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FALL 2010 SPECIAL ISSUE FROM THE EDITOR
12 Madonna University
In
this 15th annual Special Issue, we’re proud to present 12 of
the most outstanding Michigan construction projects from
Franciscan Center for Science the past year. They represent a wide cross-section of our daily
and Media lives - education and research, gaming, travel, high-tech industry,
healthcare, transit, retail and exploration.
Value Driven
This year we’ve introduced some new features to the Special Issue. For
20 A. Alfred Taubman Center the first time, nine projects have received recognition with Honorable
Mention awards; they are listed beginning on page 110.
for Design Education
Designing a New Detroit We will also be selecting a “Project of the Year” from among the 12
Special Issue winners, as voted upon by our readership (see notice on
page 81 for details). E-mail notifications
32 Greektown Casino and online ballots will be forthcoming.
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40 Gerald R. Ford International Awards in February 2011.
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50 Hemlock Semiconductor Corp.

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88 Eastern Market’s Shed 3
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104 Dequindre Trail Expansion Project works of construction found inside the
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onstruction and design professionals have become team needed to adopt.
accustomed to value driven projects. Owners always want to Saint Francis of Assisi founded the Order of Friars Minor, better
maximize what they receive for their money, but the current known as the Franciscans, but he is also revered as the patron saint
economic climate has resulted in a heightened awareness of every animals and the environment, so a strong commitment towards
dollar spent. The recently constructed Franciscan Center for Science sustainability was a virtual certainty. An early task for the project
and Media at Madonna University was no exception to this trend, team was to define this value as it related to the built environment.
but fiscal responsibility was only one of many values that the project The answer to this overriding question was not revealed until the
12 CAM MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2010

GOOD
“It stands to reason that everything about this building must

be good; good in purpose, in people, in programs and in progress.
From its inception to its dedication, commissioning and
operation, it should bring out the best in us, for it stands on
hallowed ground, blessed many times over.”
– Sister Rose Marie Kujawa
Building something that is good can take on a lot of different

meanings, but the project team saw this first and foremost as a
challenge to create a structure that functioned well in its intended
role, and which would bring out the best qualities in students and
faculty alike. To accomplish this, the project team needed to
develop a thorough understanding of the diverse programs the
facility would serve.
Madonna University has operated a well-respected broadcast and
cinema arts program out of converted classrooms for about 30
years, but the specialized nature of the training, coupled with ever-
changing technology, resulted in a strong desire for a facility built
Green Design Charrette, when Sister Rose Marie Kujawa, president of specifically for media arts.
Madonna University, first voiced the four words that became a “We really wanted a facility that would replicate what students
mantra for the entire team: “Good, Growing, Gorgeous and Green.” would see out in the industry,” explained Patricia Derry, director of
Developing a 65,000-square-foot facility that embodied these four technology learning services for Madonna University. “We brought
concepts was a challenge ably undertaken by construction manager tremendous challenges into the design, so we worked very closely
Clark Construction Co., Lansing, architect and engineer SmithGroup with the architects to make sure that our needs were addressed in
Incorporated, Detroit, and a skilled team of subcontractors. the early planning stages. In all honesty, architects don’t design TV
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studios very often.” adversely affecting the project schedule. you take care of those items first.”
Despite having limited opportunities in “When you use BIM [Building Information An even more significant advantage of
which to fine-tune their skills, the design Modeling] on a project, you start out with using BIM on the project was the elimination
team created a media arts center that fulfills the schedule,” said Timothy Ward, project of conflicts in the field through clash
Madonna University’s educational mission manager for Clark Construction. “You know detection. In fact, no change orders were
quite well. Key challenges included what the long lead time items will be and issued because of conflicts between
mechanical and electrical systems that were
encountered in the field, a rare
accomplishment given the size and
complexity of the project.
Creating a flat floor was another
challenge associated with building the
studio. Even the slightest flaw could create
visible movement as a camera rolled across,
so the project team went to extraordinary
lengths to create a smooth surface. The
concrete was wet cured to harden the
surface, but this also slows the process, so
additives to accelerate the curing time were
incorporated to compensate. Concrete was
also specially formulated with minimal air
and low slump to prevent any
imperfections. The most critical step was the
application of a special low-VOC epoxy that
smoothed out the surface to a glass-like
finish.
Other broadcast and cinema arts spaces
include the state-of-the-art control room, a
radio station, editing suites and classrooms.
All are a vast improvement over existing
designing a flexible electrical system that Even the slightest flaw could create visible facilities, but these spaces only represent a
minimized consumption while movement (above) as a camera rolled across fraction of the needs for the new facility. The
accommodating a wide variety of lighting the studio floor, so the project team went University’s science program had its own list
configurations, and performing a thorough to extraordinary lengths to create a smooth of requirements.
acoustical analysis to control sound in surface. Concrete was specifically Existing science laboratories at Madonna
broadcasting spaces. Broadcasting spaces formulated for the job and a low-VOC University were outdated. Chemicals were
also needed to be completely isolated epoxy was applied. stored in a central area and hand-carried to
against outside noise. the labs, often through occupied hallways.
Equipment in the control room (bottom)
Lighting fixtures are operated by highly replicates what students will use after Once the chemicals arrived, the small
efficient dimmers that produce the desired graduation. number of fume hoods in the labs limited
illumination level by altering the sign wave
of the incoming power as opposed to
turning a filament on and off. Although the
dimmers were adapted to the University’s
existing light fixtures, they can easily
accommodate LED lights that may be used
in the future. The studio floor rests on a bed
of sand and is separated from the
surrounding walls by an expansion joint that
serves as an acoustic barrier. Soundproofing
surrounds the studio from the footings to
the roof.
Air handling equipment was also carefully
designed and installed to minimize noise.
The 1,200-square-foot-studio is very well
ventilated with 10,000 CFM of air coming in.
Oversized ductwork lets this air in at a very
low velocity, while warm air exits the back of
the studio through massive grilles measuring
three feet tall by 15 feet wide. These grilles
were not “off the shelf” items. Careful
planning prevented long lead times from

what could be done with them. Many
experiments must be performed under a
fume hood for safety reasons, so the new
facility includes 29 fume hoods, including
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pass-through hoods that facilitate the
transfer of chemicals from one laboratory to JOINT APPRENTICESHIP
another without the need to traverse public
spaces. All laboratories also are linked by a
“ghost corridor” that runs along the
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perimeter of the building, thereby allowing
travel between laboratories without
entering public corridors.
“We can run experiments that we couldn’t
run before for safety reasons,” said Theodore DETROIT & SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
Biermann, dean of science and mathematics
for Madonna University. “Now, we have a
nice, modern, safe situation.”
Needless to say this is a far cry from
Biermann’s years as a graduate assistant at a
well-known Midwestern university, when he
often stood by with a fire extinguisher just in
case an experiment got out of hand. In
addition to enhanced safety and
productivity, the new facility includes three
student/faculty research laboratories where
experiments can be set up over a period of
time, which opens up many new possibilities
for the institution. The Franciscan Center
undoubtedly will fuel a great deal of interest
in Madonna University, where a combination
of factors has contributed to increased
enrollment in recent years.
GROWING
STRENGTH THROUGH
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founded in solid traditions, but not KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL
stuck in stodginess. Elements of growth
such as freshness, renewability, vision
and creativity must grace the building,
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Madonna University is growing, but
growth is not always a steady, even, or
predictable process. For example, interest in
Michigan’s burgeoning film industry has led
to explosive growth in the broadcast and Union Trustees Management Trustees
cinema arts curriculum that outstrips most
other University programs in recent years.
Madonna University must respond to trends Charlie Jackson, Chairman Brian Sedik, Secretary
like these to maintain its relevance. The Scott Lowes Gene Auger
institution must also reflect the
characteristics of the student body.
Dick Reynolds Art Hug, Jr.
Before the construction of the Franciscan Toney Stewart Patrick Landry
Center for Science and Media, the campus Bart Nickerson Jack Russell
was essentially divided with academic
buildings to the south and the residence hall
Rich Williamson Chuck Raeder
and student cafeteria, to the north. The large
percentage of commuter students enrolled

in the University missed the experience of a true campus setting was to sit down with the faculty and ask them for their vision, so we
because they seldom had reason to venture beyond the academic could work towards it. Our approach was to create that vision, write
buildings. One key goal for the new building was to create a greater it down, and put it up for everyone to see.”
sense of community by facilitating easy transit through the facility. Fine-tuning the vision was a laborious process, but the end result
Doors were strategically placed to allow for cross traffic, while a two- of the effort must be seen to be appreciated. In addition to creating
story gathering area looks out over the St. Francis pond, providing a facility that met all of the University’s programmatic needs, the
an attractive indoor environment. Those who prefer the outdoors project team also fulfilled the desire for a structure that was pleasing
can enjoy Cardinals Square, situated outside the Franciscan Center, to the eye.
which honors Adam Cardinal Maida and Edmund Cardinal Szoka,
GORGEOUS
“ It should be gorgeous, beautiful in style, capturing some of

the grandeur of the Lombardian Romanesque architecture of
the Provincial House, some of the bold boxiness of the ‘ 60s,
and many futuristic components which define it as a building for
the 21st Century.”
Many design elements make the Franciscan Center a glory to

behold, but it is the abundance of natural light that truly makes
these flourishes shine. Daylighting was crucial for sustainability
goals, as Gold-Level certification under the USGBC’s LEED rating
system has been achieved, and the sun’s rays also provide the best
light to showcase the natural beauty of the structure. LEED
guidelines require natural lighting in a percentage of spaces, but the
standards are continually evolving to allow for the creation of green
facilities that fit a variety of intended purposes well. The need for
precise control precludes natural lighting in some broadcasting and
laboratory spaces of the Franciscan Center.
“If daylighting is detrimental to the operation of the space, it gets
taken out of the calculation under LEED,” explained William Jensen,
LEED AP, project architect and associate with SmithGroup. “Every
room where we have daylight coming in, there is a lot of it.”
Nothing catches the light more brilliantly than the stained glass
window that hangs in the east window of the Franciscan Center’s
gathering area. During the early planning phases of the project,
Kujawa received a call from the pastor of St. John Cantius Church.
The church was slated for demolition soon and the pastor assumed
that Kujawa might want a statue or some other item from the
historic parish, the second oldest in Detroit and Kujawa’s childhood
church. Though the window probably wasn’t what the pastor had in
mind, and Kujawa’s request required the approval of the
Material selection played a key role in meeting sustainability goals.
Archdiocese of Detroit, it would be hard to find a more fitting
The project team achieved LEED credit for using a substantial location for the image of St. John Cantius, the patron saint of
percentage of FSC-certified wood and water is the only substance teachers and students.
that is used to clean cork flooring throughout the facility. “As a professor, he really belongs in a university, so we were very
happy to be able to put him up here,” said Kujawa.
Unlike the breathtaking stained glass window, the natural beauty
archbishops of Detroit, while offering a tranquil environment for of some building components is not made more apparent by the
reflection or collegiate interaction. plentiful natural light. Wood used throughout the facility certainly
In spite of the University’s steady growth, the Franciscan Center looks attractive under any light, but it also holds an inner beauty
for Science and Media is the first stand-alone building to be from a sustainability standpoint. The project team was able to
constructed on the campus in 40 years. The opportunity to create a achieve LEED credit for using a substantial percentage of FSC-
structure that was worth the wait was a strong motivator for certified wood, a feat that requires significant commitment from the
everyone involved. owner and the entire project team. Mary Kane Butkovich, project
“The University invested a lot in this building because it was their director for Clark Construction, has participated in several LEED
first new building in 40 years,” said Jeffrey Hausman, AIA, LEED AP, projects, but the Franciscan Center is the first to achieve this
senior vice president and office director for SmithGroup. “There distinction.
were a lot of hopes and dreams on the table. Getting a clear “I think that we all take great pride in the FSC credit,” said
understanding of what those hopes and dreams were was critical. I Butkovich. “Clark [Construction] won’t take credit for that, it was
think that the most important thing that we did in the beginning really the subcontractors who did it. SmithGroup and Madonna

