October 2020 CAM Magazine Special Issue

DIRECTORS

Gerald C. Caratelli Architectural Building Components, Inc.

PUBLISHER EDITOR

Kevin Koehler Diane Sawinski

Jeffrey Chandler Valenti Trobec Chandler, Inc./VTC Insurance Group

Matthew D. Cramer ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Dee Cramer

Mary Kremposky McArdle

Michael J. Green GRAPHIC DESIGN

Joseph Coots Ryan Megiveron

John E. Green Company

Frank G. Jonna Jonna Companies

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

Roy Jones

Teresa K. Miller Walsh Construction Co.

DIRECTORS OFFICERS Chairman

Todd A. Moilanen Cloverdale Equipment Co.

Samuel J. Ruegsegger III

Tricia S. Ruby

The Christman Co.

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Stephen J. Frantz Retired

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Paul A. Stachowiak Integrated Design Solutions LLC

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Joshua T. Barney JJ Barney Construction

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Kevin Koehler

Ruby + Associates

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About the Authors Letter from the Editor

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LinkedIn Detroit

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Edward J. Minskoff Pavilion

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Innovation Garage

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Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital

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Pistons Performance Center & William Clay Ford Center for Athletic Medicine

Pure Detroit: LinkedIn’s New Office Celebrates the Motor City

For MSU’s Edward J. Minskoff Pavilion, Success Is Judged on a Curve

A Slice of Ingenuity: Going Inside the Innovation Garage at Domino’s Farms Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital’s Bed Tower Vertical Expansion Modernizes Facility

The Henry Ford Detroit Pistons Performance Center: A Slam Dunk

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Christian Financial Credit Union Headquarters

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Frank Rewold & Sons Headquarters

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Michigan Union Renovation

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Veoneer North American Technical Competence Center

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Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse Renovation

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Robert C. Valade Park

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Christian Financial Moves into the Corner Office

Frank Rewold & Sons Headquarters Celebrates the Past, Solidifies Place in Rochester’s Future

Reinventing the Michigan Union

Veoneer Tech Center Proves that Nature and Tech Are in Synthesis

Keeping Order in the Court: Christman Completes Five-Year Revitalization of Federal Courthouse

Robert C. Valade Park Brings Fun and Style to Detroit Waterfront

McLaren Macomb Hospital Addition

A New House of Healing for McLaren Macomb

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Mary graduated from Wayne State University with a Bachelor of Arts in English. As associate editor, Mary has been writing articles for CAM Magazine for over 25 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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Marilyn graduated from Wayne State University with a bachelor’s degree in electronic journalism, and has more than 35 years of experience in writing, publications and promotion. Currently, she works at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan on member and customer communications. Previously, she was assistant public affairs officer at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Detroit District. As a native Detroiter, she is excited by the city’s resurgence and downtown development.

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Douglas is a senior energy analyst and third-generation electrical contractor. In the last several years, he has focused his efforts in the renewable energy and energy conservation spaces. He is a co-founder of Greenlancer.com, a cloudbased solar design service based in Detroit. More recently, Douglas has become an advocate for Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing and has partnered with Provisions Energy Solutions LLC, an internationally recognized team of experts in commercial and industrial energy management systems. Douglas is a regular contributor to Environmental Network News, Renewable Energy World, and has written many sustainability articles for CAM.

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Hired as a prebid construction news reporter, Dennis recently joined the team at the Construction Association of Michigan. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Wayne State University in 2017, spending the last two years as a new development and general assignment reporter for the Lansing City Pulse. At the Pulse, Dennis was tasked with writing the paper’s “New in Town” column, tracking commercial and city developments from construction to completion. His work has also appeared in the Detroit Metro Times, Metro Parent, Model D Media and the National Endowment for the Humanities’ magazine.

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Michael McConnell’s professional experience encompasses B2B and B2C copywriting, online journalism and newspaper reporting. The former editor of a monthly magazine aimed at HVAC contractors, he’s always interested in finding out the stories behind metro Detroit’s most interesting people and projects.

Letter from the Editor Welcome to the 25th edition of CAM Magazine‘s Special Issue. This issue highlights 12 outstanding construction projects completed by CAM member companies over the past year. Given the challenges that have impacted all of us this year, it feels particularly important to reflect back and celebrate these exceptional construction projects completed during pre-COVID times.

Educational and healthcare facilities dominated the submitted projects. The gorgeous renovation of the historic Michigan Union on the UM-Ann Arbor campus made the cut, as did MSU’s innovative Edward J. Minskoff Pavilion. Two impactful and timely hospital expansions made the list: McLaren Macomb in Mt. Clemens added a new emergency department and also houses the first Level II trauma center in the county; and Warren’s Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital completed a large vertical expansion project, which added critically needed private rooms and greater safety and security.

Tired areas of Detroit continue to be transformed. The new Pistons Performance Center, in Detroit’s New Center area, now ranks in the top echelons of NBA practice, training and operations facilities. LinkedIn is also a player in the urban revitalization – the tech company creatively revamped two connected historic buildings along Woodward Avenue.

The complex revitalization of the historic Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse in downtown Detroit is featured in these pages, as is the vibrant Robert C. Valade Park, which was developed on a previously neglected industrial site along the Detroit River.

As our economy continued its long expansion over the last decade, many corporations built bigger and better headquarters. This Special Issue highlights a number of them that reached completion in 2019 – read about the new and impressive offices of Christian Financial Credit Union, Frank Rewold & Sons, and Veoneer North American Technical Competence Center. Also, Domino’s finished work on its new Innovation Garage in Ann Arbor. The R & D facility continues to take the company most known for pizza into the tech arena.

The “Project of the Year” will be selected from the 12 Special Issue projects - watch your email to learn how to cast your vote. The CAM Magazine Editorial Board and your input will determine the winner, which will be announced in early 2021.

I and the staff of CAM Magazine wish to thank the owners, general contractors, construction managers, subcontractors, architects and engineers whose talent is reflected in these pages. We hope you enjoy this Special Issue 2020 of CAM Magazine.

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n LinkedIn’s new Detroit regional headquarters, over 600 recycled car pistons form the Motor City version of the social media platform’s In Bug – its well-known, pixelated logo of the word “in.” Wall-mounted on the second floor, the logo embodies the spirit of a city and the mission of a company both sharing the same unstoppable drive for transformation. Once almost declared dead, downtown Detroit is now aglow with a renewed sense of re-invention. As a company, LinkedIn encourages personal transformation and is intent on connecting every person in the global workforce to economic opportunity. Perfectly aligned in purpose, LinkedIn wanted to participate in Detroit’s comeback and to serve as an inclusive community resource connecting people in the city and throughout the region to the same barrier-breaking sense of possibility.

“LinkedIn wanted to be a part of Detroit’s renewal, but also wants to help connect people to opportunities,” said SmithGroup Principal/Architect Andrew Mannion, OAA, LEED AP BD+C.

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LinkedIn’s Detroit office, the Sanders Building, circa 1914, is the original home of classic hot fudge, bumpy cake and chocolate galore.

The social media leader with over 500 million users and with offices in major cities such as Tokyo, Berlin, New York, and San Francisco could have established its new office in any other city, but they chose Detroit and these two vintage buildings along Woodward Avenue near Clifford Street. “They not only wanted to be part of the revitalization of Detroit, but they wanted the buildings to tell the Detroit story,” said Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) Vice President Gregory Worthington, Project & Development Services.

As owner’s representative, JLL assisted LinkedIn in choosing both the ideal setting for the story (the optimal buildings) and the best storytellers (the project team). Ultimately, two firms with deep Detroit roots were selected to infuse the LinkedIn office with the unmistakable stamp of Detroit history, culture and music. Having designed the historic Guardian, Penobscot and Buhl buildings, along with other vintage and contemporary downtown buildings, SmithGroup, a 165-year-old architectural and engineering firm, has the inside story on all things Detroit. As construction manager, L.S. Brinker Company, A Brinker Company, is another long-established Detroit-based company that has recently worked on the Henry Ford Detroit Pistons Performance Center and is currently working on the iconic Michigan Central Station. Both projects are joint ventures with The Christman Company.

Together, the project team delivered an interior fit-out in line with LinkedIn’s goal to create “the best workspace in Detroit that both reflected the city’s history and LinkedIn’s own mission and values,” Mannion said.

LinkedIn’s mission was to participate in Detroit’s revitalization by boosting the city’s economy. In fact, LinkedIn occupies only a 1,500-square-foot reception area at street level along Woodward Avenue, preferring to promote retail development in downtown Detroit. In this case, a clothing retailer called H & M occupies virtually the entire first floor of three buildings.

Being all about connection, LinkedIn set up shop in two connected historic buildings in downtown Detroit. The Grinnell Building is a historic structure originally built in 1908 as the Grinnell Brothers Music Store, the former home of one of the world’s leading piano makers and the largest piano distributors in the region. As “home sweet home” to the other half of Visit us online at www.BuildwithCAM.com

Chapter One: Celebrating Detroit’s Power of Making The programming and design immerses LinkedIn staff in the Detroit experience. Natural light and pure Detroit views pour into the open work areas, the café and other active spaces directly fronting the extensive windows along the Woodward Avenue side of the building.

SmithGroup, LinkedIn, and Gensler’s environmental graphics team created a theme for floors three and four – the levels housing the prime work spaces. According to Mannion, level three’s transportation theme is expressed in the graphics and names of the conference spaces, including meeting rooms named for the Boblo Boat, the Dodge Hellcat and the Hemi engine, and even a room called Christine, a cult horror movie classic about a possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury.

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Level four’s musical theme features a large conference room named Queen of Soul in honor of Aretha Franklin, and another space called the Vogue room after Madonna’s hit song. Even the elevator lobbies are part of the theme. According to Worthington, the third floor’s lobby showcases wall-mounted classic car grilles, and the fourth displays synthesizers and guitar amplifiers.

Additional floors in the building will be named after other Detroit creative industries as each floor is completed.

The design evokes the history of the Grinnell and Sanders buildings. The music plays on in the more southerly Grinnell Building at 1515 Woodward Avenue in the form of overt and subtle references to this world-famous piano. “The Grinnell Brothers piano was a source of inspiration for the materiality and the geometries in the space,” said SmithGroup Associate Architect Laura Walker, AIA. “The front of the main reception desk harkens to the rhythm of piano keys.” In this case, the “keys” are vertical brass metal inlays set into the dark, flamefinished wood of the second-floor reception desk.

A wood-clad opening frames the entire reception area and continues the piano metaphor.

Wood slats, set on a diagonal and superimposed over the wood walls, “reference the strings within the interior workings of a grand piano,” Walker continued. “It was all a way of introducing warmth into the space and setting the tone at a visitor’s first experience upon arrival at the reception area.”

Ira Township-based MOD Interiors fabricated and installed the millwork for the “piano key” reception desk, including its other custom elements. The desk’s lower edge “has spaced slats over a painted blue background, and the desk’s service counter is built of bent metal,” Mannion said.

Piano references fill the interior. “Throughout the space we use darker wood, brass, bronze, and felt, referencing the soft felt hammers of a piano interior,” Mannion added. In the secondfloor café, the white laminate and rounded edges of the millwork furnishings echo the rounded contour of the Grinnell Brothers’ patented waterfall edge piano key.

The making of music and chocolate lives once again in the interior of these vintage buildings.

Sanders bumpy cake is immortalized in a café wall graphic, along with endless rows of Sanders chocolates. These caramel, nut and cream-filled chocolates even have an automotive link.

“Sanders once partnered with Henry Ford in the early days to automate candy production,” Mannion said. “Sanders is one of the first candy makers influenced by automotive production.”

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The design embodies the history of the Grinnell Building, originally built in 1908 as the home of the Grinnell Brothers Music Store and its famous piano. In this welcoming and wide-open lobby, the front of the reception desk evokes the rhythm of piano keys, and the wood frame over the reception area references the strings within the interior workings of a grand piano.

This Made in Detroit office has earned high praise. LinkedIn Vice President James Morgensen, Global Workplace Services, commented in a written statement: “LinkedIn employees walked beneath the wrought iron canopy into one of the most stunning projects my Global Workplace Services team has delivered, and now a personal favorite of my 30year career. The attention to detail and flood of natural light in every space is mesmerizing.

SmithGroup’s design team successfully tied the new to the old – enabling people to feel a tangible connection to the transformation of Detroit.”

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Chapter Two: LinkedIn’s Mission Beyond telling the Detroit story, the project boosts the city’s economy and engages the Detroit community. In fact, LinkedIn occupies only a 1,500-square-foot reception area on the street level, preferring to promote the thriving retail business called H & M. The clothing retailer occupies virtually the entire first floor of three buildings: the unrelated 1505 building at the very corner of Woodward Avenue and Clifford Street, much of the 1515 Grinnell Building, and the more northerly 1529 Sanders Building.

LinkedIn’s second-level can be used for community outreach. A spacious reception area and its piano keyboard desk greet visitors; the wide open spaces of the reception area flow

easily into a training room and a lounge-type multipurpose space with varied furnishings. A moveable glass wall between the training room and lounge offers a range of flexible options.

“It is scalable to different group sizes,” Mannion said. “LinkedIn uses the space for community outreach, either bringing in groups themselves or allowing different organizations to use the space for training and connection.

Because we felt it was important for these spaces to connect to the community, the space takes advantage of the building’s large windows overlooking Woodward Avenue to create a direct visual connection to the street.”

LinkedIn has hosted seminars on small business development, as well as Earth Day events and LEED programs, Worthington said.

According to The Detroit News, LinkedIn hosted a panel discussion on the future of work in Detroit as part of its grand opening celebration.

The panel included speakers from Midnight Golf, a mentorship and skill-building nonprofit, Detroit Employment Solutions Corp., a group operating the city’s Detroit at Work program, Wayne State University and others.

According to SmithGroup’s project description, LinkedIn Detroit is seeking to “collaborate with social, creative and philanthropic partners … and to democratize access to jobs by supporting job seekers facing barriers.”

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Chapter Three: Expressive Design The new facility offers LinkedIn staff a phenomenal work environment as well.

The office space has lighting strategies for the digital age and state-of-theart acoustics both now serving as a template for LinkedIn offices across the globe. Flame-finished millwork, Art Deco-inspired metal screens, and bold splashes of blue porcelain tile are only part of this contemporary weave of “saturated, rich repetitions of materiality,” Walker said.

“It’s warm, inviting and expressive,” Worthington said. “It inspires employees’ freedom of thought and creativity, and it does something to the senses – it enlivens you as you walk through the space. I think SmithGroup did a great job of taking advantage of the building and creating this kind of space. It’s a creative interior, and it makes people passionate about the work they do within the building.”

Chapter Four: The Teamwork Toolbox The story of this 35,400-square-foot project has another important chapter.

“I think one of the greatest stories of this project is the extraordinary effort of everyone involved, and the very nice working relationship that was fostered among the team members of L.S. Brinker, JLL and SmithGroup,” said SmithGroup Principal George Athens, AIA, Workplace Studio Leader.

“That is how this project ultimately got delivered.”

A compressed schedule of only seven months and LinkedIn’s exacting standards called for stamina, strategy and team cohesion. Perhaps, the real intangible is feeling excited about the project. “We wanted to have the sense that this is a cool, sexy project,” Worthington said. “We want to build it, we want to drive it, and all of our DNA or identity is going into this right now.”

Truly LinkedIn’s presence in Detroit creates its own electric aura.

Witnessing this growing tech company opting for an amazing workspace in two revitalized historic buildings in Detroit – a great city undergoing its own re-invention – drove the project team to pour their collective energies into the making of LinkedIn’s new home on Woodward Avenue.

Team connection began early with L.S. Brinker joining the project in the early design phase and working closely with JLL and SmithGroup throughout the transformation of these vintage building interiors. At the end of the project, Schmidt said everyone worked seven days a week for almost 10 weeks.

The building site became an open book with anyone on the team granted access at any time – weekdays, weeknights or weekends. “L.S. Brinker Project Engineer Isiah White stayed until 9:00 p.m. and returned at midnight so the LinkedIn sign could be hung on the building exterior at night,” said L.S. Brinker Senior Project Manager Heidi R. Schmidt. “He stayed until 4:00 a.m. and was back to work the next morning. We worked hard, but to be honest, it was exceptionally fun. We would become a bit frustrated at times because the project had so many moving parts, but we really did enjoy each other’s company.”

The Prequel: Rooting for the Home Team Part of the reason for LinkedIn’s move to Detroit was that several LinkedIn executives, originally from the Detroit area, were rooting for the home team, according to Worthington who explored building options for LinkedIn throughout downtown Detroit. “We conducted site reviews and due diligence studies on three separate buildings,” Worthington said.

The newly restored exterior façades of the Sanders and Grinnell Buildings caught LinkedIn’s eye. RAM Construction Services and Glassline Incorporated restored the historical character of these early 20th Century buildings, including the once-missing cornice of the Grinnell Building. Today, the cornice and its ornate harp festooned with two horns, garlands and decorative leaves has been re-fashioned in glass fiber reinforced polymer.

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The interior possibilities were equally eyecatching. “The interior of the Sanders and Grinnell Buildings offered a great view of Woodward Avenue, along with having the appropriate square footage and expansion options,” Worthington said. The current project transformed floors one through four, leaving room for future expansion into the eight-story Sanders and the six-story Grinnell Buildings, collectively totaling 74,800 square feet.

Each building had a compelling story of its own. In the 1980s, the last hot fudge sundae was finished and the music stopped as both of these downtown Detroit icons closed up shop. By 2017, the two buildings had been vacant for almost 40 years, and, according to Mannion, the floors had been reduced to dirt and exposed wood sleepers; the original wood floors either decayed or had been stripped from the building.

Under contract to Bedrock as building owner, Sachse Construction oversaw exterior restoration, connected the Sanders and Grinnell Buildings, and delivered the core and shell work.

Neumann/Smith Architecture was the architect and Kraemer Design Group the historical consultant for this earlier project.

The Growth of a Great Idea After building selection, JLL worked with 45 different people from LinkedIn’s own design team. The creative fervor of almost four dozen inspired individuals dramatically expanded the project’s scope during this initial period and into the actual design phase itself. “Originally, the project only involved some office space and a few kitchenettes,” Worthington said. “They were going to build out two floors, but we ended up building out four floors and adding a full-service café, a barista bar and other spaces.”

For project team selection, LinkedIn and JJL interviewed four different architectural firms, all having delivered transformative buildings in Detroit, all based in Detroit and committed to the city’s well-being and recovery. SmithGroup more than fit the criteria, but according to Worthington, it was the firm’s blank slate approach that ultimately secured the project. “SmithGroup approached the project as, ‘We want to design your project for you, and we have no preconceived notions about your space,’” Worthington said. “This was very appealing to LinkedIn, whereas other firms basically said, ‘This is what your space should be.’” Having in-house mechanical and electrical engineers was an added benefit of the SmithGroup selection.

Detroit’s robust level of construction, combined with a skilled labor shortage, raised concerns about manpower levels. “Part of the advantage L.S. Brinker brought to the project was having four self-performing sister companies within the Brinker family of companies,” Schmidt said. “We could actually lock in our electricians (Edgewood Electric) and our own glass and glazing contractor (Universal Glass & Metals). We also called on Brinker Team Construction, our drywall, acoustic ceiling and carpentry firm, for all the framing, drywall and ceiling work.” In fact, the self-performing affiliates supplied approximately 45 percent of skilled labor on the project, Schmidt added.

A Cross-Cultural Exchange SmithGroup’s design team immersed themselves in the LinkedIn way. “SmithGroup created a thoughtful design that worked by capturing employee survey results, gaining LinkedIn’s feedback from a Detroit walking tour, and thoroughly studying LinkedIn’s style and programming book,” Worthington said. The book is a guide not a bible because the goal of every LinkedIn office is to express the unique flavor of every host city. “LinkedIn basically declares that the guidebook is not something to be followed 100 percent,” Worthington added.

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As part of programming, LinkedIn, SmithGroup and L.S. Brinker embarked on a type of crosscultural exchange to achieve a building with a Detroit feel and an office best suited to LinkedIn’s workforce. The project team took LinkedIn on a tour of downtown Detroit, and both SmithGroup and L.S. Brinker traveled to LinkedIn’s global headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, along with offices in San Francisco and Chicago, to gather a working knowledge of LinkedIn’s values and operational needs.

The grand walking tour of Detroit began in SmithGroup’s own offices in the Guardian Building. “We gave them a sense of the Art Deco history within Detroit,” Mannion said. The Guardian Building’s ornate tile work, exterior brick patterns and the scale and grandeur of the building itself are a bold example of Art Deco architecture. “The result is I think much of the geometry of the finishes in LinkedIn’s Detroit office have certain Art Deco influences in the patterns and shapes used in the flooring and metalwork,” Mannion said. “For instance, metal screens in the café are not rectilinear but have angles and shapes reflective of the Art Deco influence.”

Strolling down the streets of downtown Detroit exposed the LinkedIn team to the city’s murals and sparked the creation of local artist Pat Perry’s floor-to-ceiling wall mural on the building’s second level. Called Beekeeper, the mural celebrates beekeeping, sustainability, and the “notion that collective action builds community,” according to SmithGroup’s project description.

The mural is in perfect harmony with this Silver LEED building; LinkedIn is also seeking WELL v2 Certification.

According to Worthington, other stops on the tour of the D include Punchbowl Social, the legendary Café D’ Mongo’s Speakeasy and Dilla’s Delights, a donut shop in honor of the late hiphop artist J. Dilla. From the Shinola Hotel to the ornate atrium of the David Whitney Building and all through the newly revitalized Siren and Foundation Hotels, the LinkedIn team was able to savor the music, history and culture of this almost 320-year-old city.

Detroit culture is part of the very walls of LinkedIn’s barista coffee shop. Called the Grind, the walls are reclaimed wood purchased from a Hamtramck business named Woodward Throwbacks. Together, SmithGroup, Gensler, and LinkedIn visited this architectural salvage and reclaimed wood shop to find materials for the LinkedIn office. Evoking the industrial backbone of the Motor City, the silver metal letters of The Grind are emblazoned across the flame-finished

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surface of the wood. The phrase “We Shall Rise” is part of this “wall-scape” and a morning greeting to all coffee drinkers, as well as being part of the city’s motto sewn on its flag in succinct Latin. The motto – Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus or “We hope for better things; it shall arise from the ashes” – refers to early Detroit’s commitment to rebuild after being completely destroyed by fire on June 11, 1805.

The tour visited the point of origin marker in Campus Martius as well. The point of origin ground plaque marks the center point of Detroit’s radial street plan created after the Great Fire of 1805. “All of the major radial roads terminate at the point of origin,” Mannion said. “Gensler used this as a theme for the environmental graphics in the first-level space. As each new employee arrives in the office for the first time, they fill out a small magnetic card describing their own origin or home community. Each card is placed on an interactive graphic, and it forms a grid of individual names as a way to bring together individuals to form the LinkedIn community.”

Touring Sunnyvale In turn, SmithGroup and L.S. Brinker toured LinkedIn’s Chicago office. With a schematic design in its laptop files, SmithGroup and L.S. Brinker boarded a plane to Sunnyvale, California.

“We presented our schematic design and had a full tour of their open offices and employee amenities, such as lounges, barista bars, fitness centers and cafes,” Mannion said. “This established a benchmark for what they typically provide their employees. Sharing the spaces visually and touring the facility gave us an exact idea of their expectations.”

LinkedIn’s tradition of high-quality communal spaces and eateries became apparent during the tour. “Baristas prepare custom coffees for employees similar to a Starbucks-level coffee experience,” Mannion said. “The food quality in the café is very high and full of healthy options.

The food is served on nice dishware and is well presented.”

SmithGroup translated lessons learned on the tour into design solutions. At LinkedIn Detroit, high-quality food is served on actual dishware and in a beautifully designed café. Café tables stretch along the broad windows directly facing Woodward Avenue, offering a literal window seat for watching the bustle of Detroit’s main thoroughfare. Another dining zone features brass globe pendant light fixtures, waterfall edge piano key-inspired millwork and vinyl seat fabric reminiscent of 1950s vintage cars. An Art Decostyle metal screen separates the dining and food

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Level three’s transportation theme embraces the Motor City. The third-floor’s elevator lobby even displays wallmounted classic car grilles.

service areas; the more intimate café ceiling soffits give way to full-height ceilings exposing the building’s original concrete beams on the other side of the screen. Wall tiles in a vibrant blue hue form the backdrop for the actual serving area. “The saturated blue color in that area creates a pop of color to help direct the focus of attention to the offerings of the café,” Walker said.

The Sunnyvale tour identified functional concerns of paramount importance to LinkedIn as well. “The largest employee complaint in the past has been about acoustics,” Mannion said.

“In the Detroit space, we focused on isolating the sound between enclosed meeting rooms and open office spaces.

“Partitions in enclosed meeting rooms are all from the floor up to the deck, and are Sound Transmission Class (STC)-rated 55 construction,” Mannion said. “All the glass partitions, fronting the meeting spaces, are specified as STC 42rated glass partition systems with solid wood doors. This strategy does a great job of isolating the sound between the exterior and interior of a meeting room.”

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Each meeting room is wrapped in sound absorption materials, including carpeting, acoustic ceiling tile with a high Noise Reduction Coefficient (NRC) and Ceiling Attenuation Class (CAC) rating, along with felt acoustic panels installed from base to ceiling on three walls.

“Brinker Team Construction executed the work on the felt panels very well,” Mannion said. “The panels look exceptional; it was a nice and clean install.” The open work spaces have felt-wrapped columns and acoustic ceiling baffles as well.

Altering the placement of mechanical units maintained acoustical control. “We coordinated closely with L.S. Brinker and the base building design to make sure that none of the mechanical units were located in and above the ceilings in any of the enclosed meeting rooms or above the open work spaces,” Mannion said.

Very early in the project, L.S. Brinker strategically coordinated with Sachse to relocate mechanical heat pumps to meet LinkedIn’s high acoustical control standards. Brinker moved several heat pumps, placing the units “in corridors or transient spaces that people are not frequenting for any length of time,” Mannion said.

“L.S. Brinker was responsible for the whole distribution network, meaning all the distribution ductwork, diffusers and return air systems as well.”

Lighting for the Digital Age LinkedIn’s use of video conferencing called for lighting systems tailor-made for the digital age.

SmithGroup’s own Lighting Design Studio created solutions to reduce computer glare, save energy and create the optimal lighting for videoconferencing. In the open work stations, specialty light fixtures reduce computer glare and offer adjustability. “These light fixtures are absolutely amazing,” Worthington said. “They have up, down and side lights, and each phase of the light generating off of one of these light sections is individually controlled. The control system for the lights almost looks like it’s made for NASA.” Linked to a daylight detection system, the lights will reduce energy usage by automatically reacting to the amount of natural ambient lighting entering any given space.

