a little bit different than what we had thought, such as the walls

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The office area shows the interior wall system made to look like fire engine doors. The back wall shows white-glazed brick salvaged in the renovation of the old Detroit Fire Department Engine House 2, built around 1909.

Seen here is the first floor former lounge area converted to student work spaces. The fireplace is original, as are the wainscoting and other woodwork.

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in the building.” Roberts concurred, adding that there were no original drawings. “We had to do everything by feel and we had to generate the as-built drawings. When that happens there are discrepancies in dimension or wall thicknesses (some 2 feet to 3 feet thick), and construction type.” Smith added, “This is an old wood-framed building, and that brought in a number of challenges, particularly with the fire proofing and that sort of thing, to bring it to code.” The project included tapping into the water system in order to install fire sprinklers. Putting in the sprinkler system “was a voluntary decision,” Roberts noted, adding that the size of the building (under 10,000 square feet) and construction type made it unnecessary in terms of code. However, he said they would have had to chemically treat the wooden roof structure if they hadn’t put the sprinkler system in place. Differing floor elevations challenged the construction team, as well. “Another thing “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

both the architect and contractor had to contend with were some different floor elevations, and trying to ramp those or even them out to try to keep some semblance of similar elevation,” Smith said. From the front door to the back of the building, the grade drops about 18 inches, Roberts noted. Construction crews also had to work around pedestrian and vehicular traffic on a relatively small site in a downtown area. Access to the law school’s parking lot across St. Antoine Street helped with that. In addition, while the lookout tower at the back of the structure was retained, a wood staircase going up to it was replaced with a steel one within the same space, “It was like putting a new stairway in a shaft,” Smith said. “It’s actually a hose-drying tower from the old days,” Roberts explained. “The firemen would go up and look around and see where the fire was, and they also would use the tower to hang the hoses to dry. We gutted all that out because that’s where the fire stair, the second means of egress from the building, is located, and it also provides access to the roof.” They weren’t required to replace the old wood staircase, because the building use didn’t change, Roberts explained; however they chose to do so anyway since everyone involved considered it unsafe. The renovation wasn’t all challenges, though. The building already had an elevator, so that presented a cost-savings, and the exterior was in pretty good shape, Roberts said. Because the building had been gutted by its previous owners, there was some demolition savings, as well. UDM personnel involved in the project included David Vandelinder, director of facilities operations and construction management, and Rodney Warren, construction supervisor. Additionally, the project benefited from the working relationship between UDM’s Smith and the CM’s Field Superintendent, Blakey. “This really was a smooth running project,” UDM’s Bryce said. “One of the reasons the project went so smoothly, so well, was the excellent professional rapport between Dwight and Assistant Dean Smith for the law school.” Smith brought to the task about 15 years’ experience in construction via the commercial real estate industry. From the beginning, a critical element and goal of the university was the intent to minimally meet LEED® criteria for Silver certification. A process outlined by the U.S. Green Building Council was followed, and a LEED® team was created for the project, spearheaded by UDM’s Smith. Also on the team were Wayne Dutton, Daly Merritt Properties Inc., Wyandotte, who provided architectural support and implemented the architectural design credits; John Richards, PE, LEED® AP, MA Engineering, Birmingham, who provided mechanical and electrical design for the project and implemented the related design credits; and McCarthy & Smith’s Steve Cipparone, CPC, LEED® AP, Jonathon Teagan and Blakey, who handled the construction related credits. “Amy (Smith) is doing all of the submission process,” Cipparone said. “She has taken on that role from the very beginning and she’s been the driving force.” Clinical Programs Director Bryce is grateful to the project team. “I wish to say thank you to a number of people for this building because it really made a difference,” he said. “All members of the project team recognized the value in their working well together. There was a lot of flexibility in the working relationship with everybody, which really helped in getting the project done,” Roberts said. “Especially in old buildings, there are so many unknowns. There were a lot of things we had to figure out.” Figure it out they did, for the project has presented the university’s law school clinical program with a beautiful office building in a restored historic structure. It’s a great thing for students, faculty, and mostly for the clients it has served for 47 years. Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

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THE GOOD EARTH AND A GREAT Chelsea Community Hospital Offers Private Rooms on a Wooded Site By Mary E. Kremposky, Associate Editor he green halo of forest surrounding Chelsea Community Hospital (CCH) is thick enough to support a thriving community of deer, fox, rabbits and wild turkeys. Occasionally, the maintenance staff even discovers a tent or two set up by local kids camping in the heavily wooded grounds of a hospital located right in the middle of Chelsea. Albert Kahn Associates, Inc., Detroit, did a remarkable job of expanding the hospital while preserving this

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Photographs by Christopher Lark, Inc. well-wooded site, long coveted by the local community for dogwalking, exercise and a healthy dose of the great outdoors. This low-profile, two-story expansion is beautifully woven into the lush natural tapestry of the main 67-acre campus, courtesy of a joint venture of The Christman Company, Lansing, and The AIMS Group, Inc., Livonia. Thanks to this 130,000-square-foot expansion, the community has the best of both worlds: a forested site that has “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

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been a mainstay within the village of Chelsea for over 40 years and a highly ranked hospital with newly created private rooms, an expanded Emergency Department (ED), and more easily accessible outpatient services. “The building accommodates all of our Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

needs but does not overwhelm the site,” said CCH Vice President Phillip Boham. “Kahn’s architects did a great job of designing the building to fit the campus and to maintain the trees. Having lived in this community all my life and having worked at the hospital for over 30 years, I can absolutely say that the community is thrilled with the project.” The expansion also brings the great outdoors, indoors. Walk through the new main entrance and the eye falls on the atrium’s curved sweep of art glass. With pebbles at the base and wide ribbons of copper- and amber-colored glass, the art piece conjures up the image of a peaceful creek. The “flow” of curved glass visually directs the visitor to the information desk and sets the tone for the entire interior. Beyond the desk, the corridors and spaces weave alongside a series of outdoor courtyards that never leave patients, staff or visitors far from natural light and healing vistas. Sage green and softly colored walls, simulated wood flooring and a treasure trove of artwork, ranging from rural barns to the Sleeping Bear Dunes, add to the natural feel of the interior. “The finishes are beautiful and very calming,” said CCH President and CEO Nancy Kay Graebner. “The colors flow back into the wooded campus, and it all feels very tranquil. The project team did a great job.” Kahn Senior Vice President, Chief Strategic Officer and Principal in Charge, W. Clift Montague, AIA, LEED AP sums up the spirit of the new building and of this gem of a hospital in the middle of the woods: “Community and nature are the two things that really drove the design. There is a great deal of evidence-based design demonstrating that nature, support and community are important components in healing. The hospital has a perfect setting and an excellent staff that works according to these principles. The design builds on those strengths.” The evidence clearly points to CCH’s strengths: Becker’s Hospital Review recently named CCH as one of the 100 Great Community Hospitals in the United States. “The hospital has also consistently ranked in the top three for quality of care throughout the entire Trinity Health network,” added Boham. CCH’s recent merger with Trinity Health’s Saint Joseph Health System actually fueled the $40 million expansion - the largest in CCH’s history. A TIGHT COMMUNITY Project team selection was based on community spirit. “Being a small community hospital, we thrive on relationships,” said Boham. “What is important to us is

developing a relationship with people and companies that work well with our staff and have the same values and culture.” Christman had worked with AIMS prior to forming the joint venture; Christman and Kahn have worked with each other and for Trinity Health. Moreover, AIMS has worked on the Chelsea campus since the mid-90s, having expanded the original Emergency Department and having constructed the Wellness Center, IT Building, and the Medical Office Building, as well as several significant renovations in the current Surgery Center and its operating rooms. “For nearly two decades, we have truly felt a part of the Chelsea Hospital family and community,” said AIMS Group Principal Tom Crawford. The project team worked as a tight community to build an expansion with minimal site disturbance and maximum program delivery, all within a budget as wellcrafted as the building. Working under a guaranteed maximum price contract, Christman/AIMS joined the project in the very early stages, keeping an eagle eye on the budget. “We first established a conceptual construction budget, working closely with the hospital as well on establishing budgets for all the soft costs, including the design fees, the medical equipment and furniture,” said Christman Vice President, Healthcare Services, and Project Director John M. O’Toole, LEED AP. “Working with our project partners, we wanted to ensure that every dollar spent on construction contributed as effectively as possible to high-quality healthcare for patients. “As a team, we wanted to understand what the total cost of the project was, so that we had a better understanding of how much the hospital could afford to build,” O’Toole continued. “Several budgets were done at various milestones, including the fairly exhaustive value analysis workshop at the end of schematic design. Throughout this life-cycle cost analysis, however, we always made sure that we were never jeopardizing loss of program.” A COMMUNITY BUILDING The building’s very materials draw this new structure into the fabric of the community. On the exterior, the slightly weathered brick blends with the existing hospital; the fieldstone references the historic buildings in the Village of Chelsea. “We did an image analysis of the Chelsea community and of the various campus buildings to integrate these elements into the design,” said Kahn Associate and Senior Healthcare Planner Michael Pacheco. The building’s form is in perfect harmony CAM MAGAZINE

