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Composite Behavior of Precast Concrete Full-Depth Panels and Prestressed

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Article  in  Pci Journal · September 2006

DOI: 10.15554/pcij.09012006.132.145

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JURY COMMENTS:
“The building offers
an example of precast’s
easy integration with other
materials. The design team
was able to produce seamless
pattern(s) on the precast panels
to match different materials and
elements, such as the prefinished
metal louver sunshades. The
precast panel definition is a clear
expression of solid and durable
construction, which is one of the
many advantages of precast
construction.”

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INTER-INDUSTRY CONFERENCE ON
AUTO COLLISION REPAIR (I-CAR®)
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
Hoffman Estates, Ill.

Entrant Firm:
Loebi Schlossman & Hackl, Chicago, Ill.
Engineer:
Tylk Gustafson Reckers Wilson Andrews LLC, Chicago, Ill.
Owner:
Inter-Industry Conference on Auto Collision Repair (I-CAR),
Hoffman Estates, Ill.
General Contractor:
Leopardo Construction, Hoffman Estates, Ill.
Precaster:
Lombard Architectural Precast Products Co., Alsip, Ill.

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SOUTH SPRING STREET GARAGE
Greenville, S.C.

Entrant Firm:
Carl Walker Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
Engineer:
Carl Walker Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
Owner:
City of Greenville, S.C.
General Contractor:
M.B. Kahn/Argo Construction, Greenville, S.C.
Precaster:
Metromont Corp., Greenville, S.C.
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“This particular structure shows that precast concrete does not have to express very heavy and massive weight, but can give
you a feeling of lightness and can also work well with other materials. This structure really integrates materials with the pre-
cast, with the brick finish, and with metal work and does so without trying to imitate or pretend to be something that it’s not.
It’s an unabashedly clean and well-detailed parking structure.
It’s also nice to see how this structure actually fits into its urban context; it’s a really fine balance in design and is difficult to
achieve. You don’t see the cars, but yet you know it’s a parking structure. It fits really well into the downtown historic district
of its city. It provides a scale that is appropriate to the pedestrian nature of the street and becomes a very good neighbor.”
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ESSEX COUNTY SPORTSPLEX
PARKING GARAGE
Newark, N.J.

JURY COMMENTS: Entrant Firm:

Clarke Caton Hintz Architects, Trenton, N.J.
“This is a fine, simple, and straightforwardly elegant park- Engineer:
ing structure. It’s honest about being a parking structure, Fay, Spofford & Thorndike, West Caldwell, N.J.
it’s well detailed, and the brick banding and light fixtures Owner:
and windows were carefully detailed and proportioned County of Essex, Newark, N.J.
into the precast panels. The precast concrete structure General Contractor:
is expressed, the precast banding works in a scale that Prismatic Development Corp., Fairfield, N.J.
matches and creates a backdrop, and yet the detailing has
Precaster:
a very human scale. The scale of this structure works very
Nitterhouse Concrete Products Inc., Chambersburg, Pa.
nicely in background to the adjacent sports facility. Very
nicely done.”

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SANTA MONICA
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Santa Monica, Calif.

Entrant Firm:
Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners,
Santa Monica, Calif.
Engineer:
Nabih Youssef & Associates, Los Angeles,
Calif.
Owner:
City of Santa Monica, Calif.
General Contractor:
Morley Construction Co., Santa Monica, Calif.
Precaster:
Walters & Wolf Precast, Fremont, Calif.
Precast Specialty Engineer:
Walters & Wolf Precast, Fremont, Calif.

JURY COMMENTS:
“An extraordinarily clever use of precast,
this public library is designed to take good
advantage of different aspects of precast
… texture, pattern, and form. We’re par-
ticularly impressed with the use of texture
on the precast material—the striation,
the shingle context. It really makes good
use of the material and helps integrate it
into the scale of the surrounding area. It’s
actually a lovely building that really fits
into its context. It’s got both fine attention
to detail and excellent overall massing and
building organization.”

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KENNETH P. LAVALLE STADIUM
Stony Brook, N.Y.

Entrant Firm: Dattner Architects, New York, N.Y.

Engineer: Severud Associates, New York, N.Y.
Owner: State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, N.Y.
General Contractor: The Tyree Organization, Farmingdale, N.Y.
Precaster: High Concrete Group, Denver, Pa., and Metromont Corp., Greenville, S.C.

JURY COMMENTS:
“This is a remarkable example of a stadium that is cleanly designed. It’s a 7500-seat
stadium, and it actually feels more modest than that. It doesn’t feel overwhelm-
ing; it doesn’t feel like a huge place but something that could be comfortable
if there were only 1000 people there but also could be quite delightful if
there were 10,000 people. The tubular, cylindrical shape of the precast
elements expresses very well, with clean expression of the
stadium seating area and steps. Precast is a good material to
use in an outdoor environment, and it is nicely detailed
and used to its advantage to showcase what one can
do with the material.”

Photos courtesy of Dattner Architects.

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Self-storage buildings are often throwaway buildings de-
signed with no thought. This is exactly the opposite. Using LOCK-UP SELF STORAGE CENTER
simple materials—precast and metal facing—the project has Skokie, Ill.
taken a building type and made it a piece of architecture. It
expresses cleanly the function within and yet provides open- Entrant Firm:
ings, light, and a scale that makes this building a welcome Sullivan Goulette Wilson, Chicago, Ill.
neighbor, rather than an intrusive project.”
Engineer:
Photos courtesy of Henry AuYeung of Sullivan Goulette Wilson. Bennett & Pless Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
Owner:
BRB Development, Northfield, Ill.
General Contractor:
G.A. Johnson & Son, Evanston, Ill.
Precaster:
ATMI Precast, Aurora, Ill.
Precast Specialty Engineer:
ATMI Precast, Aurora, Ill.

