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Garden
Getaway. Patients at St. Louis Children's Hospital
can get a break from the hospital environment
and enjoy this rooftop garden designed by Mackey
Mitchell and EDAW, a Colorado landscape firm.
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Mackey Mitchell
Designs Rooftop Oasis for St. Louis Children's Hospital Patients
A rooftop garden on the eighth floor of St. Louis Children's Hospital
provides a natural haven in an unnatural setting. Mackey Mitchell
Associates and Colorado landscape firm EDAW designed a place for
children and their families to connect with nature. The rooftop
garden is a place of solace for patients and their families, away
from hospital stress.
"The goal was to design a place that would be informal and friendly
to promote a sense of healing and wellness, and inspire the children's
imagination and discovery-all on an unusual site," says Dick Kirschner,
principal.
To create this healing environment, the existing 8,000-square-foot
rooftop was divided into five areas, ranging from quiet contemplation
to group activity spaces, scenic lookout points, to inwardly focused
sculptures, all connected by a series of meandering pathways.
Trickling waterfalls and vivid foliage invite a leisurely stroll,
while birthday markers, planetary symbols, and interactive artwork,
including a human sundial, provide a sense of discovery. Eight
15-foot-high aluminum frames are covered with perforated canvas,
forming a tree-like shade canopy.
In spring, the garden comes alive with color from more than 7,500
bulbs. Raised limestone planting beds create sitting walls and
bring flowers closer to children in wheelchairs.
Located over an Intensive Care Unit, the project had unique technical
challenges. Although originally designed to support a roof garden,
no penetrations were allowed in order to maintain a watertight
roof. This meant the building's structural frame could not be
used to resist high wind loads. Large concrete footings were designed
to use the weight of the planters, soil, and limestone garden
walls to resist overturning. A continuous drainage mat directs
water into existing drains.
The rooftop includes 130 tons of rock; 150 tons of sand; 50 tons
of soil; 5,000 pieces of limestone; and 135 cubic yards of concrete.
TRiSTAR Develops Sixty-Five Marketplace in Springfield
Developer TRiSTAR Business Communities has begun infrastructure
work at Sixty-Five Marketplace, a 72-acre mixed-use development
at Missouri Highway 65 and Highway J in suburban Springfield,
Mo.
"The site is the only previously undeveloped interchange in south
metropolitan Springfield on Highway 65, the area's major north-south
artery," says Michael Towerman, president of St. Louis-based TRiSTAR,
which is teaming with Springfield-based S.L. Stinnett Co. on the
project. "It lies directly in the path of Springfield's escalating
growth toward Branson-one of the most popular entertainment and
resort destinations in the nation. The demographics and traffic
counts of Sixty-Five Marketplace are exceptional."
A Price Cutter Supermarket will anchor the retail portion of the
project, which contains five out-lots, all of which are already
under contract. Seven other users have agreed to buy land in Sixty-Five
Marketplace, including a national hotel chain, a bank, several
restaurants, a 24-hour store/gas station and a physician's group.
The infrastructure, which carries a projected completion value
of $53 million, is scheduled for completion by the end of the
year.
Michael
Towerman |
Paric Building
Largest Retirement Community in St. Louis Area
Rooms with a View. Paric Corp. is building the $65 million
Meramec Bluffs retirement community on the bluffs of the
Meramec River in south St. Louis County. |
Paric Corp. has begun building the largest retirement community
ever initiated in metro St. Louis on a 51-acre bluff top site
overlooking the Meramec River. The residential grouping, called
Meramec Bluffs, is nestled in the forested topography of the bluffs
and offers panoramic views of the Meramec River valley and Castlewood
State Park.
St. Louis-based Lutheran Senior Services (LSS) is the developer
and St. Louis-based ACI Boland Inc. is the designer of the $65
million senior-living complex that will ultimately cover more
than 750,000 square feet.
Meramec Bluffs will deftly blend four residential components to
present the full spectrum of senior-living needs. Those components
include a 567,000-square-foot "grand hotel" style apartment complex
for independent living; 25 patio homes; a two-story assisted-living
facility; and a three-story skilled nursing facility.
The independent living building will host 298 studios, one- and
two-bedroom apartments and offer all the amenities of a resort.
The buff and light gray masonry building will range from six to
nine stories as it conforms to the varying grades of the bluff
on which it rests. Apartments will include a full kitchen, living
room, dining room and private laundry and come with an alarm system
and housekeeping.
Surrounding the independent living center will be 25 two- and
three-bedroom patio homes ranging from 1,400 to 1,800 square feet.
A paved pathway system will connect the homes, each of which will
be linked to the communications center in the apartment complex.
Paric anticipates completing the apartment complex and most of
the patio homes by spring 2002.
The licensed 24-hour assisted care facility will be comprised
of 80 units divided in twin wings of a U-shaped two-story building.
