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Beantown to Brick City
August 12, 2010
| Making use of stimulus dollars, $108M in work will begin in a few weeks on the modernization of the 505k SF Peter J. Rodino federal office building in Newark, NJ. Our own Kling Stubbins landed the job of drawing up construction docs and working with the contractors to see it built. Maybe Mayor Cory Booker will tweetabout it. |
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| We snapped (seated), Ken Preaster, Sarah Vekasy, Stephen Messinger, (standing) Roy Pedersen, Tania Person, Eric Hollenberg, and Eric Mitchell in the Kling Cambridge office on Tuesday, digging into the job of transforming a tired, 1960?s concrete behemoth into a glittering, glass-clad jewel. Roy says the government is giving a second life to the building and a boost to Newark with a sustainable and efficient, 21st century structure. Inside, asbestos will be removed and the interior renovated with more efficient systems. Outside, a new glazed, curtain-wall exterior will be installed 2.5 feet in front of the original walls. Also on the project: Kling Stubbin's Philadelphia office and the JV contractors, Tocci/Driscoll. |
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| Eric, Sarah, and Roy are leading this project that calls for juggling a building full of government employees during construction. One major issue will be protecting them as the asbestos is taken off the steel and pipes inside. Until that job is safely finished, the exterior work can't start. But it's all to the good, since the city will have a new landmark to be proud of without tearing one building down to create another. (Sustainable? Check.) He also told us that his firm's extensive use of BIM ?gave us a technological edge? in competing for the job. They'll use it to create a virtual building, so they can study the cladding system performance as it gets built. |