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The new expansion brings the great outdoors, indoors. With its wide ribbons of copper- and amber-colored glass, the atrium’s curved sweep of art glass conjures up the image of a peaceful creek. Paintings by Michigan artists also fill the interior with comforting images of the natural world.

with the existing hospital and the wooded site. CCH was originally built as a skilled nursing facility before its transformation into a full-scale hospital in the early 1970s. “The original hospital has a pavilion feel, being formed of a series of pods and their separate entrances, all tucked back into nature,” said Montague. The new expansion is a contemporary rendition of the original pavilion style. Clinical care is housed in four, brick-clad building pods linked by the curved sweep of large glazed openings framed in fieldstone and metal panels. Like the existing hospital, the new building is also tucked back into nature. Kahn had to camouflage this sizeable addition “to draw attention away from the building and towards the surrounding natural features of the site,” said Kahn Manager of Programming and Planning, Project Designer Jeffrey Gaines, AIA, AICP, LEED AP. The first strategy was to opt for a structure of modest height rather than a conventional

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patient tower. “Along with the owner, we considered going as high as three stories, but ultimately we stayed with a lower profile that blends with the site and with the scale of the existing hospital,” said Pacheco. Kahn also limited stretches of straight exterior wall to 100 feet to reduce the building’s visual impact. “To avoid the appearance of a ‘big-box’ medical facility, a design rule was established to limit the length of any visible portion of the exterior façade,” said Gaines. As the most obvious example, the new addition’s main south face has a graceful bend – a concave arc lending an organic sensibility to the building’s form. “The design team consciously chose a building profile in harmony with the organic nature of the site’s topography and woodlands,” Gaines added. MOTHER NATURE AS FACILITIES MANAGER The new expansion actually covers the footprint of the first three buildings ever

constructed for CCH. Following the hospital’s Master Plan, placing the new addition into the same location as these small, pod-like outpatient clinics helped to preserve as many trees as possible, said Pacheco. Because the new addition is larger than these outdated, now demolished clinics, some modest tree removal was conducted under controlled conditions. “Many of the mature trees on the hospital grounds have never had broad exposure and needed to be left in larger groupings for their long-term well-being,” said Gaines. “This fact influenced the number of trees that were eventually removed. “We also sought to provide a regenerative environment, so that the plant material that needed to be removed for construction could easily replenish itself over time,” he continued. “Consequently, large areas of pavement were avoided in favor of planting areas in between rows of parking. Our intent was to work with nature and not against it “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

for many reasons, including that in our experience, nature usually wins when challenged.” Clearly, this development enlists the natural world as an ally. In preserving the site and a series of courtyards, “the tranquil nature of the site is captured for the benefits of the patients, visitors and staff,” said Gaines. He cites several studies demonstrating these restorative benefits: Patients in rooms with pleasant views require less pain medication and are discharged earlier (Roger Ulrich, 1984); a decreased length of stay is observed for patients in sunlit rooms (Beauchemin and Hays, 1996). CCH’s new expansion puts the research into practice, both in its patient rooms and its well-windowed connection corridors threading along the edges of two courtyards. Even the ED has a skylight drawing natural illumination into this often stressful space. Beyond her healing powers, Mother Nature is also an excellent facilities manager, for a building surrounded by a leafy fringe of trees reduces operational costs. “Trees shade the building in the summer, and their leafed profile encourages breezes at the ground plane, which help to reduce cooling costs,” said Gaines. ESTABLISHING NEW ROOTS Arriving on site in May 2011, Christman/AIMS had to preserve these stands of mature trees at all costs. “Between the designer’s careful forethought and the construction group’s careful planning of logistics for staging and site access, the project team was always conscientious about protecting the existing trees and landscape,” said Crawford. “The hospital made a significant parking area available for staging materials for our ‘just-in-time’ delivery. At the end of the day, preserving the woods presented design and logistic challenges, but it was worth it, because the building looks like it ‘grew’ there.” Beyond trees at grade, deep peat deposits below grade influenced the project. “Historically, peat was commercially mined or extracted from the site beginning in the 1930s and not ending until the 1950s,” said Boham. The three outpatient pods avoided these peat pockets by being sited on a series of clay domes. Being larger, the new building hit a 37-foot-deep peat deposit in its southwest corner. “This deep pocket of peat was under about 25 percent of the new addition’s 54,000-square-foot footprint,” said Christman Project Manager Keith G. Berry, LEED AP. Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

Christman/AIMS drove sheet pile through the peat as part of an earth retention system to manage these soil conditions. “Our work required a great deal of coordination with the hospital,” said Berry. “They perform a lot of eye operations and other delicate surgeries, typically beginning in the early morning.” Clearly, pile driving and eye surgery don’t mix. Christman/AIMS worked in the late afternoon, evenings and even Saturdays to avoid interfering with hospital operations. After peat removal, Construction/AIMS installed a flowable fill in lieu of conventional granular backfill. The flowable fill hardens like concrete, and “rapidly develops load-bearing properties with no compaction necessary,” according to www.flowable fill.org. Berry added, “Backfilling with conventional sand would risk dispersing or spreading out the load and the backfill towards and possibly even past the earth retention system.” A section of the building’s partial basement extends into the deep southwest peat pocket. “It saved some costs, because we didn’t have to backfill this area,” said

Montague. The roughly 18,000-square-foot basement, occupying a little less than half of the building footprint, houses mechanical space, storage areas for housekeeping and shop areas for the maintenance department. “There was a great deal of thought put into how big the basement was going to be,” said O’Toole. “Was the basement going to be the entire footprint of the building? Should we have a basement at all? The question was how much did the hospital really need and how much could the project really afford. I think what we ended up with was a basement that was right-sized for the needs of the facility.” GOOD SAMARITANS FIX NOAH’S ARK Basement excavation took place just in time to play a key role in rescuing the hospital from a severe flooding event. Christman/AIMS rallied to the aid of the hospital in the aftermath of a severe rainstorm that left over two feet of water on the campus loop road and significant flooding throughout the campus. “It was a Noah’s Ark rainstorm,” recalled O’Toole. In a Good Samaritan show of support,

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Christman/AIMS stopped production and spent a week pumping water from impassable areas of the campus - including the critical access road to the ED – into the basement’s open excavation. “Our construction was delayed in order to get the hospital up and running,” said Berry. “We pumped from the flooded campus road to the basement excavation and from the excavation to the drain in the southeast. Instead of taking the long way around, we bypassed that longer route, filling up our excavation to return the hospital to full capacity much sooner.” Beyond peat deposits and floods, the site’s chronically soggy soils presented a host of concerns. “Continuous pumping was required to lower the ground water table in order to accommodate much of the lower level foundation systems,” said Crawford. Even replacing the main roadway on the south side of the new expansion required extra measures. “A surcharged load was used to compress the soils for months and wick drains were installed to aid in the removal of moisture prior to the new installation,” said Crawford. Challenging soil conditions also impacted utility installation. “Utility structures required shoring for installation, and piles were driven to provide support,” said Crawford. He tallies the long to-do list: “Light pole bases required footings to provide adequate bearing; engineered fill was required under the electrical transformer to provide adequate support; and the type of water main pipe was changed to mitigate issues with potential settlement.”

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A NEW FRONT DOOR Thanks to successful completion of challenging work belowgrade, this structural steel building quickly took shape above concrete footings and foundation walls. Soon the concrete composite first and second floors and the metal roof deck were in place, and the building, along with new main and ED entrances, was wrapped in a cladding of fieldstone, brick and glass. These new entrances were among the core drivers of the project. As the hospital grew over time, the entrances in the north eventually became the back of the campus. Post-expansion, the new southfacing entrances now offer greater visibility and ease of access. The new entries also give the hospital a contemporary edge and a visual presence compatible with its quality reputation. Fieldstoneclad columns support a large metal canopy, offering shelter at the new main entrance. The exterior’s fieldstone, metal soffits and sizeable glazed window openings are a perfect blend of natural and high-tech materials. “The entire face of the new expansion creates a new image that defines Chelsea Community Hospital and Trinity Health well into the 21st Century,” said Gaines. The exterior cladding also showcases the craftsmanship of the trades. “The exterior stone façade is hand-cut and hand-cultured,” said Boham. “It shows absolutely incredible workmanship.” Bracy & Jahr, a Quincy masonry contractor, is responsible for the front of the building’s fieldstone arc. “Even though the planes change, there is no distinct cut in the stone,” said Berry. Architectural Metals, Inc., “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

