DESIGN BUILD
TAPPING THE POWER OF DESIGNER-CONSTRUCTOR COLLABORATION
DESIGN BUILD
TAPPING THE POWER OF DESIGNER-CONSTRUCTOR COLLABORATION
Design-Build Philosophy
Institutions turn to the Design-Build (D-B) process to deliver projects on time and on budget when faced with the pressures of challenging deadlines, downsizing organizations, and tighting budgets. This trend is particularly true with student residence halls, with their inflexible deadlines tied to academic calendars. Unfortunately, the D-B process at times leads to reductions in owner decisionmaking participation, in ability to make changes, and in quality of the end product. We and our constructor D-B partners have sought and found new ways to enhance the D-B process, adhering to budget and schedule while expanding opportunities for owner involvement, for accommodating inevitable changes, and for delivering high-quality outcomes. Owners need not sacrifice these values when choosing D-B with a team experienced in this enhanced version of the process. Through building an environment of trust and collaboration early, helping owners articulate aspirations, defining project scope, schedule, and budget clearly, and applying state-of-the-art design and communication technology, our D-B teams have introduced inclusiveness and flexibility into this delivery method while maintaining its inherent rigor. A s architec ts , we have always believed that what we make can improve the lives of people . We want to realize the idea of a bet ter, richer place , made palpable through the shaping of space , place , form , and climate , regardless of the projec t-deliver y strateg y. Our diverse experience with D-B residence halls and other projects, completed on time and on budget on accelerated and aggressive schedules, validates this approach. This booklet presents a sampling of that work to illustrate the quality this approach can deliver over a wide range of project applications.
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Ability to Change Design
As illustrated by the examples below, the D-B process provides highly expedited project delivery with tight cost and
Cost to Change Design
schedule control as its primary goals and outcomes. Today, we can accelerate D-B through the application of BIM and the many complimentary platforms that tap its powers of quantification, accountability, coordination, cost/life-cycle cost estimating, construction administration, and even facility operations and maintenance after delivery. Cloud-based BIM now provides instant access for all team members and other project participants in real time throughout the life of the project.
Project Timeline Design Build Delivery
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Harry L. Garrigus Suites at Uconn 132,000 sf
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Fauver Field at Wesleyan University 85,988 sf
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Centennial Hall & Parking Structure at WCSU 131,000sf
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Waring Commons at St Marys College of Maryland 68,000sf
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University of Maryland Baltimore County 152,000sf
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Camp Niantic RTI for the State of Connecticut 186,000sf
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Representative D-B delivery times on residence halls for higher education
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Cloud-Based BIM Collaboration Owner Team Leadership, Constituencies, Consultants
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Design Team Architects, Engineers, Consultants
Regulatory Team Building Department, Field Inspectors Industry Team Fabricators, Suppliers
Next Generation Connecticut Hall University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut LEED Gold Certification Pending D-B Partner: KBE Building Corporation
The design of the new Stem Residence Hall, an eight story structure housing 720 students, is guided by the fundamental goal of fostering connections among its residents and those who are using the building as a living learning environment. Encouraging community in built form led us to develop a site plan and building scheme which: unifies the Hilltop Site into a new residential campus; develops a lively main floor of “all house� uses and academic program spaces having visibility to exterior gathering places and pathways; and organizing student living floors in ways that cluster common uses as hubs of activity.
Swing Residence Hall Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut D-B Partner: Fusco Corporation
The program for the new residence hall at Yale University fosters community and a sense of place, incorporating apartment-style suites with common spaces for individual and group activity. It includes lounges, computer rooms, an exercise room and a common room. The two-bedroom suites, equipped with kitchenettes and bathrooms, are arranged along central corridors on four floors in an apartment-style program. In the summer they house Yale’s conference residents. The new residence hall continues the Yale residential college tradition of low buildings with towers defining courtyards, vistas, and portals. The building is brick with a lead-coated copper roof and a mass defined by gables, chimneys, bay windows and dormers.