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 SPECIAL WINNERS
Jury Members: Keith Allen • Jack Hartray • Alex Mihaylov

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DAVIS NARROWS BRIDGE JURY COMMENTS:

Brooksville, Maine “This is a bridge replacement project comprising completely
precast bridge components—the abutments, the wing walls,
Entrant Firm:
the beams, the deck, the approach slabs—everything is pre-
Maine Department of Transportation, Augusta, Maine
cast. It also hits the mark aesthetically while simultaneously
Engineer: faced with some stringent environmental constraints and
Maine Department of Transportation, Augusta, Maine constraints from local indigenous people. The total precast
Owner: solution met the project objectives on all counts: an aestheti-
Maine Department of Transportation, Augusta, Maine cally pleasing, functional structure built within a minimal
General Contractor: closure time. The project was successful in a very short
Reed and Reed Inc., Woolich, Maine amount of time.”
Precaster:
Strescon Ltd., Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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DETROIT OPERA HOUSE PARKING CENTER
Detroit, Mich.

Entrant Firm: Rich and Associates Inc., Southfield, Mich.

Engineer: Rich and Associates Inc., Southfield, Mich.
Owner: Michigan Opera Theatre, Detroit, Mich.
General Contractor: Colasanti, Detroit, Mich.
Precaster: National Precast Inc., Roseville, Mich.

JURY COMMENTS:
“From an architectural point of view, this structure fits into
an urban landscape that is composed of old office buildings,
some parking structures, and some residential lofts. What
really makes the structure work is that the vertical geometry
for its windows ties it in with the rest of the city. From a
non-architectural point of view, the clarity of the structural
system, the symmetrical structural system, seems sensible.”

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and above)
courtesy of
National
Precast/Tim
Stelma.
Rich and Assoc. Inc./Richard Kinnell.

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JURY COMMENTS:
HIGHMARK DATA CENTER
Harrisburg, Pa. “From a sustainable design perspective, it is a really
clever idea to take a data center and wrap an office
Entrant Firm: building around it. The design really makes use of
RTKL Associates Inc., Baltimore, Md. the under-floor air systems and the natural ventilation
Engineer: systems, and it is a very elegant use of both precast and
RTKL Associates Inc., Baltimore, Md. glazing brick and other materials. The sustainable ap-
proach to this kind of building, which is not often seen,
Owner:
Highmark Inc., Camp Hill, Pa. shows that sustainability is not something to be consid-
ered just for regular, occupied buildings, but industrial
General Contractor: types can also benefit from that kind of approach.”
Holder Construction Co., Herndon, Va.
Precaster:
The Shockey Precast Group, Winchester, Va.
Precast Specialty Engineer:
The Consulting Engineers Group, Mt. Prospect, Ill.

JURY COMMENTS:
“All major components of this project are made of precast
concrete. The structure meets the owner’s requirements for
flexibility and long spans, and it accomplished this on a very
short and tight schedule. This project was originally envi-
sioned as a steel structure but was converted to total precast.
It’s also a well-engineered project. Given all these reasons,
the jury believes that this project is worth the all-precast
award.”

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COMMENTS:
“This project is
truly a prototype
that lends itself
to the specifics of
a Harry Edwards
Award; its concepts
hold the potential
for future growth
of the industry. It
showcases a com-
pletely new system
with new compo-
nents for bridge
deck replacement
projects and speed
of construction and
durability of the
decks. It’s all here.
It is a very simple
addition to a simple
landscape. There is
a lot of restraint in
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INNOVATIVE P/T BRIDGE DECK
Dane County, Wis.

Entrant Firm: Alfred Benesch & Co., Kenosha, Wis.

Engineer: Alfred Benesch & Co., Kenosha, Wis.
Owner: Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Madison, Wis.
General Contractor: Zenith Tech Inc., Waukesha, Wis.
Precaster: Spancrete Industries Inc., Green Bay, Wis.

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TWO BUCKHEAD PLAZA OFFICE BUILDING
Atlanta, Ga.

Entrant Firm: Corcoran Nelson Nardone and Associates Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
Engineer: Echelon Engineering LLC, Atlanta, Ga.
Owner: Stafford Properties, Atlanta, Ga.
General Contractor: Trammell Crow Residential, Atlanta, Ga.
Precaster: Tindall Corp., Conley, Ga.

JURY COMMENTS:
“The innovative features implemented into this total precast building make it worthy of award. This
is not the first total precast building, and it won’t be the last, but there is definitely something new and
unique about the use of so-called W-beams. These beams are apparently an upgrade to a typical inverted
tee girder, but they enable the structure to provide continuity and provide for continuous moment frames
without costly connections. The beauty of it is that it also provides for structural integrity, something we
all anticipate will be implemented in the next building code cycle. By already implementing structural
integrity into the design of our structures, our industry will be ready tomorrow when it becomes reality.”

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COMMENTS:
“Sustainable design elements
have been integrated and
thought through, both from
an energy point of view
with the solar, photo-
voltaic panels on the
roof and the sense of
using a whole range
of sustainable design
strategies to create
a really delightful,
healthy working
environment for
the staff. There
are views from all
the workspaces
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healthy work-
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the architecture
and evident as you
drive past.”

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FLANNERY CONSTRUCTION
St. Paul, Minn.

Entrant Firm:
Roark Kramer Kosowski Design, Minneapolis, Minn.
Engineer:
Mattson MacDonald Young Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.
Owner:
Flannery Construction, St. Paul, Minn.
General Contractor:
Flannery Construction, St. Paul, Minn.
Precaster:
Hanson Spancrete Midwest Inc., Maple Grove, Minn.

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