[University] talked to us about their
commitment, and that got the
subcontractors to really think about what
they were putting into this building.”
In addition to putting attractive and
sustainable finishes into the building, the
project team also took great care in
selecting materials that could be maintained
in an environmentally responsible way.
According to Craig Flickinger, director of the
office of the physical plant for Madonna
University, water is the only substance that is
used to clean cork flooring inside the facility.
In his experience, dirt tends to be more
visible on cork, but this can easily be
handled with a damp mop. A specialized
machine that hyper oxygenates water is
used for more thorough cleanings. No
sealing or waxing is required, and the
closed-cell formation of the flooring makes
it naturally anti-bacterial. Long before the
first routine cleanup of the Franciscan
Center floor, the project team was hard at
work creating a facility that would be clean
and green.
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on the other hand, could be greatly reduced.
Three separate HVAC units were installed,
helping the project team achieve seven out
of 10 possible energy points under LEED,
where only four or five had been the initial
goal. The building energy simulation
indicated an overall 42 percent energy
savings, resulting in a 23 percent yearly cost
savings. All building systems needed to work
harmoniously together to achieve this.
“On a technical building like this, you need
to see how systems react to each other,” said
Ronald Henning, PE, LEED AP, principal for
SmithGroup. “If you have a fume hood, air
has to come from somewhere to
accommodate it, the exhaust fans have to
adjust and the control sequence might need
to allow for extra heating because you have
so much more air. You need to work each
room in individually.”
LEED is well respected in the industry, but
it can lend itself to a certain degree of bean
counting as project teams can be tempted to
chase points instead of basing every facility
decision on what makes the most sense. The
Franciscan Center project team avoided this
by never setting an exact certification level
goal. LEED was merely the means to a
desirable end, not the final objective. Goals
were set in individual areas, but the
overriding purpose was simply to make the
facility as green as possible.
“It became our challenge to take areas
where the goal was one point and make it
two points,” said Butkovich. “We were able to
do that with waste diverted from landfills.
Instead of 50 percent, we were able to get
over 75 percent. We also exceeded the goal
for recycled content. Great products were
The stained glass window in the gathering area was salvaged from St. John Cantius Church, specified for this project, but we had to go
which was slated for demolition. It would be hard to find a more fitting location for the image
out into the field to make sure they were
of St. John Cantius, the patron saint of teachers and students.
being used.”
Even though specific point totals under
LEED were not the goal, the recycled
GREEN Sustainability is not a mere buzzword at materials used throughout the Franciscan
Madonna University; it is a mission. From Center are certainly a point of pride for the
“ Finally, it must be green. “Trayless Tuesdays” in the school’s dining project team and Madonna University. Other
room, to the recycling program that operates highpoints are a state-of-the-art, 150-seat
St. Francis chose for his dwellings caves every other day of the week, a keen desire to lecture hall and a green roof planted with
and islands, woods and lakesides. We tread lightly on the Earth permeates every sedum to help control stormwater runoff.
must capture some of these same elements activity on campus and beyond. Building to The green roof is situated above the
to reflect our Franciscan values, a the LEED standard was a natural extension of broadcasting studio, where it provides sound
this commitment. insulation against aircraft approaching
reverence for creation, an understanding Energy efficiency emerged as an early Detroit Metropolitan Airport and it can also
of our role in the stewardship of the challenge for the team. Energy and be viewed from a higher portion of the
planet, and a sense of gratitude for this daylighting targets were set in similar ways building. A student lounge makes good use
under LEED guidelines. Certain activities in of this view and augments it with
gift of ‘ sacred space,’ which is our laboratory and broadcasting spaces involved educational displays detailing the many
legacy. Let us preserve it, beautify it and a “process load” that was largely dictated by sustainable features of the Franciscan Center,
enhance it for generations to come.” the equipment that was used, and therefore which is indeed good, growing, gorgeous
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The legendary Harley Earl, General Motors’ first vice president of design, once
unveiled his latest concept cars in part of the very space now occupied by this
state-of-the-art public conference area.
design program in the world. Flash back to architecture and sustainability. “It’s a classic
G
eneral Motors’ historic Argonaut
Building is once again the 1939, the year Earl created the ground- industrial-style building with this great
birthplace of bright ideas. Vacant breaking Buick Y in his design studio on the concrete structure that was originally used
for 10 years, GM’s former mecca of top floor of the Argonaut Building. Flash for laboratories, but can be used for
automotive design is now the home of the forward to 2010 and beyond, a portion of anything because of the way Kahn designed
A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design the same floor houses CCS design studios it. You can take a vehicle anyplace in the
Education, a creative hub in Detroit’s New blessed with a broad canvas of space for the building because of its sizeable floor
Center area that honors the spirit of the creation of their own dream machines and capacities. Basically, it is a great represen-
legendary Harley Earl, General Motors’ first other visionary works. tation of a loft building that has universal
vice president of design. Within this fabled CCS transportation design studios have use.”
building, Earl turned the automobile into found the perfect home in a building that
those sculpted, two-tone, tail-finned works witnessed the invention of the field of WELCOME BACK
of wonder that continue to draw millions to automotive design and whose open spaces Universal use is an apt description of an
the annual Woodward Dream Cruise. Thanks accommodated GM’s first vehicle testing 11-story building that is home to a host of
to the Detroit dream team of Walbridge and facilities. Shaped like an inverted L, the enterprises, including the Henry Ford
Albert Kahn Associates, Inc., history is building is composed of two joined Academy: School for Creative Studies, an
repeating itself in wonderful ways as this structures: Building A was originally 800-person charter school for middle and
once shuttered landmark opens its doors to constructed in 1928 as GM’s first laboratory high school students operated jointly by
the next generation of designers. Part of the and testing facility; the construction of CCS and the Henry Ford Learning Institute
building now houses the second campus of Building B in 1936 transformed the complex and funded by the Thompson Educational
the College for Creative Studies and its into GM’s first design center. Foundation. Plus, this neighborhood within
acclaimed department of Transportation The 760,000-square-foot complex is the a building houses CCS dorms and tenant
Design. work of another American master, namely space for businesses in the creative
The building’s studios dazzle the eye with Albert Kahn, architect of both of these economy. With such diverse tenants, “the
painted clay models of 21st Century cars. classic structures whose signature bands of development offers opportunities for collab-
Harley Earl – the father of the Corvette, the decorative brick and limestone have been oration and synergy among different
tail fin, and the first concept car called the part of the New Center’s skyline for over 80 educational levels and among students and
Buick Y Job - would probably welcome this years. “The project saves one of Albert businesses,” said Richard Rogers, CCS
grand display of invention by a school Kahn’s legacy buildings,” said Alan Cobb, president.
regarded as having the best transportation FAIA, LEED® AP, Kahn director of design, The public is also welcome in this vertical

neighborhood blanketing an entire city Wayne State University, and Tech Town, a THE DREAM TEAM
block between Second and Cass Avenues. think tank and business incubator for Bringing this hub of innovation back to
Currently housing an atrium, gallery space, a alternative and energy-efficient technologies. life took its own share of inspiration … and
bookstore and sundries shop, the first level The newly christened Taubman Center is only cash. Clark Hill, PLC, Detroit, and Plante &
will soon host a Tim Horton’s eatery and the a heartbeat away from the Detroit Medical Moran, PLLC, Southfield, helped to assemble
Argonaut Grille, added Rogers. Center expansion, the new inter-modal a financial package more complex than the
A portion of the top floor houses the location for the proposed M-1 light rail Book-Cadillac’s revitalization plan, said Geoff
Benson and Edith Ford Conference Center, a program, and the Amtrak station with a route Sleeman, CCS director of facilities.
public conference area occupying the actual to Chicago, added Matthew M. Robertson, Every member of the team brought its
own spark of creativity and professional
acumen to restore this venerable building
listed on the National Register of Historic
Places in 2005. Kahn’s programming strategy
fit this Rubic’s Cube of diverse spaces into a
secure, functional and efficient
arrangement.
Kahn also designed flexible CCS studios,
some with actual walls on wheels. “We can
reconfigure the studios on a daily basis,” said
Rogers. “Because it is highly flexible, the
building provides an ideal space for design
education.” Heating and cooling is
accomplished with equal ease through the
use of a central water source heat pump
system. Overall, Kahn’s energy-efficient
strategies reduced the building’s operating
costs by 20 percent.
Walbridge peeled away decades of
finishes and material layers to reveal the
basic structure, managing a host of surprises
such as an extensive matrix of floor cavities
in-filled with fly ash, wood, and in some
cases, two inches of asphalt. Despite the
unknowns of an older building, Walbridge
delivered the project in time for the grand
opening in September 2009 by forming five
separate teams to build out different tenant
The newly christened A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education is part of the tapestry of
buildings designed by Albert Kahn. The Kahn “empire” includes the Fisher Building and the areas, said Nils Vitso, Walbridge project
nearby Cadillac Place. director. Said Rogers, “This just couldn’t have
happened without a team that was very
committed to accommodating the college’s
site of Harley Earl’s design studio. On a hot project manager, Larson Realty Group. Larson needs, and making it work on a tight
July morning, CCS students were busy is a Bloomfield Hills company engaged in real schedule.”
building furniture in the Harley Earl Lounge, estate investment, development, asset A compressed 14-month schedule for
the site of the design guru’s office directly management, leasing and consulting. revitalizing this massive structure - and
adjacent to the main conference space. The At night, the building once again adds its building a 20,000-square foot gymnasium -
conference center was buzzing with activity glow to the New Center, along with two other never compromised safety. Walbridge
in preparation for a three-day event. “The Kahn-designed landmarks called Cadillac achieved a lost time incident rate of 1.12,
most exciting part for us is to see how the Place and that “nightlight” of Detroit – the well below the 1.90 national average. “We
building is being utilized,” said Kenneth R. Fisher Building. The lights have come back on had a full-time safety manager on the job,
Herbart, AIA, Kahn senior associate and senior in this grand old building in more ways than and every subcontractor was required to
architect. one. The light bulb as a symbol of a creative have a full-time safety coordinator, as well,”
A building that may have become another idea glows once again within this historic said Vitso.
casualty of urban decay is now a new anchor bastion of design where CCS students are About 520,000 man-hours were poured
for Detroit’s Midtown. “Tearing it down would designing prototypes of cars, furniture and into the $145 million project with actual
have been another sign of defeat,” said electronics, plus producing sketches of transit construction beginning in June 2008 and
Rogers, “because it would have left a huge stations and compelling works of fine art. reaching completion in August 2009. “We
hole in the New Center area.” Rogers is clearly satisfied with the college’s had great contractors and great trades
The re-invented Argonaut Building now new home. “The project has exceeded our people who were able and willing to do
takes its place among established Midtown expectations,” said Rogers. “We are basically whatever we needed to get the job done,”
institutions, such as Henry Ford Hospital, thrilled with the building.” said Robertson.

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This stunning boardroom graces the interior of the Taubman Center.
LET’S TALK credits, bridge financing and a capital campaign supplied the rest of
Incredibly, the project began with a chance encounter in the gold in this golden opportunity. “We generated $70 million
November 2006 between Rogers and Matthew P. Cullen, then dollars from a combination of state Brownfield, federal New Markets
general manager of GM’s Economic Development and Enterprise and federal and state historic tax credits,” said Rogers.
Services. “We were sitting next to one another at a social dinner and For the actual building, CCS formed the Argonaut Campus
having a simple chat that began with the question, ‘What are you Developer, LLC to take full advantage of the tax credits. “There are
working on these days?’ ” recalled Rogers. “I said, ‘I am looking for also seven or eight limited liability corporations formed to take
space, and he said, ‘I have a building. Let’s talk.’” advantage of the tax credits,” added Sleeman.
CCS needed more space for existing academic programs, new “The financing was incredibly complex,” said Robertson. “There
graduate programs, and student housing. Discussions were already were a large number of public and private partnerships, as well as
underway with the Thompson Educational Foundation for a charter relationships with banks and other traditional lenders.” The
school partnership, but the actual school lacked a location. With Michigan Historic Preservation Network, the New Center Council,
expansion of its existing campus in the Cultural Center deemed too and the University Cultural Center Association were a few of the
disruptive and too expensive, CCS was seeking a site of sufficient strong supporters of the project.
size to support its broad vision and sufficiently close for integrated The Thompson Educational Foundation contributed $17 million
operations between its two campuses. for the build-out of the charter school spaces and construction of
Only a mile from the Cultural Center, the massive Argonaut the gymnasium addition. “We used some CCS money from a
Building was a dream come true. “The Argonaut Building more than previous fundraising campaign targeted at facility improvement,”
doubled the square footage of our overall campus, and gave us the said Rogers. “The last piece is a $55 million dollar fundraising
opportunity to look at these alternate and diverse uses,” said campaign launched in July 2009 and set to conclude this
Sleeman. December.”
The building also fit the college’s future expansion needs. “The Added Robertson, “The project has won financing awards, and is a
building is a golden opportunity for us, because it addresses our template for what can be done on other private and public
immediate needs and has growth potential,” said Rogers. “We are partnership projects.” As an aid, a University of Michigan graduate
looking at developing new programs, and we anticipate enrollment student has written a white paper detailing the project’s financing
growth.” mechanisms.
Timing and good fortune also assisted the cause. “We closed our
A FINANCIAL BLUEPRINT financing probably at the beginning of July 2008 – only shortly
General Motors donated the building, funded a substantial before the finance markets started to collapse,” said Robertson.
portion of the due diligence, and covered the cost of asbestos Overall, the financial “construction” of this grand building consumed
remediation and removal of underground fuel storage tanks. Tax almost a year.

The total due diligence process – assessing costs, examining Herbart. “We would be grinding the floor, and that is when we would
financial possibilities, and investigating the building – was quite an discover some of the in-fill material. Some of the filled cavities had to
investigative undertaking. “Walbridge played a very important and a be abated, and all the in-fill had to be removed to create the
very intimate role during the due diligence process,” said Rogers. appropriate substrate for the selected finish material.”
A BAD PARKING SPOT THE CORE: PAST IMPRESSIONS

Walbridge “walked the building” with its team of estimators and The past left its imprint in other ways. Walbridge removed the
engineers to assess the condition of the building and assign a cost roots and remnants of a vehicular ramp that once coiled through the
projection, said Vitso. This discovery phase revealed damaged first six levels of this historic automotive testing and design facility.
parapets along 50 percent of the roofline and remnants of an old Parts of the ramp had been removed during construction of the B
vehicular ramp in the interior. Building to create a continuous floor connection from west to east
Only full-scale demolition can reveal the extent of building within the building interior.
conditions. Demolition of the asphalt overlay blanketing the main Walbridge removed remnants extending from the basement to
parking deck uncovered the poor condition of the concrete the fourth floor. This internal pruning created space for a two-story
structure. This discovery led to demolition of the parking structure atrium that currently houses John Chamberlain’s famous sculpture
that wrapped around the building’s southeast corner. “Having to called Detroit Deliquescence – the once controversial work formed
demolish the parking structure was a major change in the scope of from dented auto body parts.
the project in the early phases,” said Cobb. Structurally, this reinforced concrete building is in rock solid
The revised agenda called for construction of a new parking shape. “The A Building is built like a fort,” said Vitso. “Because of a
structure and the rebuilding of the concrete surface deck to few leaks, some of the rebar had rusted in Building B, but we
accommodate the underground parking still existing below the removed the concrete, cleaned the rebar, and patched it back
former garage. Kahn’s master plan selected a site due south of the together.” In addition, the first floor sustained minor salt damage
Taubman Center for a new parking deck built by a different project from its past use as a parking area.
team. According to Sleeman, CCS retained its status as a not-for- Structural alterations included inserting a staircase in the shaft of
profit organization to finance the parking structure using one of two freight elevators. The other freight elevator was restored
tax-exempt bonds, and for managing development of GM-donated and once again transports prototype vehicles and major supplies
parcels to the west, south and east of the building. from the first floor all the way to its final exit into the grand
conference space on the top floor.
INTERIOR DEMOLITION: THE GRAND “OPENING”
Late Spring 2008 marked a different type of grand opening. THE SHELL: FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Walbridge began interior demolition of this massive building, This historic building has a wonderful street presence with its
stripping away layers of flooring, lay-in ceilings, and old mechanical decorative brick and limestone bands rimming the parapet and
and electrical systems that had accumulated over the course of much of the building’s lower level. An ornate semi-circle of the same
almost 80 years of renovations. Basically, a thick layer of camouflage masonry outlines the grand arches of the upper levels, giving the
covered the building’s true condition. “It was like peeling back the building its own unique signature among the other notable
layers of an onion,” said Cobb. “When we got to the base we structures of the New Center area.
discovered what the building was really like.” “Most of the brick and limestone weathered extremely well for its
One surprise was the extent of the in-filled floor cavities. “Many of age,” said Cobb. “It’s a great example of how well brick and masonry
Albert Kahn’s industrial and
office buildings, including the
Argonaut Building, had these
cavity slabs that were a version
of an early raised floor system for
installing wiring and building
systems,” said Cobb.
Averaging two inches deep,
the cavities blanketed thousands
of square feet of floor space
throughout the building. The
cavities had been filled in over
the decades with an assortment
of materials, ranging from fly ash,
wood and asphalt. Vitso
estimates that this condition
impacted 50 to 60 percent of the
building’s floor slabs.
Some cavities were only
discovered while polishing the
concrete floor. “The college The roughly L-shaped complex houses a contemporary gymnasium addition attached to Building B,
wanted to preserve the raw loft- originally constructed in 1936. The other half of the inverted L is Building A, a structure originally built in
type atmosphere by having 1928 that once housed GM’s first laboratory and testing facility, as well as a car dealership with a two-story
polished concrete floors,” said showroom facing Second Avenue.