Award Project Team Participation Award Connecticut Building Congress, 1999
Arnold Hall Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut D-B Partner: Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
The Arnold Hall Residence Hall Design/Build project provides 45 new undergraduate beds in suite arrangements to accommodate the immediate swing space needs of the University and contributes to the Broadway District renewal with 5,000 square feet of ground-level commercial space. The suites are grouped around traditional common entryway stairwells and the building forms a new courtyard which is connecting it to Davenport College. Located on a small existing parking lot, the building faรงade acts as an infill building in the manner of a normative retail and residential structure. At the same time, the building creates a small secure landscaped court behind as part of Davenport College. The courtyard faรงade was designed in a Georgian style to establish connection to the existing college building behind. Underground tunnels and enclosed loading dock provide a campus trash and recycling station.
Fauver Fields First-year Residence Hall and Upperclass Residence Hall Wesleyan University
Middletown, Connecticut LEED Certified D-B Partner: KBE Building Corporation
This Design/Build residence hall project includes two 3-story residential hall buildings. The freshman building has space for 165 students in 80 double rooms and 5 single rooms, with one area director apartment. The upper classmen building has space for 104 students in 20 five-person suites and 2 two-person suites. Each building has an array of common support spaces for social interchange and scholastic needs. The entry in each residence hall serves as the social hub of the building. Lobbies are positioned in direct proximity to primary lounges, laundry, vending and vertical circulation, promoting social interaction.
Award Honor Award, Built Category American Institute of Architects/Connecticut Project Team Award Connecticut Building Congress, 2006
Harry L. Garrigus Suites University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut D-B Partner: KBE Building Corporation
The new 138,000 square foot building provides 450 new beds for the campus. The design creates a quadrangle with house-like forms to give the architecture an intimate residential scale and a front yard for students to occupy and enjoy. The program includes a large conference facility, a main common lounge on the main floor, smaller lounges on each of the four floors, and a laundry facility in the basement.
Award Merit Award, Project Team Awards Connecticut Building Congress, 2002 Excellence in Construction Connecticut Associated Builders & Contractors, 2001
H. Thomas Waring Commons Residence Hall Complex St. Mary’s College of Maryland St. Mary’s City, Maryland D-B Partner: KBE Building Corporation
St. Mary’s College of Maryland called on the KBE Building Corporation/Newman Architects Design/Build team to complete its multi-phased residence complex. Phases 1 and 2 were completed in 2003 one full semester ahead of schedule, despite working in some of the worst winter weather on record in Maryland. Phase 3 was completed in 2007. The nine-building residence hall complex is set on St. Mary’s historic waterfront campus. The design complex reflects the campus standards of wood framing, brick veneer exterior, and 12:12 slate roofs. Significant sustainable design features were incorporated into the design and construction process. The complex incorporates apartment and suite-style living units for 252 students, common space, site improvements, and infrastructure. Suites include three double bedrooms (6 beds per unit), living room, and two baths. A number of suites include efficiency kitchens.
Patapsco Hall University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, Maryland LEED Gold D-B Partner: KBE Building Corporation
The main residence hall addition houses 190 first year students in single, double and triple rooming arrangements. Its main level provides study and social spaces, and cafe lounge. The project features an innovative green roof research platform as part of its focus on sustainable design and construction. Supporting ongoing research efforts by UMBC faculty and graduate students, the project features a green roof and an identically-sized control area, each with dedicated drainage systems and rainwater quantity and quality measurement devices. UMBC researchers plan to use the data generated by the system to document annual storm water retention by the green roof, monitoring runoff from the green and control portions of the roof and comparing them in terms of quantity and quality. Storm water retention totals and storm hydrographs are displayed in real-time in the building lobby and the monitoring facility is available for educational tours for faculty and students. The project created new courtyards, new volleyball court and basketball court with tiered seating, and additional outdoor gathering areas with a unifying pathway network, transforming of a residential precinct.
Camp Rell Regional Training Institute CT Department of Public Works Connecticut National Guard Niantic, Connecticut LEED Platinum D-B Partner: Fusco Corporation
Newman Architects and Svigals+Partners collaborated on the construction documentation and construction administration for this Design/Build project for the State of Connecticut and the CT National Guard. The design includes a building with two-story blocks at the east (billeting) and west (administration above the class room areas plus auditorium) connected by a one-story link containing multipurpose training, supply, kitchen, dining and various building support facilities.