Linear LED lighting fixtures now illuminate socalled phone rooms used for single-person video conferencing calls. According to Mannion, mounting the fixtures horizontally on the wall above the video conferencing units and in other strategic areas lights both the face and the room well to avoid facial shadows and other distortions.

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designed both buildings with fairly minimal columns separating each of the building’s three window bays along Woodward Avenue, essentially turning natural light into a design feature within the interior of the now conjoined buildings. SmithGroup’s programming took full advantage of the building design.

“All of the open work areas are grouped on the east wall facing Woodward Avenue,” Mannion said. “As we move to the west and into the interior of the building, the spaces become a bit more inwardly focused.”

The interior is programmed on an active-toquiet gradient. The more activated, high-energy and communal spaces face the daylight-filled Woodward Avenue side of the building, including the open work spaces on floors three and four and the second-floor training room, multipurpose space, and café. Conference rooms are placed in the center of the building, while more private spaces, such as the library, a mindfulness room and a mother’s room are in the back of the building.

In the far west, the library offers a quiet oasis furnished with independent, single-booth stations and banquette seating. In creating this serene nook, SmithGroup took full advantage of the asymmetrical back edge of the Sanders Building, according to SmithGroup Associate/Project Manager Marta Gazda-Auskalnis, AIA, LEED AP, SEED. Instead of a perfect square, the building’s northwest corner is sliced on an angular slant, making for interesting spaces and intimate nooks.

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understanding of project goals. “I think without exception everyone on the team understood, supported and was excited about the project and its goals,” Mannion said. “When everyone understands what the big picture is, it helps when we have to make decisions quickly on a compressed schedule.” The L.S. Brinker team included Schmidt, Project Engineer Isiah White, and Project Superintendent David Kukla.

Adding to the scheduling challenges, the sheer diversity of spaces, ranging from office space to a barista bar, created a project with many different “moving parts and pieces,” Schmidt said. The barista bar’s state-of-the-art espresso machine required rerouting the drains in the floor, and the installation of almost a full-blown commercial kitchen for the café demanded an intensive coordination effort. “They

Scheduling Strategies To meet the compressed schedule, SmithGroup issued construction documents and L.S. Brinker secured a building permit to begin framing even though several finishes were in the final design stage. “We were able to bring in our own folks from Brinker Team Construction and get started on framing and rough-in without a full set of drawings, which was a major advantage,” Schmidt said.

Delivering high-quality at a rapid pace called for a tightly coordinated team, including swift turnaround of shop drawings. “SmithGroup was fantastic,” Schmidt said. “We would send them a set of shop drawings and they would drop what they were doing to review and turn them around, so that we could get the trades as much fabrication time as possible.”

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have an extensive dishwashing system, and we had to coordinate plumbing and drainage from the second floor down through what was going to be future retail space, making sure to keep the systems tight to the first-floor ceiling,” Schmidt said.

Another coordination feat called for managing the influx of different subcontractors needed for the interior’s varied spaces. “Especially in the café area, we talked to our subcontractors on a daily basis, because finishes, millwork and ductwork were being installed at the same time for the purpose of meeting the tight schedule,” said Project Engineer Isiah White.

“We had to protect the finishes to avoid any damage to them while other work was ongoing in the café. We had to make sure all of these parts and pieces came together but that we’re not overlapping our subcontractors too much, because we wanted to make sure that the tile and other work stayed undamaged.”

In another case, too many “cooks” in the kitchen proved to be an asset. On the kitchen servery, Brinker and SmithGroup

worked with JLL on providing documentation needed for the city and the health department approvals. JLL interfaced with LinkedIn’s Chef Dale during construction and throughout the approval process, and once the kitchen servery was completed, Schimdt even drove Chef Dale to Whole Foods on Woodward Avenue for herbs and spices.

Ceiling Strategies: Laser Scanning the Past The interior has an intricate layering of ceiling systems as diverse as the other finishes. The building’s original grid of stout concrete beams is exposed in several areas, including the café’s food service area. In the café, SmithGroup added tectum acoustical panels in between the concrete beams to maintain acoustical control while preserving the building’s original character.

Laser scanning the concrete beams of these vintage buildings assisted the project immeasurably. “The original concrete pours are irregular, and the beams are on angles on different floors,” Mannion said. “The scan

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assisted in determining beam sizes and in creating a point map of the existing structural system. We were able to accurately model the building based on the point map.”

The existing plaster systems presented other concerns. In the open offices, “the ceilings have an existing plaster coating on the underside of the concrete, and the terracotta infill blocks that were used to form that concrete are still in place,” Mannion said.

“We were able to keep that exposed, but adhesion to the plaster ceilings was a constant struggle. We needed to make sure that our anchoring systems and other elements didn’t worsen those conditions.

There was good coordination from L.S. Brinker’s trades on where they were hanging ductwork and other systems to try and minimize any loosening of that plaster.”

SmithGroup had to retain the original finished plaster appearance of the ceiling in certain areas to keep the design aligned with historic tax credits. “Maintaining the look of the original building ceiling along the perimeter of the building adjacent to Woodward Avenue created a visual effect from the street that would be more representative of what the building was like,” Gazda-Auskalnis said. “We then moved in with a different solution further into the building.”

Contemporary ceiling finishes included the library’s beautifully crafted wood-slat ceiling. Ira Township fabricator and installer, MOD Interiors, hand-assembled the ceiling in the field. “The ceiling had mitered corners and 90-degree angles,” Schmidt said.

MOD Interiors delivered well-crafted work on a tight schedule. “Quality was such a concern because LinkedIn is a very exacting client with high expectations,” Schmidt said.

“I think it was drilled into everybody’s head from day one: This has to be perfect.”

MOD Interiors “came to the site often,” Schmidt continued. “If they were working in one area, they would be field-verifying in another area. Everybody had free reign and access to the site. We worked nights, we worked weekends, and we told them, “Whatever you need to do, somebody will be on site.”

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maintained a cohesive team, along with L.S. Brinker-hosted bowling nights and impromptu lunches and after-work gatherings. “As owner’s representative, one of my primary goals was to have an open forum where everybody gets together minimally once a week,” Worthington said.

“What we called our project manager meeting was basically two hours every Wednesday. We would bring in project managers from L.S. Brinker, SmithGroup and various vendors.

We would communicate our top priorities, and air our grievances and our differences.

“One of the things that you just have to have is the ability to communicate good news and bad news and not hold back,” Worthington added. “You have to build trust.”

Worthington is a sort of construction whisperer. “I often describe my job as being a project fixer,” Worthington said. “I fix everybody on the project so that they are comfortable and confident going forward, and they feel empowered. It’s all about building those relationships and driving that team. At JLL, we’re the therapist, we’re your best friend, and we’re the cop, the lawyer and the fireman. We have to put out fires and police people sometimes. It’s all those different aspects of the job, but you also have to figure out how to correctly apply these aspects or roles to the different personalities within the team. It’s about managing different personalities as well as managing the actual project.”

Thanks to trust, teamwork and professional expertise, the entire project team delivered this incredible space in seven short months. “There were a lot of long days, some frustration, and several cocktail hours,” Worthington said.

The team’s dedication and enthusiasm produced an impeccable space that passed LinkedIn’s punch list walk-through with flying colors. “LinkedIn only pointed out the smallest of details like ‘you missed a speck of paint on this little piece of rubberized base,’” Worthington said. “That’s how great of a job L.S. Brinker did, and that’s how great SmithGroup’s design and all the vendors’ attention to detail was to every part of the project. The staff didn’t have any complaints, because everything is literally perfect. LinkedIn’s end goal is perfection.

They don’t say that, but that’s what they expected, and that’s what we delivered.”

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This open and flexible second-story space houses a training room and a lounge-type multipurpose space capable of being separated by a moveable glass wall. In alignment with LinkedIn’s mission, the space has already been used for community outreach events, including small business development seminars, Earth Day programs, and a panel discussion on the future of work in Detroit.

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Success Is Judged on a Curve

By Marilyn S. Jones-Wilson he shortest distance between two points is not always a straight line. When Michigan State University sought to expand and rejuvenate the Eli Broad College of Business, the most elegant solution proved to be a curve – the curved lines and bright spaces of the Edward J. Minskoff Pavilion, a triumph of design, technology and seamless teamwork.

Driven in part by the largest gift from a single individual in MSU’s 134-year history, the Minskoff Pavilion connects two existing buildings from different eras to create a lightfilled center for innovative learning, collaboration and inspiration. Oriented toward the Red Cedar River, the dazzling three-story atrium welcomes students into a complex of classrooms, social hangouts and event spaces.

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From its inception, the project’s development from design to completion mirrored the purpose of the business school itself – to achieve through collaboration, flexibility, and compromise across disciplines. The challenge: to create a leading-edge facility with an iconic design to raise the national profile of its Broad College of Business, maximize a conservative budget of $62 million, and compete against business schools with resources twice or three times as large.

Beginning in spring 2015, the Michigan architect-engineer firm Fishbeck teamed up with LMN Architects in Seattle to look for ways to derive at least 20 percent more value into each square foot. Clark Construction joined the team with a track record for high-end projects at MSU and the University of Michigan and with a knack for maximizing bang for bucks in both design and construction.

The expansive glass curtainwall facing the Red Cedar River floods the common areas with light for formal and informal gatherings. Use of wood on walls and ceilings throughout the building complement the terrazzo floors and white walls.

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The curved lines of the three-story atrium give the Minskoff Pavilion iconic aesthetics to rival academic competitors with larger endowments. Technological advances in building modeling and 3-D field layout automated interior floor dimensioning to save time and money over traditional methods.

Together, the companies employed integrated project delivery (IPD), a process that optimizes every element of the team to lower costs, anticipate problems, and produce results. Through partner meetings, specialty drill-downs and weekly huddles, they worked through 28 different approaches to design and budget until arriving at the perfect synthesis of form and function.

An Integrated Team The IPD process enlists the entire design and construction team with trade partners

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in a consensus-based contract that rewards everyone based on whatever is best for the project as a whole. “All parties were equally empowered to make suggestions or raise concerns as we worked for the good of the project,” said Robert Smith, principal at LMN. “This gave the team flexibility in trading scope for the project’s advantage.”

For example, the steelwork trade partners were involved in detailing the design of the cantilevered steel stair upfront, saving the cost of changing the architectural design after being bid out.

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“In the construction phase, we saw countless examples of trades helping each other out with equipment and even personnel,” Smith said. “They knew that when each of us succeeds, we all do.”

The written agreement between each party fostered trust, allowing partners to define their roles and level of engagement, while incentivized to seek out efficiencies.

“Team leaders assessed the capabilities of our team members openly,” said Dan Launstein, Senior Design Architect at Fishbeck.

“When an issue did arise, such as a budget overage, team leaders met and resolved the best reductions in scope or changes in design to be under the target budget,” Launstein said. As a result, wherever savings were found, project scope could be expanded. This approach to realizing the shared goals for the Minskoff Pavilion – a building with distinctive design, delivered within budget, that would elevate MSU’s Broad College of Business to world-class renown – personified the philosophy of the school itself. By pooling the expertise and experience of all participants, including the trade partners, considerable challenges faced during construction were met through innovation and creativity.

“The team we enlisted to accomplish our vision understood our success factors and excelled in bringing together the various stakeholders and user groups with interest in the college’s modernization,” said Tony Rhodes, MSU project representative. “They helped us realize where budget dollars would be best spent, optimizing the building’s footprint, and allowed us to include additional program into the scope.”

Tight Site and Flood Plain Located along a main student walkway on the campus of Michigan State University, the Shaw Road project site lay next to the Eppley Center, facing on the Red Cedar River, and just east of Shaw Hall, a fully occupied residence hall. Construction began in summer 2017 with the demolition of the old Lear Center. Building on such a congested site meant prioritizing student safety while ensuring access.

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The team paved an existing truck lane to reduce dust and accommodate just-intime delivery, while remaining mindful of campus travel patterns. Gates were installed across walkways to prevent student traffic during deliveries. Signage, flagmen and a new crosswalk directed students safely around the site. A redundant city bus stop was eliminated, and staggered shifts avoided peak campus hours. As a result, student life was minimally affected.

The building site was only three feet away from the 100-year flood plain of the Red Cedar River. In February 2018, midschedule, the river flooded, without reaching the actual building, but materials and trailers had to be relocated to higher ground. The haul road was moved during a two-week period, but ultimately the event had little effect on project progress.

Foresight had prepared for the flood by constructing a large retention basin and pump early in the schedule, which controlled the impact as the waters receded.

The career management office is located near to the front entrance, accessible to students and visitors. The pavilion also houses the MBA and graduate program offices, recruiting spaces, and centers for interdisciplinary studies.

“This could have been a major setback,” said Nick Henne, Clark project manager, “but the team really came together and found ways to keep the project moving forward.”

Bending the Curve The soaringly modern design of the Minskoff Pavilion bridges two older Broad College buildings and edges close to Shaw Hall on its west side. “Early on in the design process, we determined that the building needed to create a new front door onto Shaw Lane to the south, and take maximum advantage of the views toward the Red Cedar River to the north,” Smith said.

“We explored several concepts with splayed or cranked wings to make this happen. The curve was eventually settled upon as the most elegant way to achieve these goals.”

The curved façade prioritizes style over budget. “The building radius was a design feature that was in the original design intent and made the building unique,” Henne said. “It easily could have been value-engineered out to save some significant dollars, but we needed the building to stand out and this radius made that intent real.”

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cantilevered steel, brick and glazing added to the complexity. Precast concrete panels set back against the curve required heavy lifts and difficult logistics to sequence the panels into the steel erection plan. Building in curved lines poses inherent costs and challenges.

Materials are not meant to bend and curve, making interior layouts difficult and precise measurements critical.

Fortunately, because building information modeling data was complete prior to construction, technology made singlephase construction and just-in-time deliveries possible.

Costs and time were offset through the use of 3-D field layout technology by Trimble. Using the data from Revit BIM as a framework, the system automated the interior floor dimensioning and saved time by 70 percent over conventional fabrication and fieldwork.

“Trimble layout allowed us to be within 1/8th of an inch for interior wall layouts,” Henne said. “Typical layout methods would have been a two-week activity duration per floor. Using Trimble we completed layout in three days per floor.”

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Throughout the building, wood slats on walls and ceilings contrast with glass and views onto the green campus setting. Cost-effective wood slats used in lieu of flat wood paneling also contributed to sound control in both public and private spaces.

through weekly meetings, then documented and communicated to the field via the use of construction productive software, PlanGrid.

Rooms with a View Designed to make the most of its location, the 100,000-square-foot pavilion uses its modern curves and angles to draw attention from Shaw Lane northward toward the river, while relating to the architecture of existing buildings. MSU’s campus, known for its trees and scenic lawns, presented an opportunity to bring that beauty purposely to the Pavilion’s entrance and within its walls.

“Although it is a pleasure to walk through campus, most buildings are internally focused and ignore the landscape except as setting,” Smith said.

“We wanted to engage the landscape more actively. The project takes great advantage of its site to expand the impact for the college and the campus.

“The space between the existing and the new creates a coherent courtyard that brings light, view and green relief into the building form,” he said. “Toward the river, the building feels aligned with Shaw Hall and clearly oriented to the river and the new event lawn. And critically, within the building, we created an inviting atrium space that draws you through the building Visit us online at www.BuildwithCAM.com

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toward the river, with foreshortening created by geometry that opens as you move north from the entrance.”

The three-story glass atrium interrelates with the environment, offering front-row perspectives on nature. “The pavilion and its designed landscape are extensions of one another, forming a new campus path from central campus down to the river’s edge,” Launstein said. “The interior

courtyard created between the buildings allows the landscape to interlace with the buildings, providing protected and accessible outdoor spaces that can be enjoyed throughout the seasons.”

From the inviting entrance plaza to a terrace overlooking the event lawn, people are drawn to circulate, congregate, and linger in public spaces that support private moments.

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fundraisers and career fairs can spill out from the adjacent multi-purpose room.

Mindful of the nearby student residence and the need for privacy, the design of the western exterior features north-facing windows that jut outward, bringing in daylight without directly facing the residence.

All of these spaces are supported with exterior wireless access and integrated building lighting. “Starting at the south and wrapping all around the building are a series of rain gardens that treat stormwater from the building in a way that is both interesting and beautiful – adding diversity of appearance and habitat to the campus,” Smith said. The expansive glass curtainwall, terrazzo floors and white walls of the atrium are complemented with warm wood finishes that evoke paneled corporate boardrooms but with a contemporary twist.

“Visually, the use of wood slat panels on walls and ceilings is the most striking element of the building,” Smith said. “We provided a modern interpretation with a system that was more cost-effective than wood paneling, but allowed us to integrate acoustic absorption in areas such as the atrium, classrooms and event spaces.

“The wood balances the crisp whites of the building and links to the natural setting,” Smith addes. “The wood slat pattern is echoed in the graphic pattern on the interior glass walls and even in the custom signage where its ‘pinstripe’ motif plays off the traditional image of business.”

In all, nearly 21,000 square feet of the custom-engineered wooden slats were provided by 9Wood in Springfield, Oregon. The wood slat installation received a 2020 Gold Construction Excellence award from the Ceilings & Interior Systems Construction Association.

Collaborative Spaces Throughout the Minskoff Pavilion, the mantra of collaboration in business is personified by flexible work areas and meeting rooms conducive to learning and teaching. According to Smith, the generosity of community space is one of the most transformational elements to

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Classrooms were designed around a common module to allow both tiered and flat-floor arrangements that can be adapted as needs change.

bring the Broad College into contention with national academic competitors.

“The college’s 7,000-plus students are dedicated and proud,” Smith said, “but were hungry for a facility where they could come together to study, make connections, and start creating the networks that will serve them for the rest of their careers.” Filled with lounges, informal seating areas and team study rooms, the building provides an alternative from conventional school buildings dominated by dry offices and classrooms. The pavilion, Smith said, “creates a living room for the college.”

The centerpiece atrium, with its café, seating steps, bridges and galleries, lends itself to large gatherings, speeches and celebrations, while the multi-purpose room, lounges and other rooms on the ground floor support conferences and team breakouts. The entrepreneurship lab is provided with a vertically folding motorized partition that allows the room to be enlarged to another multi-purpose room with access to the courtyard for receptions and smaller events.

The pavilion also houses the MBA and graduate program offices, recruiting spaces, and centers for interdisciplinary studies. Program offices and career centers are located near the front door,

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accessible to students and visitors alike.

Six classrooms of 66-70 seats each on layered tiers, and eight smaller classrooms for electives are fully equipped with state-of-the-art audiovisual technology.

“We took advantage of the tall floor-tofloor heights to stack fixed projector screens above white boards,” Smith said.

Usually projection screens are motorized and installed in front of the white boards, partially obscuring them. Mounting them above reduced costs, enabling more projectors to be purchased. “We were able to provide lighting just above the white boards that allowed them to be illuminated even when the room lights were lowered for projected images,” he said.

Classrooms were designed around a common module that could be converted over time with minimal impact to structure or technology. This module can support either specialized tiered case study rooms with fixed tables or flat floor activelearning classrooms. A number of each type were built as part of the initial project, but the college can create more over time as needs change.

The emphasis is on addressing how students learn and work together to solve problems in a diverse business world.

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“At the end of the day, the building is about building relationships,” Smith said.

“Connections extend to collaborating academics, alumni, corporate partners and recruiters. We wanted the building to enhance all of these connections.”

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including an onsite storm water management system, use of regional materials, and low-VOC paint and adhesives.

Energy-efficient displacement ventilation, the first on the university’s campus, was a priority investment. The system pulls warm air at low velocity from occupant level up to intakes located near the ceiling. Radiant heat via fin tube and

runtal heating baseboards augment temperature control in cold months.

Common Purpose The project’s execution embodied the same values of teamwork and collaboration that the business college represents. “The Edward J. Minskoff Pavilion is a game-changer, one that raises the bar for how we will prepare the business leaders of tomorrow,” said Sanjay Gupta, Broad College of Business Dean.

Clark Construction’s Nick Henne calls the project “one of a kind,” and Robert Smith appreciates the strong personal relationships that grew out of the experience.

“More than most projects, I felt like we were all pulling together towards the same goals. From the Dean, advancement team, faculty, and staff to the campus architect, construction manager, and facilities department, and from the design team to the contractor and engaged trades, we all eventually shared the same vision and created something special for Broad College and Michigan State University,” Smith said.

“Although the project is 2,200 miles away from my home in Seattle, I still see friends from the project at conferences and talk with leadership from the Broad School several times a year. I think we all feel that we made something special together.”

Daniel Launstein agreed. “The team achieved much more because of the agreement between us and because of the specific people involved.”

The Minskoff Pavilion project team achieved its goals because of a clear vision, sound methodology, and most of all, a commitment to bring out the best in each other. MSU’s Broad College students could not ask for a better example of working together for a common purpose.

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A Slice of Ingenuity: Going Inside the Innovation Garage at Domino’s Farms

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I N N O VAT I O N omino’s Pizza was founded in Michigan in 1960, by Tom Monaghan, with just one location.

Monaghan started the business intending to work his way through architecture school. Ultimately, he steered away from architecture and stayed with the pizza business. The rest is history.

Over time the Domino’s franchise expanded to more than 5,600 pizza restaurants in the United States.

Monaghan also owned the Detroit Tigers from 1983 to 1992. Much of the success of the organization is attributed to the ingenuity and entrepreneurship of its founder, whose visionary leadership propelled the company forward in everchanging times. As the company continues to evolve its pizza legacy into a technology business, to this effect, Domino’s officially dropped the “Pizza” from the name because the company evolved into a technology firm — not just a purveyor of food, but a customer experience and a platform for innovation.

Who could ever guess that the pizza business would represent the cuttingedge of technology? The Innovation Garage is a result of that transition.

As you know, the garage has a special place in American culture. Everyone growing up in Detroit knows of this special place called the “garage.” A garage wasn’t just a place to park your car and store your tools ... it’s where stuff happens, like building, fixing, inventing.

The garage is synonymous with innovation and collaboration. Think of innovators like Henry Ford and Steven Jobs, who started in their garages.

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The Juxtaposition of Technology and Nature “The challenge in evaluating the architectural aesthetic for the new research facility was to consider that any building designed in the context of the Prairie House should not diminish that iconic design with a scaled imitation.”

—David Giroux, Architect, IDS The new building was envisioned to be a standalone building located on the

The kitchen theater is the heart of the facility and is made visible from all sides on the first and second floors. New ideas quickly migrate from a variety of collaboration spaces at its perimeter to the central kitchen theater for implementation and exploration.

Glazing is utilized where outdoor and indoor gathering spaces meet. This facilitates a visual experience from either side that space continues beyond where you congregate, connecting one side to the other.

LEFT TOP: The Innovation Garage intentionally invokes horizontal cues from the main facility. This is most evident when viewed from the west, where the lines of Innovation Garage appear homogeneous with the larger building in the background.

LEFT BOTTOM: A variety of opportunities for collaboration are prominent inside the building, including open area seating, private booths, and a shared eatery.

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current Domino’s Farms Office Park in Ann Arbor. The scale of the new 33,000 square-foot facility in relationship to the larger existing building context had to be carefully considered. Only a few available parcels remained at the Domino’s Farms office park campus, the selected one being at the forefront of the campus, visible from the US-23 and M-14 intersection. Representatives from the Domino’s Farm facility’s leadership team, including Tom Monaghan, were engaged to evaluate options that balanced the sensitive juxtaposition of a “high-tech” innovative garage within the natural and historical identifiable context of the sprawling site and building.

The Domino’s Farms office park, designed by architect Gunnar Birkerts in 1985, was commissioned by Tom Monaghan in an architectural style inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie School. The existing building, nearly a million square feet in size, is nestled into the rolling topography of the site.

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existing building, known as Prairie House, blends seamlessly with the natural landscape and provides a backdrop visible to travelers driving the junction of US-23 and M-14 towards Ann Arbor.

Catalyzed by current and projected delivery models like online sales, competitive app development, advanced kitchen design, autonomous vehicle and electric bike delivery (which is popular in European cities and is currently being tested in the United States) and other developments in retail technology, Domino’s needed a new research space.

This facility was envisioned by Domino’s leadership to be a place that inspired, enabled and empowered teams to continue to propel the company into the future.

Collaborating for Success As with most technology companies, employee recruitment and retention are key parts of its success. Therefore, the design was intended to compete with facilities that went beyond other pizza companies and addressed the balance of collaborative and personal spaces needed in today’s workplace. The vision of this new facility became known as the “innovation garage.”

To encourage collaboration, for example, the principal working space around the kitchen is designed as a theater so the teams can watch the ongoing work in person, on the AV system, or just look over the balcony to see real-time action. The components of the kitchen are designed to be mobile and reconfigured as needed. This allows the team to explore new recipes and production methods that link to the delivery system. The process and workflow of making pizza is under continuous improvement. This is the room where the next iteration of pizza-making and delivery will be invented.

The interior of the building is intended to be a highly collaborative and teambased work environment. The lower-floor kitchen area is almost entirely open with flexible space for retail research mockups, large team conference space, collaborative event space and a high-tech showcase garage, where autonomous vehicles can drive in to pick up pizzas for delivery. Large interior glass garage doors “The Voice of The Construction Industry®”

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Buffalo in the Backyard From many vantage points inside the Innovation Garage, Domino’s staff gaze out their windows and see a herd of bison (aka buffalo) that are allowed to graze up to the building. Among Monaghan’s original design principles was melding the built environment into the existing landscape. This includes attention to the detail of ongoing maintenance of the landscape, from manicured gardens, to cultivated agricultural fields with sunflowers, pumpkins and alfalfa, ponds, and vast pastures – all paying tribute to the agricultural heritage of the region. The bison at Domino’s Farms were introduced in 1993 to combine, as Tom Monaghan described, “the pairing of the iconic American architecture of the Prairie-style, with the iconic American herd animal in the American Bison.” This match has created a rich image that has become an iconic landmark as you drive

by the US-23 and M-14 intersection in southeast Michigan. The herd has grown steadily from two initial bison and has developed into an award-winning herd of more than 80 head, recognized for outstanding breeding traits.

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separate spaces that need occasional isolation. The upper floor provides multiple opportunities for breakout conversations and teaming for a total 150 research staff. The middle of the second floor is open to the lower level, with collaborative spaces that overlook the research happening on the floor below.