can hold up and be repaired back to its slopes,” added Vitso. 2008, said Vitso.
original elegance.” About 1,900 new windows with thermal “A new central water source heat pump
Soil and Materials Engineers, Inc., break sashes complete the building’s shield system essentially borrows and circulates
Plymouth, surveyed and assessed the against high-energy costs. Window the latent heat from the interior of the
façade’s condition. “The parapets incurred selection, however, took a great deal of building,” said Cobb. “We are not generating
the most damage along with some of the human energy. “Because the building is a the heating and cooling from electricity,
window headers,” said Vitso “In fact, about national landmark, we had to negotiate with rather we are re-apportioning it within the
50 percent of the parapets had to be and obtain approvals from the National Park building.” A computerized building
partially rebuilt.” Service (NPS),” said Cobb. “We had a number management system with energy and
Salvaged masonry was used to repair the of sessions to work through the details and lighting controls also boosts the energy-
parapets and the entire façade. “The NPS approvals.” Alterations to this historic efficiency of the facility, added Sleeman.
A neutral palette, exposed infrastructure, and flexible studio space, including studios with actual walls on wheels, offer the College for Creative
Studies the optimal learning environment for design education.
parapets were dismantled, repaired, and building also required reviews by the City of The HVAC system includes the use of
then reassembled using the original Detroit Historic Commission and the State of several dedicated 100 percent outdoor air-
materials,” said Herbart. “No new masonry Michigan Historic Preservation Office. handling units designed with dual rotary
was necessary for any of the exterior brick Ultimately, replacement windows were heat recovery wheels and supplemental
work.” This includes the repair of the removed and windows true to the building’s heat pump coils to deliver neutral-
exposed southeast façade that had once original façade were installed. “The mullion temperature, outdoor ventilation air
been blanketed by the now demolished design harkens back to what the original throughout the building. With over 10,000
parking deck. steel sash windows looked like,” said light fixtures illuminating the facility, various
Restoration of this beautiful building Herbart. control systems, including photo cells,
cloak entailed tuck-pointing and re-caulking On the interior, removal of lay-in ceilings motion sensors, multi-level switching, low-
of the entire façade, as well as repainting of drew in the daylight and restored the top of voltage timer switches and relays, are used
the iron clad plates and ornamentation near the window arches to their original configu- to conserve energy.
the arches. “The exterior is back to its ration. “We restored the original masonry Overall, using TRANE System Analyzer
original state as of 1936,” said Cobb. openings and in-filled each with the entire software and Detroit Edison utility rates,
Beyond restoration, the project team original window unit,” said Herbart. “This Kahn was able to determine a life-cycle cost
married the elegance of the past with the increased the daylight coming into the analysis that revealed a 20 percent
energy-efficiency of the present. Energy building by a third at each window.” reduction in overall operating costs for the
Shield, Inc., Pontiac, blanketed the non- facility. Of course, “saving our building
insulated brick wall with 100,000 pounds of 21ST CENTURY INFRASTRUCTURE infrastructure from the landfill is the highest
spray polyurethane foam. Installation of a The new building systems also maximize form of sustainability,” added Cobb.
white TPO roof membrane also improves the energy efficiency. Walbridge eradicated all From interior demolition to new building
building’s energy efficiency. “The new vestiges of the building’s mechanical, systems, Kahn and Walbridge synchronized
roofing system also includes new roof electrical and plumbing systems and began their work to keep the project on pace. “We
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Kahn senior associate, manager of interior
design.
CCS preferred an interior exposing the
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students’ work.” CCS spaces have polished
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furniture selection for CCS, including custom in foam, clay and wood,” said Sleeman. CCS coated in living color. An elaborate dust
designed pieces for the common areas, and studios are bustling with the hands-on collection system and special air-handling
contributed to the color selections for the creation of wood, metal, plastic resin and units remove dust and odors far below the
project. clay prototypes. Students translate ideas level of detection.
The exposed interior is also ideal for heavy into hand-drawn sketches followed by All of this work is done in wonderfully
shop activity in the art world’s version of a computer-generated designs made tangible flexible spaces. “CCS wanted classrooms
construction zone. “CCS students are not by CNC machines and spray paint booths without walls, spaces that were more flexible
than what could be achieved with conven-
tional operable partitions,” said Trupiano.
“The end result is partitions on wheels that
can be easily reconfigured and spaces that
can be resized according to daily needs.”
Added Cobb, “It’s a true universal space
concept with walls on wheels and electrical
pull cords that can be drawn down and
moved wherever the student wants within
the studio.” In addition, building systems are
in exposed cable trays for easy access and
alteration in these flexible, open and light-
filled creation zones.
Because the systems are exposed, instal-
lation had to be visually appealing, and with
tight floor-to-floor spans, the infrastructure
had to hug the structure closely. “The
ownership wanted to maximize the height
of the ceilings,” said Robertson. “The
exposed mechanical and electrical
equipment is kept as high as possible to
keep the volume of the space.”
On the top floor, Building B houses the
new conference center that once housed
Earl’s design studio and office. The project
team restored the actual turntable Earl used
to display the latest concept car, unveiling
his innovative creations to the assembled
media by drawing back heavy velvet drapes
that once hung in lush folds from the room’s
proscenium arch. Contemporary events can
promote their ideas using the conference
center’s elaborate electrical, sound, lighting
and IT systems. Pre-function space with
fabulous views of the city, plus a series of
private offices converted into breakout
rooms, are other enviable assets of this
wonderful and historic conference space.
The project has already garnered a host of
awards, including 2010 ESD Construction &
Design Award, 2010 Michigan Governors
Award for Historic Preservation, 2010
Michigan Historic Preservation Network Tax
Credit Award, and
2010 CREW Detroit Impact Award for
Redevelopment.
Thanks to the incredible efforts of
Walbridge, Kahn and the entire project
team, Harley Earl would surely give this
amazing building final design approval. His
spirit lives on, as does this once shuttered
national landmark now beautifully restored
and fully alive with the collective creative
force of the human enterprise.

From the Greek
By David R. Miller, Associate Editor Photos by Peplin Photographic
winged ram wouldn’t have been long of old is also evidenced in the rebirth of
L
ike no others since, the Ancient Greeks
knew how to tell a story. Heroic deeds remembered. The tale of the quest for the Detroit’s Greektown Casino. Now the site of
and fantastic creatures from mythology Golden Fleece undertaken by Jason and the a 400-room hotel, a 2,900-car parking deck,
have long captivated readers. Even the Argonauts, on the other hand, is sure to draw and a state-of-the-art gaming facility that
names demand attention. A story about a crowd. has been transformed by renovations plus
people looking for the coat of a gold-haired The flair and showmanship of the Greeks the addition of 125,000 square feet,

entailed having an understanding of the created by the affordable room rates was a
clientele. challenge for the entire project team. The
“When you get into the hotel/casino success of this effort is apparent throughout
business, it is all about building a better the building, but nowhere more so than in
mousetrap,” said Bill Williams, vice president the lobby.
of guest services for Greektown Casino- A massive teardrop chandelier made from
Hotel. “Our goal was to put up a 400-room 2,300 individual pieces of blown glass
hotel, which our development agreement dominates the five-story-high lobby. Upon
required us to build, and to create a product first glance, this structure appears to be a
that would speak to the customers that we light source, but its dazzling luminescence is
were going after. We wanted to develop a actually provided by a series of wall-
product that met their needs, and one that mounted lights that are pointed at it. Gold
we could sell to them at the right price to leaf squares, which were individually
maximize occupancy in the hotel.” installed, catch the light while capturing the
At only 1.3 nights, the average guest stay eye. Other lobby features include a 12-foot
at Greektown Casino-Hotel is significantly long fireplace, a monumental staircase, a
shorter than at many other lodging facilities. stainless steel mirrored ceiling and a unique
This realization allowed the design team to Glass-Fiber Reinforced Gypsum wall that
offer rooms with a generous amount of floor looks more like a flowing canvass than an
space by cutting things that are commonly unmoving wall. The entire space is also
found in hotel rooms, but simply would not accented with architectural features that
be missed here. Hotels that cater to families, create the image of a massive sphere
for example, usually include full bathtubs to passing through the oval shape of the lobby
accommodate children who are too young itself, which adds visual interest through its
for showers. Replacing bathtubs with well- complexity. All of these features combine to
proportioned showers saved space in each forcefully expel any lowered expectations
room, but this benefit would be of little that may have resulted from the affordable
value to guests if guests wanted bathtubs. price.
Guests who missed this amenity would sure Also exceeding expectations are the many
make their feelings known through the other fine amenities offered by the hotel.
approximately 250 comment cards received The facility boasts 25,000 square feet of
by the hotel each week. conference or banquet room space, a fitness
“I’ve read every single card since we’ve center, a restaurant and two bars. Shotz
been open,” said Williams. “Not a single Sports Bar & Grill makes the best use of its
person has asked about the tub.” ground floor location with eye-catching
Bathtubs are not the only amenity found graphics that are designed to draw in
in many hotel rooms that would be of patrons who are attending sporting events
limited value for the Greektown guest. in Detroit. Shotz also features a dramatic
Shorter average stays limit the amount of onyx bar that is backlit to provide a
space that is needed for storing personal distinctive look and DJs add to the
items, so closets and cabinets are smaller excitement on weekends. Live
than what is typically found in hotels. By entertainment is featured on weekends at
taking away these items that would not be the more refined Eclipz, which is located
used anyway, the designers were able to right off the casino floor. Dining options at
create an open design that never feels the hotel include the 175-seat Bistro 555,
cluttered. Greektown guests can easily walk with sophisticated décor and spectacular
on both sides of their beds, which is a true views of the opulent lobby, along with the
rarity in hospitality settings. limitless portions and nearly limitless
Greektown Casino-Hotel is a true In fact, creating the proper feel for the options that are available at the more
entertainment destination. The project rooms was so important that the owners relaxed International Buffet.
team that brought delivered this modern decided to expand the width of the entire There are plenty of things to see and do at
Greek classic included master architect hotel beyond what would comfortably fit on the Greektown Casino-Hotel, but none of
Hnedak Bobo Group, Memphis, TN; the site to make the rooms the proper size. them would be possible unless the project
construction manager Jenkins/Skanska Only a total of five feet were added, but the team found a way to build on this
Venture, Detroit; and local architects Rich effect on the guest rooms was dramatic. The challenging site.
and Associates and Rossetti Architects, both distinctive “bump-outs” visible on the
of Southfield. exterior also widened certain floors. BUILDING IN GREEKTOWN
By removing some of the frills, Greektown As visitors approach the Greektown
STAYING AT GREEKTOWN is able to offer luxurious overnight Casino-Hotel, the glass soaring hotel tower is
Greektown Casino had a strong following accommodations at an attractive price with undoubtedly the first thing they will see.
well before the hotel was built on the site. an average rate of $100 a night. Creating a The painstaking efforts that were taken to
Building a hotel to appeal to casino visitors facility that exceeds any expectations blend the structure in with its surroundings,

evidenced by exterior brick on the lower appropriate for this new building, so it would partly because they realized that they too
floors, become apparent at a closer distance. fit in well with the fabric of the would benefit from enhanced foot traffic
“We thought it was very much to the neighborhood.” that would be generated from the reinvig-
owner’s credit that tying the building in Fitting into a neighborhood entails much orated entertainment destination. In
nicely neighboring structures was a priority,” more than merely building a facility to blend addition to working with neighbors, the
said Deena Fox, PMP, MBA, LEED AP, associate in. Building a structure as large as the project team needed to adapt to tight site
and project manager for Rossetti Architects. Greektown Casino-Hotel would certainly conditions.
“Our entire team looked at brick samples and cause some inconvenience for neighbors, “We knew that there would be some issues
the cladding of the existing buildings in the but the project team maintained a steady with staging,” said Nathan Peak, lead
neighborhood. We looked at our options flow of information to minimize this. Most designer for Hnedak Bobo Group. “We knew
and made selections that would be business owners were cooperative, at least that we would take up every square inch of
what we were building on, so we needed to
work with Jenkins/Skanska to figure out
where we could put tower cranes.”
Getting workers and materials safely
onsite was a challenge in itself, but some of
the biggest logistical issues centered on the
As visitors approach nearby casino.
the Greektown “We couldn’t prevent people from coming
Casino-Hotel, the into the building and it is a 24/7 operation,”
soaring glass hotel said Dave Pettijohn, general superintendent
tower is undoubtedly for Jenkins/Skanska. “We couldn’t just
the first thing they schedule work on Sundays and plan on not
will see. Painstaking
having anyone here. There were people here
efforts were taken to
blend the structure in at 2:00 in the morning.”
with its surroundings. The project team also needed to make
accommodations for the Wayne County
Juvenile Detention Facility (WCJDF) located
across the street. Like the casino, the WCJDF
never closed. A number of busy surface
streets, along with I-375, were also located
nearby. Although the project team was
never able to close any of these major
thoroughfares completely, they could close
individual lanes as long as all lanes were
open for rush hour.
“Typically, you close off lanes of traffic to
create the limits of your site and you don’t
think about it again until the project is done,”
said Darrell Greer, LEED AP, senior project
manager for Jenkins/Skanska. “We had to
deal with it every day here. Every day, we had
to accommodate something different.”
Since the hotel, parking deck and casino
expansion/renovation were all taking place
concurrently, there were six separate
openings as various project elements were
completed. Permits were required for each
opening, but the project team had very high
praise for the code officials who conducted
inspections in a timely manner. Though the
project team was quick to point out that they
were not given a “free pass,” they were able
to open every new element as scheduled.
The efforts of the project team played the
largest role in this accomplishment, but the
flexibility of the City of Detroit Building &
Safety Engineering Department certainly
helped.
Of course, opening new portions of the
facility would mean very little if patrons were
unable to get to them.

