chop tower
LOCATION: 2714-2720 South St, Philadelphia, PA 19146
CLIENT: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Roberts Center for Pediatric Research
TYPE: Healthcare
MY RESPONSIBILITIES: Coordination model setup, BIM Coordination
Construction Management (description provided by AECOM)
AECOM Tishman, as part of a joint venture, served as CM for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Roberts Center for Pediatric Research. This project encompasses approximately 665,000 SF, including a 475,000 SF office tower and a 190,000 SF, three-story plinth with parking, MEP and a loading dock.
The center, designed by Ballinger and Pelli Clarke Pelli to LEED Silver standards, houses CHOP’s clinical research and support staff, and features floors with no interior columns – free space from wall to core – allowing for maximum collaboration among its users. Additionally, offices were designed with the ability to be easily dismantled and reconfigured to suit the needs of individual research groups. The first of four buildings proposed as part of CHOP’s master plan for the 8.4-acre site, the Roberts Center features landscaped grounds at its site overlooking the Schuylkill River, across from the main CHOP campus
center for life sciences
LOCATION: 435 E 30th St, New York, NY 10016
CLIENT: NYU Langone Research Complex
TYPES: Healthcare
MY RESPONSIBILITIES: Coordination model setup, BIM Coordination
Construction Management (description provided by AECOM)
AECOM Tishman served as construction manager for the four-story interior fit-out of state-of-the-art research facilities for NYU Langone in 120,000 square feet of leased space, home to 450 faculty, staff and students, at the Center for Life Science West Tower.
The laboratory program consisted of approximately 60,000 square feet of wet lab, a dry computation lab, an isolation (germ-free) suite, an automation lab, a 5,000-square-foot ABSL-3 lab, and support, seminar, and private investigator office space. In addition, a 20,000-square-foot vivarium was constructed to house a central cage-wash facility with a fully automated bottle-washing line, surgery suite, and holding space.
The project’s infrastructure component included the addition of isolation suite programs as well as the construction of three new mechanical equipment rooms, along with new risers connecting them, to serve the intense laboratory and ABSL-3 MEP requirements of the four floors. AECOM Tishman structurally reinforced and reconfigured the roof, adding 56 tons of roof dunnage steel to accommodate the program’s extensive HVAC requirements.
BIM helped coordinate the physical locations and pathways of all MEP equipment within the building structure – it greatly aided in avoiding field clashes between architectural and MEP components. Variable air volume boxes, data cable trays, lighting controls, various plumbing and HVAC isolation valves, and building management system panels were all neatly arranged in 3D, and using the BIM model, AECOM Tishman could show the construction trades how we intended to build the job in progressive stages. BIM also allowed the construction team to clearly map access to all above-ceiling equipment for service by the client’s maintenance staff, limiting disruption of laboratory activities.
orangetown data Center
LOCATION: Orangetown, New York
CLIENT: Sentinel Data Center
TYPE: Technology
MY RESPONSIBILITIES: Coordination model setup, BIM Coordination
Construction Management (Press Release)
world trade center (multiple projects)
LOCATION: 175 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10007
PROJECTS WORKED ON: World Trade Center Tower 4, World Trade Center Tower 2, Oculus Transportation Hub, World Trade Center Vehicle Security Center, World Trade Center Vehicle Roadway Network
TYPE: Commercial
MY RESPONSIBILITIES: Coordination model setup, BIM Coordination
Construction Management (description provided by AECOM)
In 2004, AECOM Tishman was selected to provide preconstruction and construction management services to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for the iconic 104-story, 3.5 million SF tower. As the builder of the original Twin Towers in 1973, AECOM Tishman has a long history at the site, and had already been onsite assisting with 9/11 rebuild efforts beginning in 2001, ultimately managing more than 11 million square feet of new construction.
We implemented an innovative safety cocoon system, resulting in zero total incidents of significance on the project. The cocoon enveloped 16 floors and rose with the building to protect initial floor trades: steel, concrete and spray fireproofing. This was the first cocoon on a hybrid steel-and-concrete building.
We brought together all of the architects, engineers and subcontractors — including electrical, plumbing, fire and life safety, concrete, and others — into one centralized Building Information Modeling command center located in the project field office at 7 WTC. This enabled each subcontractor to add their components to the models as they were created in direct collaboration with the other subcontractors. One World Trade Center has won numerous awards, including a 2015 “Best of the Best” award in the Office/Retail/Mixed-Use category from Engineering News-Record.
Through carefully devising solutions for affected thoroughfares and transit facilities, coordinating with teams on adjacent projects and efficiently managing the various trades and their nearly 2,000 workers, AECOM Tishman’s diligent work on this national icon led to its successful completion – all while the world watched.
5 Manhattan West
LOCATION: 450 W 33rd St, New York, NY 10001
TYPE: Curtain Wall and MEP Upgrades
MY RESPONSIBILITIES: Coordination model setup, BIM Coordination