The interior palette keeps the branding elements of the iconic Domino’s brand, utilizing elements of blue and red, which are important to provide a sense of identity and pride. Continuity of certain planning elements, such as team benching systems, are carried over from the main headquarters space.

However, with all this new, more industrial aesthetic is introduced to frame the conversation towards innovation and entrepreneurship. Unlike the other corporate headquarter spaces, this is the area for the team to roll up their sleeves, test their designs concepts and implement change in this global economy.

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Purposeful Positioning on the Prairie The site topography rises about 20 feet from south to north with the lower southerly portion of the parcel containing areas for runoff detention basins. A twostory mass was positioned at the center of the parcel and nestled into the slope, much like Frank Lloyd Wright Taliesin principals, which adheres to an organic philosophy of positioning the building in the brow of the hill. This allows the building to coalesce with the existing prairie environment, lessen the visual height of the facility, and create an opportunity for direct entry access from both upper and lower levels. The building form does not intend to imitate the architecture of the Prairie House.

However, with its insertion into the topography, horizontal forms and fenestration, and use of similar materials, its design intends to complement the existing context.

There is a strong intention for building occupants to enjoy and view the adjacent prairie from both inside and out of the facility. A lower-level outdoor plaza with south-facing windows and an upper-level outdoor patio at the southwest corner provide opportunity for the staff to view the open wetland spaces. The sloping center section of the form reflects the site topography from north to south.

Staff parking has been limited to the north, which leaves open views to the site in all other directions. The north main entrance provides access to the offices on the second floor. The south building entrance will be accessed by Domino’s VIPs, special guests and staff walking from the adjacent Prairie House. The lower-level access includes VIP parking, access to the building warehouse, as well as service functions including building utility equipment and dumpsters. With this area serving as the first impression for VIPs, including shareholders and special guests, the service functions are delicately screened and landscaped.

The mechanical and electrical equipment are naturally hidden by topography and masonry walls, while the dumpsters are hidden behind decorative sliding gates.

The walkway extending north from the existing building’s lobby allow staff a brief natural experience as they walk across a

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new bridge that crosses a narrow section of wetland.

Jason Kopczyk, Senior Project Manager from Limbach, noted that “creating a modular industrial test kitchen connected to an autonomous vehicle delivery system was challenging in terms of code restrictions and budget constraints. The project itself is atypical. We created a modern industrial looking office and test kitchen featuring uninsulted ducts in a large open air space.” In terms of energy, Jason mentions that “we got away from using a chill water or heating water plant and going to full electric for reheat coils on the VAVs. All electric with the exception of gas fired AHUs. Notice that there are no RTUs on building. All mechanical units are nicely hidden. The design team found creative solutions to hide the mechanicals and dumpsters.”

Inventing the Future in the Garage Barton Malow, with headquarters in Southfield, was selected as the designbuilder and also provided the steel for the

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project. According to Bob Gallagher, project manager from Barton Malow, the challenge from the beginning was pretty clear: Build an iconic building on a tight budget and short time frame.

The project already had some momentum when Barton Malow was brought on in July 2018. “Some of our most valuable time was spent up front in the design process and value engineering.

Working closely with Integrated Design Solutions (IDS), Shaw Electric, Limbach, and the owners, we were able to solve design problems, get through the bidding process, and finalize the design to meet owners’ needs and break ground in the summer of 2018. The plan was for a ribbon cutting in June 2019.” explained Gallagher.

Then came the epic winter of 20182019, bringing historic bitter cold and a snowy stretch in late January/early February that brought some of coldest temperatures and wind chills in decades, some in over a century, to our region.

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accumulated and made any outdoor work impossible. Gallagher proudly remembers that by close communication with their contractors and tradespeople, “We overcame huge schedule delays due to the weather and were able to complete the project on time.”

The Innovation Garage officially opened in June 2019. This award-winning building, where stuff is happening, is a testament to the many dedicated contractors and tradespeople who worked through a severe winter to make this happen.

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Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital’s Bed Tower Vertical Expansion

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onths ahead of the pandemic that would change the course of world history, Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital in Warren completed an expansion that would serve the facility well under unprecedented times of duress. The hospital, built more than 50 years ago, already had a tower on its west side. In a move for style as much as substance, the project team decided to complete the symmetry with a vertical build to match the west tower, adding much-needed private rooms and beds to the cancer unit of the hospital.

The bed tower vertical expansion was the largest expansion project in Ascension Macomb-Oaklaa sleek look with metal paneling and offset windows to contrast its older brick-based layout. The build, handled by AUCH Construction of Pontiac, added three floors at 13,000 square feet each to the old structure, costing roughly $48 million and adding a total of 52,000 square feet.

“This was a large vertical expansion project, and there were days where I almost forgot it was happening,” Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital COO William Mott said. “AUCH was a true partner.

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One of the project’s primary objectives was to provide more private rooms to patients.

Upon completion, patient satisfaction scores rised.

came in on time and under budget. On-site project managers always kept us informed of what was happening, how it might impact ‘normal operations,’ and worked to minimize disruptions to our ongoing hospital business.”

Metal panels in four different colors and textures were used for the tower’s finish with ribbon windows completing the exterior. These windows extend across floor lines rather than the usual punched windows on each floor. Interior ceilings and soffits were designed to match. HKS Architects designed the building.

Cross bracing was required on the interior of all the corners of the building, so the installation took place from the inside. The project took 176,035 man hours over 20

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months. “When we first started the project, the intent was to build the tower all at one time,” said AUCH project manager Jim Nokielski. “As we went, they wanted to turn over a floor as soon as we could. The owner wanted it to stay occupied. So as we completed a floor, we got it inspected by state and local, and they started housing patients.”

AUCH’s experience with healthcare facilities is storied: The company previously built with partners such as McLaren Health Care, UofM Health System, the Henry Ford Health System and more.

Building on an Occupied Facility The build went off without interrupting the facility below. “It was a challenge building on top of an occupied building. We needed to complete all the mechanical and electrical infrastructure while we were still trying to keep the existing hospital functioning,” Nokielski said.

Logistics played a major role in the build. With construction taking place so close to occupied floors of the building, the project team needed a smart and specific plan for safety, traffic and construction activity. Temporary drives were established for visitors to safely travel around the campus. The main entrance was used for construction traffic, even for delivering heavy concrete and structural steel into the construction area.

The build also worked directly above occupied medical floors with patients mere feet underneath heavy construction equipment, necessitating the need for the utmost caution. “There were numerous life safety potentials to consider,” Nokielski explained. “There was no room for error.

From lifting structural steel to surgically creating the seismic corners, if we made a mistake, we could have seriously injured someone reinforcing the existing structure for seismic loads.”

Some parts of the build saw heavy steel materials being moved a mere nine inches to a foot from above the fourth-floor roof and its occupants below. During the design phase, Nokielski sat down with the owner and developed a logistics plan for the staging of material, construction parking and positioning of a tower crane.

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The tower expansion sought to compliment the grid-like brick facade of the original structure while bringing the building up to 21st century design standards. The design team broke up the grid with ribbon windows and metal panels of wood grain, harvest gold, cashmere pearl and band of platinum.

Woodgrain was used sparingly on the interior of the project to match the outside woodgrain metal panels.

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The hospital staff was treated to more spacious rooms than the previous structure. The rooms are now much closer to their work areas, reducing the step count workers take each day.

isolate the construction crew from visitors and patients.

The next step was rerouting utilities from the powerhouse at the rear of the hospital 280 feet away. Power, water, chilled water, domestic water, hot water, steam and medical gasses would need to be fed to the east tower from the basement. There could be no impedance to patient care, and months of planning went into pulling off the build with no loss of critical utilities. It took five months to bring all the major utilities from the powerhouse to each finished floor.

HIPAA regulations needed to be addressed as well: A plan was formed where subcontractors worked in swing shifts, notification of all construction work areas was communicated daily and window shades were pulled to protect patient privacy.

Before the new floors were added, the fourth-floor roof needed to be cleared of rooftop units including chemotherapy and exhaust fans. These were relocated to keep the facility fully functional. When the fifth-floor structural steel was added to the roof, AUCH engaged Ruby + Associates of Bingham Farms to design a

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protective barrier and erection plan that would keep the facility watertight below and secure while steel columns and beams were hoisted above.

Another thing that the build team had to carefully consider was the noise and fumes created by diesel welders while they fused the structural steel in place.

Wind direction was monitored to ensure that the fumes wouldn’t be sucked in by the hospital air intakes.

“Having these logistics in place prior to bidding the job, we were able to sit with the structural guys and guys working on the job and go over all this,” Nokielski said. “I knocked on wood, but it went really well.”

Despite the challenges presented, Mott said the build was as seamless as it could’ve been for the hospital’s operations. “AUCH described the impact, laid out an accurate timeline for the interruptions and offered solutions so we could maintain our businesses despite the proximity of their work. They collaborated with our Infection Prevention Team to create barriers, reduce noise and minimize disruptions,” Mott said. “Despite some unforeseen preexisting conditions, they understood our need to continue to operate and offered alternatives for our consideration.”

Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital’s new bed tower expansion added 75 new private rooms and 42 renovated private rooms to the hospital’s existing 103, increasing the campus’ private rooms from 80 to 220. It also added at least 25 jobs to the hospital.

“Communication between the AUCH team and hospital was excellent; as a result, there were no big surprises along the way,” added Mott.

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“Ascension’s primary goal is to serve the community, not necessarily looking to have the visibility of being ostentatious.”

The design team settled on a pattern of colors that would blend in and complement the existing brick facade. “We were trying to find a pattern of colors that would feel similar. We spent a lot of time getting samples and taking them to the field, meeting with Ascension leadership to compare the metal panels to the brick.” There is a subtle wood grain texture to the north panels as well, Briseno added.

Wood grain would also be used in the interior design. “The things you hope happen when you see the building professionally photographed were amazing like the quality of the reflectivity and tone variations on the metal panel,” Briseno said. “The way the light

Complimenting the Existing Structure Architect Alex Briseno worked as the facade designer on the project for HKS. Founded originally as the design arm of Trinity Health, HKS has been working in the healthcare field for over 40 years.

“When we are proposing a new addition to an existing building, one of the first things to figure out is if it is appropriate for the new addition to stand apart from the existing one or whether we should aim to blend the addition in,” Briseno said.

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plays against that is really great. It is not flashy, but sophisticated and subtle in the ease it interacts with the light.”

Designing with Seismic Requirements in Mind Nestled far away from tectonic plate boundaries, Michigan enjoys a relatively quiet seismic climate. However, what would be an afterthought for most

Michiganders was one of the most rigorous parts of the build. “You would be surprised,” Nokielski said. “There are seismic environments in Michigan. One of the things I did in the beginning was to do seismic testing at the hospital.”

Workers checked the vibration of the ground to determine the classification of the seismic activity. It was determined that although the existing building’s frame

could support vertical expansion gravity loads, the frame did not meet new seismic code standards. “All of the trades had to hire a seismic engineer to develop all of their hangars with fascinating techniques so the stuff didn’t come crashing down.

We had to reinforce the existing building to the new seismic code requirements,” Nokielski said.

Seismic bracing kept the project team occupied for four weeks from tear down to reconstruction. The team sequenced the work from the basement to the roof.

Cross bracing was required on all corners of the interior of the building. It was another logistics challenge, requiring coordination with the occupied hospital activities and patient care.

Although most of the installations required the demolition of a wall, one case required a redesign of the structural offsets so that it didn’t affect the pharmacy operations on the other side of the wall. As a result, the pharmacy had zero interruption in service despite work taking place directly behind it while in operation.

Utilizing Building Information Modeling Due to the building needing to match the existing tower, AUCH contracted a Building Information Modeling (BIM) consultant to coordinate a master model of the project. The project’s floors were designed with a shallow floor-to-deck height of 11’4’’ to match the existing towers. For reference, a typical hospital has a 14’ to 17’ floor-to-deck height.

The first run-through detected 1,000 clashes. Due to this finding, a redesign of the ductwork took place since it wouldn’t fit. However, the savings of time and cost were much greater than the cost of the redesign.

Improving Patient and Staff Care The bed tower vertical expansion was completed in 2019. The addition of private rooms before the pandemic retroactively gave the hospital greater safety and security in containing viral outbreaks. “The 60 additional private rooms greatly facilitates patient placement,” Mott said.

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example. An all-private-room environment eliminates the obstacle of cohorting the same gender or isolating a patient because of a pathogen.”

The improvements extended to the staff as well. The new units reduced the number of steps that the nursing staff had to take to access medication, supply and nourishment rooms. Each unit also has a staff lounge and reflection room to grant staff moments of pause and relaxation.

Conference rooms were also added.

The project had an impact across the whole facility as well. “This project has solved many of our patient placement problems, and the time from the decision to admit a patient from the Emergency Department to get in a bed has dramatically declined, improving the ED patient experience too,” Mott said.

To celebrate the project’s completion, a “Topping Off/Beam Up” ceremony was held. A large structural beam signed by all the hospital staff was placed with the tower crane. Macomb County Executive

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Interior ceilings and soffits were designed to match the exterior window ribbons.

Since the windows extended beyond floor lines, metal stud locations were established before installation.

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Mark Hackel, City of Warren Mayor Jim Fouts and Macomb-Oakland Hospital president Terry Hamilton gave speeches at the event.

Most importantly, patient feedback has been very positive following the expansion according to Mott. “Our patients are thrilled with the new spaces,” Mott said.

“Patient satisfaction scores, particularly those questions about the physical environment are higher on the new units compared to legacy units. Private rooms are greatly appreciated, but they are spacious and inviting with large restrooms, barrier-free showers and noise-dampening ceiling tiles that make for a much more comfortable environment.” Community open houses saw positive feedback as well, he added.

Nokielski said it was an achievement for him to coordinate the build on an occupied facility without a hitch. “I’ve been doing this for 43 years, and I love challenges and challenging things. At times, it was very stressful but I thrive for

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stuff like that and I’m really proud of it. To be a part of it felt great,” Nokielski said.

AUCH’s communication throughout the process with Ascension was key, Mott said. AUCH, HKS Architects and Ascension Health held pre-construction meetings every two weeks for about 10 months ahead of the build. During construction, AUCH met biweekly with the trades to keep the team informed.

At the peak of construction, 80 to 90 workers were on-site each day. On average, 23 apprentices were working on the project. The team also hosted young constructors to encourage participation in the industry.

“AUCH communicated throughout the project so we didn’t get surprised and we could proactively alert our associates and patients. They clearly spelled out when and where the project would impact existing activities in our building,” Mott said. “Their experience in healthcare was valuable as they could offer advice based on previous projects and alert us to

hazards we wanted to avoid. They had great relationships with the various agencies who came to inspect and ultimately approve the project.”

Nokielski said it was one of the most significant projects of his career. “For me, it’s great [to finish the build]. The tower and design were all private rooms so it is beautiful. We kind of set the benchmark for them to start doing renovations of other areas of the hospital. We got a lot of good feedback.”

Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital is the only community hospital in Warren, the state’s third-largest city. The project ensured its future as a facility providing quality care to one of the largest regions of Metro Detroit.

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he boys are officially back in town. In 2016, Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores announced that after almost 40 years away, the team would return to downtown Detroit, playing their home games at Little Caesars Arena. The homecoming was an historic one for the storied National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise. Today, the Pistons have an even stronger “home-court advantage” in also returning its practice facilities to Detroit. Recently opened in fall 2019, the new Henry Ford Detroit Pistons Performance Center ranks in the top echelons of NBA practice, training and operations facilities.

Erected on a Henry Ford Health System-owned parcel along Amsterdam Avenue in the heart of Detroit’s New Center area, the 185,000-square-foot training facility is reportedly the largest of its type in the NBA. An impressive, one-of-a-kind structure incorporating the latest in sports medicine with state-of-the-art training facilities, Pistons team members and the public now have access to the best athletic treatments available. The Center also houses the corporate headquarters of the Pistons organization and brings with it the capacity to generate hundreds of operational jobs.

This community of buildings itself has three distinct components: the Detroit Pistons Performance Center, William Clay Ford Center for Athletic Medicine, and a five-and-a-half-story parking structure serving both facilities. The development has transformed the surrounding neighborhood.

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With the team’s modern practice facility only two miles away from its home court at Little Caesars Arena, Pistons owner Tom Gores said it would help ensure that Pistons team members are always playing at their best. “This facility is a huge win for the community, our franchise, our fans and our future,” said Gores in a Pistons press release. “It’s the best training facility in the league and will give our players and coaches an edge in maximizing their performance.”

And, according to Gores, the organization’s commitment to developing the area is far from over. The Pistons came back to Detroit to play championship basketball, but also to help rebuild their hometown, and to act as an economic catalyst in the very New Center neighborhood it now calls home.

A Neighborhood Project The community is welcome in the lightfilled, glass-wrapped spaces of this contemporary gem of a building in Detroit’s New Center area. Outdoor areas and about 25,000 square feet of retail

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space on the first floor will be open to the public, including a Plum Market and the offices of the Davidson Foundation. Youth basketball clinics and other community events are on the agenda as well.

As the construction management joint venture, Christman/Brinker proved to be good neighbors to the New Center community and to Detroit. The Pistons organization, along with local development manager The Platform, recruited The Christman Company and the L.S. Brinker Company in this joint venture partnership, along with the design team of ROSSETTI and Hobbs+Black Architects.

Christman/Brinker wholeheartedly embraced the project’s community spirit.

The joint venture created an innovative mentor/protégé program that brought smaller construction companies in Detroit into this $94.3 million undertaking. The companies not only gained work experience on a large-scale project but also benefitted from educational opportunities in bonds, banking, accounting and tax law, and human resources.

The Christman Company’s Detroit office renovated and moved into its new home

in the golden tower of the Fisher Building several years ago. The company is truly part of the neighborhood, and the Pistons Performance Center site at Amsterdam and Second Avenue is virtually in its own backyard. L.S. Brinker is a longestablished, community-driven Detroit contractor. A statement on Brinker’s website perfectly captures the company’s and the project’s mission: “We’re not just constructing buildings, we’re building places for people to belong.”

Both as good neighbors and as great contractors, “I can’t say enough about Christman/Brinker and their leadership,” said Josh Bartelstein, the Pistons’ executive vice president and chief of staff.

“Everyone knows that construction is not easy. It takes problem solvers, and their group was committed to delivering the project with the vision we had and on time and on budget.”

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work Henry Ford Health System and the Detroit Pistons entrusted its construction management team with the oversight of all aspects of project implementation.

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The sawtooth glass curtain wall, sure to become the building’s signature element, forms a procession of canted glass sections along the front of the entire cantilevered second story.

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almost a billion dollars. Per Ruegsegger, Christman was excited to add the Henry Ford Detroit Pistons Performance Center to the company’s portfolio. This impressive list is filled with projects in the retail, hospitality, medical, higher education, historic preservation, public and sports sectors. “What we thrive on are these iconic, complex and challenging projects that really (use) our intellect and our expertise in solving these issues for our clients,” Ruegsegger said.

The 55,000-square-foot, three-story, steel-framed William Clay Ford Center for Athletic Medicine offers cutting-edge diagnostic physical therapy performance technology services.

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and the franchise’s operations office with a sports medicine complex in a tight 19-month construction schedule required not only great communication and collaboration between the Henry Ford Health System, the Pistons organization, Christman/Brinker, ROSSETTI and Hobbs+Black, but coordination with numerous designers and more than 30 subcontractors.

The Pistons organization certainly recruited the right “players” for this design and construction team. Christman Project Executive Sam Ruegsegger said his company has worked extensively with Brinker over the last decade on successful projects totaling

MAKING AN IMPACT IN DETROIT Many of the local contractors, architects and designers involved in the Henry Ford Detroit Pistons Performance Center are no strangers to high-profile, landmark projects in the city. The Christman Company, which celebrated its 125th year in business in 2019, has handled a number of prominent projects in Detroit, including a 2016 masonry restoration and preservation project at the Old Wayne County Building. The 116-year-old structure on the National Register of Historic Places required extensive work to maintain its ornate appearance. In 2020, Christman took the #88 spot on the “ENR 400” list of the top 400 contractors nationally.

The Brinker Group, a family of five companies that provides the complete range of commercial construction services, has recently been chosen along with Christman to lead the $740-million restoration of the Michigan Central Station in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood. The mammoth, long-abandoned 1913 structure is being brought back by the Ford Motor Co. Lead project architect ROSSETTI was the reviewing architect for Little Caesars Arena, a mixed-use facility that serves as home base for the Detroit Pistons and Red Wings.

The award-winning firm was also involved in the design of Ford Field.

The architectural firm of Hobbs+Black was intimately involved in the rebirth of Detroit’s Fort Shelby Hotel. Vacant since the 1970s and in disrepair, the hotel is now a DoubleTree property with modern amenities. Thanks to Hobbs+Black, it maintains the character of the original 1917 building and a 22-story 1922 addition.

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Three Assists in the Basket Dwight Hooks, L.S. Brinker executive vice president, said Brinker’s reputation as a well-respected construction manager, plus its ability to supply manpower and materials through its sister companies Edgewood Electric, City Carpet and Flooring, and Universal Glass and Metal had added advantages. Using its affiliated sister companies to self-perform services helped L.S. Brinker control the workflow, increase their impact on the finished product, and keep the project on schedule and on budget.

“Labor has been the number one issue on all of these projects,” Hooks said, echoing a common concern among construction industry veterans regarding the industry’s need for more skilled workers. “And with our joint venture team (Christman/Brinker), we told the client that we can supply electricians, glass and glaziers, floor installers, foundations, flatwork and general trades. We will guarantee all of your labor to make sure that your job happens in a successful manner.

Bringing not only our construction manager expertise, but also the expertise at the trade level was really key – and not only in helping us secure the work, but in executing it as well.”

Having its affiliated trade companies on board in the design phase was the equivalent of “assisting” in the basket on the court – a basketball player who passes the ball to a teammate and helps the teammate score by field goal. “We were actually able to help influence the design at an early phase,” Hooks said.

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Brinker’s experience in managing both healthcare projects and sports facilities was a benefit as well. Both Christman and Brinker earned the trust of the Henry Ford Health System long ago. Gordon Graham, a licensed professional engineer and manager of construction with Henry Ford Health Systems, said Christman and Brinker were selected because both had done work for Henry Ford in the past.

Christman had been involved in a lot of its Allegiance Health division projects, and Brinker had done work directly for Henry Ford.

Designing for Community Detroit-based ROSSETTI and Hobbs+Black Architects, Ann Arbor, partnered on different aspects of design; ROSSETTI designed the structures and Hobbs+Black designed the interior fit-out of the William Clay Ford Center for Athletic Medicine. Nicholas Moriarty, a senior designer with ROSSETTI, said the goal with the Pistons Performance Center was to design a facility capable of housing all the staff needed to support the franchise, while making it publicly accessible and as safe as possible. That’s the opposite from what practice facilities have historically been in the modern NBA: walled off, located in the suburbs and typically surrounded by a parking lot. “We just flipped that upside down and took an urban design approach,” Moriarty said.

Designed as a community hub, visitors are free to mingle in the facility’s open streetscape, green spaces, and rooftop terraces, all designed to encourage outdoor activity and community engagement. Street-level retail was incorporated into the design to engage with the urban and pedestrian nature of the site. The first floor hosts not only a Plum Market grocery but also a retail store featuring Detroit Pistons championship memorabilia.

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second-story cantilevers over the first level. “We lifted the offices up and cantilevered a feature sawtooth curtain wall on the south side,” Moriarty said.

The sawtooth glass curtain wall forms a procession of canted glass sections along the front of the entire cantilevered second story. The sawtooth is sure to become the building’s signature element, adding its distinctive contemporary architecture to the New Center’s vintage buildings. Contemporary in appearance, the sawtooth form was actually taken from vintage industrial facilities. These older manufacturing facilities used a sawtooth roof to draw natural light into the interior.

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Moriarty appreciates how the design reflects the New Center area’s automotive manufacturing history. “We used an industrial warehouse typology for the sawtooth roof, which is synonymous with the area,” Moriarty said.

The sawtooth curtain wall is part of history and part of the building’s blend of transparency and opacity. The Center’s first and second floors are a blend of transparency in the form of distinctive exterior glazed glass and opacity in the form of a brushed stainless steel façade enclosing the artificially lit basketball courts.

The south-facing sawtooth curtain wall fills Pistons’ offices and player amenity spaces with natural light while controlling solar heat gain. This striking curtain wall’s custom ceramic frit pattern provides the highest solar co-efficient of any of the building’s glass and glazing systems. The frit pattern on this south-facing glass reduces heat load on the HVAC system by moderating indoor temperatures, while preserving the view of downtown Detroit’s

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skyline in the distance. Sometimes called Detroit’s night light, the Fisher Building is a constant presence in some areas of the building, thanks to the Center’s north-side glazing.

Designing for Victory The Pistons’ goal was to create a place for the team and for the community that was the best in the country. “And that’s exactly what we did,” Bartelstein said, pointing out that team officials took months to research what they wanted in a facility.

“We toured NBA facilities, NFL facilities, and college facilities. And we believe that we created a world-class, state-of-the-art facility that is at the top of the NBA. It’s a place where our players and coaches can both work out and practice and get medical treatment. It’s a community asset as well.”

The Henry Ford Detroit Pistons Performance Center is connected via a 125-foot glass walkway to the William Clay Ford Center for Athletic Medicine operated by Henry Ford Health System,

the official health care provider for the team. The design team had to fit the two structures within the tight confines of a former city parking lot, and connect it all, via a pedestrian bridge, to a five-and-ahalf-story parking deck designed to hold almost 400 vehicles.

ROSSETTI and Hobbs+Black also had to design the structures to meet the unique, sometimes differing, needs of Henry Ford Health and the Pistons. The Pistons Performance Center includes several practice basketball courts, spacious weightlifting and training rooms, innovative locker rooms, a full-service kitchen and lounge, a production studio and areas for media personnel to interact with players and coaches. The Center also includes a film study room, cryogenic treatment systems, and three hydro pools.

ROSSETTI has extensive experience creating and renovating sports facilities nationwide, including such well-known structures as Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing, New York, and Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. The company also designed the Palace of Auburn Hills.

The Center for Athletic Medicine The 55,000-square-foot, three-story, steel-framed William Clay Ford Center for Athletic Medicine offers cutting-edge diagnostic physical therapy performance technology services. The facility is home to 33 patient exam rooms, an MRI suite, digital X-ray suites, an ultrasound suite, and two procedure rooms. The Center also boasts a variety of unique features, including a simi running lab, simi movement lab and speedzone, 1080 sprint station, FitLight trainer system, recovery station, and acupuncture in the Center for Integrative Medicine.