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(Above) A massive teardrop chandelier made from 2,300 individual pieces of blown glass dominates the five-story lobby.
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GETTING AROUND IN GREEKTOWN
For most visitors, the Greektown Casino-
Hotel experience will begin in the new
parking garage that was built on site. Early
site plans called for an eight-level garage
over what is now the combined footprint of
the hotel and garage, with the hotel being
built at another site nearby. Space for the
hotel was eventually carved out of what had
been planned for the garage. Even though
the garage was expanded vertically to 12
levels, space was at a premium. An intricate
double-threaded helix was the only option
to move cars between levels in the space
allowed. This series of intertwined
corkscrews would be a challenge to build
under any circumstances, but an additional
complication soon arose.
“We were anticipating that the double-
threaded helix would be a typical
pour-in-place, post-tensioned system, with
the rest of the structure being precast,”
explained Matthew Jobin, AIA, associate for
Rich Associates. “We ended up with a
precast double-threaded helix. If we had
done cast-in-place, we would have been
waiting for the ramp to get done. Precast
gave us the opportunity to erect the
building the way that we wanted to, so we
could get the building up and occupied as
quickly as possible.”
It took about three weeks just to
determine if precast was a viable option
given the complexity of the structure.
Precision was crucial, as forms for cast-in-
place concrete can be bent or adjusted in
the field, but once precast pieces arrive on
site, their shapes are literally set in stone.
Much to their credit, National Precast, Inc. of
Roseville performed this work flawlessly.
Casino visitors stepping out of the
parking garage would have been in for a
pretty long drop if the team had ended their
work with that portion of the project.
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Incorporating meeting spaces into the
hotel was problematic from a structural
standpoint. Columns can inhibit the
functionality of a meeting room, but the
hotel’s narrow footprint made it difficult to
This Glass-Fiber Reinforced Gypsum wall looks create large clear spans. The solution was
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expel any lowered expectations that may have
resulted from the affordable room rates at the
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concrete beam presented a sizeable
obstacle for mechanical and electrical
contractors to work around. Mechanical
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art. An amazing wave of glass and steel – measuring 200-feet-wide
W
hen the wheels of Air Force One touched down on the
runway at Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand by 600-feet-long - forms a sun-washed canopy linking the existing
Rapids this past July, our current Commander-in-Chief was terminal to a new parking deck. The streamlined curve of the
in good hands at a facility that has customer service and operational canopy sweeps above a wide boulevard and an inviting streetscape
efficiency down to an art. Thanks to the inspired design of Gresham, filled with the warm terracotta cladding of the recently completed
Smith and Partners, Nashville, and the quality work of The Christman parking deck. The Terminal Area and Parking Improvement
Company, Grand Rapids, the airport itself can be viewed as a work of Program truly has turned the second busiest commercial airport in

facade of terracotta, metal mesh and
exposed concrete. One section of this
remarkable parking deck hosts a welcoming
wall, framed in terracotta and filled with a
photo art mural of West Michigan.
Quality control was even more vital for the
canopy’s streamlined waves of steel. The
entire canopy is composed of 13 different
trusses, each formed of three truss sections
welded together on site with the aid of
engineered jigs, said Daniel C. LaMore, PE,
Christman, senior vice president, West
Michigan operations. The use of engineered
jigs insured a seamless alignment of the
shop-built pieces.
Christman and Steelcon, Inc., Kalamazoo,
employed a mighty Manitowoc crane to lift
the trusses, achieving a perfect fit of each
truss and its two support columns. The
project team worked virtually every
Saturday night throughout the summer of
2008, essentially hoisting a new truss every
weekend to avoid disrupting airport
operations. “We had to make sure we were
not disruptive in any way,” said LaMore. “We
recognized that even though the airport is
our customer, they aren’t the core customer.
The real customers are the airlines and the
10,000 people who come to this airport
every single day.”
Christman and the Kent County
Department of Aeronautics worked closely
together to maintain airport operations and
customer service, all for a project dedicated
to taking that service to an even higher
level. Every customer and weary traveler
now enjoys an easily navigated parking
structure with a clear “flight path” or route
through the garage, across a sky bridge and
into the terminal building with its own
improved circulation pathways.
The two, glass-enclosed sky bridges flow
directly into two newly carved terminal
entrances. Christman also constructed
additions to the existing terminal building,
installing four new escalators to improve
interior routing. The overall project provides
customers a smooth trajectory from the
minute they leave their car to the moment
they take their seat on one of the airport’s
125 daily flights.
AN AIRPORT TAKES FLIGHT

The project began with the basic need for
more parking. “We were running at 100
the state into an impressive gateway to West delivered a quality facility on budget and on
percent capacity in the main lots,” said
Michigan. schedule. “The quality of the workmanship is
Koslosky. The airport was tight on parking
Christman built this $118 million dollar second to none,” said James A. Koslosky,
and short on shelter. “We had all surface
project over the course of two years without A.A.E. executive director of the Kent County
parking prior to this project,” Koslosky
disrupting the smooth operations of an Department of Aeronautics.
added. “With the vagaries of West
airport that generates over $500 million Christman’s focus on quality produced a
Michigan’s weather – we have about 100
annually in economic activity. Christman 4,700-car parking deck with a beautiful
inches of snow annually – the parking

With this wonderful welcome wall, travelers across the country and around the globe
feel right at home in an airport whose operational efficiency matches the quality of
this remarkable expansion’s design and construction.
garage became an issue of customer the roadway below as possible,” said airport’s customers. The response can be
service.” Pramuk. “Bands of tinting were utilized to summarized by a single word: Wow. “I often
The project increased the airport’s create some variance in the amount of light just walk through the airport as part of my
parking capacity from 6,000 to just under transmission below, while still creating the management approach, and I met a man
10,000 spaces. About half of the spaces are effect of a light, airy space.” taking photographs who said, ‘I’ve never
housed in this classy and convenient new Beyond beauty and shelter, the canopy seen an airport as beautiful and as
parking deck with two light courts, as well as also serves another core function. “Visually, convenient as this one. I didn’t expect this in
electronic signage stating the number of the curved shape of the canopy blends the a city the size of Grand Rapids,’” said
parking spaces available on each level. four-story parking deck and one-story Koslosky. A satisfied Koslosky added, “We
Beyond convenience, what visitors will terminal in such a way that the terminal now have a modern, state-of-the-art airport
find memorable is the sheer enjoyment of building does not become dwarfed,” Pramuk terminal. The facility is very welcoming and
being in a wonderful space. The 142,500- added. truly offers a gateway image for West
square-foot canopy is a broad and lovely The canopy works with the parking deck Michigan.”
wave of curved steel and segmented glass to turn a bustling, successful airport into a
paying tribute to the region’s vast Great destination space. “Because we wanted a THE FLIGHT PLAN
Lakes shoreline. “The curvature of the grand gateway image for the entire region,” said Most successful endeavors have a long
roadway canopy was inspired by the shape Koslosky, “we didn’t want a parking structure history. The genesis of this 20-acre project is
of a water wave, and references Lake that looked like a blockhouse out in front of an airport master plan formulated in 1992.
Michigan’s significant influence on West the terminal building.” “The master plan forecasted we would need
Michigan,” said Alan J. Pramuk, PE, CM, The parking deck is an ensemble of a parking structure by 2005,” said Koslosky.
Gresham, Smith and Partners. distinctive shapes, beginning with a circular “The update in 2004 reaffirmed the need for
The development also honors the or helical ramp and a glass stair and elevator the facility.”
airport’s host city, for the deck’s terracotta enclosure or beacon tower. Pramuk offers a The Kent County Department of
cladding is a contemporary expression of visitor’s eye-view of this exciting new Aeronautics and the airport board
the brick buildings of downtown Grand development, “When driving down the main networked with a Community Advisory
Rapids. The canopy soars 36 to 56 feet roadway into the airport, the driver will Committee to produce a list of clearly
above the streetscape and deck; its trusses experience design elements in sequence: defined project goals, ranging from
casting shadows across the light-washed first the arc of the gateway, then the helix generating a gateway image to maintaining
terracotta and the wide boulevard unfolding ramp, the beacon tower around the corner, reasonable parking rates. “We obtained
beneath this inspired glass wave. “Glass was and finally the grand roadway canopy and input from the Grand Rapids parking
selected as the main material for the Grand the big welcome wall beneath it.” authority, the chamber of commerce and
Canopy to allow as much natural light onto Accolades are pouring in from the economic development organizations,” said

Koslosky. effectively with Christman to establish and canopy’s construction. Christman
The airport began building the implement the phasing plan,” said Koslosky. constructed a series of temporary roadways
improvement program on paper, both as a September 2007 marked the launch of and shelters to service this zone.
financial feasibility study and as a this large-scale undertaking with Christman “The existing curbside operation
conceptual design. Design reviews were beginning construction of the north half of continued as Christman constructed the
conducted at 30, 60 and 90 percent the 2-million-square-foot parking structure. temporary roadways and shelters,” said
completion to track and refine the cost. The footprint of the south half temporarily Pramuk. “Once the temporary curbside was
Gresham, Smith and Partners finalized the housed the airport’s curbside and ground completed, operations were shifted to this
design in summer 2007 with the airport transportation operations displaced by the temporary area overnight, and work could
releasing it for lump sum bids and awarding
the contract to Christman in August 2007.
Christman, an experienced construction
manager/general contractor with a national
presence and offices throughout Michigan,
near Washington, D.C. and in Augusta, GA,
carved $4 million to $5 million off the bid in
value-engineering strategies. “We looked at
over 120 different items to somehow reduce
the costs,” said Thomas R. Ecklund, P.E. Kent
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County Department of Aeronautics facilities
director. “The vast majority of the value
engineering came from Christman. They did
a great job in identifying certain areas for
cost savings.”
Replacing the colored concrete of the
boulevard with asphalt was one of the more Using our signatory contractors
significant cost reductions. “We also
changed the design and thickness of some guarantees a customer gets the
of the metal mesh in the parking structure,” best trained masons for the
added Ecklund.
The airport board was adamant about
best quality workmanship.
retaining the terracotta cladding as an
investment in the image and future of this
Do not settle for
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attention to customer service, working very

begin on the Grand Canopy.” moving down the line, we were effecting a crane – the largest in its class with the most
For canopy construction, a different type different group of people and a different mass lifting capacity – would lift, swing and
of liftoff took place after the last plane area of the terminal.” hoist the 12-foot-deep curved truss skyward
touched down for the night at Gerald R. Ford Keeping airport visitors safely out of the before setting it into position. Members of
International Airport. Clearing the runway construction zone involved the installation the Steelcon crew, called connectors,
of the last plane and the baggage area of the of temporary pedestrian tunnels or enclosed worked from Condor lifts to connect the
last passenger was the signal to turn on the walkways that were moved to more than truss to the four bolts of each column’s
light towers and spring the Manitowoc nine different locations over the course of mating plate, explained LaMore. “What was
crane into action for the lift of another 19- the project. “The temporary covered amazing to me is setting a three-
ton truss. walkways were very effective, because they dimensional, curved truss on two fixed
Midnight through 4 a.m. on Saturday could pick them up in sections to connect points and having the trusses and columns
night and into early hours of Sunday with the terminal building,” said Koslosky. match perfectly – every time,” said Koslosky.
morning was the fleeting window of time Late Saturday night at the airport began
available for truss installation – one girder the orchestration of man, machine and steel A PERFECT FIT
per Saturday over the course of the summer, as Christman and airport management Christman’s rigorous quality control hit
except for the first two trusses that were convened in the Golden Eagle boardroom to the bulls-eye every time, successfully
installed together for structural stability. “It assess current conditions. “We first met in bringing each of the 13 massive girders into
had to be done between the last flight and the boardroom to check the schedule of perfect alignment with their two support
the first flight,” said Koslosky. flights to see if we could actually start at columns. A series of crossbeams link the
Both advance and flexible planning were midnight,” said Ecklund. “The baggage area girders into a stable structural system. “It was
part of the game plan. The project team might still be open at midnight, depending a complicated but very much controlled
prepared a new diagram and action plan for on the flight’s actual time of arrival. We had operation,” said LaMore.
every lift. “Christman and the airport created our staff placed in different locations in the This amazing alignment was the product
a series of plans that plotted the position of terminal to direct pedestrian flow down the of precision planning in every phase of
the lifting crane and the jigs,” said Ecklund. proper ramp and out the proper door. If the construction, beginning with the placement
“The plan determined the zone of influence lift impacted the temporary roadway of the canopy’s 26 columns using lasers and
for each girder lift, because we had to close system, we would have police officers GPS. Each column is composed of a
different parts of the terminal for different available to stop any traffic. Personnel concrete-filled, 3-foot diameter steel pipe
lifts.” Added LaMore, “Every truss operation across the airport were in constant radio that rests on a 20 x 20 spread footing.
was basically the same, but the coordination communication with each other.” Accurate placement of the columns was
in the terminal was different. As we kept Cleared for “take-off,” the Manitowoc critical. “With a structural steel building, one
Night work and other strategies enabled Christman to deliver this $118
million dollar project without disrupting airport operations.
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to achieve perfect alignment. “When
welding steel it is very important to have
everything perfectly aligned,” said LaMore.
“It is not like working with wood or thin
metal that has some flexibility.”
Using GPS, the fit of truss and column was
checked and double-checked by Christman
and Steelcon teams. “Everyone would buy
off before we would mobilize,” said LaMore.
“Given what needed to happen to build the
truss, to gear up to set the truss between
midnight and 4 am, to shut down the
terminal, and to mobilize crew, equipment,
and airport staff, we just couldn’t afford for
the truss not to fit. We checked it over and
over, because we only had one chance.” All
of this meticulous work bore fruit at the
moment the truss clicked perfectly into
place during all 13 lifts.
After completion of this phenomenal
steel structure, the Christman crew installed
approximately 3,000 pieces of segmented
glass almost an inch thick. One last material
completes this inspired canopy. A barely
visible expanse of netting blankets the
canopy to prevent birds from nesting in the
new structure.
AN AMAZING FEAT
The canopy’s creation was quite a
construction, engineering and logistical feat.
“When they were installing the glass, the
bird netting and painting the trusses, I
looked out my window one day and
counted 18 different cranes in use,” said
Ecklund.
Gresham, Smith and Partners designed
the free-standing canopy to withstand
various loading conditions. “I was told that
you could drive a pick-up truck across the
top of the canopy just to give an idea of the
load the canopy is capable of supporting,”
said Koslosky.
For starters, the canopy is designed to
handle uplift – a powerful force that gives
An amazing wave of glass and flight to a plane but could damage this part
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steel - measuring 200-feet-wide by wing, part wave-like structure. “Wind creates