Portland, is the trade contractor for the metal wall panels. “Because of the bend, the metal panels required a constant back-andforth of fabrication and field measuring,” added Berry. OPEN ARTERIES Post building envelope, Christman/AIMS began the task of establishing the three connection points between the existing and the new buildings. For the lower-level link, the joint venture expanded an existing tunnel that once connected the old pavilion clinics to the hospital. Today, the tunnel runs directly under the fountain and gardenfilled courtyard located in the very heart of the hospital. Two connection points join the two buildings above grade: a type of bridge linking the existing Surgery Center with the newly expanded Emergency and Radiology departments, as well as the elevator to the new patient units; and a long corridor threaded between the new atrium and the flower-dotted outdoor courtyard. This corridor turns into a ramp near its terminus at the hospital chapel and existing corridor system. “The surgery connection serves as the baseline floor elevation for the entire development, making the chapel ramp necessary to accommodate the change in elevation between the hospital’s original patient units and the expansion building,” explained Pacheco. In establishing these linkages, “we submitted our Plan in Place (PIP) to the hospital for review,” said Berry. “Our PIP outlined infectious control measures, interim life safety measures for egress and other factors that had to be considered when we began integrating the new facility into the existing hospital.” Construction of the chapel ramp, now filled with the artwork of local schoolchildren, actually straightened and improved the circulation route to the cafeteria and other areas. “We first had to reconfigure the chapel, because the corridor actually would have come through the original one,” said Berry. HOLDING COURT In linking the two buildings, CCH wanted the design to preserve its coveted outdoor courtyards. “Preserving the serenity offered by the woodland courtyards is essential to the success of the building design and layout,” said Gaines, “as these courtyards provide an enhanced healing environment to the patients, respite and revitalization to the staff, and beauty and tranquility to the public.” The project team bested that request by Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

more strongly defining these existing natural oases and even inserting new walkways, plazas and gardens. These outdoor expanses are now cradled between the existing and new buildings, allowing the hospital to continue its tradition of easy access to a natural environment. The western courtyard even hosts towering mature trees, along with a wide

courtyard and access to the lower-level building.” Access during construction was routed through the new facility. Christman/AIMS used this same pathway for both courtyard access and MRI transport. The joint venture left the glass out of a section of curtain wall to transport the sizeable MRI equipment down an eight-foot-wide corridor with less

The newly expanded Emergency Department includes an easily accessible and comfortable waiting room, lined with clerestory windows above and a row of windows for every seating cluster.

expanse of lawn and outdoor seating. The chapel connector-corridor offer grand views of this inner garden. “The corridors provide access to the courtyards, so the relationship with nature is not lost, but becomes part of the healing environment,” said Pacheco. The eastern courtyard is a landscaped rooftop that “was developed through the expansion of a building in 1993,” said Boham. “The project team had to maintain and conform to that courtyard as well.” The eastern courtyard is a complex nexus of multiple spaces and levels. The rooftop courtyard slopes downward to a lower-level administration entrance, plus it is directly adjacent to the Surgery-ED connection. “The connector had to traverse this area that sloped down to the lower-level administration entry,” said Pacheco. “We also maintained a kind of plaza below the surgery ‘bridge’ for access to the administrative entrance. For the courtyard, what was once more of an open space now had to become enclosed, which meant we needed to provide both egress from the rooftop

than four inches to spare. “We made sure the concrete in this area was of a little higher strength to handle the MRI equipment,” said Pacheco. STRESS-FREE NAVIGATION Christman/AIMS completed phased turnover in December 2012, allowing the hospital to move into its new spaces in January 2013. Staff, visitors and patients can now reap the benefits of a facility whose design and construction beautifully fits the program within the building and the building on the site. Stress-free access to services is also important to those already walking the difficult road to recovery. Kahn’s focus on ease of access and optimal circulation is reflected in a host of comments. “People talk about how easy it is to park and access the hospital, and then once they are in the building, how easy it is to navigate within the building,” said Graebner. The hospital’s new front door is centrally located for clear and swift access to CAM MAGAZINE

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outpatient services. The main entrance opens into public spaces, including a coffee shop, public conference rooms, the information desk and a gift shop four times larger than the original. On the first level, walk to the east for diagnostic imaging and radiology; walk to the west for rehabilitation services, including a cardiac rehab gym, an orthopedic rehab gym, and a faux

and X-ray services or to the existing Surgery Center. The main in-patient elevator is located in this same area to transport emergency patients who might have to be admitted.” Kahn and Christman/AIMS expanded the ED from 12 to 20 exam rooms, and created dedicated walk-in and ambulance entrances separate from the main hospital entry. “We

The interior circulation corridors offer a grand view of the hospital’s central courtyard, blessed with mature trees and a lush lawn and flower gardens in the warmer months.

apartment for the teaching of basic life skills to occupational therapy patients. The second level houses 48 private patient rooms in two main 24-bed units, or four pods of 12. In each pod, six patient rooms flank both sides of a central nursing station and a medical surgical supply area easily accessed from both sides. With these pod-like clusters in irregularly shaped building areas, “the design team challenged the conventional wisdom that efficient medical buildings require large, uninterrupted, orthogonal (i.e. the conventional square grid) facades and floor plates,” said Gaines. Overall, both floors are organized into pod-like concentrations of similar services. The new six-room Intensive Care Unit is located directly above the ED. Kahn created a nexus of compatible services: the ED, the Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology and the existing Surgery Center anchor the east end. “All of these related services are consolidated in one compact area,” said Pacheco. “The ED has easy access to CT scan

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worked closely with the ED physicians in the ,internal layout of this particular department, said Pacheco. “They were keen on having a kind of nerve center for the ED that was centrally placed within the 20 exam rooms between the walk-in entrance, the resuscitation trauma area and the ambulance bay.” The MEP systems were also designed for maximum efficiency. “The new addition’s lighting design beats the ASHRAE 90.1 Energy Code for hospital-type facility use by 22 percent,” said Kahn Senior Associate, Assistant Director of Electrical Engineering Mohammed Kagzi, PE. Kahn Senior Associate, Assistant Director of Mechanical Engineering Johannes Palm, PE, LEED AP, stated a few of the mechanical systems’ energy-efficient measures that now serve the new two-story addition: “The chiller plan operating system was upgraded to include central plant optimization, which provides chilled water temperature reset, condenser water relief and chiller staging in an effort to operate the chilled water plant

at the lowest KW/ton while meeting system demand. “In addition, two new 75 BHP condensing boilers were added to the central heating hot water plant during the project,” continued Palm, “to satisfy peak heating loads and to provide efficient part-load operation for the entire complex during summer operation.” A HEALING ENVIRONMENT CCH’s physical environment is thoughtfully designed to support the ill and injured. “Almost every day, I receive comments about how people love the size of our new private rooms,” said Graebner. “We have made the rooms into very comfortable environments that have such features as couches for families staying the night.” Like a relaxation CD that never ends, windows in every patient room draw in natural light and the tranquility of the woods into the space. Privacy is preserved and infection control maintained in these private rooms that are significantly larger than the hospital’s original semi-private rooms. “I think it is difficult to heal if you are in a room with two patients, along with their families, and you are looking at a brick wall,” said Graebner. “With a large window, a patient can look out and feel like there is more than just this hospital room.” If appropriate, staff can take patients outside on the campus’s wooded walking paths and courtyards. “Many city hospitals don’t have that luxury,” said Boham. “Offering that kind of peace and quiet is one of the things that is really special about this place.” Kahn took cues from the campus’s natural setting in shaping its interior design. “The campus setting, with its trees, flowers and bushes, is soft, and I think Kahn’s interior designers did an excellent job of re-creating that softness,” said Boham. The softness is re-created with color and curves. Curved ceiling soffits, along with swaths of differently stained simulated wood flooring, break up the mass of the patient corridors and serve as wayfinding tools. “The corridors are not monotonous,” said Pacheco. “The alcoves outside of the patient rooms are treated with matching curves in the ceiling and in the flooring.” The cushioned resilient vinyl tile flooring is placed as individual planks to better simulate a hardwood floor. Mastercraft, Redford, has clearly lived up to its name in the installation of a specialty flooring, composed of three large circular pieces that replicate Chelsea Community Hospital’s “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

original logo. Appropriately, the two-tone logo is a thick stand of dense trees, beautifully rendered by Mastercraft in Techno flooring. The logos double as wayfinding devices marking the intersection of the main in-patient pods. This healing space also wraps the patient in a restful cocoon of quiet. “We used highdensity ceiling tiles, which absorb a great deal of noise,” said Boham. “We also use all hard-core doors, and we kept the central nursing stations encased in glass to keep the noise down.” Room service completes CCH’s long list of patient services. “It’s just like hotel room service,” said Boham. “Patients are given a menu to order from during the day and it is delivered by a hostess within 10 minutes. We have just started enhancing the program by offering it to visiting family members. This not only increases patient and visitor satisfaction, but also reduces costs because less food is wasted.” A COMMUNITY AFFAIR Original artwork of unusual quality also draws the natural world into the interior, and marks this hospital as a place dedicated to the community. “Our community-based

