Description
This Seattle project involves renovation, alteration and earthquake damage repair to 190,000 square feet of three adjacent buildings (Buildings A, B, C) at an Airport Way South location. The buildings are owned by the city and they will house support facilities for the Seattle Police Department and the Fleets and Facilities Department.
Buildings A and C, as designed by DKA, are transformed from a pair of existing warehouse and office buildings into a facility that meets the specialized requirements of various SPD units, including department storage, forensic labs, offices/support spaces, training facility, classrooms, lockers and interior parking for fleet vehicles.
Building A, an existing four-story concrete frame office building, required a 25,000-square-foot reconfiguration and renovation of its first floor. Building C is an existing tilt-up, 150,000-square-foot warehouse originally containing offices and storage.
Building B’s 17,000-square-foot renovation, designed by Snyder Hartung Kane Strauss Architects and completed in October 2003, houses offices, locker rooms, working shop space, a presentation room and storage.
The 2001 Nisqually earthquake caused substantial damage when the previous tenant occupied these buildings. The seismic repairs that are part of this project have been treated as a holistic part of DKA’s design aesthetic for Buildings A and C. In Building C, the exterior walls have been retained in the new design, but a new roof and floor slab have been provided, and new steel mezzanines have been added to increase the usable space for the tenants. A complete interior configuration and space planning design was executed.
In Building A, a damaged floor slab and assorted entry structures were repaired, and the first floor reconfigured and renovated for office space.
As part of the project’s scope, the campus site was designed by DKA to reduce storm water discharge, part of the overall project design goal to achieve a Silver LEED rating as set forth by the U.S. Green Building Council. Other design approaches to accomplish this rating included specifying recycled and local manufactured building products, increased HVAC comfort, reduced energy consumption of lighting and HVAC, shade landscaping on the building and parking areas, and best building commissioning practices.
The project will also reuse ground water that was previously sent to the storm sewer for landscape irrigation, vehicle washing and toilet flushing.
Building C has a raised-access floor that will increase user comfort and reduce energy consumption and save money for the owner. Projected energy cost savings over 30 years are $1 million.
DKA identified existing building components for re-use in the renovation. These include interior doors and frames, relites, casework and even some of the structural heavy timber from the roof framing that has been designed as part of the reception desk.
This project (Buildings A, B, & C) is a case study in sustainable design and construction practices in an adaptive-reuse project. This was achieved due to the team approach with both architectural firms, numerous consultants, Turner Construction and the city’s Fleets & Facilities Department working together at an early phase of the project and continuing this cooperative approach throughout the construction process.
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Contractor:
Turner Construction, 830 Fourth Ave. S, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98134-1301, (206) 505-6600
Architects:
(Buildings A and C, site improvements) DKA, 2107 Elliott Ave., Suite 305, Seattle, WA 98121,
(206) 443-9939
(Building B) Snyder Hartung Kane Strauss Architects, 1050 N. 38th St., Seattle, WA 98103,
(206) 675-9151
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Other Participants
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Wood/Harbinger (mechanical and electrical engineer)
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Peterson Strehle Martinson (structural engineer)
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Cascade Testing (testing and inspection)
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Clayton Group Services (hazmat assessment)
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Davis Langdon Adamson (estimating for Building B)
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Engineering Economics (commissioning agent)
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Exterior Research and Design (roof and waterproofing design)
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GeoTech Consultants (soils engineer)
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Greenbush Group (mechanical engineer for Building B)
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Haozous Engineering (civil engineer)
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Matson Carlson & Associates (estimating)
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McClaren, Wilson & Lawrie (police facilities programmer)
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Specifications Northwest (specifications writing for Building B)
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Susan Black & Associates (landscape design)
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Swenson Say Faget (structural engineer for Building B)
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Travis Fitzmaurice (electrical engineer for Building B)
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Triad Associates (surveying)
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Techstaff (project documentation staffing)
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Bank and Office Interiors (furniture)
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Emerald City Moving and Storage (moving services)
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Cummins NW (emergency generators)
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Sound Business Systems (storage systems)
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McKinney Trailers and Containers (storage containers)
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Long Services (hazmat abatement)
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