600-feet-long - forms a sun-washed pressures and uplift forces, similar to the
canopy linking the existing terminal to a aerodynamics of how an aircraft wing lifts a
new parking deck. plane and how a sail acts to propel sail
boats,” said Pramuk. “The structure also had
to account for the extreme snow loads in
West Michigan. Overall, the structural
modeling accounted for uplift, snow load,
can actually move columns out of plumb manufactured off site and delivered to the and for snow drifting and ice melt
and bring them back in to make things fit, jobsite in three sections. “They conditions for this geographic region.”
but this is not possible with these large manufactured as much as they could in the Pramuk explains the rainwater and
diameter, concrete-filled columns,” said controlled environment of a shop,” said snowmelt management system: “Rainwater
LaMore. “We didn’t have any give in LaMore. Once on site, the three sections of will be directed by the curved form of the
tolerance to be able to shift these large shop-fabricated steel were welded together canopy to the large rain gutters sitting at the
columns.” using engineered jigs built in the shop. The low points of the profile. The manufacturer
For quality control, the trusses were guidance of these engineered jigs was vital offered a panelized system of glass, gaskets

and framing between the structural trusses dewatering. “These conditions are fairly span almost the entire width of the deck and
to provide a watertight system, which common on construction sites, but on this extend from the fourth to the first level.
directs water and snow to the gutter system project each condition and its cost was Kalwall was selected as the courts’ roofing
that accommodates large snowmelts and magnified by the sheer size of the project,” material, because “the systems provide a
the region’s rainfall.” said LaMore. more gentle glow in lighting up the spaces
Constructed through snow and rain, the below,” said Pramuk.
ALL HANDS ON DECK end result is a parking facility that offers The light courts or wells are an integral
Christman worked simultaneously on the customer service in style. Beyond the part of the easily navigated trajectory from
canopy above and the utility grid below the appealing weave of its exterior cladding, the parking deck to terminal. The primary
boulevard. “Work under the Grand Canopy parking structure has two light courts that pedestrian walkways follow the line of the
required additional phasing to insure all
water and sewer operations continued to
service the airport,” said Pramuk. “This civil
work was performed during the installation
of the canopy steel, glazing and application
of paint. At one point, utility contractors
proceeded under the canopy while 41 lifts
jockeyed all around them.” In total,
Christman removed, relocated and replaced
sewer, water, stormwater, gas and electric
lines, often encountering infrastructure in
locations not accurately represented on the
as-built drawings, added LaMore.
In this atypical work sequence, “The
canopy was even done before paving of the HENRY
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roadways,” said Koslosky. “Once they
completed the new roadways, utilities and
finished the canopy, we were able to
demolish the temporary roadways and
begin construction of the south half of the
parking deck.”
The canopy was finished in the first year of
the project, but construction of the massive
parking deck consumed the entire two
years. Christman Constructors, Inc., the
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equipment arsensal, Christman employed
two tower cranes, placed in three different
locations over the course of the deck’s
construction. “The tower cranes enabled us
to reach out farther across this large parking
structure,” said LaMore.
Christman brought the same level of
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commercial campus here. Our repeated that guided the design.
H
igh-tech manufacturing forever
changed the landscape in a portion opportunities are on the industrial side. We
of the San Francisco Bay Area, which are very particular about what our partners MEETING NEEDS
will now always be known as Silicon Valley, do on the industrial side, but we put a lot of The new Administration Building fills a
but much of the raw material that powers trust in this architectural team and in their variety of needs for Hemlock
the information age and the new energy ability to do the job well.” Semiconductor, including serving as a front
economy comes from a location that is Hemlock Semiconductor typically runs door for the company’s campus. Like any
much closer to home. In fact, Hemlock the show on construction projects that front door, it needed to control access to the
Semiconductor Corporation manufacturers occur on its site, and the company still building behind it, but this took on added
over one quarter of the silicon used played a very active role on this project, but importance at Hemlock Semiconductor
worldwide for the solar and electronics company leaders also deferred to the because of the corporation’s proprietary
industries. Hemlock Semiconductor experience and expertise of the team. Even technology used to manufacture polysilicon.
Corporation, based just 10 miles west of though Hemlock Semiconductor lacked a Sophisticated access control
Saginaw, could lead the way as the Saginaw thorough understanding of the architectural requirements include card-activated
Valley’s prominence suddenly eclipses nuances that govern non-industrial projects, turnstiles that will only admit a single
California’s well-known technology hub. the company leadership did possess the person at a time. People can be granted
Hemlock Semiconductor was well suited wisdom to assemble a capable team and to limited access, or even prevented from
to meet the growing need for pure polycrys- heed the guidance received from that team. leaving the building, based on the
talline silicon from a manufacturing “As a client, you were astute at knowing information that is encoded onto their cards.
standpoint, but the company lacked a real what you wanted,” said Reay to Lange. “You Of course, doors are programmed to operate
front door to its 400-acre site. The recently would present something to me and I would automatically to meet egress needs in the
completed 57,500-square-foot Corporate respond to it. That is a great way to work event of an emergency. Most doors that are
Center addresses this need while combining because it gave us the opportunity to do commercially available did not meet the
a strong corporate identity with office and what we could for you. You had a vision, but security requirements at Hemlock
conference space. Team members that you were also open to exploring things.” Semiconductor, so extensive modification
created this multi-faceted structure The vision presented to Wigen Tincknell and hardware replacement was often
included owner and construction manager Meyer & Associates contained few specifics, needed to incorporate desired products into
Hemlock Semiconductor; architectural which gave the architect much greater the building.
trades contractor, Granger Construction flexibility. Hemlock Semiconductor also has its own
Company, Lansing; mechanical contractor “They [the Hemlock Semiconductor fire safety standard that exceeds code
John M. Jacobs Plumbing and Heating, Bay project team] wanted to see what we could requirements. Contractors were hired for
City; electrical contractor William F. Nelson do,” explained Reay. “No one ever came up the installation, but Hemlock
Electric, Saginaw; and architect Wigen to us and said, ‘Don’t do this.’ The told us Semiconductor provided the design and
Tincknell Meyer & Associates, Saginaw. what they needed and waited for us to come performed internal reviews. Sophisticated
back to them. They gave us plenty of alarms and double firewalls were part of a
CHANGING NEEDS direction about their needs, but they also comprehensive safety culture that
Most of the buildings on the Hemlock allowed us to try to satisfy those needs.” contractors needed to adopt for themselves
Semiconductor campus date back to the When asked if this approach resulted in a if they wanted to work on the site.
1960s. These “architectural hand-me- better building for Hemlock Semiconductor, “They [Hemlock Semiconductor] have their
downs” were repurposed as necessary and Reay’s one word answer spoke volumes. own safety department, so safety
Hemlock Semiconductor simply made do, “Yeah,” he said without a moment’s pause. compliance was a focus on the job,” said
until a global resurgence in demand for Reay went on to explain that design is a Chuck Barnes, project manager and
silicon mandated a fresh approach. creative process, but one that is also bound estimator for Granger Construction
“Their existing buildings did not function by practical realities. The freedom to explore Company. “You needed to complete a safety
as well as they should have mechanically new ideas is effectively checked as design orientation just to get onsite.”
and electrically,” said Thomas Reay, AIA, LEED professionals investigate the ramifications In addition to completing site-specific
AP, Wigen Tincknell Meyer & Associates. of these ideas. safety training, trades workers also needed
“They wanted a new building that would “If a concept is valid, things start falling to apply for work permits each morning.
respond to their needs now and in the into place,” said Reay. “That is what Since permit requests detailed what work
future.” happened here. Instead of trying to would be performed, how it would be
Construction is a common occurrence at manipulate the concept into a way that it performed, and what the safety risks were,
Hemlock Semiconductor, where 800-1,200 didn’t want to go, we let it have its own life. pre-task planning was a must. Safety
contractors are typically employed to meet Valid ideas usually work themselves out.” requirements placed additional deadline
the complex facilities’ needs that relate to The corporate culture that has led pressure on the project team because their
silicon production. Still, the new adminis- Hemlock Semiconductor to success in the options for increasing manpower on the site
tration represented a rare opportunity for silicon arena also led the company to enable were limited. Additional people could be,
the company. the architect with the freedom to evaluate and sometimes were, assigned, but this all
“We were a bit architecturally naïve going the validity of ideas. When concepts were needed to be planned in advance because
into this project,” admitted Tod Lange, demonstrated to have value, Hemlock of the safety training requirement and
expansion engineering for Hemlock Semiconductor stood ready to accept them background checks that were mandated
Semiconductor. “We don’t get many because the company’s top minds had without exception.
opportunities like this. We do not have a already painstakingly developed the vision In addition to a project team and a

finished facility that met Hemlock emphasis on technology is reinforced by strongly supported by the 80 artworks that
Semiconductor’s complex security and stainless steel and glass that is softened with were commissioned for the building. Rising
safety needs, the company also required a masonry that blends in well with the head and shoulders above the neutral
building that created an identity for the existing campus. Glass is also highlighted in landscapes found in many corporate offices,
company. Rapid growth would inevitably the building’s sun-drenched lobby. As each individual work has a distinct identity
entail more contact with the public. The visitors progress into the building, the cold, and was chosen to appeal to the broad array
company therefore needed a face with tech-heavy feel of the exterior gradually of nationalities and cultures that would
which to greet the public. gives way to the warmth that only rich wood likely visit the facility.
As visitors approach the building, the finishes can provide. This cozy ambiance is Still, the most noteworthy artistic
expression inside the facility is arguably the
ornate and functional central staircase.
Contractors spent countless hours adapting
the gentle curves of the staircase to the rigid
dimensions of wood paneling and trim, but
Glass is highlighted in the building’s sun-drenched lobby. the end result is as worthy of display as any
museum piece. Since the design was fast-
tracked, contractors needed to work very
closely with the architect to achieve the
desired look.
“We had some good contractors on the
project,” said Paul Haselhuhn, AIA, LEED AP,
associate for Wigen Tincknell Meyer &
Associates. “We weren’t always able to draw
them an isometric view, but they were able
to figure things out.”
Contractors who brought their skills to
the project came from all over Southeastern
Michigan. All converged on a rural site that
posed challenges for the entire team.
SITE SPECIFIC
A structure might look great on paper, but
for it to truly function, it must work with its
surroundings. Hemlock Semiconductor’s
new Administration Building shares many
common elements with similar corporate
structures, but the location was anything
but typical.
Lange admitted that the new building
does stand out a little against the rural
Western Saginaw County background, but
not in a negative way. Despite the high-tech
look, the structure was also designed in
harmony with its environment. The
abundance of exterior glass also let the
project team maximize the value of the
surroundings by offering ample views of the
natural landscape along with abundant
natural light. The structure not only fits into
the rural fabric, it is structure is also suitable
for a global business leader.
In addition to fitting the building on the
site, the project team also needed to operate
on the site to construct the building. Most of
the site was utilized by Hemlock
Semiconductor, which left very little room
for other activities.
“The site was a logistics challenge,” said
Barnes. “Laydown space was very limited.”
In fact, less than one acre was shared by all
trades, so material deliveries were
coordinated on a strict “Just in Time” basis.