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advisory council members, many of whom are artists themselves, selected all of the paintings and sculptures,” said Graebner. “At our open house, everybody was just astounded by the quality of the artwork.” Approximately 95 percent of the works are local or Michigan artists. “The artwork supplements that community spirit very well,” said Montague. “As a community hospital, CCH also has a strong tradition of hosting Kiwanis, Rotary Club, local sport banquets and other functions at its facility,” said Boham. “In the new expansion, the hospital even inserted new public meeting rooms on the first floor.” The community spirit even influenced site lighting. “We spent a great deal of time worrying about light infiltration to the surrounding residents,” said Boham. “Because all of our lights are indirect and directed downward, people can be in their backyard or on Main Street and not be offended by the lights in our parking lots.” The end result is a new expansion embraced by the community. CCH celebrated the public grand opening in January 2013. Graebner’s own reaction to walking through the new expansion: “I

thought of how wonderful it is for the community to have this type of facility nestled in the woods, and to be only a half hour outside of Ann Arbor and Jackson and to be the hub of Chelsea, Dexter, Grass Lake, Manchester and Stockbridge.” Thanks to Chelsea Community Hospital, Albert Kahn Associates and the joint venture of The Christman Company and The AIMS Group, this healthcare hub has created private rooms and re-organized its services, but it remains well-rooted in the qualities that have endeared it to the people of Chelsea and surrounding areas: a beautiful green site and top-notch healthcare in a small, people-friendly house of healing. In September 2013, Christman/AIMS began working on the second phase: the renovation of 40,000 square feet of the existing hospital, including expansion of the Surgery Center and modifications to further increase the number of private beds. As a future Phase III, the hospital is planning to create a comprehensive cancer center spreading out from the former main entrance. The new center will occupy vacated space in the existing hospital now housed in the new expansion.

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Oakland University Human Health Building Stands United Schools of Nursing and Health Sciences Collaborate in New Building By Doug Pawloski, Contributing Editor Photos Courtesy of The Christman Company and Justin Maconochie 102

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n recent years, the Nursing and Health Sciences departments at Oakland University, Rochester, had been experiencing increases in enrollment, and forecasts promised steady growth in both fields. “Schools continually grow, and both enrollments were up substantially. They were so tight with space that they were conducting classes in the hallway in some instances,” said Oakland University’s Associate Vice President for Facilities Management, Terry Stollsteimer. The two departments were short on space, and the projected industry growth supported the need for a new building. Sounds like an easy sell, but the University had to work hard to convince an apprehensive staff that unification under a new roof was the right thing to do. It was apparent that choosing the right partners to design and build a new facility would be critical to the transition and overall success of the project. One of the first challenges the University faced was planning to build its first academic building in several years, on a highly visible corner of campus, and needing it to blend in with the existing campus but also wanting it to stand out at the same time. What to do? They hired the architectural firm SmithGroup JJR in Detroit and The Christman Company, a construction manager/developer from Lansing. The result of this alliance stands proud at the northwest corner of the campus and it’s called the Human Health Building (HHB). Some say it blends in with the rest of campus and others say it stands out, but either way it has quickly become a hot spot. It’s a place where two previously separate departments and their students now interact, collaborate and chill out between classes. During the screening process, the University sited experience, safety, and teamwork among the criteria used to evaluate the firms. “We are looking for a team approach, that all parties can get along together, and that interaction has to be paramount,” said Stollsteimer. With SmithGroup being in business for 160 years and Christman for nearly 120, it’s not surprising the two teams have a long and valued working relationship. “Our two firms have a history that goes back 100 years to some early monumental projects in Detroit, and we’ve maintained a good, strong working relationship with the SmithGroup,” said Senior Vice President Ronald Staley, FAPT, The Christman Company. How this dynamic played out was best described by Stollsteimer when he stated, “I believe in my career of 40 years, this is probably the most successful interaction of owner, architect, and CM (construction management) that I’ve seen; it was a win-win for everyone.”

Oakland University’s Human Health Building on the Rochester campus has brought together the School of Nursing and the School of Health Science fostering a collaborative relationship. (View looking northeast.)

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MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER With the teams in place, the University began discussing details of their vision for the new building and addressing the apprehension some had regarding the merging of the two departments. The experience and thoroughness of the design/build team made a huge difference in preparing University personnel for the transition. “It was about trying to understand what staff members were looking for, interpret it, and then trying to execute it in the plans,” said Stollsteimer. When the University thought they were on target with their interpretations, the staff had trouble visualizing what was being described to them. To help ease concerns and move things forward, CAM MAGAZINE

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Improved and enlarged facilities, such as the one shown here, offer students the latest in educational equipment and technology to advance learning.

This is a typical lab in the Human Health Building that gives students a brighter and more rewarding learning environment.

SmithGroup developed a very thorough planning process that engaged the users. They created architectural renderings and models and they presented examples of similar facilities on other campuses to help them visualize how things would look and function in a new facility. Prior to occupancy, there was still an uneasiness surrounding the merging of these two programs into one building. Director of Organizational Development Karen Deshon,

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PhD., The Christman Company, was instrumental in dealing with these concerns. She held meetings with the Deans of each department and with staff members to discuss the design concepts and some of the decisions that were made early in the process. She helped acclimate them to the new facility, and because the building was designed two years in advance and peoples’ memories and personnel changes came into play, Deshon was able to assist in that area, as

well. “I think it was very key with two departments that have never interacted substantially with each other,” said Stollsteimer. “We are changing how they’re teaching, changing how they are going to interact.” Since most of these people worked autonomously and had limited joint project experience, the University hoped the new building would foster collaboration and they would begin to see an increase in joint research projects, and indeed, that is exactly what is occurring. Another concern was the more than 30 skilled tradespeople employed by the University who would be responsible for maintaining a building that was very different than anything else on campus. “Christman brought in and engaged our people through the entire process,” said John Harmala, AIA, senior project manager, Capital Planning and Design, Oakland University. In addition, the University sent their tradespeople out for additional training and had them interacting with the new systems several months before occupying the building. By involving the trades early on in the decision-making process, the group took ownership of the building and its systems, and that helped make it successful.“The contractor could have walked away as soon as we occupied and we could have run this building,” said Stollsteimer. MERGING MINDS AND NURTURING COLLABORATION During the process of prioritizing the needs and wants of the University staff, the design team was also busy considering things like form and function. The building would necessarily stand out as the first to be located in that section of campus, but it needed to look as if it belonged.“How could it have its own identity and not feel totally foreign to the traditional campus?” is the question Vice President and Principal in Charge Christopher Purdy, AIA, LEED AP, SmithGroup asked and needed to answer. They also realized that this was the first of several new buildings planned for this location, unofficially referred to as the “Human Health Quad.” Vice President and Design Principal Paul Urbanek, FAIA, LEED AP, SmithGroup, thought that since the building was to be used for healthcare training, it should have humanistic qualities, as well. Therefore, you see softer forms and shapes, earthy colors, and warm materials such as wood cabinetry, cork flooring and terra cotta tiles throughout. They also recognized that there were two schools coming together with a desire to “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

have the building foster collaboration and interaction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is increasing emphasis on the informal interactions that students have between one another, between students and faculty, even between faculty and faculty,â&#x20AC;? said Purdy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just the classroom; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s these other informal spaces that are equally important to the whole educational process.â&#x20AC;? This reality became a central theme and helped drive the design of public spaces, both inside and outside the building. The inspiring views and tranquil settings combine to offer wonderful mixing areas for students and faculty alike. Larger meeting spaces, such as the auditorium, were located on the upper floors rather than on the ground level where you would normally expect them. Specialized labs for all disciplines and student-focused spaces are also on the top floors, basically assuring that students who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t share classes will come in contact with each other and have the chance to mix. Most buildings would have faculty offices on the top floors. But the University wanted them to appear more accessible and avoid the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ivory Towerâ&#x20AC;? perception created by placing faculty at the top. Lounge areas are located throughout the building with atriums on both the first and second floors, and fourth and fifth floors. There is also a small food service area and space for people to eat in the building and, weather permitting, at umbrella tables in the courtyard. There is a Zen garden for relaxation and reflection, as well as a healing garden that will eventually grow to its full potential. The building has one side that is actually wider than the other because of the modular labs and classrooms and the strategy to group spaces together by type rather than by department. This resulted in some wonderful views and spaces throughout. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These views are placed all over the building as a source of inspiration,â&#x20AC;? said Stollsteimer. But there is another benefit to the mixing strategy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Locating space types together by floor gives greater flexibility over the life of the building,â&#x20AC;? said Purdy.â&#x20AC;&#x153;If there is an ebb and flow in terms of how many offices are needed, there can be some give and take between the schools.â&#x20AC;? Some decisions early on, during the costvalue engineering phase, helped save the University large sums of money. For instance, the decision to use a thickened slab rather than deep caissons or pilings produced several hundred thousand dollars in savings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We put those savings back into the building to make it a better building and provide the end-users with more than what they would have gotten,â&#x20AC;? said Stollsteimer. The project started out under budget and in the end, it remained under budget. Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