Sixty units will service residential care needs while the other
20 will cater to seniors in the early stages of dementia. The
68,000-square-foot complex will feature a higher level of handicapped
access.
The highest level of care at Meramec Bluffs will be found in the
three-story licensed skilled nursing facility totaling more than
70,000 square feet. The top two floors of the T-shaped building
will have private and semi-private rooms totaling 80 beds.
Paric has been awarded four retirement community projects in metro
St. Louis valued at $113 million. In addition to Meramec Bluffs,
they are the newly completed $18 million Cape Albeon in southwest
St. Louis County; the $10 million Sunrise Assisted Living Community;
and the $20 million River's Edge Retirement Community in St. Charles.
Clayco Completes Olson Hall and Athletic Center in $18 Million
MICDS Improvement Program
Clayco Construction Co. has completed Olson Hall, the first phase
of a comprehensive, $18 million improvement program at Mary Institute
and St. Louis Country Day School (MICDS) in Ladue. The private,
coed school serves more than 1,200 students in grades junior kindergarten
through 12.
Olson Hall now functions as the administrative and academic hub
of the 100-acre campus. The classically, styled, two-story, structure
hosts 20 classrooms, four administrative areas with a total of
18 offices and the campus bookstore in 36,000-square-feet of space.
The building is named in honor of Bruce and Kim Olson, friends
of the School.
Clayco also completed Phase II of the project-McDonnell Athletic
Center and Field House. The three-story, 80,000-square-foot multi-purpose
building provides a spectacular setting for physical education
classes and for the training of the school's athletic teams. The
metal-roofed, brick-clad building will have three multi-purpose
tennis/basketball/volleyball courts, a 200-meter track and various
support facilities.
The third and final phase of the program will require Clayco to
enlarge upper school classrooms and to make improvements to the
institution's internal roadway system, parking lots and athletic
fields. Improvements to ingress and egress at Laude and Warson
Road also will be made.
The entire project is to be completed in the fall semester of
2001.
C&R Mechanical Installs New Computer Rooms for MCI WorldCom
The
Pre-Engineered Systems Group of C&R Mechanical Company
recently completed four floors of computer rooms for MCI
WorldCom in St. Louis. This retrofit project for the telecommunications
industry was performed in the Valley Building, a two building
attached structure built in 1927. |
The Pre-Engineered Systems Group of C&R Mechanical Company recently
completed four floors of computer rooms for MCI WorldCom in St.
Louis. This retrofit project for the telecommunications industry
was performed in the Valley Building, a two building attached
structure built in 1927.
State-of-the-art Liebert systems were selected to provide the
HVAC needs for the critical controlled temperature in the computer
rooms. HVAC and piping were installed for 20,000 square feet of
computer rooms on the lower level and floors four, six and seven.
Approximately 800 tons of HVAC was required.
As the building was originally constructed with reinforced concrete
floors and support columns, a major retrofit was required to run
piping from the rooftop chillers down to the three key floors
and basement computer rooms.
C&R, a St. Louis-based major mechanical contractor and engineering
firm, developed and employed value engineering throughout the
project to accommodate the owners' needs. "In a sensitive environment,
the challenge on this project was to make the HVAC installation
in a unique retrofit environment happen on schedule," says Tom
Alberts, project manager at C&R Mechanical. "Coordination in stages
as well as critical logistics of materials was needed from the
outset."
Two Haberberger Projects Receive Recognition at MCA Awards
Mechanical contracting firm Haberberger, Inc. recently received
honors for its outstanding work on the John Cochran VA Hospital
and the Chain of Rocks Water Treatment Plan projects.
Haberberger received an award for the replacement of an emergency
steam line piping system at VA Hospital in the Central West End.
The hospital's existing underground system had begun to deteriorate,
which was causing pipes to leak. In order to fix the problem,
Haberberger designed and installed a new high-pressure steam piping
and condensate return that flows to several building on the campus
en route to the main hospital. The crew had to ensure that the
existing system remained in operation until the final tie-ins
could be made. Instead of replacing the underground pipes, Haberberger
built the system on above ground seismic supports. The project
won an award for mechanical installation on projects ranging from
$200,000 to $600,000.
The Chain of Rocks Water Treatment Plant project involved adding
four pre-sedimentation/grit basins and three softening basins.
Also as part of the project, Haberberger was responsible for the
layout of thousands of feet of connecting piping. In all, more
than 4,650 feet of pipe was laid. Almost 3,600 feet of that was
outdoors, where it had to be maneuvered around existing utility
lines, often at depths of 20 to 40 feet below ground. The project,
which was completed in summer 1998, received honors for process
piping and large projects in the dollar amount of $1,500,000 to
$5,000,000.
Each project was reviewed and judged based on the quality of the
installation, the working relationship between the owner and the
contractor, and the appearance of the project.
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