Dive Transient:
- LCOR Inc. has awarded Balfour Beatty a $79 million contract to assemble Sage at Countrywide Landing in Arlington, Virginia. Construction has commenced on the luxurious multifamily local community anticipated to spark additional enhancement and vibrancy in the Crystal City district just outdoors of Washington, D.C.
- The Balfour Beatty group is using the newest systems and lean building methodologies in developing the condominium developing. These will include things like the prefabrication of exterior wall panels and mechanical, electrical and plumbing components, as nicely as the use of BIM, to ensure effective shipping of the task.
- The utilization of prefabrication should preserve the Balfour Beatty teams set up time. It will also supply a safer set up approach, minimize jobsite waste and free up supplemental room for other trades on the floors in just the making, in accordance to the firm.
Dive Insight:
The conclusion to use prefabricated exterior wall panels and MEP factors in constructing the 19-story building was centered on quite a few variables, mentioned Sean Graham, vice president of operations in the Mid-Atlantic for Balfour Beatty.
“At their main, lean procedures, like prefabrication, are rooted in improving people’s performing environments, ordeals, performance, protection and time personal savings,” Graham explained to Building Dive.
The luxurious apartment complicated is beneath development in Crystal Town, Virginia.
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For instance, prefabrication of the exterior wall panels minimizes the amount of time that crews commit on doing work from swing levels and/or lifts to set up the exterior sheathing and air barrier resources.
“Rather, the exterior sheathing and air barrier components appear pre-set up on every panel from the factory,” he mentioned. “The prefabrication strategy not only saves our project teams time all through installation, but it also gets rid of waste from the jobsite, gives a safer approach to set up and saves house on the floors for surrounding trades.”
Introducing however better time financial savings and effectiveness is the actuality the panels would not have to travel considerably to be installed on the framework. They are regionally fabricated in Fairfax, Virginia, approximately 15 miles from the jobsite, he stated.
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The building’s exterior façade was created with an aluminum composite metallic panel rainscreen, Graham reported. Measurements are essential to prefabricate the building’s exterior stud wall panels, presenting customers of the Balfour Beatty project crew an possibility to benefit from these known measurements from the stud wall panel drawings to fabricate the metal panel rainscreen cladding. That cladding is set up on the prefabricated stud wall panels.
“In addition, the repetitiveness of the project’s windows and window wall technique, which the prefabricated stud wall panels are developed to guidance, helps make prefabricating the exterior walls a price-successful, successful, protected and responsible assist wall for the project’s window techniques,” Graham claimed.
Situated close to Amazon’s HQ2 challenge, Sage at Nationwide Landing will be designed on the 40,000-square-foot internet site of a previous Verizon telecommunications creating. It is Balfour Beatty’s second project with LCOR subsequent the firm’s current completion of LEED-Gold, 20-story multifamily and blended-use enhancement The Altaire. Built by Bethesda, Maryland, firm SK+1 Architects, Sage at Nationwide Landing is slated for completion in the 1st quarter of 2023.