CONSTRUCTION COMPLEXITY The construction process was complicated by a combination of interior and exterior design features and very complex mechanical systems. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The curtain wall system has many different sizes, nothing was repetition,â&#x20AC;? said Senior Project Manager Jeff Tomczak, The Christman Company. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was all the unique features that required detailed coordination, cooperation and collaboration

with everybody.â&#x20AC;? Overhangs and canopies, prefinished metal and wood panels, dissimilar metals, and various types of glass/glazing systems on the curtain wall all added degrees of difficulty to the construction process. As for the mechanical systems, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking solar hot water heating, photo-voltaic, geothermal system, variable refrigerant flow system, desiccant outside air handling units, hydronic snow melt systems,â&#x20AC;? said Tomczak,

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The terra cotta exterior skin is actually a rain-screen mosaic tile of precut natural clay that is individually numbered to identify where on the building each piece would be located. Three different colored tiles were chosen and overlapped like roofing shingles to create depth and avoid a flat, monotone appearance. It is also a rain-screen system that acts as a cladding, absorbing the kinetic energy of the rain and allowing moisture to flow through to the waterproofing layer behind the tiles. It does not take on moisture the way brick or masonry does and there is no caulk between joints, so the air space between tiles allows the material to properly dry; this helps extend their life expectancy. The roof is an IRMA system (Inverted Roof Membrane Assembly) with the waterproofing membrane applied over a substrate and then protected by another layer, in this case brick pavers. The paver system created a safe pathway that protected the water barrier from the high level of routine maintenance traffic, and from the numerous tours conducted by the University that usually include a showcase of the energy systems located on the roof.

One of the goals for the building was to offer several areas where students can study, relax between classes and interact with each other.

“This hasn’t been done - merging all these various systems together.” Because of these complexities, detailed mock-ups were used to confront issues ahead of construction. “It really did save the University a lot of money solving the problems in a mock-up before we were out in the field with scaffolding and lifts,” said Tomczak. The first structural activity on-site involved the raising of the primary shear walls that went up during a very harsh winter with respect to wind and snow, making it

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especially challenging. The walls were made from concrete burnished block (including heavy reinforcing steel) that was a finished architectural wall surface being constructed prior to structural steel. Workers had to exercise extreme care and caution to make sure they didn’t damage these surfaces. The subcontractors were required to carefully coordinate the openings for steel, mechanical and electrical in advance using 3D models to determine layout, dimensions and sizes as the walls went up.

EASY CARE FOR THE LONG RUN There was a strong emphasis on low maintenance and sustainability with respect to the materials and finishes used. The clay tile exterior is a perfect example of natural and sustainable material with longevity and low maintenance characteristics. Atriums could be no higher than two stories so the staff could keep them clean, and rather than glass paneling, perforated metal panels that don’t smudge or smear were used along the stairs and railings. Much of the walls on the interior are natural masonry made of burnished rock that never need painting and require little maintenance or cleaning. There is attractive cork flooring and bamboo cabinetry that is practical and sustainable and used extensively throughout the interior. This project represented the first of its kind for the University with respect to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) as well, so LEED credentials were important also during the screening stage. “One thing that was really strong with both companies was the culture of sustainability,” said Harmala. “Both companies seemed very genuine. We were just trying to do the right thing for everybody and I just vividly remember the passion that they had.” From the most complex technologies, such as the geothermal and solar panel systems, to more nature-oriented projects such as reestablishing the surrounding wetlands, saving an old oak tree, and the retention of “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

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The elaborate solar energy system located on the roof of the Human Health Building aids in heating, cooling and dehumidification, and helps reduce operating costs.

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rain water for use in irrigation, everything was considered; if it had merit, was incorporated into the plan. The HHB does stand out with a series of “firsts” that are important to mention. It is anticipated to be the first facility on a university campus to receive Platinum LEED certification (final certification review by the USGBC was in process at press time). It is the first academic building in the country to couple a large variable refrigerant system with a geothermal system. The 400-ton system contains 256 wells, each one 310 feet deep that function as holding tanks for the water that assists in heating and cooling. This is also the first academic building in the country to combine a solar collection system with a desiccant dehumidification system. The solar collection system, located on the roof, consists of more than 3,000 glass tubes (worth about $1 million) that generate heated water to supply four holding tanks, each having a capacity of 25,000 gallons. This heated water is then used when the sun is not generating the heat. The energy can also be drawn back out of these tanks and used for dehumidification. On really cold and overcast winter days, the solar-heated tanks can assist

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in heating the building and they are recharged again when the sun comes out. High efficiency lighting and motion sensors are used to provide light on demand and power down when rooms are empty. With light harvesting, the building utilizes sunlight during daylight hours. The pavers on the roof are a light color that helps reduce solar heat, making cooling less costly. Even the elevators use 70 percent less energy by operating without the use of hydraulics and pumps. Along the roadways and in some parking areas, energy efficient induction lighting or LED are being used to increase efficiency. All told, the cost of operating this building is 50 to 60 percent less than the typical cost of a building this size. ALL ABOARD FOR SUCCESS From a design and build standpoint, everyone involved had a desire to make this project a success. “The trades that worked on this job were the best we could have hired in southeast Michigan,” said Tomczak. For a project of this size and complexity, everyone has to pull their weight and support each other. “It was a phenomenal project with a great team,” said Purdy. As for safety, Project Superintendent Jeff White, The Christman Company, was instrumental in creating a safety mindset in everyone, and he led by example. “We had a good safety culture out here, and we had a good quality control culture out here,” said White. The project logged over 376 thousand man-hours and recorded absolutely no loss-time accidents on the job. Extensive planning on behalf of the University and outstanding support and expertise from Christman and SmithGroup virtually guaranteed that the first new building at Oakland University in ten years would be an overwhelming success. Whether interaction and learning, the latest technology, accessibility and serviceability, or sustainability and energy efficiency, the University didn’t hold back. Allowing users and maintenance personnel to be involved early in the decision-making process, helping them understand the changes that were coming, and their role in making it happen, was critical. You simply can’t argue with success but you can certainly argue whether the Human Health Building blends in or stands out on the northwest corner of campus. But one thing is for certain: the Human Health Building at Oakland University has set the bar high for all future buildings on this campus, anywhere in the country, or around the world.

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NSO BELL BUILDING Owner: Neighborhood Services Organization, Detroit Architect: Fusco, Shaffer & Pappas, Inc., Farmington Hills General Contractor: O’Brien Edwards Construction, Detroit Major Consultants: • Development Consultants – Plante Moran, Auburn Hills; Strategic Planning Services, Bloomfield Hills • Electrical Engineer – ETS Engineering, Inc., Royal Oak • Environmental Consultants – NTH Consultants, Ltd, Detroit (XDD, LLC, Stratham, NH – peer review consultant for vapor mitigation design; FutureNet Group, Inc., Detroit, Certified Lead Risk Assessors to assist with clearance sampling after hazardous materials abatement); AKT Peerless Environmental Services, LLC, Saginaw • Hazmat Removal and Handling – Environmental Maintenance Engineers, Inkster • Historical Consultant – Kidorf Preservation Consulting, Detroit • Interior Designer – Davis & Davis Interior Design, Farmington Hills • Landscape Architects – Kenneth Weikal Landscape Architect, Farmington Hills; Deak Planning & Design, LLC, Northville • Legal Counsel – Dykema Gossett, PLLC, Detroit • Masonry Consultants – Poe Restoration & Waterproofing, Commerce; Grunwell-Cashero Co., Detroit • Mechanical Engineer – Potapa-Van Hoosear Engineering, Inc., Shelby Twp. • Property Manager – KMG Prestige, Southfield • Roofing Consultant – Roofing Technology Associates, Ltd., Livonia • Structural Engineer – Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers, Inc., West Bloomfield • Surveyor/Civil Engineer – Zeimet-Wozniak Associates, Inc., New Hudson Phase I Major Trade Contractors: • Acoustical Ceilings - Central Ceiling and Partition, Walled Lake • Appliances – GE Appliances, Pinckney • Cabinets & Laminate Tops – Futura Custom Kitchens, Inc., Detroit • Cementitious Fireproofing – Diversified Construction Specialists, Rochester Hills • Ceramic Tile – Marson Enterprises, Southfield • Demolition – DKI, Inc., West Bloomfield • Doors & Hardware, Toilet & Bath Accessories – Tupper Door, Farmington Hills • Drywall – Modern Drywall, Inc., Rochester • Earthwork, Site Utilities, Asphalt – Blaze Contracting, Inc., Detroit • Electrical – Daniels Electric, Inc., Detroit • Elevator – Otis Elevator Company, Inc., Farmington Hills

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Phase II – Major Trade Contractors • Asphalt Paving – Nagle Paving (2nd tier subcontractor), Livonia • Cabinets and Counter Tops – Futura/Michigan Counter Tops Company, Inc., Detroit • Carpet & VCT – ABC Flooring, Detroit • Concrete Flatwork – Fort Wayne Contracting, Detroit • Concrete Foundations – JJ Barney Construction, Inc., Rochester Hills • Demolition – DKI, Inc., West Bloomfield • Doors & Hardware – Tupper, Farmington Hills • Electric – Daniel Electric, Auburn Hills • Excavation and Utilities – Inner City Contracting, Detroit • Fencing – Casey Fence, Detroit