Another difficulty associated with
building on the site involved working on the
periphery of a secure area. All access to
Hemlock Semiconductor facilities onsite
would be controlled through the
Administration Building once it was
complete, so the walls of the structure were
built right next to the security boundary.
Internal traffic patterns and doors were also
placed to facilitate easy access onto the
campus. All of these factors limited options
in creating a footprint for the building.
“There were some issues with siting the
building,” said Reay. “We tried to anticipate
things that were difficult to foresee. We had
to think about how could we expand
different parts of the facility – not just the
corporate facility, but also the manufac-
turing buildings.”
A high level of teamwork was needed to
perform in this fast-moving environment.
WORKING TOGETHER
No project as complex at the Hemlock
Semiconductor Corporate Center could As visitors approach the building, the emphasis on technology is reinforced by stainless
steel that is softened with masonry; it blends in well with the existing campus.
succeed without a cohesive team. This team
brought a strong combination of talent and
experience to the table, but individual team
members performed their tasks within an
organizational structure that was unfamiliar
to many of them. Instead of working with a
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this project. Though this idea took some
getting used to, there were some
advantages to this approach.
“Some things may happen during the
construction process that are contrary to the
design,” said Haselhuhn. “My job is normally
to step in and have everyone take a look at
it. In this case, Hemlock Semiconductor
either said, ‘You’re right, we’ll take care of it,’
or, ‘This is acceptable,’ and we adjusted the
design to go in that direction. It didn’t affect
how I approached my role, but it did make
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Being the final decision maker also entails
taking a large share of responsibility for the
success or failure of the project. Extensive
experience in guiding industrial projects on
the Hemlock site paid off for Hemlock
Semiconductor, as the firm ably saw the
project through to its completion. Barnes,
who has first-hand knowledge in how an
effective construction manager can guide a Engineering l Landscape Architecture
project through his years at Granger Operations l Planning l Sciences l Surveying
Construction, complimented Hemlock
Semiconductor on its “very knowledgeable 800.482.2864 l www.wadetrim.com
construction staff.” Of course, no
construction manager is skillful enough to

Rapid growth at Hemlock Semiconductor would inevitably entail more contact with the public.
The company therefore needed a face with which to greet the public.

prevent every problem. It is how they react
to unforeseen circumstances that often
elevates leaders above their peers. Hemlock
Semiconductor was aided in this area by an
able group of subcontractors who were able
to make quick decisions in the field. This was
a vital skill on this design build project
where one change could have a domino
effect impacting the entire schedule.
“Our biggest challenge on this job was
probably dealing with change
management,” said Barnes. “There were
extensive changes.”
Fortunately, the many talented minds on
the project team were able to work through
these changes in an efficient manner. This
type of thinking is common to Michigan’s
construction community, but is also a fixture
at Hemlock Semiconductor. The
Administration Building was designed and
built to facilitate the creative problem
solving for which Hemlock Semiconductor is
known.
The mathematical precision of the
building is inescapable. Two, two-story
wings radiate outward from the lobby and
central stair area. The wings are nearly
identical and both feature a 30-foot
structural grid. Even the ceiling tiles
incorporate a 30”x30” size instead of the
more common 24”x24” to fit into the natural
order that defines the space.
“Those are the kinds of things that make a
building feel right,” said Haselhuhn. “You
might not notice when things like that are
WIGEN
off, but you’ll know that something is
wrong.”
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n Rochester Hills, the science of healing,
the art of design, and the craft of
construction have joined forces in the
battle against an unsettling disease. The end
result is the new Karmanos-Crittenton
Cancer Center, a comforting refuge of stone
World-Class Cancer Center Opens and wood that aims to heal the body and
calm the mind by offering exceptional
in Rochester Hills cancer care in a remarkable building. An

alliance of the Barbara Ann Karmanos
Cancer Center and Crittenton Hospital
Medical Center has brought the expertise of
Karmanos’ world-class cancer specialists to
By Mary E. Kremposky,Associate Editor the very doorstep of the Rochester Hills
community and beyond. As one of only 40
National Cancer Institute-designated
Photos by Beth Singer comprehensive cancer centers in the

“We are very happy to make these Rustic stone blankets entire wall sections
innovative treatments available in this as well as a row of exterior and interior piers
beautiful facility through our partnership traveling the length of the building’s
with Crittenton.” medical “main street.” The natural stone,
Quality care and a quality building go khaki-colored lapboard siding and a broad
hand-in-hand in this new 30,600-square- entrance canopy of open trusses present a
foot facility. Albert Kahn Associates, Detroit, welcoming image of a private retreat. Large
has delivered a compelling translation of an overhangs, supported by visible end beams,
alpine lodge into high-tech geometric forms add to the alpine look. But the building’s
that speak to the advanced radiation angular geometry gives a high-tech edge to
therapies and innovative chemotherapy this bucolic image of a mountain chalet.
services within. With its angular form and The roughly L-shaped building bends
the interplay of sloped roof planes, the around the angular site, creating a series of
partnership’s vision of creating a high-tech dramatically sloped roof planes rushing
version of a lodge has been wonderfully skyward at opposing angles. The building
realized. The construction savvy of the continues this duet of dynamic lines in the
Barton Malow Company, Southfield, made it form of large dormers and two tower
all happen in the field, successfully tackling beacons whose roofs jut out at counter
the sheer complexity of constructing the angles to the main roof planes.
building’s irregular geometry. Geometry leaves its own high-tech stamp
Both Kahn and Barton Malow filled a very on the lobby. The lobby roof is an inverted
tall “doctor’s order.” Dr. John C. Ruckdeschel, trapezoid flaring outward as it rises upward
MD, then Karmanos president and CEO, above the surrounding roof planes. “The
articulated the Karmanos and Crittenton shape of the lobby as a whole starts to
executive team’s design ideal during suggest the building is moving beyond the
discussions with Kahn in 2007. “He wanted look of a residential ski lodge,” said Michael
the building to have the look, the warmth, Giovanni, RA, LEED AP, Kahn senior associate
and the welcoming feel of a western ski and project designer. “The lobby and its roof
lodge,” said Monte Oberlee, Crittenton’s form is more of a modern notion of
administrator for the Environment of Care. geometry that gives the building a high-
“Then he threw in the twist. He wanted it to tech look.” As part of its contemporary bent,
look high-tech as well, because he doesn’t “the building has a relatively thin raised roof
want patients to feel as if they are walking planes that float above clerestory windows,”
into old medicine. People undergoing he added.
cancer treatment want the latest The building’s glass curtain walls in the
technology, and that needs to be reflected in lobby and the beacon towers add a high-
the building.” tech gloss to the building. Bringing it back
to its lodge roots, the curtain walls are
A RUSTIC, HIGH-TECH HYBRID subdivided by a grid of double metal
The partnership and the project team mullions, evoking the wood window
have successfully created a place of warmth patterns of old-fashioned ski lodges in a
and comfort, reassuring in its quality of care, contemporary form.
its beautiful cloak of natural materials, and
its contemporary form. Creating a THE COMMUNITY CARE NETWORK
healthcare facility that truly broke the mold This inspired exterior moves into the
country, Karmanos has access to over 300 took the work of skilled and dedicated interior, offering a lobby with the warmth of
clinical trials and is one of the top Phase I hands. Steeped in their craft, the masons of large cherry-stained wood beams and a 10-
Clinical Trials programs in North America, R.C. Nowak & Co., Garden City, turned pallets foot-tall fireplace of natural stone as
having been the first to test numerous of dolomite limestone units into an organic comforting as having a national leader in
newly formulated cancer drugs and and beautifully patterned stone exterior and cancer research, education and care in your
therapies. interior, including a stone-clad fireplace own backyard. “Karmanos is very focused on
“Seven or eight of the latest cancer- filling the lobby with a comforting sense of making excellent cancer care as accessible
fighting drugs that are currently on the hearth and home. Avoiding a rigid order, the as possible to communities,” said Ellis.
market were first tested at the Karmanos light-colored stone is randomly placed in Karmanos and Crittenton have
Cancer Center,” said Patricia A. Ellis, size and tone, producing a job worthy of this maintained a partnership since 2003, but
spokesperson for the Detroit-based natural material and true to the Center’s this $14.7 million dollar structure is the first
healthcare institution that is the only mission of providing cutting-edge care in a actual building created by this strong
hospital in Michigan focused exclusively on house of healing enveloped in natural alliance of a nationally prominent institute
cancer research and care. “The research that finishes. “Nowak did a beautiful job,” said and a community-based hospital. The
comes out of Karmanos is research that will Oberlee. “There were places where the broader community also left their own mark
develop the next standard of cancer care stone mason would just say, ‘Tell me what on the new building in the fundraising
used throughout the world,” she continued. you need, and I will deliver it.’ ” stages. Barton Malow supplied a series of

steel I beams that were taken to the people who are competitors of ours,” said such deep community support, the beams
American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life Oberlee. “Ultimately, there is a great deal and the building reinforce the message:
events. “We painted them a light violet color more passion about the goal of beating Those who battle cancer do not fight alone.
and hauled these heavy beams from place cancer than who competes with whom. Our “I actually lost both of my parents to cancer,”
to place, taking them to Relays in Rochester competitors would sign the beam and put said Ellis. “For those of us who are co-
Hills, Auburn Hills, and other communities,” money in our fundraising bucket. It isn’t survivors, it is therapeutic to know that we
recalled Oberlee. Many Relay participants about competition, it’s about beating this are all working together to support the
donated funds and signed the beams that thing called cancer.” community in this fight.”
were actually built into the new building’s In lieu of a traditional groundbreaking, the In fact, the entire project began through
columns during construction. mayor of Rochester Hills and other the efforts of a long-time supporter of the
“What I thought was really unique was dignitaries signed the beams, along with the Rochester community and of Crittenton
some of the signatures on the beams from construction crew then on the jobsite. With Hospital Medical Center, named Steven
Stolaruk. He donated the land for the new
Center in memory of his wife, Vivian Vivio
Stolaruk.
Wood, stone and light envelop patients and visitors with the comfort of
the natural world and the warmth of home. SITE AND STEEL
Karmanos-Crittenton officially launched
its own efforts in 2007, interviewing high-
profile architects throughout Southeast
Michigan as part of its strong commitment
to use local firms. Ultimately, Crittenton
turned to the tried and true team of Kahn
and Barton Malow. With Kahn and Barton
Malow having successfully completed
Crittenton’s $86 million dollar facility
expansion, “We felt that we could hit the
ground running on this project,” said
Oberlee.
Hitting the ground running actually
meant managing and navigating quite an
obstacle course of site conditions in both
design and construction. The site is an
irregular, roughly L-shaped parcel in the
middle of a technology park filled with a sea
of low-rise commercial buildings, as well as a
chain hotel and restaurant. Kahn wanted to
design a building with a strong presence in
the technology park and with maximum
visibility from nearby roadways.
The tower beacons with copper paint and
up lighting, the sloped roof planes, and the
height of the building all served these
design goals. “The elevations, the
topography and the height of the building
were important, because as the towers and
the building rose up out of this commercial
environment, the building started to
dominate the area,” said Giovanni. “I
remember the first time I got off the
expressway heading east. I stopped at the
light, looked over, and I realized that the
design really works. The tower beacons and
the rooflines just pop up out of the
surrounding park.”
Barton Malow managed another set of
ground conditions, including thawing the
ground in January to melt 24 to 30 inches of
frost as one of the first steps in launching
construction. Assembling the exterior frame
of this irregularly shaped building with
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difficulty and made for some heavy-duty longer overhangs than a typical structure, drove the schedule. Barton Malow actually
detailing. “The greatest issue was the “the detailing of them was also extensive,” worked extensively on the interior clinical
structural steel framing,” said Rich Wimble, continued Dziedzic. “All of the overhangs are spaces while methodically tackling the
PE, Barton Malow project director. “There is a built out or streamlined using plywood. We intricate details of the exterior building
great deal of moment connections in the also used a different roof system attachment frame. The structure is almost a building
steel frame of the building. It took more that was more user friendly and more nestled within another building. The portion
detailing and drawing to fabricate, because forgivable.” As the roofing subcontractor, with the dramatic rooflines and beacon
no two pieces are the same.” Lutz Roofing Co., Inc., Shelby Township, towers wraps around the main clinical core
Added Larry Dziedzic, Barton Malow expertly crafted field details to deliver these and rises 12 to 14 feet above the flat roof
project manager, “The elaborate framing demanding roofs designed with 6,000 sheltering the medical heart of the facility.
took a great deal of false work to make all square feet of canopies and overhangs. “We worked our way around the project
the angles fit.” With the building having The complexity of the building frame with the exterior walls, working out issues
and coordinating with Kahn,” said Dziedzic.
Beyond the methodical and deliberate
piecing together of varied angles, planes,
and overhangs, the budget remained the
other core challenge, for all this beauty has
its price. With the skill of a plastic surgeon,
Barton Malow and the project team nipped
and tucked the original plan to bring out the
beauty of the building but contain the cost.
“We tried to accomplish what Kahn was
trying to achieve but in a little less expensive
manner,” said Wimble.
The original design called for more stone
on the building. The project team carefully
selected cost-saving areas in the interior, in
one instance switching stone and a
clerestory to drywall above the interior
vestibule wall. On the exterior, the natural
stone was replaced with split-face block on
the service side of the building, leaving the
elegant stonework intact on the public side.
ENTERING THE COMFORT ZONE

Barton Malow completed the building
after 18 months of detailed and intricate
work. Driving down Crooks Road and
turning onto Star-Batt Drive will lead you to
the doorstep of this phenomenal building.
“Coming up Crooks and rounding Star-Batt,
the building unfolds right in front of you,”
said Giovanni. Stretching the building
diagonally across the site and placing it in
the crook of the L-shaped building made
this welcoming sight line possible.
Approaching the building from the
parking lot, the beauty of its stone and the
intricate details of the exterior come into full
view. “The building has different levels of
scale,” said Giovanni. “You can see the
beacon towers and sloped roofs from a half
a mile away, but as you walk up to the
building, the scale changes and breaks down
into details.” This level of detail is part of
establishing “an architecture of healing”
through the creation of a building on an
intimate, personal and human scale, he
added.
The circulation spine offers ease of navigation and The resulting building is reminiscent of
the comforting presence of natural materials. the richly detailed and handcrafted Arts and
Crafts buildings of the late 19th and early