Award Project Team Award Connecticut Building Congress, 2011
Centennial Residence Hall & Parking Structure Western Connecticut State University Danbury, Connecticut LEED Certified D-B Partner: KBE Building Corporation
Located on a prominent gateway site to the University’s campus, the new complex provides ninety student suites (338 student beds), twelve resident assistant suites, and one director suite. The site also includes a new 450-space parking facility. The project, incorporates green building design concepts, materials, and construction methods. The architectural design is based on traditional masonrywall collegiate residences. The massing of the gabled residential wings creates a courtyard space and gathers the main communicating stair, elevator core, and floor lounges into towers. The typical façade is expressed as a simple brick masonry wall with a contrasting attic window frieze, cornice, and overhang. The parking structure is an open precast spandrel system with a concrete frame. The project was delivered within a 16-month design and construction schedule.
A. Searle Pinney Hall Western Connecticut State University Danbury, Connecticut D-B Partner: Dimeo Construction Company
This residence hall expresses design ideas and principles we have developed for residential life: one main entry; stairway and commons off entry; breaking spaces into recognizable neighborhoods or “houses.” This 425-bed residence is massed in segmental “houses” along the brow of a hill in a crescent following a main road. This scheme reinforces the central campus pathway, which links the road to the classroom building and the field house. The wooded knoll to the north of the road is similarly reinforced as a campus landmark. The siting of the building takes advantage of uninterrupted views to the countryside, while also optimizing sunlight to the residential units. Sixty-five percent of the suites face this direction. The main building lounge or “commons” is sited with a large terrace facing southwest.
Residential Village Eastern Connecticut State University Willimantic, Connecticut D-B Partner: Fusco Corporation
Campuses work best when buildings are linked by pathways and outdoor spaces. The new residential village at Eastern Connecticut State University is on the main north/south pedestrian spine of the North Residential Campus, consisting of two four-story, U-shaped dormitories which house 448 students. With their central courtyards they create an important hub that encourages gathering and enhances the sense of community. The interiors of both dormitories further this feeling of community. In both, the central stair and lobby provide a meeting area on each floor. Large windows provide an abundance of natural light in these core areas and encourage gatherings and group activities.
Shoreline Medical Center Yale-New Haven Hospital Guilford, Connecticut D-B Partner: Fusco Corporation
The Yale-New Haven Ambulatory Services Center is a three-story, 80,000 square foot structure built in a historic district. It provides satellite office space for various clinical departments for Yale-New Haven Hospital, as well as providing space for medical office suites. The program includes, Ambulatory Surgery and Endoscopy, Diagnostic Imaging, Emergency Medical Services, Radiation Therapy and Nuclear Medicine, Pathology Laboratory, Blood Laboratory, and Hospital Pre-admissions. One of the main focuses of this project was to design a state-of-the-art medical facility to serve the community, while maintaining the continuity of the neighborhood’s design. The facility is located in a residential area, comprised of many historic homes, right outside the center of town.
Parking Structure Southern Connecticut State University New Haven, Connecticut D-B Partner: Fusco Corporation
The architectural concept treats the garage as a large scale sculpture, forming an important gateway to the campus. It presents a major facade to the public along a busy campus edge, and is part of the first impression of the campus when approached from the northeast. The facade material is masonry which complements the adjacent buildings and which is consistent with the overall campus vernacular. Its design is developed with a pattern of openings that transform the “warehouse� quality of typical parking structures into a more humane space.
Awards New England Golden Trowel Award, Specialty Projects International Masonry Institute Honorable Mention, New Small Construction, AGC/CT Build Connecticut Certificate of Special Recognition, PCI Design Awards Program
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Newman Architects PC is a collaborative design firm based in New Haven, Connecticut in the heart of the Yale University Campus. Newman’s Washington, DC branch office is located in Georgetown, and supports our ability to serve our clients in the Mid-Atlantic region. The quality of our work has been recognized through publication and awards. We have received more than 125 design excellence awards, including awards from the American Institute of Architects, the Boston Society of Architects, and the International Interior Design Association. The places we make reflect our affection for ordinary human interchange and commerce, and for what lies beneath. People need to belong to something larger, to make connections with others and the world, and to make order out of chaos. So the architecture they inhabit needs to represent something larger than either the individual or the group, yet provide places where they can both be themselves and recognize the social and cultural structures that surround them.
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