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Final Cleaning – Nobile Cleaning, Detroit Finish Carpentry – Tricounty Finish Carpentry, Bruce Township Fire Alarm – Simplex (2nd tier subcontractor), Farmington Hills Fire Protection – Conti Fire Protection, Sterling Heights Glass & Glazing – Modern Mirror & Glass, Roseville Gypsum Concrete – CGI (Central Gyp Floors)`, Weidman Hazmat Removal and Handling – Environmental Maintenance Engineers, Inkster HVAC – S&M Heating, Southfield HVAC Piping – Universal Piping (2nd tier subcontractor), Oak Park Joint Sealants – Pasky, West Bloomfield Landscaping – Stuart Leve, Milford Low Voltage – JR Tech, Oak Park Masonry – Dixon, Inc., Detroit Masonry Restoration – RAM Construction Services, Livonia Metal Studs, Drywall, Ceilings, EIFS – Central Ceiling & Partition, Inc., Walled Lake Metal Wall Panels – CASS Sheet Metal, Detroit Overhead Doors – KVM Doors, Clinton Township Painting – Viking, Detroit Plumbing – Jermor, Detroit Roofing – MacDermott Roofing, Livonia Signage – Signs On Site – SIGNAGE, Hazel Park Soils/Material Testing – Testing Engineers & Consultants, Troy Specialties – Rayhaven, Southfield Steel – Gen-Oaks, Auburn Hills Surveying and Layout – Zeimet Wozniak, New Hudson Vapor Barrier – Triton, Holly

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ELI AND EDYTHE BROAD ART MUSEUM Owner: Michigan State University, East Lansing Architect: Zaha Hadid, London, UK Architect of Record: Integrated Design Solutions, Troy General Contractor: Barton Malow, Southfield Mechanical/Electrical/Public Health Design: Max Fordham Engineers, London, UK Executive Structural: Structural Design Inc., Ann Arbor Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing: Peter Basso Associates, Troy Subcontractors: • Architectural Concrete – Granger Construction Company, Lansing • Building Façade – A Zahner Company, Kansas City, MO • Carpet and Resilient Tile – Barton Malow Flooring, Livonia • Ceramic Tile – Artisan Tile Inc., Brighton • Concrete Floor Toppings – Albanelli Cement Contractors, Inc., Livonia • Concrete Retaining Walls – Christman Constructors, Inc., Lansing • Concrete Staining – Nawkaw Mideast, Hartland • Construction – Z. Shmina, Brighton • Construction Materials Testing – NTH Consultants, Ltd, Lansing • Cultural & Heritage Planning – Lord Cultural Resources, Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Earth Retention – Hardman Construction, Ludington • Electrical – Summit Contractors, Inc., Haslett • Electrical, Underground – Delta Electrical Contractors of Lansing, Lansing • Engineering – ARUP, Grosse Pointe Farms • Engineering – Fishbeck, Thompson, Carr and Huber, Farmington Hills • Engineering – Front Inc., New York, NY • Engineering, Exterior Façade – Josef Gartner USA, Chicago, IL • Engineering – Kolano & Saha Engineers, Waterford Township • Envelope Testing & Consulting – Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc, Bingham Farms • General Trades – A Z Shmina, Brighton • Elevators – Schindler Elevator Corporation, Grand Rapids • Feature Stair Metal Cladding – Riverside Group Ltd, Windsor, Ontario, Canada • Fire Suppression – Dynamic Fire Protection, New Port • Food Service Consulting – EF Whitney, Birmingham • Interior Finishes, Carpentry – Turner-Brooks, Inc., Madison Heights • Interior Glazing – Lansing Glass Company, Lansing • Landscape Architecture – Cooper, Robertson & Partners, New York, NY Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

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Masonry – Davenport Masonry, Inc., Holt Mechanical – Myers Plumbing & Heating, Inc., Lansing Mechanical Controls – Building Control Integrators, Hillard, OH Mechanical, Underground – Gunthorpe Plumbing & Heating, East Lansing Millwork – Trend Millwork, Lincoln Park Painting – B & J Painting, Lansing Roofing – Mid-Michigan Roofing, Saginaw Signage – ASI Signage Innovations, Troy Site Restoration – Site Development Inc., Madison Heights Steel – Douglas Steel Fabricating, Lansing Structural Steel – Howard Structural Steel, Saginaw Waste Management Services – Republic Waste Services, Kalamazoo Waterproofing – RAM Construction Services, Livonia Wood Flooring – Foster Specialty Floors, Wixom

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Landscaping/Irrigation – Landscape Design and Construction, Troy Lockers – Rayhaven Group, Southfield Masonry – Masonry Developers, Rochester Millwork – Aria Custom Cabinetry & Fine Furniture, Rochester Hills Millwork – Mica-Tec, Warren Painting – U & S Painting Inc., Troy Phone System – CTS Companies, Bloomfield Hills Plumbing – Masters Plumbing Inc., Port Huron Precast Concrete – Kerkstra Precast – Grandville Roofing – Zimmer Roofing & Construction, Port Huron Security System – DSS Dusing Security & Surveillance, Anchorville Site Work/Utilities – Blaze Contracting, Detroit Stained Concrete Floors – Mullendore Romer Contracting Co., Northville Stone Countertops & Sills – Hard Rock Stone Works, Shelby Township Structural Steel – Ross Structural Steel, Detroit Tile – Boston Tile & Terrazzo Co., Detroit Toilet Compartments – Progressive Plumbing and Supply, Warren Windows & Glass – Modern Mirror & Glass Co., Roseville

VOYAGEUR CONSORTIUM ACADEMY Owner: Voyageur Academy Architect: Stevens Architects LLC, Port Huron Construction Manager: The Monahan Company, Eastpointe Structural Engineer: Professional Engineering & Construction Services LLC, Port Huron Civil Engineer: George Jerome & Co., Roseville Soils Consultant: NTH Engineers Ltd., Detroit Subcontractors: • Asphalt Paving – Nagle Paving Company, Novi • Bleachers – Interkal Inc., Kalamazoo • Camera System – CTS Companies, Bloomfield Hills • Canopy & Gym Metal Panels – Exterior Metals Inc., Burton • Carpentry/Drywall/Acoustic – Central Ceiling and Partition, Warren • Carpet – Conventional Carpet Inc., Sterling Heights • Caulking & Fire Stopping – D.C. Byers Company, Detroit • Concrete – Gemelli Concrete LLC, Romeo • Dance & Gym Floors – All Court, Northville • Doors, Frames and Hardware – Gamalski Building Specialists, Auburn Hills • Electrical – AAA Eletrical Service Inc., Shelby Township • Elevator – Schindler Elevator Corp., Livonia • Fencing & Gates – Future Fence Co., Warren • Fire Alarm System – National Time & Signal, Wixom • Furniture – Kerr Albert Office Supplies & Equipment, Port Huron • Gym Equipment – Bareman & Associates Inc., Jensen • Heating & Air Conditioning – Ingell Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Inc., Port Huron • Kitchen Equipment – Great Lakes Hotel & Supply Company, Detroit • Kitchen Hood – Direct Air Systems, Ann Arbor

HENRY FORD WEST BLOOMFIELD HOSPITAL ORGANIC GREENHOUSE & INTERACTIVE EDUCATION CENTER Owner: Henry Ford Health System, Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, West Bloomfield Architect: Hobbs + Black Architects, Ann Arbor Contractor: George W. Auch Company, Pontiac Mechanical/Electrical Engineer: Peter Basso Associates, Troy Structural Engineer: Ehlert/Bryan, Inc., McLean, Virginia Civil Engineer: The Spicer Group, Saginaw Trade Contractors: • Concrete Finishing – Abstract Concrete, Rochester Hills • Electrical – Gillis Electric, Inc., Livonia • Glass & Glazing – Lansing Glass Co., Lansing • Greenhouse Manufacturer – Nexus Corporation, Northglenn, CO • HVAC – Systemp Corp., Rochester Hills • Masonry – Leidal & Hart Mason Contractors, Livonia • Ornamental Metal – American Fence & Supply, Inc., Warren • Painting – Detroit Spectrum Painters, Inc., Warren • Plumbing – De-Cal, Inc., Warren • Roofing – Royal Roofing Co., Inc., Lake Orion • Rough & Finish Carpentry – Wally Kosorski & Co., Inc., Clinton Township • Sitework & Concrete Foundation/Flatwork – V & O Contracting, Clinton Township • Stone Pavers – Soulliere Decorative Stone, Inc., Utica • Structural Steel – Davis Iron Works, Inc., Commerce Township CAM MAGAZINE