20th centuries, but with each detail the sensibility of a lodge retreat but are Giovanni. “There is all this documentation
following the modern tradition of being less lighter in color and more distilled in form about natural light not only being
decorative and more distilled in line and than the dark, ornate woodwork of historic comforting but actually helping to heal
form. Virtually all the windows are arranged and traditional lodge retreats. people faster.”
in a decorative grid of double mullions. The Glass is the other comforting element in The lobby’s art glass sculpture is another
exterior stone columns have insets or the building. The lobby’s glass curtain wall memorable element in this building that
recessed areas in the center, and even the and clerestory windows bathe the interior in transcends the conventional notion of a
roof edges are broken down into subtle, natural light. “Especially in the morning and healthcare facility. Designed by Kahn, the
small steps formed of end caps. evening, the light entering the space creates sculpture is conceptualized to embody the
Building this high level of detail, specif- beautiful shadows and contrast,” said patient journey, with glass rectangles linked
ically the double mullions, demanded an
extra degree of craftsmanship. “Instead of
two pieces of glass, each window required
installation of about 15 separate pieces,”
said Wimble. The experienced firm of
American Glass & Metals Corp., Plymouth,
installed the curtain wall and interior glass.
The double mullion detail is carried into
the interior in the fireplace grill and even in
the wood of the reception desk, a beautiful
assembly of stone, wood, art glass and fin-
like columns that is basically the building in
miniature. In the circulation spine, the
double mullion pattern flows from the glass
windows to the gypsum wall above and the
ceiling overhead.
The building is cohesive and coherent in
the details of design, creating a subtle sense
of harmony and ease. “The whole building
flows together and maintains continuity
from the exterior into the interior – and
within the interior, itself,” said Giovanni. “The
building is drawn together, and I believe that
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The roughly L-shaped building bends around the angular site, creating a
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by light cables in an almost 8-foot-tall way. The art glass is even more remarkable piers.
sculpture. The glass rectangles express the given the fact that its budget had to be cut by The granular, rough surface of the stone
experience of cancer as the patient moves a third. “What we experienced on this job – adds a wonderful texture and tactility to the
from shock and turmoil to calmness and and I think happens on many jobs – is that corridor. The windows are recessed about a
some degree of acceptance. The bottom cost doesn’t necessarily mean you have to foot deep on both the interior and exterior,
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random curvilinear shapes. The lower glass Oberlee. “You just have to view it differently stone piers and bring the texture and varied
panels evolve into smoother textures and and thrift it.” In this case, Kahn contacted hues of the limestone to life. The stone
lighter colors of orange and yellow until another fabricator called Echo Etching that becomes a presence in the building; its
reaching a pure rectangle of almost clear lightened up the sculpture and replaced beauty is calming, its association with
glass at the very apex. Moving from chaos to heavy steel cables with lighter cabling. strength and stability may emotionally
clarity, the panel edges also transition from Clear art glass in the same pattern graces support the patient making his or her way
wavy to straight. “Symbolically, the cables tie the marble inset of the stone fireplace in this down the long corridor toward the infusion
together not only the individual patient’s warm and welcoming lobby. Stolaruk, the bay. “Using texture and warm materials are all
‘plateaus’ and state of mind, but also individual who donated the land in memory ways to comfort people through the design,”
establish a common thread in the lives of of his wife, entered the lobby during said Giovanni. “People comment that they
cancer patients and their families,” said construction. He became visibly moved as he want to touch these piers all the time.”
Giovanni. caught sight of the fireplace, the wood ceiling The corridor’s construction was
Oberlee interprets the sculpture, having and the art glass installation. “He was very complicated by the sheer amount of high-
grappled with the disease shortly before touched by it all,” said Oberlee. “He end finish work compressed into this
beginning construction of this new facility. sponsored the fireplace and the art glass on seven-foot-wide circulation path.
“When I was going through it, the doctors the spot.” Innumerable lifts for installation of stone,
talked about how the cells become more glass, wood and drywall had to be crammed
random and out of order in cancer,” said A COLONNADE OF STONE AND WOOD into the congested corridor during
Oberlee. “Healing is bringing order back to Another warm and welcoming space is the construction, said Wimble. In both lobby and
the cells. The glass pieces at the bottom are circulation spine. Wrapped in a harmony of corridor, the humidification system had to be
very random, and as it moves to the top, the wood and stone, the circulation corridor is a operational before installation of the
panels become more orderly. But then again, colonnade of stone piers on one side and extensive woodwork fabricated by
I’ve had patients look at it and see a beautiful towering wood columns on the other. The McClelland Millwork, Vassar, and installed by
sunrise over water.” wood columns rise and “bend” on the same Barton Malow Interiors. “Without humidifi-
The glass holds a mirror to each person slant as the lobby beams to form an archway cation, the woodwork would shrink and
who interprets the sculpture in his or her own of wood before connecting with the stone warp,” said Wimble.

HEALING SPACES
The corridor leads to the infusion waiting area and the entrance to
the infusion clinic, a space in the form of a rounded arc built of
segmented sections. A large painting of Ford Motor Company’s field
of bright, yellow sunflowers greets patients entering the infusion
bay. The bay itself overlooks a healing garden enclosed in a
sheltering rock wall and planted with evergreens and flowering
plants. “We brought the windows of the infusion bay all the way
down to the floor practically, similar to a sliding glass patio door at
home,” said Giovanni.
Drawing on the peace of the natural world, the curtain fabric is
dotted with flowers and reeds; the furniture fabric in the lobby is
covered in a pattern of small leaves. Overall, the building offers
comfort and solace through the use of natural materials, the
touchable texture of stone, and by the personal, human scale of the
building details. With its harmony and calmness, the building
becomes a healing force in its own way.
The actual clinical spaces are arranged in two separate wings by
the bend in the building: the infusion therapy travels to the
southwest of the building’s pivot and the radiation services are in
the northeast wing. The radiation wing includes its own waiting
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Wheels on the Bus
By David R. Miller, Associate Editor
T
he wheels on the bus go round and
round, at least according to a familiar
Photography by Curt Clayton, Clayton Studio children’s song, but tires are not the
only things moving the Motor City forward.
Like any major metropolitan area, Detroit is a

that efficient mass transit is a necessity is journeys, any facilities offered at the Rosa
even taking hold in the birthplace of the Parks Transit Center would have been a
automobile. Still, the city is not forgetting welcome addition, but what was put in place
the spirit and determination that made far exceeds most expectations. More than
Detroit the world’s car capital. Respect for mere restrooms near a bus shelter, the Rosa
the city’s past and the path towards a Parks Transit Center includes a climate-
greener tomorrow converge in one amazing controlled lobby that provides true shelter
structure – the Rosa Parks Transit Center. against the elements.
The Rosa Parks Transit Center transformed “Our customers have expressed their
a small, underutilized parcel of land into a appreciation for the building, especially in
model for outstanding customer service, the winter months,” said Williams.
unexpected amenities and efficient Amenities at the Rosa Park Transit Center
operation, all while potentially spurring rise even further above expectations when
development by essentially extending visitors explore the second level. This
Detroit’s central business district. Bus spacious gathering area will eventually
ridership should increase, as the experience house a variety of casual dining and retail
is now more pleasant and convenient. options. Ample windows also provide clear
Another important aspect of the facility is views of bus arrival areas and two nearby
the homage paid to Rosa Parks. While she People Mover stops, so customers who are
was not from Detroit, she adopted the city as waiting for their own departures or who are
her own and embodied a struggle she meeting arriving friends will know exactly
shared with many Detroiters. Key members when their awaited transport arrives. They
of the project team that created an iconic can also know well in advance thanks to GPS
structure that celebrates the bravery of a technology called the Automatic Vehicle
woman and the ingenuity of a city include Location System that tracks arrivals and
DeMaria Building Company, Detroit, and departures. This information is displayed on
USA Shade & Fabric Structures, Inc., Costa LED-lit panels placed on the outdoor bus
Mesa, CA, general contractors for the way and on two 55-inch monitors inside.
terminal and the canopy structure respec- Another subtler aspect of the facility that
tively; the Economic Development is sure to be appreciated by visitors is the
Corporation of the City of Detroit (EDC), attractive finishes used throughout. The
which provided contract procurement and project team stuck a careful balance
construction management services as an between form and function in selecting
owner’s representative for DDOT; and striking materials that would successfully
architect Parsons Brinkerhoff, Detroit. weather the daily grind in high traffic areas.
Prefinished hardwood veneer panels of
DRIVING CUSTOMERS Baltic birch that are stained light yellow on
Before construction of the Rosa Park the main floors and brown on the lower level
Transit Center, Detroit bus routes were dazzle the eye, but many more common
centered on a facility located in Cadillac materials used in unexpected ways also
Square. Downtown development forced a create visual drama.
temporary relocation to Capitol Park. Steel surfaces were originally to be
Neither location had enclosed shelters or powder-coated offsite prior to erection, but
bathrooms, which resulted in an early the project team realized significant savings
project goal. by painting the metal with a heavy-duty
“The facility was designed with our industrial epoxy coating after installation.
customers fully in mind, said Lovevett This approach also eliminated the possibility
Williams, director of the Detroit Department of scratching the coating during the instal-
of Transportation (DDOT). “In addition, the lation process. Steel columns were likewise
enclosed structure provides protection from painted instead of being clad with drywall or
the inclement weather and contributes to other material. Although the initial reason
customer convenience, such as retail, food, a for these decisions was closely linked to a
sundry store, restroom areas and fare card tight budget, the finished result features a
purchases.” simple elegance that fits the facility well.
The Rosa Parks Transit Center acts as an “I honestly think that some of the
intermodal transfer point between DDOT compromises that were made resulted in a
routes, SMART, Transit Windsor and the better building,” said Trey Neubauer, project
work that is constantly in progress. The manager, commercial and industrial groups,
People Mover. The facility is a stop along 21
building that reshapes the city now is for DeMaria Building Company.
bus routes and is visited by 140-150 busses
guided by new concepts. Neighborhoods Concrete block walls were used through
each day. Since the 15,000 riders who use
and business districts are being redesigned much of the interior, but the project team
the facility each day often utilize more than
with sustainability in mind. The realization was able to upgrade to a more attractive
one form of transportation on their

After accommodating bus traffic
on the site, only a small triangle
was left for the building.

burnished block by eliminating stud walls, need to come into the building, they could nation with the electrician to make it work.”
drywall and paint in most locations. Block transfer right on the island.” The canopy structure outside also
walls will also require less maintenance over This solution worked well for passengers required a high degree of coordination.
time. At first glance, visitors walking into the and bus drivers, but wasn’t ideal for the
facility might mistake the shiny floors for building. CANOPY STRUCTURE
terrazzo, but the budget hawks on the “There was a tiny triangle left over to put The exterior of the Rosa Parks Transit
project team used a much more cost- the building on,” said Advani. “It wasn’t even Center is defined by a unique canopy
effective alternative. a symmetrical triangle, but everything had structure that towers above the bus
“We have beautiful hard floors that are to come together in a little triangular boarding area. Like most aspects of the
made of color-impregnated concrete,” said building.” facility, fitting this structure onto the site
Tushar Advani, AIA, supervising architect for Program elements would not fit perfectly emerged as a significant challenge.
Parsons Brinkerhoff. “Concrete is a very hard on the tiny remainder of the site. A “We had two separate structures to build,
surface, but it is significantly cheaper than thorough understanding of project goals the building and the canopy structure,”
terrazzo. You often see terrazzo in transit was required to make the location work. explained Timothy Miles, project manager
facilities, but we saved a good amount of “DDOT understood the value of the single for the Economic Development Corporation
money by using concrete.” island,” said Advani. “They were willing to of the City of Detroit. “There were two
Although affordable concrete floors make the compromises that needed to be separate general contractors working on a
solved many problems for the project team, made to be on this site. We accepted the small site. That made for an interesting mix
the site directly underneath the concrete challenge of fitting the building onto the and we didn’t know how it would work out.”
posed unique challenges of its own. site in order to maintain how well the busses The Economic Development Corporation
worked on the central island.” of the City of Detroit selected both general
SITE CONSTRAINTS DDOT was willing to forgo plans for a bus contractors in accordance with FTA Federal
Finding a suitable site for the Rosa Parks garage onsite and many vital building Procurement Procedures and also carefully
Transit Center emerged as an early project components could be placed in the scrutinized previous projects that were
challenge. Obviously, the facility needed to structure’s lower level. Unfortunately, the undertaken by both for clues about their
be built close to the destinations that riders presence of underground ductbanks suitability for the task at hand. Both selected
would need transpiration to, but very few threatened this possibility. The locations of firms would need to adapt to a tight
parcels were available near Detroit’s Central two documented ductbanks inside the schedule and a tight site. DeMaria Building
Business District. The desire for an enclosed building perimeter were already known and Company and USA Shade & Fabric
facility further limited options. Finally, a the size of the lower level was halved to Structures had excellent track records, but
triangular piece of land that was home to accommodate them, but an unanticipated USA Shade & Fabric Structures tended to
three vacant buildings and a small park was third ductback ran right through the work as a subcontractor and therefore was
discovered, but no one was sure how much remaining portion of the footprint that was perceived as having limited general
this site would hold. allocated for the lower level of the structure. contracting experience. In spite of this, USA
An untrained observer might assume that AT&T worked around the clock for 10 to 12 Shade & Fabric Structures was a solid
the enclosure was designed first, with the weeks to bypass the old clay crock-encased addition to the project team as the firm fine-
bus routes planned around the structure, pipe by splicing the 10,000 communication tuned the conceptual design developed by
but this does not define the design process lines inside, but the project schedule would Parsons Brinkerhoff.
as it relates to the Rosa Parks Transit Center. not allow for the team to sit idly by while this “Their expertise changed the form,” said
Busses are large and they need lots of room was taking place. Advani. “We were thinking more of conven-
to maneuver. People boarding busses also “We had meetings with AT&T and they tional tent structures, but they pushed and
need an environment that is easy to ended up supporting their ductbank so we pulled to change that idea into exactly what
navigate and never places them in danger of could build around it,” said Neubauer. “They we wanted, but better.”
being struck by vehicular traffic. Most of the were relocating the ductbank while we The canopy is a tensile structure with
site was needed to accommodate busses, so continued to pour foundations and move fabric that is held in tension by brackets,
vehicular traffic was the first issue the project forward.” trusses and cables. Unlike a traditional
undertaken by the design team. Since space was at a premium inside the foundation, which is designed to keep a
“With a transit facility, if the busses don’t facility, the project team made the most out structure from sinking into the ground, the
work, then the facility doesn’t work,” of what was available on the lower level, foundation for the A-frame that supports
explained Advani. “The functioning of the which houses a secure transit-police office, the canopy primarily exists to keep the
busses has to come first.” plus a lunch area, locker rooms and lightweight structure from blowing away.
Having the busses come first meant restrooms for drivers. High windows let Uplift is also minimized by keeping the
building concrete islands that were easily natural light spill into the lower level. These fabric taut, so air flows around the structure
accessible for busses and passengers alike. windows are positioned to benefit from the instead of catching it like a sail or parachute.
“I started working with multiple islands,” shading that is provided by the outdoor The canopy is configured into seven pairs
said Advani. “We got a lot of busses onto the canopy structures. The lower level also of cones and funnels. Structurally, the two
site that way, but transferring from a bus on includes a computer security room, which different forms balance against each other,
one island to a bus on another would have serves as the facility’s brain, but the nerves which tends to cancel out the forces that
required crossing one, two, or even three bus that communicate with this brain needed to work against the individual shapes. Funnels
ways. Then, I cleared everything off my desk run through solid concrete. also collect diesel fumes from the busses, so
and made the biggest part of the site into “There is a lot of conduit in these concrete they can float out the top of the structure,
one big island. Passengers wouldn’t even walls,” said Neubauer. “It took a lot of coordi- while cones quickly transfer rainwater and

