Construction Projects
CSX Capacity Expansion Program
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera Research
Georgia Public Health Lab
Owner: Georgia Department of Public Health
Architect: Lord, Aeck & Sargent, Inc.
Size: 23,840 sf
Budget: $11 Million
Completion: April, 1998
Public health laboratories in South Georgia have moved into a new facility that serves the area with modern testing equipment and provides surge capacity for the State's larger Georgia Public Health Laboratory in metro Atlanta's city of Decatur.
The $11.1 million, 23,840-square-foot Waycross facility is a one-story structure sited on land donated to the State of Georgia by the Waycross-Ware County Development Authority. The building serves as the highly visible cornerstone of a new industrial/business office park, and Development Authority officials anticipate that it will serve as an economic development magnet, attracting high-tech and other business to the area.
The Waycross facility houses two BSL-3 laboratory suites for specified testing of chemical and biological threat specimens. The suites include the latest technologies for laboratory and environmental safety to protect people inside and outside the laboratories. Among these technologies are the abilities to filter exhaust air from the facility and to continuously decontaminate all of the labs' wastewater so that it is completely clean. The building also incorporates all of the latest technologies for guarding against intrusion or abnormal events.
In addition to the chemical and biological terrorism laboratory suites, the Waycross facility includes laboratory production space, a mail screening area, an "unknowns" room for examination of potentially hazardous deliveries, a training classroom, a training lab, offices and conference room space.
CSX Capacity Expansion Program
Waycross is the site of a major CSX Transportation (CSXT) classification yard. The CSXT main line through the downtown Waycross area had a number of at-grade highway crossings that are frequently blocked by slow-moving trains. The project involved upgrading and constructing an additional main track along an existing low-density alternate rail corridor that bypasses the downtown area. The project also includes numerous road crossing improvements and closures, a proposed grade separation at U.S. 1 Business, and various related roadway improvements.
Evergreen helped the railroad identify the project elements and complete an order-of-magnitude estimate for the $21 million project. We were also instrumental in negotiating a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between CSXT, the City of Waycross and Ware County.
This phase of the project was predicated by the addition of additional main tracks and crossing closures at Race Pond, Southern Waycross, Haywood, Upton, and Ambrose GA.
Lake Park Elementary School
Owner: West Palm Beach School District
Architect: Song + Associates
Size: 70,000 sf
Budget: $7.2 Million
Completion: August 2002
This urban site on the island of Palm Beach presented many design and construction challenges in addition to its compact size. The site-adapted design includes preservation of the existing 1920 historic building located at the eastern end of the campus as well as a shared-use play structure and ball field.
The modernization/replacement design accommodates 490 student stations within a multi-level classroom building, administration building and media/dining/multi-purpose building. The design focuses on educational adequacy of spaces, safety and security of the students, flexibility of space and integration of technology. Students were relocated to an off-site holding school during construction. The design process included an integrated approach with the School District of Palm Beach County, the Town of Lake Park Recreation Department and Landmark Commission for the development of the play fields and historic elements of the school.
Mary Ann Harn-Cofrin Pavilion
Owner: University of Florida
Architect: Kha Le-Huu Partners PA
Size: 19,240 sf
Budget: $3.8 Million
Completion: October 2005
A two-story addition to the Harn Museum of Art, the pavilion includes 6,780 sf of kitchen, cafe, classroom, office and support space on the first floor and 9,400 sf of exhibit space on the second floor. A second-story connector links the exhibit space to the adjacent museum.
As a LEED Certified project the primary efficiency measures included an improved building envelope (both walls and glazing) over the minimum ASHRAE 90.1; reduced lighting and added lighting controls; a highly efficient boiler system, and variable air volume air handling units. Harn Pavilion is approximately 40% more efficient than the minimum requirements and is well above Florida’s energy code requirements. In water use reduction, two credit points were awarded as a result of reducing potable water usage by 39% below the standard established by the 1992 Energy Policy Act. Waterless urinals and sensor-operated, low-flow faucets and toilets provide an annual savings of 657,000 gallons of potable water.
