Hospitality & Retail

Brambleton Stratford Landing Pool & Clubhouse project features include foyer with greeting area, Men’s and Women’s locker rooms, family bathrooms, and several rooms dedicated to the pool and electrical equipment. The pool included a beach entry and nine different water features; including tumble buckets, foam geysers, fan jets, bubbler spouts, basketball hoop, volleyball net, vortex slide, and a cold-water hydrotherapy. The pool house exterior is a classic stone water table with brick, cast stone accents and recast sills. Another great feature is a 57-space parking lot and drop off area, tot lot, bark park, and extensive landscaping package, sidewalks, and walking trail connections.

Brambleton Corner Pool & Clubhouse project features include a Community Center with an entry foyer with a waiting room, game room, serving kitchen, 1900 SF events room, prep kitchen, bar serving area, and audio-video room. The project included an 8-lane competition pool with separate beach entry and deck seating areas. The Poolhouse has an entry foyer with a greeting area, Men’s and Women’s locker rooms, family bathrooms, pool equipment, electrical rooms, and guard room.

Black Hog restaurants were fit-outs in new and existing buildings. New mechanical units were required for the client. The project required selective demolition, restoration of the existing masonry façade and interior construction for the new kitchen, restrooms, dining and bar area. Exterior work at the buildings included new tile, masonry restoration, painting, and awnings. The interior finishes include polished concrete floors, glass mosaic wall tile, drywall partitions, granite countertops, custom millwork, corrugated metal panel ceilings, FRP wall panels, epoxy flooring, and painted accent walls. The work within the kitchen included the installation of kitchen exhaust hoods, Ansul systems, grease ducts, kitchen equipment, and walk-in coolers.

Awards

2009 ABC Excellence in Construction Award – 1st Place, Historical Renovation (under 2 million)

The Liberty Mountain Resort and Conference Center is designed with a two-story lobby constructed with exposed timber framing, full height glazed wood windows, a monumental stair with built-in seating, an elevated walkway, and a stone-clad fireplace. The main lobby serves as the apex of the resort and connects the east wing, which is comprised of restaurants and guest rooms. The west wing includes the ballroom, conference center, spa, indoor pool, and golf pro shop. Additionally, the facility includes commercial kitchens, a bridal suite, golf cart storage, private dining, administrative offices, and laundry facilities. The interior finishes contain a vast array of materials from cultured stone, copper panels, custom wood ceilings, millwork, porcelain, ceramic and quarry tiles, epoxy flooring, custom rolled carpet, and exposed timber framing and fabric wall panels.

Olde Towne Youth Center was a 6,500 SF single-story building with site work that included site demolition, site utilities, grading, landscaping, and many site improvements. The structure was built from perimeter and interior dimensional lumber framed partitions, glu-lam roof trusses with structural insulated panels. The façade has decorative CMU and Phenolic Rainscreen Wall Panels. The roof system consists of a combination of TPO membrane and standing seam metal with vegetative areas. Finishes combine painted drywall partitions, recycled rubber sheet flooring, recycled glass tile flooring, bamboo millwork, and ACT and exposed ceilings. A geothermal ground-source heat pump system was utilized along with photovoltaic roof panels and daylight sensor interior light ballast. Design to be LEED Silver, this magnificent project achieved LEED Platinum Certification.

Awards

2010 ABC Awards – 1st Place Excellence in Construction, Institutional under $5M

2010 National ABC Excellence in Construction – Pyramid Award

USGBC MD’s Wintergreen Awards – Award of Excellence – Exemplary Green Facility

USGBC MD’s Best Local Government Green Building

American Council of Engineering Companies – Grand Award

Each portion of the project was phased from demolition to roof replacement to maintain occupancy and allow the continuous operation of the branch. All service outages were scheduled for off hours. The removal and replacement of the drive thru canopy associated pneumatic system and concrete drive islands were scheduled in detail to ensure safety and allow transactions to be conducted. Ramps and overhead protection were constructed, dismantled, and reinstalled for each phase of construction. Restroom facilities, security systems, heating and cooling, fire alarm and data were required to be available and maintained 24 / 7 throughout construction. The delivery of material and equipment and the use of same on site required to be carefully coordinated to allow the bank customers and employees access to the site. The replacement of the existing roof storefront systems and glass and glazing was conducted with no water intrusion. During the final phase of construction, a temporary teller line and support offices were constructed to allow bank services to continue. The temporary space included a millwork teller desk, safe, security, check writing desk, modular partitions, and data. While this space served most of the customer needs the safe deposit boxes remained in the main bank vault located in the last phase of the renovation. Access to the vault was required throughout the day and customers were required to be escorted by bank officials and site management to ensure they had a safe and secure path to conduct business.

Aqua 103 is located just outside of historic Hagerstown and offers progressive American cuisine in an atypical setting. Aqua 103 occupies 2,300 SF on the first floor of the Lyles Center Office Building. The restaurant takes advantage of the buildings tall storefront window system which allows a substantial amount of natural light into the space. The twelve foot high, all black ceiling system provides the perfect backdrop for the custom handmade light fixtures above the tables and full height “aqua” colored accent wall. In its compact design, Aqua 103 has a 390 SF full service commercial kitchen and a 430 SF bar area with a custom-built water wall feature. The project finishes include custom millwork, carpet, granite counter tops, custom made stone pillars behind the bar and all interior wall finishes.