Hobbs+Black, an architectural firm wellknown for its work on healthcare facilities, designed the interior fit-out of the space.

The firm’s healthcare portfolio includes Phoenix Children’s Hospital’s west pavilion and Tucson Medical Center for Women in Tucson, Arizona. Henry Ford Health System is a longtime client of Hobbs+Black, with a relationship that goes back more than 25 years.

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The Pistons’ goal was to create a place for the team and for the community that was the best in the country. The Center includes spacious weightlifting and training rooms, several practice basketball courts, and innovative locker rooms.

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Hobbs+Black is accustomed to working on projects involving multiple architects.

“In the last five years, we’ve been working in a variety of relationships with other architects on projects – more than we ever did in the past,” Dillenbeck said. “We’ve partnered with other large healthcare architecture firms in other parts of the country.”

In addition to laying out the interior with a good flow of space, the Hobbs+Black team had to design a space to accommodate the large pieces of medical equipment used in the field of sports medicine. “We had a lot of imaging equipment, general X-ray and ultrasound,” Dillenbeck said. The MRI equipment and suite alone consumes a sizeable amount of space.

In designing rooms to house such large medical equipment, Dillenbeck said the design team must also project medical equipment needs 10 to 15 years into the future, because obsolete medical equipment will most likely have to be replaced with newer models. “You don’t want to shoehorn machinery in so tightly that walls have to be broken down to remove it,” Dillenbeck said. “In the case of the Henry Ford Center, a number of spaces have rooms made to be easily reconfigured. We have some walls that are strategically built with knockout panels so that they could be opened up in a specific way in the future.”

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Smaller firms don’t always have the chance to compete for larger projects, and the program that Christman and Brinker established exposed these firms to the bidding and building process for larger projects, like the Henry Ford Detroit Pistons Performance Center, without taking on a great deal of risk.

The mentor/protégé approach included having Christman/Brinker self-perform work in multiple trade categories, including concrete, building flatwork and foundations, interior and exterior glazing, general trades, flooring and electric.

Smaller, Detroit-based trade contractor companies were then awarded work and provided with a variety of onsite educational and development opportunities aimed at further expanding their businesses.

Employees from the selected firms were placed with the mentor companies, giving them the opportunity to further their skills with hands-on training alongside seasoned workers from the mentor company. In addition to the hands-on

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experience offered, members of the protégé companies also participated in workshops and roundtable discussions focused on bonds, banking, human resources, accounting and tax law, legal terms, contracting and business development.

They also spent time with the Christman/Brinker team to learn more about estimating, project management, communication, technology and safety.

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Specialty mentors also created partnerships with trade contractors to dig deeper in specific areas of interest.

“They also got to learn what you do on these larger projects: How do you order, how do you schedule, how do you manage your manpower?” Hooks said. “And so that mentorship to me is one of the greatest successes of this project because that mentor-mentee relationship is even carried

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The overarching goal of the mentor/protégé program was to fill an immediate void for small, disadvantaged businesses by providing hands-on experience in the areas of self-identified This solution provided weakness. improvements to the skillset of the employees from the protégé companies while also keeping the project schedule on track.

Bringing the Boys Back Home When the Pistons Performance Center was officially opened in fall 2019, representatives of the Henry Ford Health System and the Detroit Pistons declared the project a milestone for the region. “Our vision for the Performance Center was to create a facility that is publicly accessible and engaging to the community in a way that serves as an asset for everyone in Detroit,” said Pistons Vice Chairman Arn Tellem. “Henry Ford Health System shares our commitment to the community and has created a sports medicine center that provides the latest performance training technology and innovation for patients and athletes of all levels of sport.”

In a Piston press release, Gores said, “We are grateful to Henry Ford and everyone who played a part in establishing our new home.”

And that includes the Christman/Brinker joint venture, the Pistons’ Bartelstein said.

He felt that the companies demonstrated very well the reason they have a great track record and reputation.

“For us, it was about the relationships,” Bartelstein explained. “They had really, really great people. Their presentation was really well done, they had built projects (of the same) scale and size, and there was just a level of technical expertise. A practice facility is a very unique facility. They were very impressive in their interview, and both we and Henry Ford thought they would do a great job—and they did.”

The goals of the Henry Ford Detroit Pistons Performance Center were to provide an iconic civic building as well as a flagship location for the franchise, and serve as a state-of-the-art facility that seeks to improve both player performance and recruitment.

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any an office worker is now as mobile as the technology in his or her laptop bag. The great unchaining of the office worker from the desk continues unabated and is part of an ongoing workplace revolution. At Christian Financial Credit Union’s new headquarters in Sterling Heights, the 100person staff moves in an easy flow between personal and collaborative workspaces – not to mention the fair-weather option of working on an outdoor balcony.

Every staff member has a laptop to move to different workspaces throughout the workday. “I think the flexibility of being able to move around the building has had a tremendous impact,” said Christian Financial’s Chief Strategy Officer Lauren Fogarty. “Everyone has commented about the ‘vibe’ in the new building. There is a natural calm that flows throughout.”

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The Park/Beach Wing is a place of endless summer no matter how hard it snows over the course of a southeastern Michigan winter. Soft fronds of faux grass form the backdrop of a bench seating zone, and collaborative meetings take place at a picnic table under a heavy-timber pergola or at café seating under a series of wind sails. The personal workspace zone subtly evokes life at a beach cottage with its horizontal white ship-lap siding and bluepainted walls. The design helps to create a work environment capable of generating that coveted balance between concentration and relaxation responsible for what is called flow – the state of mind leading to true productivity and the bright ideas of those light-bulb moments.

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The Hospitality Wing hosts a casual, breakaway dining area called the Marketplace, along with a large-scale meeting room for training sessions, gatherings, and most recently as the ideal venue for Christian Financial’s annual meeting.

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Another stimulating space – literally – is a coffee bar called the Compass Café.

Located in the Industrial Wing, the coffee bar’s island-shaped counter is clad in a beautifully variegated blue porcelain tile base and a quartz countertop. Overhead, the bottom edges of vertical wood ceiling planks are sculpted and undulating as if emphasizing the craftsmanship, character and unique materials shaping the entire building.

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Wood wainscot and built-in cabinetry give the Administrative Wing a traditional elegance all its own. The Wing houses the boardroom and archive room, along with personal and collaborative workspaces.

The high-volume, two-story atrium is a transparent, light-filled space, thanks to extensive use of glass.

Fully glass-enclosed conference rooms seem to float within the building’s upper reaches.

At Christian Financial, this next-generation workplace is about more than the freedom of working in a variety of spaces. Within this new 40,000-square-foot headquarters, the power of design takes the edge off of the daily grind. The interior offers refreshing, eclectic and inspiring places to produce one’s very best for the 61,000 members of Christian Financial Credit Union.

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working with Christian Financial Credit Union as well. “We have constructed five branches for Christian Financial and remodeled its former headquarters,” said TPG’s Project Consultant John Fountain. Fogarty adds, “And every project that they have done has been superior.”

TPG, along with Barber-McCalpin Associates as its sister architectural firm, crafted this workplace Nirvana in collaboration with Christian Financial. Each of the building’s four interior wings is a hybrid-style neighborhood of personal and collaborative workspaces with its own unique sensibility. Two neighborhoods occupy each floor and flank opposite sides of a

The 8.5-acre site at Van Dyke Avenue and 15 Mile Road has the same innovative edge. A walking trail follows the perimeter of a dry stone riverbed, and an apple orchard of 35 trees is already bearing fruit. Taking care of business never looked – and tasted – so good.

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our core value of sustainability,” Fogarty said. “We had trees transported from an orchard at the northern end of Macomb County. The trees were already established and mature, and apples are beginning to grow this year.”

The City of Sterling Heights honored Christian Financial Credit Union with the Edge Award for the building’s and the site’s design and for its appeal to the next generation. The building sets a high bar for commercial office space in Sterling Heights. The city planners believe the building “is going to become a standard for other businesses that want to come into Sterling Heights and build,” said TPG’s General Manager Brian R. Van Peteghem. “The City was very impressed with the level of detail that was put into the design of the building and into the site, along with being impressed with the willingness of the credit union to make this kind of investment in the community.”

Space-Starved The credit union was cramped and spacestarved in its former Roseville headquarters originally constructed in the 1970s and designed to support a considerably smaller staff. The credit union’s steady and continual growth resulted in “our back office working in over four different branches in addition to our former headquarters,” Fogarty said. “Essentially, we wanted to bring everyone back together in one building.”

In this case, “everyone” includes new staff joining Christian Financial as a result of a recent merger with Motor City Co-Op Credit Union.

“Our prior environment simply would not have allowed our newly expanded staff to be brought together with our current staff – the space we’re in now came at the right time,” Fogarty added.

At 40,000 square feet, the new headquarters offers its growing staff room to breathe, effectively tripling the square footage of its former 12,000-square-foot home. The new headquarters has a large multipurpose room for staff-wide meetings and employee training as well. “We didn’t even have a place to have formal meetings in the previous headquarters,” Fogarty said. “Our team has grown a great deal over the years, and now we are able to draw together a much larger group. It is important to have representation from diverse areas of the

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credit union, and now we have the flexibility and the space to do so.”

More than additional space, Christian Financial President and CEO Patty Campbell wanted to achieve the best fit of space and staff at the new headquarters. “Our CEO did some research and reading into the optimal work environment for employees,” Fogarty said. “She even interviewed employees, and what she found is that everybody wants to be able to go back to a private space for focused, headsdown work in addition to having collaboration spaces.

“It was important that we had some open spaces for our employees to come together in cross-functional teams and be able to meet or even casually work and start up a conversation on the spot,” Fogarty added, “but at the same time, staff would have the flexibility to return to a home space that is basically private and quiet.”

The Corner Office Christian Financial selected the site at the northeast corner of Van Dyke Avenue and 15 Mile Road with equal thought and care. The chosen site gives the credit union “a very strong presence on the corner of a main intersection,” Van Peteghem said. Not to mention prime real estate on the major thoroughfare of Van Dyke and the opportunity to have a property wellpositioned to serve the credit union’s branches now spread throughout Oakland, Wayne and Macomb Counties, Fogarty added.

Another advantage was the sheer size of the site. The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) enlarged the site’s available land for property development by eliminating what is called a jersey curve, essentially a curved connector similar to an on/off ramp to a freeway that once helped drivers merge from 15 Mile Road to Van Dyke in an easy flow.

Barber-McCalpin’s building design, site analysis and ultimate site layout took full advantage of this prominent and sizeable parcel.

The two-story building stretches on a diagonal very near the tip of the Van Dyke and 15 Mile corner. “The site definitely influenced the shape of the building, because we wanted to push the building closer to that intersection,” Fountain said.

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the intersection and the nameplate emblazoned with the credit union’s name. The building’s two exterior wings of brick and cast stone flank, unfold and slightly bend away from the central glass triangle, flowing around both sides of the corner to achieve maximum visibility for the new facility.

A Grand Alignment The site originally hosted a now demolished MJR cinema and the now abandoned jersey curve. The building’s exact location on the corner was determined by the last remaining vestige of the site’s past: an existing water main and sanitary line that cut diagonally through the property. “Because we didn’t want to relocate that 18-inch water main and the sanitary line, we placed the building on the former MDOT part of the property located in between that infrastructure and the Van Dyke and 15 Mile intersection,” said Barber-McCalpin’s Architectural Project Manager William Hass.

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The boulevard cuts a diagonal line through the site, flows around the landscaped circular courtyard, and like a roundabout, naturally steers staff to either the east or west parking lots and visitors to a modest parking area near the building entrance. All three structures – the boulevard, circular drive and the midpoint of the building – are aligned in a diagonal flow of space beginning at the interior roadway and ending at the building’s main entrance.

Launching Construction TPG launched construction on March 5, 2018.

The first site task: Removing approximately four feet of poor soil and importing about six feet of sandy soil to raise the building pad above the existing grade. To be exact, “one end was about six feet and then it tapered down to four feet,” said TPG’s Field Project Manager Chris Phelan.

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includes poured and formed concrete foundations and a structural steel frame.

Campbell & Shaw Inc.’s use of an innovative CNC structural steel fabrication technology benefited this phase of the project. “The machine helped to speed up the fabrication process,” Van Peteghem said. “Chris (Phelan) and I went to Campbell & Shaw’s facility to see the equipment in operation. It is amazing.”

CAM Magazine’s February 2019 edition offers more detail: “Campbell & Shaw Steel, Inc., Marysville, installed a fully automated FICEP 1103 CNC three-spindle drilling, layout and sawing structural steel processing production line. The new CNC machine automatically loads the structural steel members from the infeed conveyor onto the processing rollers, drills the correct hole size from a six-bit tool selection for each spindle that automatically changes the tooling, lays out the member with piece marks, and then cuts the material to length with up to a 60-degree bevel cut. After the material is processed, it is transferred to the outfeed conveyor for final fabrication.”

According to Campbell & Shaw Vice President Mark Lietke, “This machine is capable of running lights out, meaning that our crew can program it, load it up prior to quitting time, and return in the morning to pre-processed steel ready for fabrication.”

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stone. According to Hass, the building has a variety of stone sizes, beginning with 48 x 28inch cast stone pieces at the very base of the building and ranging from 12 x 24-inch pieces on the majority of the building to 24 x 24-inch pieces on the building’s corners. As the mason, HMC Mason Contractors, Shelby Township, needed to machine-set the large base pieces before the arrival of winter and before the scaffolding was erected to begin installation of the rest of the masonry under temporary heat and tented conditions.

Well before installation of the Belcrest 760 Belden Brick, the credit union and the project team paid a visit to Belden Brick’s yard to select the brick of choice. “We wanted to show Christian Financial all the potential types of brick so that they could select the one that best met their preferred color,” Van Peteghem said.

“Having an architect and contractor with a strong link to all of those subcontractors gives the client an upper hand in getting everything they want in a project. Working cooperatively with subcontractors allows us to work ahead of time to give the client a good understanding of their building and its materials.”

appearing to float above the building’s glass triangle. “To support typical veneer stone, we would have to utilize large steel beams, but there was not a way to load bear these materials down to the foundation,” Van Peteghem said.

“Instead we used smaller steel beams and a thin stone veneer system. The thin stone is at least half or maybe a quarter of the weight of a typical veneer stone.”

Hass explains the thin stone veneer system: “Metal rails are screwed into the metal stud wall.

The stone panels are grooved in the factory, and when they arrive on site, the panels snap into the rail to hold the weight of the stone.”

The size of the 24 x 24-inch thin stone panel was innovative for the manufacturer called Redland Brick, a Philadelphia-based division of Belden Brick. “This project is the first time the manufacturer has produced thin stone panels in that large of a size,” Hass said.

To keep pace with the fast-track schedule, “we were monitoring on a daily basis exactly how many stone panels were being made, put on a truck, and shipped to us,” Van Peteghem said. “Once the stone arrived on the site, it was immediately installed on the building.”

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ticking towards a scheduled occupancy date of September 1, 2019, TPG worked on the exterior façade during one of the wettest years on record. “As far as site work, it was probably the most difficult job I have ever done,” Phelan said.

“Maneuvering around the building with heavy equipment to install the exterior finishes was very demanding.”

A temporary parking lot and a good stock of gravel helped TPG receive material deliveries and deploy heavy equipment on the orchardside of the building, but the corner-facing building façade was much more difficult. “Most of the water went down to the dry riverbed, which became a pond, but the soil and the land surrounding it became very saturated,” Phelan said. “We installed several pumps in the pond to get rid of the majority of water and to have all the water drain to the pond, but the surrounding area just became a muddy mess. The sheer amount of rain would have destroyed any temporary gravel drive in that area, so it would have been wasted money.”

Conducting design and construction simultaneously, along with overlapping trade work, kept the schedule on track. “We were already installing masonry and studs on the exterior, and we were just issuing the interior metal stud bid packs,” Van Peteghem said.

“That’s the kind of overlap that this project had, which is not uncommon on construction projects, but it was needed to meet the speed of this project.”

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projections on the walls and columns,” Hass said. Laying down two coats of the Direct Finish System (DFS) gave it the look of stone and created the mortar lines and joints.

Prior to installation, the project team and credit union representatives traveled to Ottawa Lake to review several different mockup panels in Saylor’s shop. “The ability for us to see some of these materials was invaluable and much appreciated,” Fogarty said. “Accommodating that trip to Saylor’s to make sure that the finished product was going to look the way we thought it would was outstanding. BarberMcCalpin did 3D renderings throughout the design that also helped us visualize the end product, which was a tremendous help on this collaborative project. It was great working with this team.”

The actual application took four weeks of continuous work, including the week necessary for the installation and dismantling of scaffolding. “Scaffolding had to be set up in the entire atrium to accommodate the continuous DFS application,” Phelan said.

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Removing the scaffolding unveiled the finished product. With the texture and appearance of stone, the system melds in with the atrium’s upscale and refined sensibility. A wood and quartz reception desk, along with a quartz backdrop, porcelain tile flooring and wellappointed furnishings, lend the space a sophisticated ambiance.

Transparency was another quality on the credit union’s wish list for this signature atrium.

“The credit union wanted to walk in the door and be able to see from one end to the other,” Watson said.

The generous use of glass produces the desired transparency and fills the high-volume, two-story atrium with natural light. Fully glass-enclosed conference rooms seem to float within the upper

The Best of Both Worlds The fast-track, design-build schedule resulted in another wave of stone innovation.

Because of scheduling demands, the structural steel had to be erected even before the interior design was set in stone so to speak. In this case, the client actually requested stone for much of the atrium’s two-story-high walls. Of course, post-installation, revamping the structural steel was not an option but the project team devised an alternative. “We didn’t have the structural capability of placing actual stone in the atrium,” Watson said. “Instead, we used a faux finish to give the walls a stone appearance.”

This choice kept the schedule on track and gave the credit union the visual representation of its preferred cladding. To make it happen, TPG contracted with a high-quality subcontractor called Saylor’s Inc. in Ottawa Lake, Michigan. “Layering more and more drywall together created the stepped

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reaches of the large triangle of glass. The atrium interior has large expanses of glass window walls integrated with faux stone walls, as well as glass handrails along the second-level mezzanine-type space called the Loft.

Inviting collaboration spaces abound on both levels of the atrium. Take the grand open staircase to the Loft to have an impromptu meeting around a fireplace. Cozy fireside seating gives way to a larger community table, along with small breakout tables in other areas, offering wonderful places to work for the credit union team.

A Meeting in the Park Each of the four wings flanking the atrium has a different theme and its own set of charms and construction complexities. Follow the boardwalk to a meeting in the Park on the first floor. Natural light washes over collaboration spaces with window-side seating: the picnic table under the pergola and a cluster of café-style seating under a series of wind sails.

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the middle of winter,” Van Peteghem said. Adding to the outdoor ambiance, “the flooring in these two areas was specifically selected because one has a paver-type material and the other has carpeting with a moss-type patterning to it, Watson said.

The skies are always blue in this indoor park. “The open ceiling structure in the Park is painted blue to make it more sky-like,” Watson said. Brick walls are another strategy for cultivating the outdoor feel.

The brick wall of one corridor is even dotted with planter boxes brimming with perpetually green and life-like faux vegetation.

Staff working within this wing “not only enjoy the benefits of large expanses of windows flooding the space with natural light, but they also enjoy the warmth and rustic feel of salvaged wood walls highlighting two no-maintenance moss wall canvases,” Watson said.

This walk in the park ultimately segues to a stroll on the beach as one walks further into the personal workspace zone with its beach cottage-type wall finishes. The carpet’s beige tone and patterning simulates sand and amplifies the beach effect.

Even what could be considered a formal meeting space has an innovative edge. In a space called the

Movie Room, U-shaped seating and back-lit, nature-inspired panels envelop attendees in a calming ambiance during webinars and training sessions, while a large screen projector and stateof-the-art technology foster collaboration and communication.

This engaging design was a collaborative effort of Barber-McCalpin and Christian Financial.

“Barber-McCalpin definitely had an influence throughout the space,” Fogarty said. “They were very supportive of our thoughts even when they were perhaps a little bit unusual at times.” According to Watson, “The client had a very distinct plan of how they wanted the building to function and how they wanted to incorporate the different themed areas. It was a matter of bringing all the parts and pieces together and helping to find the right materials to use in those places.”

The project team each did their part in identifying the right sources for this diversity of specialty materials. “I think Kelly (Watson) and Bill (Hass) were very resourceful in looking for different suppliers of these materials,” Van Peteghem said. “Lauren (Fogarty) was tracking down some items as well.

Having worked with Christian Financial for a number of years, we collaborate with one another and work with their team and our team to bring the best out of both.

“Our Estimator and Contract Administrator Greg Nowicki and Chris (Phelan) worked through the procurement part of making sure the materials were ordered and arrived on site at the correct time,” Van Peteghem continued. “If an item arrives too early, it gets in the way. It has to arrive at just the right time to keep the project on track.”

Let’s Do Lunch On the first floor, the Hospitality Wing’s Marketplace is part kitchen for making lunches, part cafe to purchase various food and beverages, part impromptu collaboration space, and part break-out and gathering space for events taking place in the large meeting room next-door.

“Because the Marketplace is adjacent to the kitchen, large meetings can accommodate food service as well,” Watson said. “If called for, the design also allows an event to be contained within the meeting area and Marketplace.”

Coffee at the Compass Café On the second floor, live-edge wood conference tables and vertical wood plank ceilings lend a natural character to the meeting rooms of the Industrial Wing. An open work environment of exposed ceilings and MEP systems, and touches of raw or salvaged wood cabinetry, establishes a contemporary/industrial tone in the space. “This

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The Industrial Wing brings the outdoors into the interior in its own unique way. Filled with natural light, a window-side meeting area, called the Alley, re-creates the ambiance of an outdoor café with its brick walls, paver-type flooring, wood tables, sidewalk seating, string lights, and even an actual fabric awning anchored in the brick wall. The commissioned wall mural of a local Detroit street artist draws the space together. The mural depicts a sunburst, a mountain, a flowing river, and a set of footprints, adding character to the outdoor-style space and symbolizing the core values of Christian Financial.

“The mountain represents our core value of sustainability,” Fogarty said. “The sunburst translates into the phrase ‘Engage in Collaboration’ and the footprints translate into ‘Make an Impact,’ and the name of the Compass Café in the Industrial Wing stands for ‘Perform with Integrity.’”

Fabrication and installation of the undulating vertical wood planks in the Compass Café was quite an undertaking. Hass designed the system and Aria Custom Cabinetry – a millwork contractor based in Rochester Hills – crafted and assembled the pieces of lumber into nine, 22-foot-long individual planks.

The planks were delivered to the site fully assembled at their full length.

Being quite heavy, each individual plank “took four to five people to install with the assistance of some equipment,” Phelan said. “But getting them into the building and to the installation site in the Compass Café was almost as hard as installing them.

“We lifted them up to the atrium mezzanine with a forklift,” Phelan said. “Then we carried each of the nine wood planks individually through the doors of a meeting room just to the left of the Café.”

TPG had to coordinate plank installation with the MEP trades and install this unique ceiling system after the porcelain tile-clad, island-shaped coffee counter was already in place. “The island’s cabinetry had to be installed relatively early because the exact size of the quartz countertop had to be measured accurately to allow the manufacturer to begin its work,” Phelan said. “There was a great deal of trade coordination just in that one little room and throughout the Industrial Wing, because of so many different finish materials.”

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The Park/Beach Wing is a place of endless summer no matter how hard it snows over the course of a southeastern Michigan winter. Soft fronds of faux grass form the backdrop of a bench seating zone (lower right), and collaborative meetings take place at a picnic table under a heavy-timber pergola (upper right) or at café seating under a series of wind sails (left).

wood paneling and cream-colored boardroom leather chairs, creating a subdued but sophisticated color palette. “The Administrative Wing sets a refined upscale tone with a traditional look,” Watson said. “That is why wood wainscot and other wood elements are in the boardroom, and wood built-in cabinets and shelves are used in the archive room.”

The boardroom and the archive room are located directly adjacent to each other. “The juxtaposition of the two rooms is interesting because the boardroom is the place the executive team plans the credit union’s future, while the archive room displays Christian Financial’s history,” Van Peteghem said.

“The proximity of these two spaces brings the credit union’s past and its future together.” That future may even include a new branch on the grounds of the credit union’s new headquarters.

The last hurdle in the race for the finish line was scheduling and installing the diverse furniture systems throughout the entire interior. “The furniture alone took close to four weeks of installation,” Phelan said. “We had to schedule truckloads of furniture, and it had to be ordered quite a ways ahead of time, because we had to provide the manufacturer some reasonable expectation of when it needed to be delivered.”

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The project demonstrates the power of collaboration between companies, as well as between a contractor and a building department.

“The Sterling Heights Building Department was probably one of the most accommodating building departments to work with,” Phelan said.

As vital participants in this collaborative undertaking, several credit union executives championed the development of the building under the leadership of Christian Financial President and CEO Patty Campbell, including COO Jim Speshock, Fogarty and credit union board members John Amrhein and Jim Banaszak. “These individuals were the credit union’s core team who worked with our core team to bring this project to fruition through biweekly meetings,” Van Peteghem said. “The teamwork of the City of Sterling Heights, Christian Financial Credit Union, our own team and our subcontractors, each working in a different way but working cooperatively, brought this unique design to fruition.”

This collaborative effort has produced a contemporary gem of a headquarters for Christian Financial Credit Union. “By the time it was finished, it was truly awe-inspiring to see all of those months of visioning and planning coming together,” Fogarty said. “The finished building really hit the mark.”

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The new home of Frank Rewold & Sons is a literal showcase for the family-owned construction company, demonstrating a range of materials and finishes for clients. With a metal panel exterior and striking curved curtain wall in front, the building opened in time for the company’s 100th anniversary in Rochester.

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By Marilyn S. Jones-Wilson

n October 2018, Frank Rewold & Sons (FRS) celebrated its centennial at a shining new headquarters in Rochester, the city that has been their home and their inspiration since 1918, when handyman Frank Rewold first went to work at the 1400-acre Meadow Brook Farms, the future site of Oakland University.

Matilda Dodge, widow of car magnate John Francis Dodge, made Frank Rewold her personal contractor a few years later, and the familyowned construction company began its enduring commitment to its community. Frank’s son Roy was the first mayor of Rochester. FRS has brought four businesses and hundreds of jobs to the city over the years, and proved integral to the university’s continuing growth.