The key to the efficient HVAC design was to provide two dual-path air handling units to serve two different zones. Both units were provided with variable frequency drives for maximum energy savings. The first air handler serves areas with constant occupant density. In order to comply with energy saving principles the motorized damper for outside air intake is interlocked with kitchen hood exhaust for control of outside air demand. The second air handler serves areas with variable occupant density and features a CO2 sensor to control outside air demand. Lighting efficiency was achieved through a combination of general purpose fluorescent strip lights, recessed compact fluorescent down-lights, wall-mounted architectural fixtures, and low-profile under-cabinet lights.
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera Research
Owner: University of Florida
Architect: Kha Le-Huu Partners PA
Size: 42,000 sf
Budget: $8.4 Million
Completion: April 2003
The McGuire Center is an addition to Powell Hall which houses the Florida Museum of Natural History. The McGuire Center includes a butterfly Vivarium, museum space with video projection screens on a “Wall of Wings,” display space for over 95% of the known Lepidoptera species, and visible lab space and the largest collection of butterflies, and the largest chromosome research sample group in the world.
This project presented several challenges for the team including developing consolidated site utilities with a chilled water plant expansion and storm water master plan. Another challenges lies in the integration of multiple exhibit designers and exhibit construction specialists. And finally, completing the construction within an occupied campus environment, while maintaining safety and the architectural integrity of the UF campus. 2005 ABC First Cost Chapter Excellence in Construction Award for higher education. 2006 National ABC Excellence in Construction Award for higher education.
Visit the project at www.flmnh.ufl.edu/butterflies
“During design and construction, the team kept the meticulous records necessary for the LEED application process and assembled all of the documentation from the Architects, Engineers, and University, along with their own records for submittal to the U.S. Green Building Council. In my opinion, without the invaluable help and daily attention of the team in the environmentally friendly construction of the McGuire Center, we would not have achieved the LEED certification on the final building” - Dr. Thomas Emmel, Director, UF McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity, Florida Natural Museum of Natural History
Ca d’ Zan
Owner: State of Florida
Architect: Linda Stevenson & Associates
Size: 26,000 sf
Budget: $15 Million
Completion: April, 2002
The restoration and conservation was divided into three phases. Phase 1, the exterior envelope was renovated -- leaks sealed, repairs to the terracotta surfaces made, a new barrel tile roof installed. In phase 2 the mechanical/environmental systems were installed to include a state of the art fire detection system. The final phase 3, the interiors and furnishings were restored to their state during the Ringling’s' time (circa 1924).
The results are stunning. Ninety-five percent of the original furnishings have remained in the house, including horsehair mattresses purchased from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York. A few pieces of furniture retain their original upholstery fabric, but fiber, the material most vulnerable to the time's ravages, suffered the most.
Artisans repaired and restored furniture and other objects that were damaged, using photographs taken by Mable Ringling as references. Artist Willy Pogeny, who designed sets for the Metropolitan Opera and Ziegfeld productions, was a favorite of the Ringling’s. For the ballroom, he painted a series of canvases called The Dance of Nations, with 20 different couples from varied cultures and time periods. The panels are set into gold-leafed wood and plaster. Over the years, the paintings were shellacked with polyurethane and the gilding “aged” with tobacco juice. A team of artisans worked for months to remove the coatings and restore the ceiling to its vibrant colors.
The reproduction work on missing sections of the balustrade and other decorative elements cannot easily be distinguished from the original work.
Eagle Village
Owner: GSUHF (Georgia Southern University Housing Foundation)
Architect: Little Diversified Architectural Consulting
Size: 350,000 sf
Budget: $25 Million
Completion: August 2005
The Project was designed to provide primarily first year students an aesthetically pleasing and attractive complex that has the character of private sector housing. The scope of the project included the demolition of existing site unities, asphalt pavement site walls Site work, drainage structures and grading of the outlying parking areas.
We installed the underground MEP place the slab on grade in order to provide a clean stable work surface for the structural metal stud and building frame work to begin keeping the buildings two weeks apart. Using the simultaneous installation of the light gauge building framing, mechanical systems, and electrical rough in work, with the exterior brick façade, windows, and the roof trusses and shingle roof system to maintain the schedule.
We requested that the University and Little Diversified Architects inspected the buildings on a floor by floor basis as work was completed, in order to stagger any punch list work and maintain the schedule; these dates were identified in the schedule. Through this method we completed the suites locked them until the university was ready to install the furniture, fixtures and equipment.
The balance of the site work, final grading, site improvements, final paving and landscaping were complete during the last month. Substantial Completion was achieved by July 15th, 2005