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MICHIGAN

Owner: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Architect: TMP Architecture, Inc., Bloomfield Hills Architect: Sink Combs Dethlefs, Denver, CO General Contractor: Spence Brothers, Ann Arbor Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing: Peter Basso Associates, Troy Structural Engineering: SDI-Structures, Ann Arbor Civil Engineering: Spalding DeDecker Associates, Inc., Rochester Hills Subcontractors: • Architectural Millwork – Trend Millwork, Lincoln Park • Architectural Millwork – UM Cabinet Shop, Ann Arbor • Arena Curtains – Nickerson Arena Curtains, Bay Shore, NY • Asphalt Paving – T & M, Milford • Carpet & Resilient Flooring – Shamrock Floorcovering, Ann Arbor • Cementitious Flooring – Tri-State, Cincinnati, OH • Ceramic Tile – Southeastern Tile, Mt. Clemens • Concrete – Spence Brothers, Saginaw • Curtain Wall & Storefront – Edwards Glass, Livonia • Demolition – North American Dismantling Corp., Lapeer • Doors, Frames, & Hardware – LaForce, Troy • Drywall & Carpentry – Barton Malow Interiors, Southfield • Earthwork – Eagle Excavating, Flint • EIFS & Plaster – Hoffman Plaster, Saline • Electrical – Shaw Electric, Southfield • Elevators & Escalators – Kone, Grand Rapids • Fire Protection – Shambaugh & Sons, Southfield • Fireproofing – Reichenback, Lansing • HVAC – Great Lakes Mechanical, Dearborn • HVAC Controls – Siemens, Plymouth Township • Landscaping – Turner Nursery, Ann Arbor • Masonry – Boettcher, Bay City • Ornamental railings – Future Fence, Warren • Overhead Doors – National Door, Pontiac • Painting – Paskotech, Redford • Plumbing – John Darr Plumbing, Ann Arbor • Roof Hoist – Pro-Bel, Whitby, Ontario, Canada • Roofing & Metal Panels – Cei Group, Howell • Site Pavers – Michael Andrews, Tecumseh • Steel – Kirby Steel, Burton • Temp. Fencing – Shamrock, Southgate • Terrazzo – Michelluti Brothers, Inc., Eastpointe • Toilet Partitions – Payne Rosso, Lansing • Water Feature – Midwest Tropical, Lincolnwood, IL • Waterproofing – Royal Restoration, Livonia

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BRODERICK TOWER REDEVELOPMENT Owner: Motown Construction Partners LLC, Detroit Construction Manager: JC Beal Construction Inc., Detroit Architect: Kraemer Design Group, Detroit Mechanical/Electrical Engineers: Strategic Energy Solutions, Berkley Structural Engineer: Structural Design Inc., Ann Arbor Façade Engineer: Soil & Materials Engineers Inc., Plymouth Civil Engineers: NTH Consultants Ltd., Detroit Subcontractors: • Appliances – ABC Warehouse, Pontiac • Asphalt – Al’s Asphalt Paving Co., Taylor • Bar Pulls – J.G. Edelen Company, Baltimore, MD • Building Management – J.S. Dean & Associates, Detroit • Cabinets – Armstrong Cabinet Products, Granville, OH • Carpentry – Sterling Contracting & Millwork, Farmington Hills • Carpet & Resilient Flooring – SCI Floor Covering Inc., Southfield • Ceramic Tile, Stone Countertops, Stone Shower/Surrounds – P.M.P. Marble & Granite, Troy • Chutes – Kasl Enterprises Inc., Belleville • Demolition, Asbestos Abatement & Building Decontamination – Beal Inc., Detroit • Directories – Mountain View Specialties LLC, Bellaire • Doors, Frames & Hardware – Gamalski, Auburn Hills • Earthwork/Utilities/Earth Retention & Ext. Repairs – Simone Contracting Corp., Sterling Heights • Electrical, CCTV Systems, Phone, Data & Cable – Cannon Electric Company, Macomb • Elevators – ThyssenKrupp Elevator, Livonia • Fire Alarm – Shaw Systems & Integration, Southfield • Fireproofing – William E. Harnish Acoustical, Redford • Fire Protection – SimplexGrinnel, Farmington Hills • Glass, Glazing, Windows & Entrances Storefront – Environmental Glass Inc., Livonia and DZI Construction Services Inc., Clarkston • Helical Piles – Intech Anchoring Systems Inc., Livonia • Historic Copper Panels – W.F. Norman Corporation, Nevada, MO • Hoist – USA Hoist Company, Chicago IL • HVAC – RW Mead & Sons, Fraser • Lockers, Toilet & Misc. Accessories – International Building Products, Livonia • Mailboxes – Advanced Specialties, Clawson • Masonry – A.L.E.C., Taylor • Masonry Restoration & Façade Work – Akins Construction Inc., Detroit • Metal Siding, EPDM & Concrete Pavers – Schena Roofing & Sheet Metal, Chesterfield • Ornamental Railings – Special Fabricators Inc., Madison Heights

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Painting – J&B Painting, Livonia Pavers – Hanover Architectural Products, Hanover, PA Plumbing – Jermor Plumbing & Heating Inc., Detroit Restoration Work – LR&M Construction LLC, Detroit Revolving Entrance Doors – KVM Door Systems Inc., Clinton Twp. Shelving – Michigan Shelf Distributors, Warren Shower Doors & Partition Enclosures – Midwest Glass & Mirror, Stevensville Signage – Spectrum Neon Co., Detroit Structural Steel, Deck, Stairs & Misc. Metals – Nelson Iron Works, Detroit Temp Heat – Mobile Air Inc., Madison Heights Temporary Elevator – Metro Elevator, Indianapolis IN Traffic & Pedestrian Control Consulting – Metro Consulting Associates, Belleville Waste Removal – Dynecol Inc., Detroit Window Cleaning – Excellent Window Cleaning, Rochester Hills Window Treatment – Creative Window, Ann Arbor Wire Mesh Partitions – Acme Wire & Iron Works, Detroit

SANGREN HALL Owner: Western Michigan University Architect: SHW Group, LLC, Berkley Landscape Architect: Hamilton Anderson Associates, Detroit Contractor: Miller-Davis Company, Kalamazoo Trade Contractors: • Acoustical Ceiling & Walls – Turner-Brooks, Inc., Madison Heights • Aluminum Storefront, Curtainwall, Glass & Glazing – Architectural Glass & Metals, Inc., Kalamazoo • Asphalt Paving – Rieth-Riley Construction Co., Inc., Kalamazoo • AV Systems – Blue Water Technologies, Inc., Grand Rapids • Concrete Work – Burgess Concrete Construction, Inc., Moline; Van Laan Concrete Construction, Inc., Dutton • Demolition – Bierlein Companies, Inc., Midland; Homrich, Inc., Carleton • Drywall & Metal Studs; Carpet, Tile & Cork Flooring – Ritsema Associates, Grand Rapids • Earthwork – James e. Fulton & Sons, Inc., Kalamazoo; Peters Construction Company, Kalamazoo • Electrical – Allied Electrical, Inc., Grand Rapids; Moore Electrical Services, Inc., Kalamazoo • Fire Suppression – Total Fire Protection, Inc., Grand Rapids • Food Service Equipment – Stafford-Smith, Inc., Kalamazoo • Furniture – Haworth, Inc., Holland • General Trades – Carrier Construction, Inc., Kalamazoo; Hazelhoff Builders, Inc., Kalamazoo • Instrumentation & Controls – Havel, Kalamazoo • Landscaping & Irrigation – KLM Landscape, Armada • Masonry Work – Burggrabe Masonry, Inc., Belding • Mechanical – John E. Green Company, Highland Park; R.W. LaPine, Inc., Kalamazoo “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®

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Metal Siding – Streng Construction, Inc., Chesaning Painting – Eckhoff & DeVries Painting Wall Covering, Grand Rapids Roofing – McDonald Roofing & Sheet Metal, Jackson Signage – CKI, Inc., Grand Rapids Structural Steel – Builder’s Iron, Inc., Comstock Park Terrazzo & Granite Pavers – Central Tile & Terrazzo Co., Inc., Kalamazoo Testing & Balancing – Quality Air Service, Inc., Kalamazoo Vertical Transportation Equipment – Elevator Service, Inc., Grand Rapids

2/42 COMMUNITY CHURCH Owner: 2/42 Community Church, Brighton Architect: Visioneering Studios, Denver, CO Construction Manager: Contracting Resources Inc., Brighton Civil Engineer: Desine Inc., Brighton Mechanical Engineering Consultant: SCO Engineering LLC, Fort Wayne, IN

CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN PEDIATRIC SPECIALTY CENTER Owner: DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Architect: Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, Boston, MA Associate Architect/MEP Engineer: Integrated Design Solutions, Troy Landscape Architect and Civil Engineer: GiffelsWebster Engineers, Detroit Structural Engineer: Ehlert/Bryan, Inc., McLean, VA Construction Manager: Brinker LLC (A partnership of L.S.Brinker & Barton Malow), Detroit Project Manager: AECOM, Detroit Commissioning: Peter Basso Associates, Inc., Troy Subcontractors • Aluminum Curtain Wall – Trainor Glass Company, Allen Park • Ceramic Tile & Terrazzo – Boston Tile & Terrazzo Company, Detroit • Concrete Foundations – Amalio Corporation, Sterling Heights • Drywall – Brinker Team Construction Company, Detroit • Electrical – DES/Ferndale LLC, Ferndale • Elevators – Otis Elevator Company, Farmington Hills • Fencing – Future Fence Company, Warren • HVAC & Fire Protection – Conti Mechanical, Sterling Heights • Interior Glass & Glazing – Universal Glass & Metals, Inc., Detroit • Masonry – Dixon Inc., Detroit • Mechanical Plumbing – Western Mechanical Contractors, Inc., Clinton Township • Metal Wall Panels – CASS Sheet Metal, Inc., Detroit • Millwork – Nelson Mill Company, Southfield • Painting – Accurate Painting Company, Warren • Resilient Flooring & Carpet – Master Craft Carpet Service, Inc., Redford • Roofing – Christen Detroit, Detroit • Site Electrical – Motor City Electric Company, Detroit • Sitework – Blaze Contracting, Inc., Detroit • Structural Steel – Douglas Steel Fabricating Corporation, Lansing • Testing & Inspection – Testing Engineers & Consultants, Inc., Ann Arbor Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com

Subcontractors • Abatement – BDS Environmental, Warren • Asphalt Paving – Nagle Paving Co., Novi • Carpet, Resilient Floor – Conventional Carpet Inc., Sterling Heights • Concrete – Charles Sinelli & Sons, Milford • Concrete Polishing – Rotunda Marble & Stone, Dearborn • Demolition – DKI Inc., West Bloomfield • Doors, Frames and Hardware – LaForce Inc., Troy • Earthwork/Utilities – Bob Myers Excavating, Brighton • Electrical – MAS Electrical Services Inc., Farmington Hills • Elevator – Schindler Elevator Corp., Livonia • Finish Carpentry, Millwork – Wally Kosorski, Clinton Twp. • Fire Alarm – All Star Alarm LLC, Whitmore Lake • Fireplaces – Brighton Stone & Fireplace, Brighton • Fire Protection – VFP Fire Systems, Troy • Foundations – Poured Brick Walls, Brighton • Helical Piers – Hastings Testing Engineers, Howell • HVAC – Sharon’s Heating & Air, Westland • Insulation – Stoney Creek Services, Westland • Landscaping – Cut-N-Care, Wixom • Masonry – Zimmerman Masonry, Howell Metal Studs/Drywall/Acoustic – K&L Construction, Howell • Metal Wall Panels – Butcher & Butcher Construction, Rochester Hills • Overhead Doors – Newmyer Door Inc., Milford • Painting – Saginaw Valley Waterproofing, Frankenmuth • Plumbing – Ibdan Plumbing, Dearborn Heights • Rough Carpentry – Onslow Sheffield Inc., Brighton • Structural Steel – Service Iron Works, South Lyon • Stucco – Russell Plastering Co., Ferndale • Synthetic Turf – Shaw Sports Turf, Kennesaw GA • Temp Electrical – Tri-Star Electric, Brighton • Tile – East Side Tile & Marble, Macomb • Toilet Compartments – Rayhaven Group, Southfield • Traffic Sensors – Severance Electric Co., Kalamazoo • Weatherproof/Sealants – RAM, Livonia • Wheelchair Lift – Acton Sales Co., Ferndale

UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY (UDM) LAW CLINIC CENTER Owner: UDM Law School Architect: Thomas Roberts Architects, Wyandotte Construction Manager: McCarthy & Smith Inc., Farmington Hills Mechanical/Electrical Engineer: MA Engineering, Birmingham Subcontractors: • Aluminum, Glass & Glazing – Crystal Glass Inc., Wixom • Carpentry & General Trades – Vivid Millwork & Carpentry, Troy • Carpet & Resilient Flooring – Cohn’s Commercial Flooring Inc., Wixom • Electrical – RCI Electric, Farmington Hills • Fire Protection – Cardinal Fire Protection, Royal Oak • Hard Tile – Empire Tile & Marble Co., Eastpointe • HM Doors/Frames/Wood Doors/HW – Detroit Rolling Door, Detroit • HVAC – Multi-Mechanical Services Inc., Sterling Heights • Masonry – DRV Contractors LLC, Shelby Township • Metal Stud/Drywall – TLA, St. Clair Shores • Painting – G&T Commercial Coatings, Redford • Plumbing – C&R Plumbing, Shelby Township • Roofing – Molnar Roofing, Riverview • Selective Demolition – Great Lakes Construction, Royal Oak • Site Work – Service Construction, Southfield • Steel/Burglar Bars – Welk-Ko Fabricators Inc., New Hudson • Window Treatment – Sheer Shop, Shelby Township

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CHELSEA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL EXPANSION

OAKLAND UNIVERSITY HUMAN HEALTH BUILDING

Owner: Chelsea Community Hospital, Chelsea; St. Joseph Health System, Ypsilanti; Trinity Health, Novi Architect/Engineer: Albert Kahn Associates, Inc., Detroit Construction Manager: A joint venture of The Christman Company, Lansing and The AIMS Group, Inc., Livonia Civil Engineer: Midwestern Consulting, Ann Arbor

Owner: Oakland University, Rochester Construction Manager: The Christman Company, Lansing/Livonia Architect: SmithGroupJJR, Detroit

Trade Contractors: • Carpentry – A.Z. Shmina, Brighton; Strata Millwork, Traverse City • Earthwork & Utilities – Site Development, Madison Heights • Electrical – Tri-County Electric, Saline • Elevators – ThyssenKrupp, Livonia • Fire Alarm – Erlich Protection Systems, Farmington Hills • Fire Protection – Shambaugh & Son, Southfield • Flooring – Mastercraft, Redford • Hard Tile – Artisan Tile, Brighton • HVAC & Equipment – S&Z Sheetmetal, Flint • Landscaping – Turner Landscaping, Ann Arbor • Low Voltage – Black Box, Troy • Masonry – Brick & Stone – Bracy & Jahr, Quincy, MI • Metal Wall Panels – Architectural Metals, Inc., Portland, MI • Misc. Steel – Strut Tech Systems, Clarkston • Painting – B/C Contractors, Ypsilanti • Plumbing & Equipment & P-Tube – John E. Green, Ann Arbor • Roofing & Sheetmetal – Mid-Michigan Roofing, Saginaw • Security – Knight Watch, Kalamazoo • Site Electrical – Huron Valley Electric, Ann Arbor • Site Mechanical & Gas – John Darr Mechanical, Ann Arbor • Structural Concrete – Spence Brothers, Ann Arbor • Structural Steel, Deck, Stairs/Misc. – Steel Supply & Engineering, Grand Rapids • Temperature Controls – Johnson Controls, Inc., Ann Arbor • Test & Balance – Barmatic Inspecting Co., Lincoln Park • Walls, Ceilings, Fireproofing, Doors and Hardware – Acoustic Ceiling & Partition, Ann Arbor • Windows & Aluminum Doors – Curtis Glass Company, Troy

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Subcontractors: • Carpentry, Millwork and General Trades Work – Trend Millwork, Lincoln Park • Carpet and Soft Tile – Shock Brothers Floor Covering, Inc., Roseville • Curtain-Walls, Windows, Glass and Glazing – Calvin & Co., Inc., Flint • Electrical and Fire Alarm – LaBelle Electric, Macomb Township • Elevators – Thyssen Krupp, Livonia • Fire Protection – Shambaugh & Son, Southfield • Geothermal Field – Frank Rewold and Son, Rochester • Hard Tile and Terrazzo – Artisan Tile Inc., Brighton • HVAC/Sheet Metal and Air Distribution Equipment – Applegate Inc., Jackson • Lab Casework, Fume Hoods, and Cold Rooms – Detroit Technical Equipment Company, Troy • Masonry (Interior and Exterior) – Schiffer Masonry, Holt • Metal Siding and Louvers Ornamental Iron – Architectural Metals Inc., Portland • Ornamental Iron – Couturier Iron Craft, Comstock Park • Painting – Cavalier Painting Company, Sterling Heights • Plumbing, Piping, Mechanical, Solar and Aquatics Systems – Macomb Mechanical, Sterling Heights • Roofing and Sheet Metal Ornamental Iron – Schreiber Corp., Wixom • Spray-On Fireproofing, Walls and Ceiling – Acoustic Ceiling and Partition, Ann Arbor • Structural Concrete and Flatwork – Amalio Corp., Sterling Heights • Structural Steel, Stairs, Ornamental Metals, Misc. Iron, Metal Decking Ornamental Iron – Utica Steel, Inc., Chesterfield • Technology and Integration – Center Line Technologies, Center Line • Terra Cotta Clay Tile Rain-Screen System – Ann Arbor Ceiling & Partition, Ypsilanti • Utilities, Mass and Foundation Excavation Ornamental Iron – Site Development, Madison Heights

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