The FRS Headquarters, situated on Paint Creek beside the historic Western Knitting Mills, is a five-story, 50,000-square-foot showcase with a metal panel exterior and striking curved curtain wall on its front façade. The construction faced a daunting set of challenges in managing environmental concerns on a Brownfield site left dormant for decades.

Despite those challenges, the construction was fast-tracked in 10 months with a perfect safety record in time for the anniversary. The tight

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schedule required teamwork, minute-tominute communication and one-stop decision-making with Auger Klein Aller Architects to meet the anniversary goal. The FRS field crew worked 1,415 hours in the prior 30 days alone.

“The paint was still drying, but we did it!” said Jason Rewold, FRS vice president and great grandson of that handyman.

Ramping Up Funding The three-acre Brownfield site beside the Paint Creek, near Third and Water streets in downtown Rochester, lay dormant for more than 20 years due to the challenges of postindustrial pollution. In 2017, FRS teamed up with the city of Rochester and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to secure a $1 million loan and another million in grant money from the Clean Michigan Initiative Program to offset the cost of building on the contaminated site.

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“Working through all the details of a Brownfield site, coupled with the state loans and grants, created a long pre-construction process before we could start field construction,” Rewold said.

Rochester required close scrutiny of preliminary designs before issuing permits.

“The project fell under the city’s ‘Special Projects’ classification,” said Christopher Aller, director of design at Auger Klein Aller Architects. “There were many planning commission meetings before approvals were granted.”

In their design, AKA Architects and SME had to address the industrial waste and poor soil compaction, while protecting the nearby creek, a waterway regulated by the state’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy.

Aesthetically, the city also needed assurance that the new building would complement the historic look of the

downtown area and blend in with the Western Knitting Mills next door, which FRS had purchased and restored in 1997. The planning commission was particularly concerned whether the building’s elevation would be too high compared to existing structures in the area.

“We computer-modeled a good portion of downtown so we could show how our building would relate to our neighbors,” Aller said. “The building is over 60 feet tall, but it’s nestled near the creek, which is significantly lower than Main Street.

“We ended up with a building that fits into the fabric of the city but still looks forward,” he said. “They were excited about the development of a long vacant lot.”

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The lobby and reception area of Auger Klein Aller Architects is an example of the individual buildouts tailored for each of the building’s tenant companies. Custom millwork at the counters and soffit focal points augment floor finishes and exposed duct work. Some tenants have contemporary, collaborative spaces while others have more traditional enclosed offices.

industrial waste, an abandoned riverbed, buried debris and contaminated ground water, coupled with poorly compacted soil, called for constant monitoring, engineering innovation and creative design.

“The presence of shallow contaminated fill presented additional costs for the construction of paved parking areas,” said Jeff Lanier, senior consultant on brownfield redevelopment at SME. “We evaluated several scenarios for pavement surface elevations to value-engineer the cost of offsite soil disposal. The final site plan reduced about 5,000 cubic yards of disposal, saving about $200,000.”

Given that the building’s footprint lay within the flood plain, and due to the poor quality and bearing capacity of the soil, aggregated geopiers were employed to support the structure. Installing the geopiers instead of a traditional foundation also reduced the need to excavate buried contaminants.

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safe air quality, including an active sub-slab depressurization system for enclosed areas like stairwells and elevators.

Contaminated groundwater on the site had been contained by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) years ago, and wells used for monitoring–some within 10 feet of the foundations–had to be carefully avoided and regularly checked. Working around them was one of the project’s biggest hurdles, Rewold said.

“We could not disturb these areas during construction. We continuously monitored for things like vibrations or disturbances,” he said. Third-party field monitoring to prevent the spread of pollution and strict safety procedures resulted in over 65,000 trade hours without lost time, violation or environmental incident.

Among the innovations and mitigations, an extraordinary 50,000-gallon storm water system collects and treats 80 percent of rain before it can reach the Paint Creek. “This was the environmental improvement to the area,” Rewold said.

The project team engineered the system including a 60,000-pound pretreatment structure, upgraded piping and gaskets, external pipe wraps and trench plugs to prevent the contaminant flow in sand backfilled trenches. Old storm sewer discharges into the creek were removed or permanently plugged.

A Literal Showcase For all of the challenges of the site, the building’s design takes full advantage of its naturally beautiful surroundings, through selection of materials, colors and views. The combination of curved lines and a natural color palette plant the building tangibly in its physical environment and draw the eye upward.

“While the building is definitely modern in character, we were still trying to keep a warm, earthy feel to it,” Aller said. “The owner wanted curves, so we ended up with a curved roof line, and a round lobby that extends through the height of the building. A stone screen wall as the base anchors it to the ground, while the horizontal roof terminates the building as it reaches the sky,” he said.

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ne of Rochester’s most revered historic sites, the 1896 Western Knitting Mills building located at 400 Water Street is a two-story brick mill renovated in 1996 by Frank Rewold & Sons for commercial tenants.

The 140’ x 150’ building replaced two previous buildings on the site that were destroyed by fire in the 1800s. The wool-carding and cloth-dressing company was founded in 1844 by Hosea Richardson before the city of Rochester was formed.

The mill represented the beginning of an economic boom in the area. One of the area’s largest employers, the mill produced wool socks, gloves and mittens, wool cloth, and eventually khaki gloves for World War I soldiers. Until knitting operations stopped in 1939, the company was one of the largest glove producers in the world.

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business goal in mind: create a showcase that would demonstrate to clients how various materials and techniques could be utilized in construction design.

“Our vision was always to provide a showcase for our clients to see, but also to respect and complement the existing buildings nearby,” Rewold said. “That is what drove the various exterior finishes. Our building was one of the first to utilize AZEK as a vertical building exterior.”

Coupled with the siding, the metal and composite panels bend and tilt outward on the north and south ends of the building, giving it dimension and mass. The panel system totals 16,500 square feet on the façade with colors ranging from zinc, graphite, silver, bronze and dark brown. A pressure-equalized rain screen helps keep the façade cool and energy-efficient.

Part of the building’s signature exterior are patios of rolled steel that cantilever directly over the Paint Creek. “We erected the building as close to the Paint Creek as possible,” Rewold said. “With such a beautiful natural resource, our vision was to create patio spaces for all tenants that bring the outdoors in.”

A spiral staircase connects the lobby up to a “clubhouse” mezzanine on the top floor.

FRS employees enjoy the “FRSMEZ” as a lunch room, social space and classroom. “An occasional happy hour may take place,” Rewold said.

Interior finishes continue the “showcase” theme by demonstrating a variety of materials and techniques. Polished concrete floors, 12foot ceilings with exposed ductwork, and tongue-and-groove wood ceilings create a contemporary industrial look and feel grounded in tradition, both gathering spaces and private offices.

Customized buildouts for each of the five tenants besides FRS reflect their individual character and cultures. “AKA Architects’ space is open, collaborative and industrial,” Aller said. “Other spaces have contemporary spaces while some have traditional enclosed office space.”

“The variety of materials and products both interior and exterior have become a great showcase for our partners,” Rewold said.

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AKA’s collaborative offices and design studios include sit/stand desks for the way people work today. Custom millwork and varied finishes, coupled with 12-foot ceilings and exposed ductwork, give a contemporary industrial look throughout the building while relating to scenic outdoor views.

Deep Roots By cleaning up a contaminated site and building its headquarters, Frank Rewold & Sons contributed to a community woven into its very origins. The company spent approximately $200,000 remodeling Rochester’s amphitheater park and making improvements along the riverbank, having

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previously restored the neighboring Western Knitting Mills landmark.

“We incorporated cleanup along the river and pathways linked to existing city trails,” Rewold said. “The new development greatly improved the surrounding area and connected it to downtown. We literally repurposed a wasteland and made a viable,

sustainable, contributing entity out of nothing.”

Despite an aggressive schedule, the project team took a collaborative approach to design changes and field operations, making it possible to adapt quickly to unexpected delays, such as a visit from the Vice President of the United States in June 2018. “That was a huge, unimagined honor to the FRS family,” Rewold said, though it posed a temporary logistical challenge.

Along with weekly meetings, the team used Microsoft Project to organize project activities, as well as Procore construction management software and Timberline’s Sage 300 to manage budgeting and cost accounting.

“AKA Architects became a close partner with our team not only during planning but also during the day-to-day construction crunch,” Rewold said. “SME, the city of Rochester, and government agencies all worked together to make our vision a reality.”

Aller agrees. “I’m proud of how the building turned out. It’s difficult to get a unique structure like this built. Coming up with the idea is often the easy part. The ideas and concepts always get tempered by the budget, schedule, city input, and the owner’s desires. All these factors often change the original concept, and key design elements can get lost…but not with this project. “The original design concept was maintained throughout. Some minor details were changed here and there, but our intent made it through,” Aller said.

“This project checked all the boxes in the realm of planning, economic development and environmental stewardship,” said Nik Banda, Rochester’s deputy city manager and director of economic and community development. “Sustainably, it will live on as an example of what a private and public sector team can accomplish if they work together on a common goal.”

Not to mention, the fast-tracked construction ended with a celebration for the century attended by 1,000 people. “The party still resonates for those who attended,” Rewold said. “It was a great tribute to all the people who made us what we are today.”

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or more than 100 years, the Michigan Union has been a focal point for life on the University of Michigan campus and one of the most beloved buildings in Michigan. Now, after 20 months of deep renovation, reopened to the public on January 15, 2020, the Michigan Union is transformed into a highperformance, energy-efficient space, ready to serve the needs of students for the next 100 years.

“Impressive in stature and alive with activity, enter the Michigan Union and you’ll find yourself immediately immersed in the ‘Go Blue!’ culture. The Michigan Union houses study and meeting spaces, eateries, shops and student services. And it’s home to the IdeaHub for student organizations, run by the Center for Campus Involvement. While you’re here, be sure to stroll through the historic halls, enjoy the beautifully restored architectural details and imagine all the Wolverines who have come through the doors.”

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A Leap from the Industrial Age to the Information Age The Michigan Union, originally designed by Pond & Pond Architects, was founded as a men’s club when the building opened in 1919. Like many other student unions at that time, it eventually became a focus for student life on campus. Keep in mind that when the building opened in 1919, electricity was relatively new and women were not allowed in without an escort. Over the decades, it evolved as a social hub and served as an inspiration for generations of “wolverines” with new ideas and idealism. This reputation derives from the Michigan Union’s historic role as a backdrop for progressive thought and action. It is the site of President John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech that inspired the Peace Corps. Also the home for many innovative student support services, for Central Student Government, and countless student organizations and events, the Michigan Union remains an incubator for ideas, initiatives, and progressive thought.

Over the decades, with later additions to the building in the 1930s and 1950s, the mission of the Union has drifted off course. From the 1960s to the present, the building has been infilled and built out for administrative office space, getting away from the original social mission. The idea to renovate the building percolated up from student organizations and reached the attention of university management, who decided to invest in a feasibility study and ultimately undertake a comprehensive renovation that updated the union to align with current student expectations while preserving the historical integrity of the building.

A unique combination of talent was assembled to take on this project. Taking the lead was Integrated Design Solutions (IDS) of Troy, a company that has worked closely with the University of Michigan on a variety of other campus projects. Also, brought to the design table were Workshop Architects, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who have extensive experience with student unions around the country, and Hartman-Cox, of Washington D.C., bringing expertise in historic landmark buildings. Along with students of the Michigan Union Board of Representatives, Building a Better Michigan, and other student groups, many hours were devoted to developing the concepts for this project. After interviewing a few of the principal players in this project, I got a strong sense of pride, craftsmanship, teamwork, and the joy in finding creative solutions to complex problems.

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ABOVE: Rehearsal for the opening celebration of the completely revamped Michigan Union on January 13, 2020. The historic building has been transformed into a high-performance, energy-efficient space.

RIGHT: The design of the IdeaHub allows for creative student gathering spaces with an open view of the entire floor that surrounds the indoor courtyard below. Note the railing, which was reproduced from the originals.

Student Involvement Was Critical in Re-Purposing and Design The research and student involvement phase was led by Workshop Architects. To give you an idea of the student involvement, there were 62 scheduled planning sessions.

During these meetings, conversations were held with 350 students and 172 staff members. A total of 595 students responded to an online “campus capital” mapping survey; of these, 397 also answered questions related to the future of the Michigan Union. In talking to students, creating more vibrancy and visibility to the Union was an important goal. They were adamant not to create just another study hall. It was the students who led the concept of the “idea hub,” a space accessible to all student organizations for meetings, events, creative activities, and practice.

Stewardship The design team laid out this mission: To transform and restore the Union to better serve the needs of today’s students with special attention to maintaining the historic feel of the building, to which students are deeply attached. The aim is to also, while updating the building’s functionality and infrastructure, bring it into the 21st century and beyond, to bring back the original graciousness of the building that was afforded by its original traffic circulation, daylight, and connection to the outdoors. Devoting resources to address infrastructure deficiencies that negatively impact building users and restoring many of the historically significant features, including repairs to the State Street entry and a total re-design of the north entrance, was also in the plan.

Infrastructure renewal, including replacement and restoration of the existing windows and slate roof, installing a new energy-efficient HVAC system and lighting upgrades, and implementing safety improvements.

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should be a high priority "once again." In summary, it was the most comprehensive retrofit of the entire building including MEP, safety, and climate control technology.

Setting Preservation Priorities Hartman-Cox Architects has a national reputation for renovating important historical and aesthetically exceptional buildings. Mary Kay Lanzillotta, a project consultant from HartmanCox, tasked with designing the courtyard enclosure and developing a preservation approach to the building explained how they determined the preservation strategy. In setting priorities, the team evaluated each space, made an inventory of significant areas and details, listed the character-defining elements of each space and provided a general guide for the preservation treatment. Using the evaluation criteria, each space has been prioritized into: P1 Restoration – priority areas of the building with special architectural significance that should be restored as nearly as possible to their original form or condition.

The Michigan Union’s third-floor balcony overlooks the restored Rogel ballroom below.

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P2 Rehabilitation of areas of lesser architectural importance than P1, but that contain significant architectural details that should be retained and repaired.

Use of Space A good first impression is to create a sense of social vibrancy on the main floor. The team desired to overcome the vertical stratification, which conveys the sense that important functions are remote and hard to find, and endeavored to make the building accessible to people of all abilities, comfortable, inclusive, un-intimidating, and easy to navigate. Reclaiming natural daylight to create a brighter mood and creating internal views to afford better opportunities for social connection was important.

Workshop Architects focused on the programming and design of the Main and Second Levels, including the new glass courtyard roof.

Peter van den Kieboom, an architect leading the Workshop team says the plans maintained the diversity of programmatic functions, which, taken together, show students what the University of Michigan has to offer while sectionally rezoning social and student involvement functions to the Main and Second Level. Students are now able to more easily find their niche in a dynamic, collaborative environment wrapping around the courtyard. The team aimed to make the Union a social hub by incorporating comfortable conversation spaces where students can build social connections and interact. Social space

P3 Renovation - this priority is defined as areas of the building that are not considered an integral part of the architectural fabric and can be altered as long as the alterations do not adversely impact P1 or P2.

Lanzillotta explained that the process was a bit like doing archaeological research, peeling back an onion to reveal the hidden historical facets of the original intent. For instance, the original color of the windows were determined by scraping layers of paint and analyzing paint chips under a microscope to determine the original color and literally peeling back the carpets. By doing so, the team uncovered terrazzo tiles on the third floor in near new condition. An original 1930s mailbox is left in place on the second floor as a historic reminder that there was once something called mail.

At this point in the interview, I had dĂŠjĂ vu. I vividly remember, in the late 1960s, walking up the imposing stone stairs of the State Street entrance in a snow storm to enter and be confronted with a confusing and intimidating array of steel doors and cold, loud hallways. Now it has a warm, inviting feel and encourages exploration of the spaces. Of course, I was “The Voice of The Construction IndustryÂŽâ€?

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enjoying a guided tour of the building with Charles Lewis, principal at IDS, in early July when the building was empty due to COVID-19. Out of the countless details that made this project successful, Lewis was proud to point out that local and regional building materials were used whenever possible. For example, the drinking fountains received special treatment with handcrafted tiles by U-M alumna and owner of Motawi Tiles, Nawal Motawi.

Visitors to the restrooms will notice that they have been remodeled and include genderinclusive and ADA-accessible locations on every level. The use of upgraded, low-flow plumbing fixtures were incorporated to reduce water usage by an anticipated 22 percent.

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tube steel. The design encloses the courtyard with a high-performance, energy-efficient glazing system.

The courtyard space, with the Idea Hub wrapping around the upper level, was originally an exterior veranda connected to the building’s original ballroom. This newly enclosed space, which provides yearround, day-lighted space, is another flexible social hub allowing for a variety of student events, performances, career fairs, as well as weddings and other rental opportunities for community gatherings.

Ideal Contracting, headquartered in Detroit, was selected as the steel erector for the Michigan Union project. The canopy work was a collaboration between Ideal Contracting (erector) and its sister company Ideal Steel (fabricator). Due to the complexity of the work and tight fit-up tolerances, the modular HSS dome and built-up plate columns were fabricated and then fit-up and mocked up by Ideal Contracting's ironworkers in Ideal Steel's Detroit fabrication shop. The modules were then transported to the Michigan

Special Features to See When You Visit The IdeaHub Maybe it was just time for the billiard room and the phone booths to go. The former billiard room has been repurposed into the IdeaHub. This is one of the key concepts that came from student input. Out of these planning discussions came the vision to provide a special student involvement space to support the gathering of student organizations and foster collaboration and discussion.

The IdeaHub is uniquely designed to enhance the experience for student organizations and provide more space to support student programs. This is a place that invites exploration.

The space itself encourages opportunities for students to balance out their academic lives through relaxation, recreation, conversation, and reflection.

Imagine this: – An open view of the whole floor that surrounds the indoor courtyard below – Creative spaces that are designed to encourage communication and networking – A variety of mobile meeting rooms to accommodate up to 10 people – Soft seat clusters and open flexible spaces – Two movement studios for dance, yoga, and other activities – A creative studio for visual arts – Personal semi-enclosed booths – A media space with large screen events and meeting calendar.

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Union site. A portable, self-erecting crane, as well as a 265-ton hydraulic crane, were utilized to erect the AESS (Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel) finish canopy.

With the help of engineering firm Ruby + Associates of Bingham Farms, the canopy was erected in sequences based on stability calculations until the main structure was completed. The tight, 3,400-square-foot footprint in which the canopy was erected required daily coordination with the team to allow for other trades to remain efficient while working in the area. Ideal's team also installed steel framing to construct a new elevator and stair shaft from the basement to the fourth floor. The steel members had to be erected through existing windows at each level and then transported approximately 200 feet to the installation locations. The members were then rigged and installed by hand using chain falls.

The original ornamental rails in the Union building were from the early 1900s. To keep the aesthetic of the historic building, new rails were hand-formed to match existing rails.

Approximately 400 lineal feet of rails and 200 lineal feet of glass were installed.

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The Rogel Ballroom On the second floor, visitors can find the Rogel Ballroom restored to its near original splendor, from its original lighting fixtures, architectural motifs, and color palette. To enhance its venue capabilities, precision climate control, professional sound, and AV is embedded into the support columns.

One of the challenges here was to strategically strip out the ceiling to bring the duct work up to code while maintaining all existing fixtures and not leave a trace of the intrusion.

Throughout the building, CO2 sensors in the ventilation system calculates the number of people in the room and automatically adjusts the air flow. Indoor air quality is especially important in the age of COVID. The ballroom features an overlook from the third-floor balcony as well as original terrazzo floors that were restored during the renovation.

Kitchens The kitchen at the Union supports the large catering demand of the Union’s meeting and ballrooms. Currently, an outside food vendor occupies an adjacent space and also utilizes the

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U-M dining kitchen. As a part of the renovation, the kitchen was reconfigured to not only provide a better workflow and create additional storage for U-M dining, but a smaller dedicated kitchen was created to support the outside vendors’ needs.

Entrance and Stairwells Decades ago, the stairwells were enclosed as a fire safety solution. An unintended consequence is that it discouraged people from using the main entry stairway and made the building difficult to navigate.

Now that the stairwells have been opened, going up and down the stairs from either entry has a warm, inviting, and comfortable feel. To make the building easier to navigate, the signage, directories, and room numbering were carefully designed to make navigation intuitive for the firsttime visitor. The idea is to hear a vibrant hum of activity when you walk in to get a sense of anticipation. For most visitors, the North Entry is the first impression – freshman tours come through this way, which opens into a variety of retail and food service spaces.

Energy-Efficiency Joe Schwartz, Lead Mechanical Engineer from IDS, discussed some of the challenges upgrading the MEP in this 100-year-old building. Schwartz explained, “We started this project on the premise that the University of Michigan requires all buildings to be 30 percent above code (ASHRAE 90.1 2007). Next, after an energy audit to determine baseline energy use in the building, we rolled up our sleeves and concluded that all mechanical, electrical, and plumbing needed be completely gutted and replaced.”

Schwartz went on to describe that by constructing a dynamic energy model of the building, they could quantify the heating and cooling loads and were able to dial – in realistic peak loads and right-size the system accordingly.

Installed were eight new custom air handlers, all new air distribution, VAV (variable air volume) boxes, and a DDC (direct digital control) that was based on a Siemens platform and customized to fit the building’s HVAC and control systems.

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Previously the building had constant-volume air handlers with reheat coils – none of the existing systems met current energy code.

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Artwork in the fourth-floor hall represents the Wellness Wheel, a symbol of the multi-dimensions of health and wellness. This is a quieter, more reflective space for counseling and psychological services.

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This space in the IdeaHub is reclaimed from a mechanical room and repurposed into three small meeting rooms overlooking the courtyard.

were installed for hot water distribution. To make this more of a challenge, the wall cavities were narrow, making electrical and plumbing runs difficult. Throughout the building, LED lighting with motion detectors and controls were installed to add to the ambience and reduce the electrical load.

Exterior Restoration Once the ivy was pulled back from the building’s exterior, it not only exposed stained-glass windows and architectural flourishes that haven’t been seen in years, it also revealed damage to the masonry. As a result, tuck pointing the brick masonry was added to the to-do list.

In a previous remodel, storm windows were installed on the outside of the building and covered up all the leaded glass windows, and the ivy covered all the detailing that Pond & Pond designed. The old storm windows were removed to allow for a full window restoration, including stripping off layers of paint, weather stripping, and sealing a total of 540 windows to reflect the original 1919 look and feel. To make the window achieve thermal efficiency, interior storm windows were added to maintain a thermal barrier. In addition, the original slate roof was replaced where necessary and one-inch of insulation was added for an extra measure of efficiency.

Of course, coordinating all of these moving parts during the planning and construction would not have been possible without the guidance and experience of the project management team at Walbridge. Job well done.

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Veoneer Proves that Nature and Tech Are in Synthesis

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play on visionary and pioneer, Veoneer is a Swedish-based autonomous vehicle technology company on the cutting edge of redefining the travel experience. After spending time split between buildings, Veoneer’s Michigan operation needed an engineering center flexible enough to be a modern test center as well as a new-age collaboration-driven workspace.

Initially, the Veoneer team thought a horizontal build would be best, but Frank Jonna, Partner of Jonna Companies, the property owner, manager and builder of the chosen Southfield site, persuaded the group that a vertical complex could be built and flourish. Flourish it has: From the terrace café overlooking an expansive 19-acre wetland nature preserve, workers sip coffee and collaborate with woodsy views spanning the horizon. There is a zig-zagging wooden bench running down the terrace, and a glass panel railing makes sure the view is clear at all times. It is a scene that makes one easily mistake the workplace for a resort. The addition of a full-service cafeteria, cafe and fitness center complete the illusion.

Before the new Veoneer complex became a new landmark on American Drive, it was a bare strip of land adjacent to a nature center.

Designing around the nature preserve was a major part of this project, Jonna said. It was a feature that attracted Jonna to purchase the

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TOP LEFT: Veoneer consolidated its R&D and engineering teams under one roof at its new Michigan office building in Southfield. Testing space was situated on the ground floor and office space above.

TOP RIGHT: The lobby of Veoneer’s headquarters benefits from the high ceilings of the first-floor testing area, providing a spacious area with an inviting tech palate.

site nearly 30 years ago. “This site was the last 10-acre undeveloped portion of the 70-acre site that we acquired,” Jonna explained. “One of the unique aspects was that there were significant wetlands to consolidate to develop a property.”

Jutting out from the business park, Veoneer’s sleek black, grey and white design with modern paneling and large windows provides a duality of modernism and nature coexisting into the horizon for the benefit of a signature identity and work practicalities alike.

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American Commerce Center Nature Preserve, the wetland park hosts an array of wildlife including wild birds, deer, raccoons, foxes and more with its large pond flanked by cattails.

“In the early planning stages, we wanted to make sure that the views were available to the entire Veoneer team,” Jonna said.

“So we formed the outdoor terrace, meeting rooms and the food service to be located on that top floor to maximize the views for the team members.” The focus on nature continues within the structure as well. Large windows fitted with Mecoshades capitalize on the views, providing natural lighting to most workspaces. There is space for 900 employees. Each floor contains a central hub for collaboration flanked by daylit working space on the exterior. The

180,000-square-foot complex opened in March 2020.

All Under One Roof Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Veoneer is a pioneer in autonomous driving technology and safety systems with offices in some 13 countries around the world. Founded in 2018, Veoneer was spun-off from Autoliv after having designed, manufactured and delivered electronic safety products to its customers for two decades.

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innovative company compiles and sells state-of-the-art software, hardware and systems for occupant protection, advanced driving assistance systems, collaborative and automated driving.

Veoneer hopes its work on preventing accidents with smart technology will cut down global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents by 50 percent, citing that the World Health Organization estimates up to 1.35 million people are killed by traffic accidents globally.

According to official company information, Veoneer employs 7,100 people worldwide with 900 working out of the Southfield office. Its engineers work with vision systems, radar, LiDAR, thermal sensing, electronic controls, and humanmachine interface to combat the probabilities of traffic accidents and mitigate unavoidable accidents.

Its previous arrangement, Veoneer’s engineering, testing and support staff were split between locations with the necessity of getting a shuttle to and from worksites.

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one-story test center, per Jonna, until the leadership team was introduced to the concept of vertically interconnected space.

“We felt that the most efficient use was to expand more vertically with tech space and research and development space on the first floor,” Jonna said. “The clear standing garage area has a taller first floor than a typical office. Being able to keep engineers vertically connected was more efficient.”

Veoneer Facilities Manager Larry Walewski agreed. Employees working primarily on computer systems could now go within minutes to see their work in action, better connecting developers to their work. “[Our goal was to] acquire a modern building whose design supports consolidation of all activities under one roof and will project a high-tech image to rival that of the Veoneer competitors in the area,” Walewski said.

With the need for multiple uses within the same structure, designers sought to stack the program with large structural clear spans on the first floor for testing, team workplace platforms on the second and third floors, and amenities on the top floor.

Jack Bullo of HED, the Southfield-based architectural firm hired to design the new space, said this isn’t the typical office layout. “Normally things like the cafeteria would want to be on the ground floor. But because we wanted to fulfill all of Veoneer's requirements by not eating up excess space, we put them on the top floor,” Bullo said. “We thought it was a great opportunity because the visual experience gets better as you move up on the site. Up there, we found it is so intrinsically better than being on the ground level.”

The need for a product testing lab to have specific requirements like a loading dock forced amenities to move upward.

“The lab on the first floor shaped our ability of the building for the better. It ended up being a win-win.”

“We focused on consolidations to have everyone under one roof. Being able to have all of their engineering and testing was huge for them,” Jonna added. “[Of the changes,] most importantly was reuniting our associates under one roof to capitalize on missing synergies between the different engineering groups,” Walewski said.

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Instead of being spread out, product validation, analysis, testing, tech support and vehiclerelated functions are now all located on the first floor.

The heart of the office sees a focus on socialization and a mobile interconnected workplace. Unlike traditional office environments that have bathrooms and stairwells at the center of the space, Veoneer put these amenities on the exterior, allowing for a centralized linear collaborative hub. There, workers can interact and connect in person with expediency.

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A Redefined Workspace Veoneer emphasized that its employees shouldn’t have just one assigned seat but a ratio of 1:1 additional collaborative seats at any location throughout the building.

This means that if an employee needs a change of pace or wants to work in a different mode, they can easily go mobile and transition to the terrace or lounge for a refreshing change in scenery. “Today’s modern workplace wants to be a more experiential driven facility,” Bullo said.

“People want something where ‘I can come in, work at the desk, daydream and work with a team.’”

Each floor is outfitted with multiple types of furniture and light fixtures to grant a change of environment. “Having the building look and convey that multitude of experiences is what makes it to me a modern building. It portrays a communityoriented space.” This approach further attracts talent to the client, Bullo added.

“You can imagine them doing a tour going through these amenities and the open workspace then to end at the terrace view of the nature preserve. It is a great place to ask prospective employees ‘Well, what do you think?’”

In the preliminary planning stages for Veoneer, the project team also focused on situating the office best for natural lighting.

“As a team, very early in the design of the building, we identified natural light as one of the highest priorities for the office space. The Jonna team and HED felt the same level of importance. “Natural light has a powerful effect on employees' mental health, boosting mood and lessening anxiety. Better moods and lower anxiety translate to more productive work,” Walewski said. “People exposed to direct and indirect sunlight reported higher job satisfaction and organizational commitment.”

HED placed the enclosed offices in the east and west spaces, where there was low sun and glare that required light control, leaving the north and south face totally open for a continuous window band for elevations. “From the north, you get no glare, and the south light is controllable and not problematic,” Bullo said.

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Natural lighting was a big factor in the design of Veoneer’s workspaces. Through large windows, lighting permeates to the central collaborative corridor workspace.

to feel compressed. Higher than normal floor space allowed daylight to penetrate deeper in the space,” Bullo said. A perk of the elevated height of the first floor is that its lobby is spacious, open, and bright, providing a modern and inviting feel that speaks technology to visitors.

Included also on these floors are stacked workplace lounges outfitted with bright colors, wood paneling and modern light fixtures. Yet another changeup from the cubicle and break room structuring of the past, this space was designed to better facilitate community building and energize project teams.

To further achieve this, an emphasis is placed on “collaboration” with primary pathways running down the middle of the facility that can be rearranged to suit project team needs. “It gives the building more future flexibility,” Jonna said. “That is an important issue that can have an alternative use down the road.”

Among other amenities the building had over its previous arrangement was wellequipped training rooms to support internal training and seminars, a fullservice cafeteria, cafe and a lounge on every floor.

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Moving forward from consolidating teams in one location, Veoneer created flexible spaces so its diverse workers could work side-by-side on projects as needed.

Breaking Ground in Winter Despite an audacious vertical build, Jonna said that the biggest challenge was the omnipresent one in all construction jobs – trying to make sure the product is delivered by the deadline. The project team found themselves starting the build in December to make the scheduled open date of March 2020.

“It wasn’t ideal, but we were able to use a heating system to thaw the ground and protect the concrete,” Jonna said. “We were very efficient in getting the foundations done to get our steel fabricator grinding away and ready to go in February. Our goal was to have the building fully enclosed by fall (2019).” Facades would take longer, but the windows and exterior structure were able to be enclosed much more quickly than other buildings, Jonna added.

Closing on the Build Jonna had owned the land since the early 1990s. Opportunities to develop the site had come and gone over the years, Jonna said.

He felt that the ability to partner with Veoneer, a faithful tenant, from the ground up was special. “It was really gratifying to develop this last 10-acre parcel. Having this opportunity to be involved from the ground up and participate in the design, manage construction and building…it was a crowning moment for us.”

Bullo commented that the build reminded him of the classic architect saying, “Doctors can bury their mistakes. Architects have to live with them. I can live with this one. To see this completed is why architects choose their profession. But it’s important to say that I am just the tip of the iceberg here – architecture is such a team endeavor. And great buildings don't happen without great clients.”

Aside from a brief HVAC adjustment, the building after completion has no issues, Walewski said. “I was excited to see the positive daily reactions from the workforce during the various phases of moving in. It’s a very accomplished feeling knowing that all the hard work and dedication from the entire team was wellappreciated.”

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Keeping Order in the Court Christman Completes Five-Year Revitalization of Federal Courthouse

By Mary Kremposky McArdle

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t 3:00 a.m. the sound of a drill rig rises from the basement of the Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse in downtown Detroit. At 7:30 a.m., judges, clerks and lawyers walking down the main concourse might have heard a quiet shuffling of footsteps coming from an elevated platform built to completely cover the grand vaulted ceilings of this high-volume space from view. Both of these unseen activities – one for drilling micro-piles for a new stair tower and the other to restore the historical ceilings – were part of a $140 million, multiphase revitalization of this vintage courthouse originally built in 1934.

Working in a fully occupied courthouse for the entire project, The Christman Company adopted a series of strategies to avoid disturbing courthouse operations. Justice had to be blind – and deaf – to every phase of construction for the sake of its own vital work. The project team even conducted a sound study to test the decibel level of 50 to 60 different construction activities. In a project originally slated to be constructed exclusively at night, the goal was to shift as much work as possible to the day to curtail labor costs and to maintain jobsite morale.

“The Christman team went to an unoccupied area of the courthouse and drilled concrete and studs, along with cutting wood and metal pipe,” said Christman Project Executive Joe Luther, A.C., LEED AP. “We did every task we could imagine, and we took decibel readings, both 50 feet away from the activity, as well 86 CAM MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2020

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ABOVE LEFT: The vaulted ceiling of the main concourse was once a field of white tiles originally installed in the 1970s to control the acoustics in a space of predominately hard surfaces.

ABOVE RIGHT: Tenants and visitors saw the underside of the platform for six months before the entire scaffold and platform was removed over a single weekend and the restored ceiling was unveiled in all of its geometric, multicolored glory on a Monday.

LEFT: The project team not only restored the varied colors and geometric patterns of the original concourse ceiling dating to the 1930s, but also retained the acoustical control of the 1970s ceiling tiles via installation of a BASWA Phon acoustic sound-absorbing plaster system.

as one floor above and below. We put together a matrix of activities, and using a threshold of 55 decibels agreed upon by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), any activity that was more than 55 decibels a floor away had to be done at night. Anything less than that could be done during the day.”

About 70 percent of the work was shifted to the day and approximately $3 million was saved in labor costs by avoiding the night premium cost for labor. The results were a set of construction activities that could be completed with minimum interruption to the building operations; this activity matrix was inserted into the bid packages. “No one on the team had ever done such a sound study,” Luther said. “It was a big win. We got creative, and we were able to prove to the Court that the work could be done without disrupting its workday.”

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together to correct building deficiencies in the almost 90-year-old courthouse.

A brief overview of the renovation’s four major components offers a glimpse into the intricacies of a project five years in the making: • THE NEW STAIR TOWER: Clad in Indiana limestone, the original monolithic, 770,000square-foot building of reinforced concrete occupies an entire block in the heart of Detroit’s financial district. The site is bordered by Shelby and West Fort Street and Washington and West Lafayette Boulevard. Since the original building was built lot line to lot line, adding new programmatic space required a creative solution, according to GSA. The solution involved building the addition within the void space, or light court, in the middle of the building. Although the new tower provides a vertical circulation connection to each floor of the main building, the new addition has a special structural system completely independent from the support of the main building.

Beginning at the third floor, a light court opens in the center of the 10-story building.

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assist trade partner, Douglas Steel Fabricating Corp., hoisted the steel over the building and into the light court. The team then lowered each steel member through openings cut into the light court’s roof and through the lower three stories of the courthouse, effectively embedding the first few floors of the 10-story tower within the courthouse itself.

The benefit: The new stair tower now offers the court “additional emergency egress to meet current life safety requirements and to bring the building up to code,” said GSA Project Manager Seth LaRocque.

• MEP SYSTEMS: Christman enlisted the services of design-assist MEP trade partners – John E. Green Company, McShane Mechanical Contracting and Shaw Electric Co. – to deliver the first major overall and replacement of the courthouse’s mechanical and electrical systems since the 1960s, according to LaRocque.

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delivered without disturbing tenants and with the least possible disturbance of the vintage plaster ceilings and finishes.

The benefit: Extensive MEP replacement improved tenant comfort and will yield significant energy savings. “Based on an energy analysis during the design phase, we expect to realize an annual savings of more than $160,000 compared to pre-project conditions,” LaRocque said.

• B A S E M E N T R E C O N F I G U R AT O N : ` Reconfiguring the basement into support spaces for the court presented a singular building condition. Law enforcement agencies had used an area of the basement as a gun range for over 70 years. “Decades of firing lead bullets into a steel trap and having the lead basically disintegrate meant the lead was embedded in all the concrete masonry walls and in the ceiling,” Luther said. “A complete abatement and demolition of the space ensured that everything infiltrated with lead dust was removed from the building, including ductwork and light fixtures. Even the block walls were demolished, bagged up and disposed of properly.”

• VAULTED CEILING RESTORATION: Once bscured by white acoustical ceiling tiles installed in the 1970s, the ornamental plaster borders, along with the varied colors and geometric patterns of the main concourse ceiling, have been restored to their original splendor. “The ceiling restoration is a dramatic improvement for the building and a much better first impression for people visiting the courthouse,” LaRocque said. “For GSA, the benefit of investing in historic buildings is that we can preserve these assets that just can’t be replaced today.”

As part of the building’s historical “footprint,” a procession of columns, dentil cornices and other elements places the building squarely in the Neoclassical Revival period dating from 1895 to 1950. “The formal symmetrical design with a centered front door and tall columns with decorative emblems at the entry mark it as neoclassical, as well as the double-hung, rectangular courthouse windows,” said Christman Project Engineer Alexandra Fischer. “The building’s original architect, Robert O. Derrick, was also known for his Neoclassical Revival design.”

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Taming a Beast of a Budget The project team restored the building version of “order in the court” to this vintage courthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Strategy, collaboration and pure savvy made it happen.

Having joined the project at the design development phase in August 2015, Christman immediately encountered the first challenge: At $135 million, the initial project estimate was significantly over the original $110 million construction budget. Taking the lead in a 12-monthlong value analysis marathon, Christman assembled the MEP design-assist team in the design phase to overcome the budget overages and to help with means and methods.

Another savvy strategy controlled both the schedule and this beast of a budget.

Christman strategically broke the project into two separate contracts – a Photo courtesy of the christman comPany preparatory $20 million bid package and the main $90 million contract, often The scaffold system was built six to seven referred to as the “remaining bid feet below the main concourse’s vaulted package”. ceiling. The system’s platform, commonly Luther explains the benefits: “If we called a dance floor, was installed to create had waited to go through all of this investigation and value analysis, we would have delayed the project by probably six to eight months. We worked with the GSA to release $20 coloration and jointing of the metal panel to million of the work, which allowed us to start complement the courthouse’s limestone construction. While the $20 million contract was façade. Much of the tower is glass for underway and we were in the building and visibility and to distinguish the new structure learning more about its condition, we completed from the historical building. the value analysis on the $90 million portion of the contract. The value analysis process • PREFABRICATING THE PENTHOUSES – generated 330 ideas, and we were able to extract New rooftop mechanical penthouses were $38 million in savings from the second contract.” needed to house new air handling units and bring the building up to code. Switching Four of 330 Ideas from two “stick-built” steel and stone-clad Hundreds of ideas chipped away at the budget, mechanical penthouses to prefabricated but several strategies produced millions in ones yielded $2.2 million in savings. savings: “Just having the work prefabricated • METAL REPLACES STONE – Opting for a offsite was a tremendous savings because stone-simulating metal panel system in lieu of the constraints of obtaining security of precast panels on a portion of the stair badges for the trades,” Luther said. “Any tower yielded $3.5 million in savings, and hours of work that we could pull away from improved logistics as well. “The stone the courthouse resulted in savings.” panels are extremely heavy and would have The penthouses were prefabricated in to be lifted over the building at night,” Luther Flint and trucked to the site in a logistical said. “The use of a metal panel was not only maneuver involving escorting the wide, a tremendous cost savings but was less heavy load at night and coordinating a labor-intensive and less logistically series of street closures in downtown challenging.”

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existing conduits.” Retaining the existing conduits resulted in $1.25 million in savings and the avoidance of extensive disruption to tenants and to the building’s historical plaster finishes.

Thanks to the diligent work of the entire project team during the design phase, “the project came in 0.4 percent under budget when bid to the trade contractor marketplace,” according to Christman information.

• FAN COIL ISOLATION: A building’s unseen network of MEP ductwork, piping and conduit distributes heating, cooling, electricity and water in vertical risers servicing every floor of a building. This connectivity between floors complicates MEP renovation in an occupied building. Replacing all of the building’s 450 fan coil units called for a strategy capable of allowing replacement work on one floor without shutting down an entire riser and impacting the ability to heat and cool surrounding floors.

Christman and its MEP trade partners installed isolation valves and re-sequenced the fan coil replacement, ultimately shielding tenants from disruption and saving $340,000 dollars.

Managing the Unexpected The building’s 24 courtrooms remained in session even as construction itself was “in session” beginning in July 2016. The initial $20 million contract focused on purchasing and launching work on long-lead chillers and elevators, as well as preparing the all-important swing floor on the building’s half-occupied fourth level. “We created a swing space in the early phase for the purpose of moving tenants into that space while we renovated their particular floor,” said Christman Senior Project Manager Dan Davis.

Christman divided the $90 million contract into six major phases, each devoted exclusively to occupied spaces. Each phase focused primarily on MEP work on one or two floors, while work on unoccupied spaces – the new stair tower and the basement – took place continuously throughout the project. “In the six phases tied to the floors,

east side of the building, was lifted up in two halved pieces,” Luther said. “Each one of the halves of those penthouses weighed 40,000 lbs.” Christman repeated the process two weeks later for the west-side mechanical penthouse.

• KEEPING THE CONDUITS – Christman’s MEP design-assist trade partners proved invaluable during value analysis and throughout the project. Originally, every fire alarm conduit was slated for removal because it was assumed to be half-inch conduit. Luther explains: “The wire can’t be pulled out from any metal fire alarm conduit if the conduit is less than ¾-inch, because after close to 100 years, the wire typically becomes fused to the conduit. Removing every conduit, instead of just pulling out the wire, would result in tearing out ceilings and walls throughout the building.

“Shaw Electric did a few test pulls and discovered that the majority of the conduit was actually ¾-inch conduit,” Luther continued. “They were able to successfully pull wire out and pull new wire into the

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we tried to work from the top down, but we ran into challenges along the way that shifted that sequence,” Luther said.

One of those sequence-shifting challenges involved the deft insertion of the stair tower into the existing courthouse. The Christman team and their trade contractors had to cut a 40-by-60-foot opening in the roof of the light court and burrow three stories down through the inner workings of the existing building. Demolition uncovered far more extensive infrastructure than originally anticipated, including major pipe mains and ductwork trunk lines. “It was discovered that all of the major systems for the second floor, including all the ductwork and electrical conduit, ran through the footprint of the new tower,” Luther said.

Much of the reason for constructing the 10story tower in the light court was the need to limit disturbance of plaster ceilings and courtroom finishes. According to Luther, this same driving force precluded conducting the extensive but destructive investigations necessary for full discovery of MEP systems prior to construction.

A nimble course shift to a laser focus on the second floor kept the project on track. All stakeholders from the GSA, the courts and court security to Jacobs, EYP, Christman and its MEP design-assist partners engaged in this collaborative effort. Eight active courtrooms across the entire second floor had to be taken out of service and judges relocated to temporary courtrooms and chambers to make way for the relocation of the MEP systems out of the tower footprint. “We rerouted all of the existing main trunk ductwork and piping around the stair tower footprint,” Davis said.

Christman oversaw the removal of four to five layers of ductwork to make way for the tower.

“Before these layers could be removed, we had to first determine where the ductwork came from and what spaces it fed,” Luther said. “Once we knew what spaces were being served by the ductwork, we installed temporary systems, removed the permanent systems, built the stair tower, and then ultimately installed new permanent systems around the stair tower.”

Christman and its design-assist MEP partners worked with the GSA, Jacobs and EYP to expand the second-floor mechanical mezzanine – the interstitial space between floors two and three.

The space now houses new air handling units and feeds an associated variable-air-volume (VAV) system to provide a new mechanical system for the entire second floor. Miraculously, the budget stayed on track. But it was no miracle.

Saving costs throughout construction and redesigning less-optimal MEP systems created a

Since the original building was built lot line to lot line, the tower addition was constructed within the void space, or light court, in the middle of the building. Working at night, Christman and its design-assist trade partner, Douglas Steel Fabricating Corp., hoisted each steel member over the building, down into the light court, through an opening cut into the light court’s roof, and then down through the lower three stories of the courthouse itself.

reserve of funds to address unforeseen conditions uncovered after demolition.

Drilling within a Building Working within the basement, the next hurdle in this obstacle course of a project was to drill 32 micro-piles 120- to 130-feet down and slightly into bedrock. The courthouse’s existing caisson and grade beam system creates an open checkerboard-type grid, making it far easier to place the micro-piles in the spaces in between the concrete “lines.” “Fortunately, we weren’t undermining a spread footing or dealing with some type of mass concrete footing,” Luther said.

Unfortunately, the basement’s floor-to-ceiling height was not a good fit. The Christman team

and their trade contractors had to excavate 10 feet below the basement floor to fit the drill rig into the space. “We used the smallest drill rig possible that was still capable of drilling to such a depth, but it still wouldn’t fit from the basement floor to the bottom of the first floor without excavating,” Luther said. “We drove the drill rig down into the excavation on a temporary ramp to conduct the drilling. It was quite an operation.”

The micro-piles were drilled at night for two months to avoid disturbing the court with noise and potential odors. “There was a potential of hitting gas pockets in the ground, so we had to have the complete area contained and under negative pressure to exhaust potential gas and drill rig fumes out of the building,” Luther said.

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a basement pit for drill bit coolant and as a flushing medium for removing the drill cuttings.

The water was pumped out to street level for filtering, and the clean water was recycled back into the basement throughout the drilling operation.

The drilling of one to two piles per night began at 6:00 p.m. and didn’t stop until 6:00 a.m. “The drilling operation required a 12-hour window to ensure that the drilling crew could complete a pile successfully and have sufficient time to clean the drill rig,” Luther said. “They had to time their drilling, because at certain points of the process they couldn’t just stop or an entire pile would be lost. Adding to the challenge of the operation, the tower footprint is very small and those 32 piles are all condensed into a very tight area.

“The whole drilling process was one of the most risky and successful aspects of the project given all the challenges we could have run into,” Luther added. “With proper planning, everything was completed successfully.” After micro-pile installation, the Christman team poured and tied new foundations into the existing grade beams, along with pouring new mass concrete footings for the elevator pits.

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Threading the Eye of Two Needles Christman and design-assist partner, Douglas Steel, installed the structural steel frame at night for tenant safety. According to Christman information, the steel was hoisted into the center of the building with a Manitowoc 999 crane positioned on Shelby Street and equipped with 340 feet of boom reach to clear the 10-story building.

The team performed the equivalent of threading the steel through the eye of two different needles. Working from the street, the crane operator lifted each steel member over the courthouse roof, lowering it first into the light court and then down into the previously mentioned access portal all the way to the basement. “Every single piece of steel was set in the blind,” Luther said. “It took a tremendous amount of coordination between the operator and the crew all equipped with radios. From the basement up to the third level, they were erecting steel basically in a box within a box with supertight tolerances and limited maneuverability.”

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as it ascends through the first three levels of the courthouse. “The tower footprint is only 3,000 square feet within the building, but probably only 1,500 to 1,800 square feet actually touches the ground in the basement,” Luther said.

The north cantilever is the reason the stair tower has “tremendous skyscraper-sized columns at the base,” Luther said. “The columns at the base of the tower are W455, meaning that each foot of those columns weighs 455 lbs.

Anyone would think that we were building the Empire State Building, but it is just a 10-story stair tower.”

The massive steel columns at the tower base called for 130 bolts for one column connection alone; the entire tower boasts 22,300 bolts. The tower itself is a stand-alone steel structure with an expansion joint on all sides. “All the connection points to the courthouse are slipped connections that do not transfer the load of the tower to the courthouse,” Luther said.

What appears to be a simple stair tower has another counterintuitive anomaly: The steel had to be erected out of plumb. Engineering calculations showed that the north cantilever would contribute to slight pile settlement. “Plus,

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Every piece of this ornate courtroom was disassembled in the 1920s prior to the demolition of the 1897 courthouse. In 1934, the marble, the mahogany and other materials were reassembled to perfectly reconstruct the so-called Million Dollar Courtroom in the then newly built 1930s courthouse.

the tower is not uniformly loaded,” Luther said.

“Elevators and a stair shaft are on one side of the tower, and slabs for pedestrian access to them are on the other.”

The solution was to erect the tower slightly out of plumb to compensate for the calculated settlement. “The steel was designed to be erected out of plumb, so that as the floors were loaded with concrete and curtain wall and the dead load was applied to the tower, the structure would actually settle and become perfectly vertical,” Luther added.

Tenant Communication Communicating with tenants was imperative while working on the MEP systems and vaulted ceilings of the fully occupied courthouse.

Christman created a 4D schedule and a website to keep tenants informed about the construction time line. “Tenants used the website to find out what was going to take place on the site and when they were going to temporarily move out of their space,” Luther said. “The GSA said that they were going to make this type of website a new standard for all GSA projects across the country.”

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of the court cases at Levin, moving them in the middle of a trial might create an opportunity to declare a mistrial if the disruption was deemed excessive,” Luther said. “We needed to time the moves and the time taken to renovate a floor with these very high-profile cases. The courts were very good partners and worked with us throughout the entire project.”

Christman managed trade contractor staffing with equal aplomb, the main challenge being to ensure adequate manpower despite the industry’s skilled labor shortage and this particular project’s call for security clearances.

Obtaining a security badge could take anywhere from three to 12 weeks, potentially impeding Christman’s ability to respond to shifting manpower needs due to schedule acceleration and other situations.

As a proactive company, Christman worked with trade contractors to create a surplus pool of labor with security clearances already in place.

“If, on average, we needed 20 electricians to build the project, we worked with the electrical contractor to badge 30 or 40 within the company, even though every worker with a badge would not necessarily be used on the project,” Luther said.

Christman even assigned a full-time staff member named Irene Collier to the exclusive job of ensuring that every trade contractor had a

sufficient number of security-cleared workers.

“Irene’s full-time job for four years was to ensure that every trade contractor’s personnel went through this background check,” Luther said.

Mezzanine Redesign Collaboration eased every aspect of this multifaceted project, including the all-important MEP revitalization. Having cultivated a true partnership among all project participants, Christman worked closely with its MEP designassist trade partners, GSA, EYP and Jacobs in “redesigning the entire mechanical system on certain floors,” Luther said. “These design revisions netted hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings and offered the best way to heat and cool the spaces.”

• NO MORE CRAMPED QUARTERS – Installing smaller, more-efficient and betterdesigned MEP systems in the existing second-level mezzanine saved energy costs and provided greater access for maintenance and repairs. “The existing equipment was not installed in a way that efficiently managed space or provided the best heating and cooling,” Davis said.

“Redesigning the systems opened up the floor space and offered more efficient systems.”

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Luther describes the spatial transformation: “A person would be squeezing between pipes or on their belly underneath ductwork on this second-level space. We were able to completely gut that mezzanine and give GSA an eight- to 10foot-wide corridor and adequate ceiling height to service all the equipment.”

• THE SIXTH-FLOOR HUB – The sixth floor originally served as the hub for the entire building’s MEP distribution. “All services ran to the sixth-floor mezzanine, spread out across this level, and risers fed all the other floors both above and below the sixth floor,” Davis said.

Temporary pipe runs and other MEP work had to be installed in different areas of the building before active work began on removing and installing new systems on the sixth floor. Christman developed a strategic seasonal plan for cutting services to the sixth floor itself. “We did the chilled water when there was no demand for cooling, and we did the heating hot water for hot air when there was no need for heat,” Davis said.

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or falling through,” Davis said. “The evaluation concluded that no one would fall through to the floor below but they would, more than likely, crack the plaster ceiling and cause damage to the finishes.

“The engineers designed a system of spacing wooden OSHA-rated planks across the metal channels,” Davis continued. “We could only place a certain number at a time in a given spot. Otherwise, we would overload that area of the ceiling. We would lay the planks across this grid of small steel channels that were present every three feet.

One 12-foot plank would bear on three or four pieces of steel. Each trade from the abatement contractor to the demolition, sheet metal and mechanical trades would move the planks as needed to access the entire space.”

The planking system allowed the trades to remove and install a new mechanical system and to create better access for maintenance and repairs. Access in the event of a leak was particularly important because the seventh floor houses a highend judge’s conference center and four

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court rooms, including the so-called “Million Dollar Courtroom.” This marble-andmahogany-filled courtroom is a vestige of the circa 1897 courthouse that once stood on the same site. “It was an absolutely beautiful structure,” Luther said, “but the federal government wanted to pump dollars back into the economy and put people back to work during the Great Depression. The 1897 courthouse was completely demolished in 1927 and 1928 and rebuilt from 1931 through 1934.”

In the 1920s, the chief judge, Arthur Tuttle, petitioned Congress to save his beloved courtroom prior to the courthouse’s demolition. “Every single piece was taken down methodically, and then numbered and stored,” Luther said. “After construction of the 1934 courthouse, all of those pieces were taken out of storage and the courtroom was reconstructed. The entire process actually cost $2 million. Anyone walking into that courtroom today would find the space exactly like it was in the 1890s.”

This contemporary MEP renovation is playing a role in keeping another piece of

• WALKING THE PLANK – Christman used a planking system to access portions of the seventh-floor mezzanine. The north and south areas have concrete floors and a fullheight space, but in the corners and in the east and west sections, the only “floor” is actually the ceiling of the seventh level. “The trades still had to get out over the historic plaster ceilings and safely perform this demolition and re-installation work,” Davis said.

To make it happen, Ruby + Associates, Inc. and Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. designed a planking system that offered an access route across what is called a red iron steel system. Davis explains: “Steel members or rods hang down from the structural concrete floor of the eighth-level directly above the mezzanine. These vertical rods are connected to a channel system or grid of 3.5-inch steel beams running in one direction and even smaller channels running in the other direction. An expanded metal wire mesh is placed across this grid of steel channels, followed by the plaster – and that is the seventh-floor ceiling.

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Detroit’s history and its historical building legacy intact. Reconfiguring the basement even led to the discovery of unsorted rubble from the circa 1897 courthouse. “We took out the original slab-on-grade in the basement and found remnants, such as broken brick and other debris from the original courthouse,” Davis added.

• LASER SCANNING THE SUB-BASEMENT – Christman and its MEP trade partners explored an even deeper level of the basement. Fitting in new MEP infrastructure in the building’s subbasement involved working within the tight tolerances of the space to install three new chillers, a tremendous amount of large bore pipe, and new electrical gear. “We used laser scanning to ensure that ‘the box’ that we are uilding within matches the drawings,” Luther said.

Laser scanning uncovered the fact that the project team had six more inches of available floor-to-ceiling space than shown on the drawings. Identifying this change early allowed the team to leverage the additional space to build in extra clearance for future maintenance operations. “If we hadn’t caught that in a laser

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scan, all of those systems would have been designed into the 3D model and prefabricated,” Luther said. “Because of laser scanning, we knew that the new systems were designed and installed to fit within the actual space. Laser scanning mitigated what would have been an incredible additional cost.”

Lifting the Cost Burden Redesigning the MEP systems in the mezzanines and other select areas created a $4 million reserve of funds. Efficiency in construction aided the costcontrol effort as well. For instance, Shaw Electric bested its established budget for the complete removal of the building’s cloth wiring. “Because of Shaw Electric’s efficiency in pulling out all of that cloth wiring, we saw a tremendous savings of several hundred thousand dollars on that one item,” Luther said.

Thanks to similar measures, Christman was able to more than double the scope of asbestos abatement without increasing the cost. Selective abatement – only abating areas covered by the current project – segued into a broader effort at no cost to GSA. “The asbestos was primarily in pipe insulation, but we were able to manage asbestos abatement without any additional funds from the GSA,” Luther said. “We were strictly within our guaranteed maximum price because of savings from our MEP design-assist partners and other project savings used to offset unforeseen conditions.”

Christman absorbed $20 million in additional scope over the course of the project. “The courts received the benefit of our team being onsite with very little cost in general conditions,” said Christman Project Manager Brad Anderson. “For example, the courts wanted to upgrade the light fixtures and finishes in several chambers. They received pricing in the range of $400,000 to $450,000, but because we were already mobilized on site, we were able to complete the work for $250,000.”

A Gem of a Ceiling Restored Beyond cost control, the project reached higher in other ways. The project included restoring the courthouse’s barrel vaulted ceilings in the main concourse and on the seventh floor. In the main concourse, 12 different paint colors bring to life the ceiling’s geometric patterns.

Christman crafted a logistical plan for working on this ornate ceiling without disturbing courthouse operations. “We built a scaffold system about six to seven feet below the vaulted ceiling and then completely sealed off a platform to the walls,” Luther said. “Visitors and tenants walked underneath that platform, commonly called a dance

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floor, for six to eight months while we worked.”

As the first transformative step, the white, asbestos-containing acoustical tiles installed in the 1970s were abated and removed at night. After abatement, the team began its investigation of the original ceiling’s condition. “The plaster was in very rough shape,” Luther said.

The solution offers visitors and tenants the best of both worlds – the work restores the ceiling’s 1930s character but retains the acoustical control of the 1970s installation. “We brought in specialists from Chicago and completely restored the plaster and installed a new modern acoustic ceiling called the BASWA Phon acoustic sound-absorbing plaster system,” Luther said. “This system provides the acoustics of a modern-day, high-performing acoustic ceiling – and it has a very nice, clean plaster finish.”

The team reviewed 34 drawings of architect Robert O. Derrick’s original design to capture the ceiling’s geometric pattern. “We took the old blueprints and we were able to recreate the stenciling and the exact patterns,” Luther said.

The drawings showed the elaborate patterns but not the specific colors. Three sources hinted at the original color palette: a survey of actual remnants of the original ceiling, Derrick’s color-by-number pattern given to the 1930s artisans, and a blackand-white photo from the 1960s showing the dark and light shades of various colors.

Once painted and restored, final touches included a new fire protection system and new LED lighting. After six months of meticulous work, this former field of white acoustical tiles was ready for its grand unveiling. “All visitors and tenants could see was the underside of a scaffold platform for all those months,” Luther said. “The platform came down over a weekend, and on Monday morning, visitors and tenants saw the new ceiling with the LED lighting washing over all of that beautiful paint and plaster work.”

From the basement to select ceilings, this amazingly complex revitalization of the Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse concluded in March 2020.

“To sum up the five-year challenge that was Levin, everywhere we turned we found a condition that nobody anticipated,” Luther said. “There were opportunities along the way where we could have had a six- or even 10-month project delay. Instead, everybody dug in and stayed committed to finding solutions. It's all about the people at the end of the day in our business, and this close-knit team operated at a very high level. We had the best trades in the industry on this project, one of the best owner’s representatives in Jacobs, and a very understanding owner.”

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Robert C. Valade Park

Brings Fun and Style to Detroit Waterfront

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or decades, Detroit’s riverfront consisted of industrial remnants and private properties that cut off access to citizens and made it difficult to even see the water, let alone enjoy it. The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy has changed all that, starting in 2003, when the newly formed non-profit started acquiring and developing land for what will ultimately become five-and-a-half miles of public parks and community walkways.

Robert C. Valade Park, the Riverwalk’s newest attraction, opened in October 2019, transforming a neglected industrial site into a vibrant recreational jewel featuring a playscape for children, a food and event space called The Shed, picnic areas and the city’s only floating bar on a barge. Located off Atwater Street east of the Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre, the park offers yet another reason to hang out downtown.

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LEFT: The Shed’s clerestory windows are illuminated with color-changing LED lights that serve as a festive beacon from the street and over the patio. The dramatically slanting roof extends over the park entrance like a gateway.

ABOVE: The picnic area with its colorful fabric canopies offers public grills and benches made of reclaimed wood by the Architectural Salvage Warehouse of Detroit.

Named after a Detroiter and former chairman and CEO of Carhartt, the 3.2-acre park originally held cement silos for a concrete plant, and more recently was used for buoy storage by the U.S. Coast Guard. Now, chairs and tables, umbrellas and barbecue grills line a sandy inland “beach,” and colorful huts mimicking lifeguard stations invite children to climb and slide. A curving walkway leads kids through a hands-on musical garden where they can tap out tunes.

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Conservancy. “The park creates a cadence of kid-oriented spaces located about 10 minutes from each other. This means that a family can have a series of experiences while they move along the banks of the river.”

The Shed, at 4,850 gross square feet, offers a light-filled space for casual gatherings, along with roll-up garage doors on either side that bring the outdoors in. In addition to a full kitchen, food trucks such as Smokey G’s Smokehouse and Geisha Girls Sushi can hook up to offer yearround menus. A 120-foot bar for adult patrons will operate on a refurbished barge, bridging two boat slips and floating parallel to the Detroit River.

Commercial Contracting Corporation and Hannah-Neumann/Smith faced terrible weather, environmental challenges and a tight schedule to deliver the project on time with a perfect safety record over 14,370 work hours. During the wettest spring on record, the team stayed nimble to accommodate unanticipated site issues and design changes throughout construction.

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crew had to demobilize for a while.

Spring brought torrents of rain while designers continued to adapt to circumstances.

“The project seemed to morph quite a bit,” said Mike Helm, CCC project manager. “Trying to keep up with all the changes while moving things forward was very challenging.” Out of 193 days planned for construction activity, rain occurred on 45 of them, and 12 days were lost to complete rainouts.

Seemingly every historical site reveals unwelcome surprises underground, and this one was no exception. An old seawall had been backfilled with about 200 cubic yards of trash and debris, causing a 10-day delay before support footings could be poured in the barbeque area. The soil conditions required oversized concrete footings to offset poor bearing capacity.

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Soil with load-bearing capacity poorer than anticipated also meant changes to The Shed’s initial plan. “The design and programming of The Shed necessitated a building that was larger and heavier than was originally conceived with the initial concept for Atwater Beach,” said David Mefford, designer at Hannah-Neumann/Smith Architecture.

Due in part to the site’s proximity to the river, the soil conditions were not sufficient to support the building with conventional foundations.

Structural engineers Desai/Nasr developed a cost-effective foundation with performancebased geopiers to distribute the loads more evenly across the building.

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building, into the park and to the riverscape beyond. In warmer months, opening these doors increases the connectivity to the outdoors, while providing access for food trucks to park alongside the building.

The Shed’s exterior design called for cost-effective concrete block masonry that echoes the older industrial buildings in the neighborhood. “Overall, the design was intended to be minimalistic,” Mefford said, “with attention given to detailing the exposed structural steel, simple and durable concrete floors, and exposed concrete block masonry.”

Natural light floods the building from above from the windows that run below The Shed’s roof. “The clerestory windows are illuminated with color-changing LED lights,” Mefford said. “This provides a unique look, transforming the character of the building and park in response to major events and holidays.

Barging in on Budget While the team adjusted to ongoing design tweaks, weather and a labor shortage, the last piece of the plan was finding and purchasing a barge suitable for retrofitting for the public. As costs rose and deadlines loomed, the barge’s bottom line had to wait until the supplier finalized arrangements for the 61st Ford Fireworks, scheduled on June 24, 2019. Only after that could the design team obtain a barge and begin adding fencing and infrastructure during August and September, to be ready for the park’s October completion.

With all the delays, changes and lost workdays, the ground team caught up with overtime and by overlapping activities where possible. Through value engineering, the project came in under budget and without any time lost because of safety issues. Wise planning and constant coordination with all participants resulted in the park’s debut in time for the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy's annual outdoor HarvestFest Detroit on October 22, 2019.

Given 2020’s pandemic, full appreciation of the features and innovations will carry on into 2021, when the playscapes and interior spaces will reopen to public events.

Design of the park and The Shed embody connections between light, the outdoors, and people. Positioned along Atwater Street, The Shed relates to downtown as the project’s southern urban face.

“The scale of the building was designed to complement the existing structures in the immediate vicinity,” Mefford said. “The sloping roofline in the main events space opens toward the city’s core. The roofline extends past the building, forming a gateway for pedestrians entering the park from Atwater Street.”

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Three whimsical huts with peekaboo windows create a playscape for kids to climb and slide. Evoking Miami lifeguard stations, the huts are constructed with durable, scratch-resistant wood.

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“The illumination also acts as a beacon to identify the project along Atwater Street and the Riverwalk,” he said. The colorful lighting makes the roofline windows glow like neon above the umbrella tables and chairs.

Environmental Stewardship Given the abundance of sunlight pouring into The Shed, the environmentally astute design features insulated glass and non-conductive fiberglass resins, in addition to the white roof, to reduce urban heat island effect and maintain higher R-values required under the updated state energy code adopted in 2017.

An innovative system for interior framing, GreenGirtTM by SMARTci, mitigates the heat loss caused by thermal bridging that occurs with traditional framing methods. Instead of metal fasteners that hold heat, the system uses reinforced polymer materials to create a support framework with better thermal efficiency.

Elements throughout the park personify environmental responsibility and forwardthinking. For example, The Barge features a sanitary water system that recycles graywater, pumping it back onto land to prevent contaminated water from draining into the Detroit River.

Recycled materials such as reclaimed timbers were used for seating, flower boxes and for the chime posts along the musical walkway. The playscape’s cabins and walkways were constructed from galapa wood, naturally durable for long scratch-free life. The beach area uses sand from western Michigan dunes, and bike racks promote physical activity by patrons.

On The Barge, planter boxes and bench backs made of vintage Ford, Chevrolet and Dodge RAM tailgates add a uniquely Detroit touch.

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The Conservancy also received a $50,000 grant for the project from the Gannett/USA Today Network as part of their initiative, “A Community Thrives.” “I’m proud that the park addresses community needs in such a direct way,” Wallace said.

As a Detroiter, project manager Mike Helm appreciated being part of “a project that seems to be giving a lot of enjoyment for other people in the city.”

The project captures the character of Detroit as it continues to evolve into a vibrant magnet for residents and visitors alike. “The Robert C. Valade Park is a tremendous addition to the already dynamic riverfront of Detroit,” Mefford said. “It provides unique opportunities and experiences that will resonate with people of all ages and all abilities.”

Another Jewel on the River The Robert C. Valade Park is yet another success in the mission of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy as it strives to transform the city’s shoreline for public enjoyment.

“The city demonstrated amazing leadership and allowed us to turn this private development parcel in a public space,” Mark Wallace said.

He attributes donors – the Molly and Mark Valade Family Fund, the William Davidson Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Mona and Richard Alonzo Fund, and the Walters Family Foundation – for making this dream a reality.

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cLaren Macomb Hospital’s Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Tim Vargas began his career in healthcare as an x-ray technician at the age of 21. After working in healthcare for decades, Vargas remains passionately committed to the delivery of quality patient care. “We not only touch the lives of our patients and their families, but we touch them in their most vulnerable state,” Vargas said. “I personally take my role at McLaren Macomb very seriously.”

A dedicated Vargas joined forces with McLaren Macomb President and CEO Thomas M. Brisse and other administrators at this 288bed acute care hospital in Mt. Clemens to deliver a vital service to the residents of Macomb County: A new emergency department and the first American College of Surgeons verified Level II trauma center in this growing county.

The county’s population growth drove the need for both services. “The existing emergency department was designed for 40,000 to 50,000 visits per year, but we had 67,000 annual emergency department visits in 2019,” Vargas said.

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with a new Graduate The severity of Medical Education Center injuries rose along (GMEC) as well. The new with the increase in GMEC centralizes services sheer patient volume. once scattered throughout According to Vargas, the hospital and increases without a verified the quality of services to a trauma center, marked degree. The GMEC traumatically injured offers simulation training patients, such as rooms, a large teaching those involved in classroom/conference multi-vehicle center, and meeting spaces accidents and falls all with state-of-the-art with major head and technology. A full-service orthopedic trauma, kitchen, food service were stabilized and lounge, and suite rooms for transferred to a facility on-call residents to rest, outside of Macomb along with an exercise County.

McLaren facility and locker rooms, Macomb came to the eases the strain of working rescue of the long hours. Natural light community and enters the garden-level created the new For medical staff, each module centralizes the control station and creates as few visual GMEC via the conference Wayne and Joan obstructions as possible to circulation pathways and patient treatment areas. Shown center’s pre-function space Webber Emergency above is one of the so-called vertical care rooms in the fast-track treatment module located adjacent to a lushly and Trauma Center as serving the lowest acuity, mostly ambulatory patients. vegetated garden area. part of a massive separate staff control/work areas, utility support “It truly is incredible,” Vargas said. “Everyone 220,000-square-foot Northwest Tower addition. rooms and related functional rooms to preclude is impressed with the design of this world-class “McLaren Macomb’s investment in this new the need for routine access to another module for center. It not only helps our medical residents but facility speaks to our commitment to the support.” the new GMEC will allow us to attract highcommunity,” Vargas said.

The module concept enables a healthcare caliber medical students and residents and retain team to more efficiently deliver life-saving them on staff after graduation.”

An Overview of a Life-Saving Facility emergency services and to more effectively The future will tell the story of the rest of the The new Center also speaks to the expertise of respond to fluctuating and unpredictable patient six-story tower’s newly built shell space. Plans the architectural firm of AECOM Grand volumes. On any given shift, the emergency and call for housing surgical spaces on the second Rapids/Southfield and Sterling Heights-based trauma center team can bring modules on and floor, an intensive care unit (ICU) on the third level, construction manager Roncelli, Inc. as well. offline, creating a nimble and responsive use of and acute care medical-surgical all private patient McLaren Macomb entrusted the two firms with space based on patient volume and acuity level. rooms on floors four and five. the task of creating the Northwest Tower addition An emergency and trauma center designed for and the 43,735-square-foot emergency and efficiency and optimal flow becomes almost a trauma center on its first floor. Capable of A Community Spirit on the Construction Site medical device in the hands of healthcare accepting up to 120,000 visits annually, the new Roncelli brought this much-needed facility to life professionals whose mission is to meet the Center tripled the existing emergency under daunting circumstances. Construction of challenge of the unexpected on a daily basis. department’s original patient capacity and the new emergency and trauma center itself was “Our design goal was to create a healing and doubled its square footage, along with increasing bracketed in between two very different types of therapeutic environment that is patient- and patient bays from 54 to 92. emergencies: Before the project began and family-centered,” Lewis said. “In the world of More than an increase in space, the flow, beyond its initial scope, a campus retaining wall healthcare design, this means everything needs flexibility and integration of the spaces and along the nearby Clinton River began to fail, and to be highly efficient. A lean process services within this new streamlined clinical towards the end of this $68 million dollar project, methodology is woven into everything that environment brings heightened functionality to the coronavirus pandemic began to surge AECOM has done for the past 20 to 30 years, so the frontlines of healthcare. AECOM designed an through Southeast Michigan. Undaunted, making sure all the functions and flows are right emergency and trauma center broken down into Roncelli managed the unexpected with a steady creates that enhanced environment for patients, a series of care modules serving patients of hand to bring this house of healing to Macomb for families and for staff. It culminates in different acuity levels. “Each of the modules is County. enhanced patient outcomes, and that is literally somewhat self-contained as a ‘mini ER’ if you Only six weeks from completion of what it is all about.” will,” said AECOM’s George F. Lewis, Principal, construction, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered the The new addition supports medical residents Planning/Architecture Healthcare. “Each has shutdown of nonessential businesses on March

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23, 2020, as Covid-19 cases began to escalate rapidly. Because healthcare construction is an essential service, Roncelli continued to work on the emergency and trauma center, splitting crews into night and day shifts and following Center for Disease Control guideline’s for personal protective equipment.

McLaren Macomb has nothing but praise for the efforts of Roncelli during the Covid-19 crisis.

“During the Covid-19 crisis, Roncelli hunkered down and allowed our executive administrative team to focus on the acute care activity in our existing emergency department relative to the pandemic,” Vargas said. “They pressed on ahead even though it meant protective measures and longer hours. They never skipped a beat.”

The project was personal for many of the trade workers engaged in the building of this vital healthcare service. “Many of our workers on this project are Macomb County residents,” Roncelli’s Project Manager Justin Bott said. “It was a matter of pride for them to work on and finish a hospital that is within their own community.”

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Blessing of the Space ceremony for emergency and trauma center staff. The livestreamed event consecrated this newly constructed space and the healing work of McLaren Macomb’s healthcare team a few days prior to the opening of the facility at 4:00 a.m. on June 15, 2020.

Multi-faith religious leaders from across Macomb County offered prayers to guide the hands, hearts and minds of the physicians, nurses, therapists, custodians, housekeeping aides and others poised to serve patients each in their own way. Healthcare providers dressed in scrubs and wearing masks lined the hallways listening to the event that concluded with a powerful rendition of Leonard Cohen’s song Hallelujah sung by Sofia Taylor, a 2020 graduate of Chippewa Valley High School in Clinton Township.

The event demonstrated the strong bond between McLaren Macomb Hospital and the community. “Most of the folks and the trades that are from this area do not refer to the hospital as McLaren,” Roncelli’s Associate DirectorHealthcare Jeff Larson said. “They simply refer to it as my hospital or my family’s hospital.”

“A Total Team Mentality” The project’s success is based on this same sense of community among all participants.

“Healthcare design needs to have a total team mentality,” Lewis said. “It needs constructability information from the construction manager as to what makes sense. It needs to have a deep involvement with the owner from the C-suite on down to what might be considered the routine department stakeholders and support elements.

“We had multiple on-site work sessions where conference rooms and meeting rooms at the hospital were turned into de facto design studios,” Lewis continued. “Because we had an office on-site, building users could come in anytime during our multiple-day workshops and activities. Additionally, we always kept a current version of the plan and design posted to keep people informed.”

AECOM and Roncelli worked as a collaborative team to deliver this important healing space to the residents of Macomb County. “Verbal communication and face-to-face meetings are important, especially given the intricacies and the amount of infrastructure in healthcare construction,” Larson said. “On this project, verbal communication took place almost daily, hourly and even minute by minute. AECOM did an excellent job in helping us interpret and work out any issues as they occurred.”

Thanks to this sense of teamwork and to this team, “Macomb County has robust resources to treat the traumatically injured patient in our community,” Vargas said. “And it’s a beautiful building. Both AECOM and Roncelli showed real professionalism and provided top-notch, A-1 class service. I would recommend both AECOM and Roncelli to anyone in healthcare considering a build.”

August 2012: Master Planning Begins Both Roncelli and AECOM were early participants in this critically needed endeavor. Having built McLaren Macomb’s Surgery Center in 2005, Roncelli had a working knowledge of a building now directly linked to the new tower addition.

AECOM has been part of the new addition’s “visioning” from the very beginning of the master planning phase in 2012.

“AECOM conducted 15 to 20 different investigations of the ideal campus location for this new development in the master planning phase,” Lewis said. “At the onset, the first belief was to locate the new addition on the east side of the campus.”

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the campus directly adjacent to the existing surgery center. According to Lewis, the site supports the natural synergy between surgery and emergency services and offers accessibility to newer utility infrastructure, along with close proximity to campus parking facilities.

AECOM modified and refined the original design vision from the master planning stage through space programming and into early schematics. As a case in point, the GMEC blossomed in size and scope of services, beginning as a fairly modest space in the master planning phase. “The growth spurt came in the early schematic design phase,” Lewis said. “With Tom Brissee coming on board as the new CEO and with Tim Vargas joining as the new Chief Operating Officer, there was a more ambitious embracing of what the GMEC program could be at that time. That service evolved and became what we have today – a stellar state-of-the-art facility for graduate medical professionals.”

After these early and past efforts, both firms were part of a competitive process to secure the project. McLaren Macomb interviewed AECOM and three or four of the major Michigan-based

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McLaren Macomb Hospital’s new Wayne and Joan Webber Emergency and Trauma Center is the first American College of Surgeons verified Level II trauma center in rapidly growing Macomb County. Shown above is one of the new trauma bays within the facility.

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architectural firms with national healthcare experience and strong portfolios. “We were fortunate enough to win that competitive interview and win the project,” Lewis said. “Our first work session to discuss the Center’s formal pre-design programming and planning took place in the summer of 2015.”

As part of the design’s continuing evolution, the tower itself grew from three stories to five. Roncelli was sharpening its estimating pencil every step of the way. According to Larson, Roncelli provided interim, component and concept estimates in the pre-design phase. Having won the contract in the summer of 2016 as a result of a competitive process, Roncelli continued to provide estimates from preliminary to schematic to design development.

Each of the five different, somewhat self-contained modules, including the low-acuity module and its control station shown above, functions as a type of mini-ER designed to efficiently deliver life-saving emergency services. On any given shift, the medical team can bring modules on and offline, creating a nimble and responsive use of space based on patient volume and acuity level.

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high influx of injured and ill patients in an emergency department. The new Results Waiting Area releases vital treatment rooms more quickly to incoming patients. “Lower acuity patients, waiting for the results of blood work or imaging, wait in this area as opposed to an actual treatment room,” Vargas said. “This approach frees up a treatment room, and we can use the room for the next patient coming into the emergency department.”

Using the former emergency room as an overflow area for the new facility’s observation module frees up additional space. The observation module is for patients requiring a short stay to further define a diagnosis or even awaiting a discharge decision. “Again, this allows the new emergency department to treat more incoming patients by offering these patients space in another area,” Vargas said.

At the new streamlined facility, integrated imaging or radiography eliminates patient transfer to the radiology department for CT scans and xrays. An integrated satellite lab within the emergency and trauma center eliminates specimen transfer to the main hospital’s central lab. “Having these services integrated and unit based minimizes the time for some of these activities and needs, and it increases the efficiency of that patient's throughput,” Lewis said.

In the world of emergency and trauma center design, AECOM has the flow of space down to a science. At McLaren Macomb, AECOM integrated a decontamination area with a series of isolation rooms. “The decontamination environment in the new emergency department and how it is integrated with the isolation rooms – how the spaces flow and relate to one another – is classic textbook and highly innovative,” Lewis said. “It is going to be spoken of in future healthcare conferences. Essentially, if there is a chemical or decontamination event, patients access the decontamination area and flow into isolation rooms without ever having to enter the hospital’s circulation pathways. This isn’t done almost anywhere else. This is a unique design response that we were able to integrate into the project – and it didn’t cost any more to design and build.”

The module concept offers flexibility in a clinical environment subject to unpredictable fluctuations in patient volume and level of care.

“In periods of lower patient volume, portions of a module, or an entire module, can be taken offline for a certain shift or period of time to reduce surplus space,” Lewis said. “The operative word is flexibility. We’ve attempted to design in as much flexibility as possible for the ongoing operation of a facility whose needs change on a daily basis.”

The highest level of flexibility is offered in the high-acuity/low-acuity module. “Patients in this module represent a range from the low end of severity to the high end,” Vargas said. “All of the exam rooms in the high-acuity/low-acuity module are designed of similar size. Having that universal nature, they can flex back and forth between these modules as needed.”

These universal rooms are a far cry from the former 1960s vintage patient rooms, offering a smaller, undersized patient care environment often lacking in privacy and support space. In the new facility, the size of each room is now a much more generous 120 to 130 square feet. According

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to Lewis, sliding glass doors offer greater visibility to staff without encroaching on each room’s valuable square footage. “These universal rooms allow the greatest flexibility in room assignment and use,” Lewis said. “The universal room approach provides larger, appropriate-sized spaces for patient care and even uses an allprivate model to both address the needs of the patient and family and to comply with patient privacy requirements.”

The fast-track module and the trauma bays address the extremes of care. Located near the walk-in entrance, the fast-track module treats the lowest acuity, mostly ambulatory patient whose needs are remedied fairly quickly. Located near the ambulance entrance, the trauma bays are equipped to deliver a robust level of care to traumatically injured patients. The holding module is a secure area equipped with antiligature devices and designed for continual observation of a patient population with special needs.

If necessary, modules beyond the highacuity/low-acuity ones can flex into other types of space. For instance, low-acuity adult patients

Flexibility: Designing the Modular Concept At McLaren Macomb, the emergency department and trauma center is broken down into five different care modules: fast-track, highacuity/low-acuity, observation, and holding modules, along with trauma bays.

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can be treated in the fast-track module’s pediatric rooms. The universality of treatment rooms even comes down to the wall graphics. The wall images in the pediatric rooms are not your typical “bunnies and bears” but depict bird-filled trees and other natural scenes to broaden the space’s appeal to adults, Lewis added.

Beyond flexibility, the modular concept offers emergency room physicians and nurses another coveted asset: greater visibility within each module. “In the ideal world of emergency room design, there is an open-plan clinical environment with maximum visibility,” Lewis said. “As large as this facility is, one can’t have an open environment for all of these spaces. If broken down into five modules, however, each module attempts to centralize the control station/teamwork area and to create as few visual obstructions as possible to maximize visibility of circulation pathways and entrances to patient rooms.”

As another asset, this well-placed series of modules increases the building’s energy efficiency. “Room types with specific requirements in air flow and medical gases, such as the trauma bays and the high-acuity module,

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are in close proximity to promote the efficient use of the building’s resources,” Lewis added.

newly available space between the river and the new building – space now used for the heliport.

A New Heliport to the Rescue A new heliport offers another life-saving pathway.

According to Vargas, the former heliport’s location in the northwest corner of a large parking area called for an ambulance transfer of patients to or from the existing emergency department.

Today, a patient on a stretcher can be quickly moved from the new heliport to one of seven trauma bays within the facility. “The new location literally allowed us to place the heliport almost right in front of the emergency ambulance entrance and the trauma zone within the new facility,” Lewis said.

The new heliport’s optimal location is the result of an unexpected problem. As design neared completion and groundbreaking approached, the retaining wall along the Clinton River – located due north of the new addition – began to fail in the northwest corner of the campus. The retaining wall spanned from the east end of the new addition to the western edge of the campus. Roncelli’s replacement of the retaining wall with 25-foot sheet piling created

Managing Site Congestion AECOM’s design plotted the optimal flow for a busy emergency department and trauma center.

Battling space constraints of a different sort, Roncelli managed the flow of traffic, materials, equipment and manpower on a tightly congested site. The sizeable building dominated a site hemmed in by the Clinton River to the north, the existing Surgery Center and its main entrance to the east, and the existing heliport to the west. Not to mention a parking garage directly southwest and the main hospital entrance to the southeast.

Managing traffic was the first hurdle in navigating site constraints after the launch of construction in April 2018. Traffic originally flowed right through the site, a sizeable area once used as a parking lot. To redirect traffic, Roncelli created a loop road, a roadway slivered in between the site and the existing parking garage and sandwiched in between the entrances of the Surgery Center and main hospital. Bott explains the first series of construction measures on the south half of the site: “We relocated the hospital’s

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handicap parking lot to the south. We then created the Loop Road to redirect traffic around the garage for the duration of the project. Creating the Loop Road involved construction of a temporary retaining wall near the garage entrance and along the Loop Road. The retaining wall was necessary because the overall grade was raised about four feet.”

The congested site itself called for a different construction strategy for the new building. “We determined that the best solution was to erect the structure by working within the footprint of the actual building,” Larson said. “This involved cutting back the excavation a bit farther to the west to create access roads to drive our trucks and cranes down into the excavation.”

An Innovative Solution Below-Grade Roncelli excavated the entire basement level, removing approximately 47,000 tons of soil. Undercuts added to the tally of tons of soil removed. “Roncelli had to take away the soil one truckload at a time to three different landfills,” AECOM Project Manager David J. Byl said.

Roncelli unearthed artifacts dating back to the site’s history as a former farm. Roncelli’s superintendent Larry Chappel found oldfashioned medicine bottles, along with a different kind of medicine – beer bottles from the late 1800s – now lined up in a row on his desk. More than old-fashioned elixirs, the excavation encountered water and then more water.

Groundwater from below and rainwater from above presented an aquatic obstacle course.

“Our biggest concern became the groundwater, the rain and the stabilization of the soils so that we could actually bring the building out of the ground,” Bott said.

Roncelli and Site Development, Inc., Madison Heights, crafted an innovative plan to fight water and poor soil conditions with a soil-stabilizing geo-grid mesh and a foot of 21 AA aggregate limestone placed in the basement excavation, along with a series of temporary sump pumps for water removal. “It worked beautifully,” Bott said.

“Given these conditions, many jobs would have wound up stuck in the mud and held up schedule-wise. With this system in place, we would have rain the day or night before but we could get back to work the next day. It was a great design on the part of Site Development and our superintendents. It worked so well that other

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The addition houses a new Graduate Medical Education Center that offers services ranging from simulation training rooms to this teaching classroom/conference space shown above.

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jobsites within our company have reached out to us to learn how to replicate it themselves.”

Three Trailers of Steel a Day To keep the schedule on track, bringing the building out of the ground involved coordinating concrete and steel installation of a structure consisting of concrete spread footings and foundation walls and structural steel columns and beams. Roncelli utilized the services of its inhouse Self Perform Group (SPG). “Our SPG first assessed how fast we were pouring the formwork and knew that our concrete crews needed to reach a certain column line to the west before the steel company could begin steel erection on the east, all while continuing to do formwork on the foundations,” said Ken West, Roncelli Director of Self Perform.

Roncelli worked closely with Casadei Steel, Inc., Sterling Heights, to manage a tight site with limited material lay-down areas. “We limited the steel contractor to three trailers worth of steel per day, and that steel had to be erected the day of delivery,” Bott said. “We worked with Casadei Steel, and they were on top of it. They worked diligently to make sure that they were communicating when the deliveries would arrive and what was being erected when.”

Casadei even provided off-site storage. “They had a business relationship with a salvage crew, and they actually rented out their yard space to store the steel,” Bott added.

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Roncelli’s replacement of a retaining wall with 25-foot sheet piling created newly available space between the Clinton River and the new building. This space offered optimal placement of the new heliport almost directly in front of the emergency ambulance entrance and the trauma bays within the new addition.

evolved as the project progressed. Steel erection and sheet piling installation along the river were underway simultaneously. As steel erection neared completion, “we had to make sure that the sheet piling contractor was far enough to the west so that we could pull the crane out of the building footprint,” Bott added.

A High-Level Game of Tetris Bott compared the project to a high-level game of Tetris as hteam began coordinating crane and material deliveries from a multitude of trades during various phases of construction. Creating order from chaos, the winner of this popular videogame transforms randomly falling geometric shapes into neat lines at a rapid pace. Roncelli “played” the real-life version of this game on a busy construction site.

As the project advanced, Roncelli had to coordinate the installation of the building’s concrete floors with continual material deliveries.

“We had to make sure that whatever crane was arriving on-site to load materials wasn’t going to hinder the progress of deliveries for the concrete, including the pump truck location,” Bott said.

“In loading materials on the jobsite and then on the different floors, we worked very closely with our trades to make sure we knew exactly when each trade was arriving on-site with a crane to load the site with their materials,” Bott continued. “We asked for a week’s lead time at least in letting us know when to expect their deliveries. We set up a logistics plan for each and every one of those deliveries to ensure that we Visit us online at www.BuildwithCAM.com

didn’t have multiple trades trying to deliver at the same time. We had to know where the crane was going to be staged as well.”

As mechanical systems began to be delivered to the site, “we were trying to fit out the floors and make sure that no one was crossing paths,” Bott said. “The entire effort demanded a great deal of communication and coordination between our superintendents, myself and our trades on a daily basis.”

The next milestone was achieving building enclosure by late October/early November 2019.

The masonry contractor laid approximately 457,000 bricks for the brick veneer-clad building.

The building envelope also includes “a fully adhered EPDM roofing membrane over tapered roof insulation and aluminum storefront windows with insulating glass at the lower level and aluminum punched windows with insulating glass at the upper levels,” Lewis said.

Seamless Connections Linking the addition’s future surgical suites on the second level to the existing Surgery Center presented a new series of hurdles. To ease the strain on the hospital’s elective surgery schedule, Roncelli worked after hours and on the weekends to remove the existing Surgery Center’s exterior façade, break through the wall assembly, and construct a fully insulated barrier wall to keep the building watertight.

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perfectly sealed and watertight. According to Bott, Roncelli temporarily left out a six- to seven-foot section of the new second-story floor slab that overlapped with the existing Surgery Center. As the new building became watertight on the floors overhead, “we positioned the last beam that framed out the underside of the slab’s east end at the tie-in point,” Bott said. “Then we pulled out the existing façade on the second floor of the Surgery Center, slid all the beams going across that elevation into position, and pumped the concrete in through the exterior windows to finish out the second floor.”

Another complex maneuver was extending the height of the existing stair tower to accommodate the new addition. Bott describes the seemingly impossible mission: “We had to figure out a way of pulling the roof off of the existing stair tower, along with tearing out the cross braces that support the stair tower and repositioning them in a safe fashion, all without getting any water in the building.”

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and platform within the existing stair tower. A new temporary roof was constructed approximately four feet below the stair tower’s existing roof. “We prayed for good weather for a week, and when conditions looked favorable, we called everyone to the site and we ripped the existing roof off and got our steel into position,” Bott said. “The exterior was sealed up as fast as possible on at least three sides.”

Sequencing the installation of stair landings, the steel for the staircase, and the pumping of the concrete stairs became another complex game of Tetris, all further complicated by the temporary roof deck blocking access to the last existing landing. “Once the steel was in place, the other challenge was having a false deck for the roof,” Bott said. “We needed to pull out the false deck before we could pour the concrete for the last stairs at the existing landing and seal it off completely.”

Work shifted to the interior after these slightof-hand maneuvers. Building Information Modeling (BIM) was invaluable for coordinating MEP systems, including over 115 miles of wire conduit, along with medical gases and the

sizeable duct runs necessary for such a massive building. Custom-built Ventral air handling systems service the new addition. “Griffin International, Chesterfield, and Bumler Mechanical, Sterling Heights, worked closely with us in going over the needs of the design and in ordering the units,” Larson said. “They made sure the order was right and that it arrived on time in late spring of 2019.”

The Unexpected Arrives Roncelli worked hard and smart to position the building for occupancy in late April 2020. Only the interior finishing work remained when Covid-19 invaded Michigan and Gov. Whitmer issued a stay-at-home order. McLaren Macomb immediately had the new addition declared an essential healthcare project. “The hospital issued Roncelli an official letter and offered guidance to Roncelli executives and safety leadership,” Larson said.

The letter set in motion the implementation of safety procedures and “opened up supply chains for us to determine where we could obtain masks and other equipment,” Larson

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said. “In fact, Justin (Bott) did some of the research himself on how to secure masks. I have to give Justin credit for locating a firm that could provide freestanding, portable handwashing stations as well.”

In working with its trade contractors, “the first course of action was to make sure that all of our subcontractors were fully vested in continuing the project,” Bott said. Once on-site, “the challenge became getting the work done while maintaining a safe environment based on CDC guidelines.”

Social distancing of the interior finishing trades called for two shifts. “We examined the schedule and determined the most effective way of dividing the crews into two shifts,” Bott said. “Logistically, we discussed which crews would work best on nights versus days. We even had a night crew and a day crew from the same company versus having an entire company just working nights. We sent out letters requesting trade contractors to go on premium time or off time in order to create a safe scenario and avoid having people working together too closely in the same areas.”

Safety measures were implemented to protect the trade workers on-site and ultimately to prevent viral transmission to their families at home. “Safety is one of our hallmarks,” Larson said. “We wanted to make sure we weren’t going to do anything that was going to impact anyone negatively.”

The trade contractors contributed approximately 228,444 labor hours to the making of this life-saving facility. After installing 3,112 steel beams, 2,100 light fixtures and working two years on a tight site, Roncelli and its team of trade contractors could pack up their tools feeling satisfied about helping to build an emergency and trauma center – and future spaces – committed to serving their neighbors, families and themselves.

Today, AECOM’s efficient flow of spaces and services is being used by McLaren Macomb’s emergency medicine team to save lives, restore physical function and reclaim the health of the over 100,000 people expected to call upon their services over the course of the year. Every person in Macomb County can be thankful that this new facility is at the other end of a 9-1-1 call, thanks to the commitment and investment of McLaren Macomb Hospital in the health and well-being of county residents.

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Asphalt Paving, Site Utilities - Nagle Paving, Novi Electrical - Hall Engineering Co., Novi Elevators - KONE Inc., Livonia Epoxy, Concrete Polishing - Cipriano Coating Technology, Sterling Heights Exterior Windows, Skylights, Front and Lobby Entry, Glazing - Crystal Glass, New Hudson Fire Alarms and Fire Protection - Gallagher Fire Equipment, Livonia Fireproofing - Harnish Fireproofing, Redford Frames, Doors and Finished Hardware Stafford Building, Waterville, Ohio Hard Tile - Shores Tile, Roseville HVAC - Alliance Mechanical, Oak Park Landscaping and Irrigation - Outdoor Accents, West Bloomfield Masonry Complete and Monument Signage - Albaugh Masonry, Waterford Metal Siding - Cass Sheet Metal, Detroit Millwork - Zuckero & Sons, Roseville Misc. Specialties and Fire Extinguishers Rayhaven Group Inc., Livonia Overhead Doors - OverHead Door West, Waterford Painting - Detroit Spectrum Painters, Inc., Warren Plumbing - Solomon Plumbing Co., New Hudson Roofing - Advanced Roofing, Westland Sliding Doors - Gardiner Vose Inc., Bloomfield Hills Structural Steel - Casadei Steel, Sterling Heights Window Sills - SprayTight Inc., Metamora

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Engineers: • Acoustical Engineer – Kolano & Saha Engineers, Inc., Waterford Township • Architectural Testing – Intertek-ATI, Franklin, WI • Civil Engineer – Monument Engineering Group Associates, Inc., Fowlerville • Commissioning Agent – Chinook, Arlington, VA • Energy Analyst – The Weidt Group, Minnetonka, MN • Engineering Services – Ruby + Associates, Inc., Bingham Farms • Engineering Services – Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc., Bingham Farms • Fire Protection Engineer – RTM Consultants, Indianapolis, IN • Geotechnical & Environmental Engineer – NTH Consultants, Northville • Interior Design – Interior Systems Contract Group, Royal Oak • Materials Conservation – Preservation By Design, Tecumseh • Plumbing & Lighting Engineer – Peter Basso Associates, Troy • Structural Engineer – Ruby + Associates, Inc., Bingham Farms • Technical Security Systems – Shaw Electric/Shaw Systems & Integration, Inc., Southfield • Vertical Transportation Engineer – Vertran Enterprises Ltd., Annapolis, MD Trade Contractors: • Abatement – Certified Abatement Services, Flint • Abatement – Qualified Abatement Services, Inc., Detroit • Carpet & Soft Tile – City Carpet & Flooring, Detroit • Concrete Cutting – FMG, Ann Arbor • Construction Cleanup – Enterprise Labor Services, Dewitt • Curtain Wall – Curtis Glass Company, Troy • Deep Foundations – Hardman Construction, Inc., Ludington • Demolition – Comet Contracting, Algonac • Demolition – 21st Century Salvage, Inc., Ypsilanti • Electrical – Shaw Electric Co., Southfield • Elevator – Kone - Detroit, Livonia • Final Cleanup – Starks Cleaning Enterprise, LLC, Detroit • Finish Conservation & Restoration – Building Arts & Conservation, Inc., Saline • Fire Protection – Wolverine Fire Protection, Mt. Morris • Fire Protection – Shambaugh & Son, Southfield • Firestopping & Sealants – RAM Construction Services, Livonia • General Trades – National Specialty Contractors, Ypsilanti • General Trades – Nora Contracting LLC, Detroit Visit us online at www.BuildwithCAM.com

• Hard Tile & Stone – Wolverine Stone Co., Warren • HVAC Controls – ControlNet, LLC, Kalamazoo • HVAC Controls – Johnson Controls, Inc., Auburn Hills • Masonry – Leidal & Hart Mason Contractors, Livonia • Mechanical – John E. Green Company, Highland Park • Metal Panels – Architectural Metals, Inc., Portland • Moving Services – Palmer Moving Services, Warren • Painting & Wall Covering – Detroit Spectrum Painters, Warren • Painting & Wall Covering – John Canning & Co., Cheshire, CT • Plaster & Drywall – J P Phillips Inc., Franklin, IL • Roofing – Christen Detroit, Detroit • Scaffold – Brand Energy Services, LLC, Taylor • Sheetmetal – McShane Mechanical Contracting, Commerce Township • Sitework – Eagle Excavation, Inc., Flint • Structural Concrete – Christman Constructors, Inc., Livonia • Structural Steel – Douglas Steel Fabrication Corp., Lansing

• Terrazzo – Artisan Tile, Inc., Brighton • Traffic Management – Traffic Management, Inc., Southfield • Walls & Ceilings – Pontiac Ceiling & Partition, Pontiac • Walls & Ceilings – Pontiac Drywall Services, Inc., Pontiac Professional Services and Consultants: • Ground Penetrating Radar – Ground Penetrating Radar Technology, Ann Arbor • Moving Consultant – 300 Decisions LLC, Toledo, OH • Professional Video Services – Render Studios, Lansing • Quality Testing – SME, Detroit • Schedule Consultant – Administrative Controls Management, Ann Arbor • Surveying – KEM-TEC, Eastpointe

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Owner: Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, Detroit Construction Manager: Commercial Contracting Corporation, Detroit Designer & Architect, The Shed: Hannah-Neumann/Smith, Detroit Concept Designer: Commercial Contracting Corporation, Detroit Engineer: The Mannick & Smith Group, Canton MEP Engineer: Strategic Energy Solutions, Berkley

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Structural Engineer: IMEG Group (formerly Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers, Inc.) Consultants and Trade Contractors: • Air Barrier & Caulking – DC Byers, Detroit • Concrete – Fessler & Bowman, Flushing • Consulting – NTH Consultants, Detroit • Doors & Hardware – R.K. Hoppe, New Hudson • Earthwork – Blue Ribbon Contracting, Romulus • Electrical – Williams Electrical, Detroit • Epoxy Flooring – Master Craft Carpet Service, Plymouth • Fencing – Future Fence Company, Warren

• Fire Protection – Falcon Fire Protection, Jackson • Food Service Equipment – Great Lakes Hotel Supply Co., Southfield • Geo-Piers – Foundation Services Corporation, Hudson, IA • Glass – Glasco Corporation, Detroit • HVAC – Ventcon, Inc., Allen Park • Interiors – Commercial Contracting Corporation, Detroit • Masonry – Rosati Masonry, Rochester Hills • Mechanical – Progressive Mechanical Inc., Ferndale • MEP Engineering – Strategic Energy Solutions, Berkley • Overhead Doors – Overhead Door West, Waterford Twp. • Painting – Boston Signature Contracting,Redford • Plumbing – USA Plumbing, Ray • Recreation Construction – Michigan Recreational Construction, Howell • Recreation Equipment – Great Lakes Recreation Company, Holland • Roofing – Esko Roofing, Clinton Township • Roofing – Royal Roofing, Orion • Soffit System – Esko Roofing & Sheet Metal, Shelby Twp. • Steel Fabrication & Erection – Commercial Contracting Corporation, Detroit

• Structural Engineer – Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers, Inc., West Bloomfield • Tile – Boston Tile & Terrazzo Co., Detroit • Toilet Partitions & Accessories – Rayhaven, Livonia

McClaren Macomb Hospital

Owner: McLaren Macomb Hospital/McLaren Health Care, Mount Clemens Construction Manager: Roncelli, Inc., Sterling Heights Architect: AECOM, Grand Rapids/Southfield Consultants and Trade Contractors: • Architectural Panel Systems – C.L. Rieckhoff Co., Inc., Taylor • Ceramic Tile – Boston Tile & Terrazzo Co., Detroit • Concrete – Self-Perform, Roncelli, Inc., Sterling Heights • Controls – Bass Company, Sterling Heights • Demolition – Comet Contracting, Inc., Algonac • Electrical – Ferndale Electric Co., Inc., Ferndale • Elevators – Otis Elevator Company, Farmington Hills • Fencing – Future Fence Company, Warren • Fire Protection – Elite Fire Safety, Inc., Southfield • Firestopping – R AM Construction Services, Livonia • Fuel Tank – Oscar W. Larson, Clarkston

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Glass and Glazing – Edwards Glass Co., Livonia Heliport – FEC Heliports, Cincinnati, OH HVAC – Bumler Mechanical, Sterling Heights Masonry – Leidal & Hart Mason Contractors, Livonia Millwork – Nelson-Mill Co., Southfield Painting – Detroit Spectrum Painters, Inc., Warren Paving – Nagle Paving Company, Novi Pile Driving – Crawford Pile Driving, LLC, Pontiac Plumbing – Guideline Mechanical, Inc., Clinton Township Pneumatic Tube Systems – Swisslog Healthcare Solutions, Chicago Office, Schaumburg, IL Roofing – Schena Roofing & Sheet Metal Co., Inc., Chesterfield Rough Carpentry – Denn-Co Construction, Inc., Detroit Scaffolding – Scaffolding, Inc., Detroit Security Systems – LaForce, Inc./Electronic Security Systems, Inc., Green Bay, WI Signage – Phillips Sign & Lighting, Inc., Harrison Township Sitework – Site Development, Inc., Madison Heights Steel – Casadei Steel, Inc., Sterling Heights Surveying – Anderson, Eckstein and Westrick, Shelby Township Testing and Balancing – Enviro-Aire/Total Balance Co., Inc., St. Clair Shores Third-Party Testing – Testing Engineers & Consultants, Inc., Troy Unistrut Support Systems – Strut Tech Systems, LLC, Clarkston Vinyl Flooring – Turner-Brooks, Inc., Madison Heights

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Ace Cutting Equipment & Supply...........................83

Gordon Advisors ....................................................48

Administrative Controls Management....................91

Hannah-Neumann/Smith Architecture .................102

AIS Construction Equipment..................................17

Homrich................................................................124

Albaugh Masonry ...................................................80

Huron Acoustic Tile ................................................65

Allingham Corporation ...........................................25

IBEW Local 252......................................................32

Aluminum Supply Company/Marshall Sales ..........13

Ideal Contracting....................................................72

Amalio Corporation ................................................35

Jackson Associates, Inc. .......................................14

Aoun & Company, P.C. ...........................................83

JJ Curran Crane Co ...............................................34

Arc Dunn Blue ........................................................27

Jonna Construction................................................85

AUCH Construction ...............................................39

Kem-Tec .................................................................89

Auger Klein Aller Architects....................................67

Laramie Crane Rental.............................................15

B&M Tower Technologies.....................................114

Lawrence Technological University ........................57

Barton Malow.........................................................33

Lee Industrial Contracting........................................4

Blaze Contracting...................................................47

Lee Xtreme .......................................................68, 69

Blevins Sanborn Jezdimir Zack PLC......................18

McAllister Rentals/ Michigan CAT ........................IBC

Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers Union Local #2 ..........110

McAlpine PC ..........................................................28

Bumler Mechanical ..............................................109

McDonald Modular Solutions.................................25

C.A.S.S. Sheet Metal .............................................82

Michael J. Dul & Associates...................................99

C.F.C.U. ....................................................................7

Michielutti Bros., Inc...............................................76

CAM Administrative Services/Priority Health...........3

Michigan Air Products..........................................103

CAM Affinity .........................................................104

Michigan LECET...................................................129

CAM Buyers Guide ..............................................128

Midland Tool & Supply ...........................................43

CAM Comp ............................................................26

MIOSHA CET Division............................................19

CAM Job Site Poster............................................119

North American Dismantling Corp ...................20, 21

CAM Labor ...........................................................118

Nuggett Leasing.....................................................12

CAM Magazine.....................................................125

Oakland Insurance ...............................................116

CAM Newsroom...................................................122

Oakland Metal Sales ..............................................84

Campbell & Shaw Steel..........................................61

Operating Engineers Local 324................................9

CAMTEC ................................................................96

Pace, Inc. ...............................................................77

CEI Group.............................................................112

Pearl Glass & Metals ..............................................59

Cipriano Coating Technology .................................66

Performance Line Tool Center..............................121

Clark Construction .................................................24

Peter Basso Associates, Inc. .................................93

Cobau Engineering.................................................29

Peterson Glass Company ......................................74

Cochrane Supply & Engineering ..........................129

Progressive Mechanical .........................................75

Commercial Contracting Corporation ..................100

R. S. Dale Co. LLC ...............................................105

Connelly Crane Rental Corp. ...............................123

RAM Construction Services ...................................95

Curtis Glass............................................................94

Roncelli, Inc..........................................................108

D & R Earthmoving.................................................81

Ruby + Associates .................................................58

D.J. Conley...........................................................126

Safety Services, Inc................................................97

D. A. Alexander & Company ................................130

SANI-VAC Services ..............................................124

Detroit Dismantling.................................................42

Scaffolding, Inc. .....................................................81

Detroit Spectrum Painters......................................50

Spalding DeDecker ................................................41

DiHydro Services..................................................117

Spartan Specialties Ltd........................................115

Division 8 Solutions................................................38

Testing Engineers & Consultants............................49

DKI International.....................................................27

Thompson Phelan Group .......................................60

Doeren Mayhew ...................................................114

Varnam Law .........................................................121

Edwards Glass Co................................................111

Ventcon ..................................................................73

Environmental Maintenance Engineers..................40

VTC Insurance Group...............................................5

Facca Richter & Pregler, PC.................................127

Wade’s Electrical Contracting ................................32

Ferndale Electric...................................................IFC

Wally Kosorski & Co., Inc. ....................................113

Fontanesi & Kann Company .................................BC

Woods Construction ..............................................34

Frank Rewold & Sons.............................................64

Zervos Group .........................................................38

G2 Consulting Group .............................................54

Zimmer Roofing......................................................55

Glasco Corp. ........................................................101 Glazing Contractors Association............................51

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