The canopy is configured into seven pairs of cones and funnels. Funnels collect diesel fumes from the buses, while cones quickly shed rainwater
and snow.
snow down into one of seven rain gardens. GETTING NOTICED angle just beyond the mezzanine. Instead of
“Water doesn’t just set up there creating a In spite of the many design challenges being set perpendicular to the floor, many
load on the structure,” said Advani. “Water is involved in creating a functional transit walls are angled outward to add visual
a structure’s greatest enemy. The faster you center on a tiny, irregular site, Advani appeal. None of these distinctive design
can get water off of a structure, the better.” believes that the highest hurdle was to elements made construction any easier.
Long before water could accumulate atop develop an iconic design. The Rosa Parks “Nothing in this structure was square or
the structure, DeMaria Building Company Transit Center project brought Advani to standard,” said Neubauer.
and USA Shade & Fabric Structures needed Detroit for the first time in his life. He The decision to honor Rosa Parks was
to find a way to build two complex projects experienced the city’s vibe firsthand, but he made shortly after her passing in October
concurrently on a small site. This would only wasn’t sure how he could replicate the 2005. Norman White, who was director of
be possible if both firms worked together. energy of the tall buildings nearby without DDOT at the time, ultimately approved the
“We talked with them about the building a skyscraper of his own. fitting memorial of adding the Rosa Parks
schedule,” said Neubauer. “The schedule “We were building a two-story building name to the transit center.
was staggered so we put in the road for the amongst giants,” said Advani. “We couldn’t “When we started on this project, the
busses and they immediately had a hard reasonably replicate what was here, so we entire team recognized that we were
surface to work off of.” had to go in the opposite direction.” building the Rosa Parks Transit Center to
As USA Shade & Fabric Structures went to At 73 feet in height, the spectacular honor a civil rights activist who adopted
work on this concrete surface, DeMaria canopy is a giant in its own right, but it is still Detroit as her home,” said Miles. “Everyone
Building Company worked in close concert dwarfed by nearby buildings. The structure wanted to honor her and her legacy by
to install light rings inside each cone and successfully relies on its brilliant white hue coming together to build the best facility
funnel, along with landscaping and brick and complex geometry to draw the eye. The that they could. It showed in the
catch basins under the rain gathering cones. terminal building likewise uses unexpected workmanship, detail and effort that went
DeMaria Building Company even grouted shapes and angles to stand out. into the project. That’s how you honor
base plates for steel used by USA Shade & A radius mezzanine, a canted glass wall someone, through effort.”
Fabric Structures. The end result of their and angled ceilings combine to create a Much like the wheels of the bus, the
collaborative work makes for an eye- vibrant interior that is complemented by the wheels of progress continue to propel the
catching display, but it is only one of many complex ceiling framing system and City of Detroit. As long as people continue
aspects of the Rosa Parks Transit Center that aluminum tiles. The building’s roof has a to be inspired by the bravery of Rosa Parks
is worthy of notice. 1:12 slope that rises at a slight angle from and exhibit the ingenuity of the Rosa Parks
east to west before it “takes off” at a sharper Transit Center project team, they always will.

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Building a Best Seller
By Mary E. Kremposky, Associate Editor Photos by Marci Christian

and on schedule. The impressive facility is rapidly expanding collection. "Although our
part information hub and part gathering city's population increased over 500 percent
space for this thriving city in southwestern over nearly 30 years, the size of the public
Oakland County. With an outdoor reading library remained unchanged basically since
terrace, a sweeping glass curtain wall 1976," said Farkas.
overlooking a park, and an eatery named With approximately 145,000 books and
Read-a-Latte Cafe, this inviting and light- media in a mere 24,495 square feet of space,
filled new library is already a best seller with little room remained for computer stations
the entire community. or even sufficient table space. Students from
Novi’s library board and building the nearby Novi High School, flooding the
authority enlisted the services of Diamond library after school, were packed in as tightly
and Schmitt Architects, Inc., Toronto as as a crammed bookshelf. The old library was
design architect, and Detroit's BEI a book nook without room for growth or
Associates, Inc., as architect of record. even existing services. The 100-person
Together the design team created a two- community meeting room doubled as a
story facility only 30 feet from the existing storytime area for children and as the
library but world's apart in available Friends of the Library bookstore on different
collection space, library technology, and days. The number of rooms reserved for
inviting enclaves for every age group in the tutoring or private study reached the grand
community. total of one. In staff areas, one restroom
The Dailey Company’s team of trade served a staff of 53 people. Groups of four
contractors was instrumental in opening employees were cramped into an office area
this new chapter in Novi Public Library's 50- the size of a single, conventional cubicle
year history. B & B Ceramic Tile & Marble, Fair with about two feet of working surface per
Haven, installed over 1,600 handcrafted tiles employee. Overall, the entire employee area
throughout the building interior. Kehrig was a windowless labyrinth of congested
Steel, Inc., Ira Township, erected a radius spaces.
curtain wall designed with two different Fortunately, the library could still count on
radius points, and Leidal & Hart Mason the continued support of its friends. Charles
Contractors, a Livonia firm respected for and Myrtle Walker, Novi residents for over 30
their expertise and efficiency in brick and years, donated $1 million dollars to launch
block, helped deliver a project on a the Library Building Fund in 2004, along with
compressed schedule. matching contributions reaching an upward
"There really was a wonderful relationship limit of another $1 million dollars. The
between the architect, contractor, crew and Walker's generous donation and voter bond
owner,” said Julie E. Farkas, director of the approval in November 2007 funded a new
Novi Public Library. “The Dailey Company did library that doubled the overall space,
a great job of delivering a wonderful ultimately creating a 200-person community
building on time. Dailey, BEI and Diamond room, nine tutoring and study spaces, plus a
and Schmitt have all been amazing.” doubling of computer stations and a tripling
of the size of the Youth Services
THE BOOK NOOK Department. “We also added just under
Novi Public Library recently celebrated 20,000 new items to the library’s collection
the half-century mark with the grand when the new facility opened,” said Farkas.
opening of a new facility in June 2010. With Sadly, Charles Walker passed away, but not
a fireside reading room and an advanced before leaving this wonderful legacy to the
material handling system possessed by just Novi community. "His love of ideas
a couple other libraries in Oakland County, generated numerous products and patents,"
this respected Novi institution has certainly said Farkas. "Fittingly, his gift to the Novi
improved with age. What the Friends of the Public Library will help current and future
Library began in 1960 as a modest collection generations to access knowledge and to
of 150 donated books, stacked in the spark their own creative ideas."
cramped interior of a former bank, has
blossomed into an impressive collection A NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK CLUB
now housed in an equally impressive The architectural team sat down at the
T
he Dailey Company wrote the book on building. drawing board in 2007. Whether to build
how to build a successful library. The newly constructed library took the new or to renovate was actually the first
Thanks to this Lake Orion construction place of a 1976 structure that once included question. A cascade of concerns led to the
management firm, the story of Novi’s new both the library and City Hall. Even the exit decision to build an entirely new facility.
public library has a happy ending: a 55,000- of the City Hall to its own building and a "The existing library had no option
square-foot building, doubling the size of small expansion in 1988 failed to provide structurally for a second-floor addition," said
the existing library, delivered under budget sufficient breathing room for the library's Alvin F. Blair, AIA, BEI vice president and

This sweeping glass curtain wall overlooking a park is designed
with two different radius points, adding an element of complexity director of design. "Without a second-floor addition, the footprint of
to construction but offering library patrons a beautiful outdoor an expanded library would be too large and would reduce parking
reading terrace. capacity below code requirements." In addition, a new building
would also ease the task of keeping the existing library in full
operation throughout construction.
The library board and building authority opted to create a new
home for a library founded and long supported by dedicated
patrons in the community. Fittingly, the new library is designed as
part of a neighborhood "block club" of masonry buildings in the
Novi Civic Center located at Ten Mile and Taft Roads. "The brick was
selected to complement the bricks of the adjacent civic buildings,"
said Sydney Browne, associate, OAA, LEED AP, Diamond and Schmitt.
“The main entrance on the east is easily accessed from Ten Mile Road
and also directly faces the heart of the civic center.”
This civic-minded building offers a window into the history of Novi
through the design of a great western wall of curved glass rising two
stories and drawing in panoramic views of the historic Fuerst Park
into the interior. "The main public reading and collection spaces in
the library are all located at the west side of the building to take
advantage of the views of the Fuerst Farm parkland," said Browne.
The eight-acre park was once part of the family farmstead of two
sisters named Ruby and Ida Fuerst. Recently revitalized, the park now
hosts the original Novi Township Hall, dating from 1876, a contem-
porary amphitheater, newly planted apple trees, and several
pathways now connecting with the library’s own walkways. The
trees are a nod to Novi’s history as a center of fruit production in
southeastern Michigan in the 19th and early 20th Centuries,
according to a Michigan historical marker.
The glass curtain wall draws this peaceful natural vista, dotted
with apple trees, into the interior. On the exterior, the radius wall is
the backdrop for a 2,000-square-foot outdoor terrace or patio of
decorative stamped concrete with a sitting wall for 125 people. “The
reading patio directly faces the park and will host both civic and
library events," said Blair. Whether inside or out, the patio is a breath
of fresh air, offering people a novel reading experience on the new
library's communal back porch.
SIDESTEPPING THE GREAT RECESSION

The Dailey Company came on board to build the Novi Public
Library's new home in 2008. Good timing in a bad economy helped
the library virtually sidestep the Great Recession in the financing of
its new home. Essentially, the bonds were evaluated before the
economic meltdown and the project was bid after the downturn.
"We received great rates when our bonds were evaluated in June

2008 just before everything went crazy," said
Farkas. Released for bids in August 2008, the
bids reflected the competitive environment,
coming in well below the anticipated
budget.
Beyond broader economic forces, The
Dailey Company's own good sense of timing
formulated a game plan able to bring the
building out of the ground and open for
service slightly ahead of schedule. Dailey
launched the project in late February 2009
rather than November 2008. "We didn't
want to stop excavation because of frost
laws and then resume the job," said Paul A.
Danko, Dailey project manager. "We decided For over 70 years Dailey has been the name for
to begin a bit later and then compress the quality, integrity and professionalism in construction.
schedule." The compression was successful
with the library taking temporary
occupancy two weeks ahead of schedule in
mid-March 2010.
Dailey also altered the original project
phasing by installing a deep sanitary sewer
tap before rather than after construction of
the building. "If it was a five-foot-deep
sewer, it would not have been a big deal,"
said Vince Washington, Dailey superin-
tendent. "But this tap was 26 feet deep. If we
would have waited, we would have run into w w w. d a i l e y c o . c o m
all sorts of problems."
Keeping the library operational during
construction – and all those book lovers
happily lost in a sea of print – required the
rerouting of sewers and the creation of
temporary roads. Dailey preserved parking
spaces by relocating sewer lines to a
perimeter greenbelt 20 feet north of the
existing library parking lot. The flow of
library materials was maintained through
construction of a dedicated temporary
roadway that gave the library access to its
existing loading dock. "There was no
interruption of library service to the public
whatsoever during construction," said
Farkas. "This has been a great process. We
only closed the existing library in April and
May 2010 for the purpose of making our
own move to the new building."
JUDGING A BOOK BY ITS COVER

Bringing the actual building out of the
ground is a how to book written in steel,
glass and resin panels. After trench footing
installation, Dailey tackled the core
challenge of the project: erecting the
structural steel radius curtain wall and
assembling the glass and phenolic panel
glazing. “The first 770 feet of the curved
curtain wall had a different center point for
its radius arc than the last 249 feet of the
curtain wall,” said Washington. The reason
for the shift was to create more space for the
Teen Room and other areas by jutting the

reflective glass with a low E coating on the
inner glass pane and usage of argon gas in
the sealed space between glass panes. This
glass has a great shading co-efficient, which
reduces solar heat gain and operating costs.
Automatic shades with 10 percent openness
further reduce sun glare into the library, as
needed.”
The glass selection ultimately will save the
library $200,000 in operating costs over the
next 30 years, said Blair. The low-E coating
on the inner pane blocks summer heat from
entering the building and prevents the
building’s heat from escaping in the colder
months. “In this way, the building owner
reduces heating bills in the winter and
reduces air conditioning in the summer,”
said Blair. “The reflective glass helps lower
the shading co-efficient, which tremen-
dously impacts operating costs and is an
important factor in reducing the cost of the
mechanical system.”
Beyond glass, the remainder of the
library’s “book jacket” is a series of randomly
placed, sized and colored phenolic panels
that accent the curtain wall and the
remainder of the building’s windows, as well
as the cladding for the building’s main
entrance canopy. “The phenolic or resin
panels simulate wood but retain the
durability and low maintenance of a plastic
laminate,” said Danko. Aesthetically, the
panels add a contemporary flair and the
warmth of wood to the building exterior.
The 1/8-inch-thick phenolic veneer was
manufactured in the Netherlands, laminated
on an insulated panel by an East Coast
company, and delivered to the jobsite cut to
This grand monumental stair leads from the research and quiet study areas on the second
the specified size, said Danko. With a lead
floor to the café, youth area and large community meeting room on the first floor. Skylights
above the monumental stair and a wealth of windows throughout the building draw natural time of 16 weeks, the panels were the last
light into both floors of this wonderful new library. piece of the exterior skin set in place,
requiring the openings in the building skin
to be covered in plywood until the panels
arrived on site.
Beneath the exterior skin, Dailey installed
building forward at a sharper angle. “The sharper radius,” said Blair. energy-efficient wall insulation that greatly
sharper radius gives the building more Turning a great idea into an actual exceeds code requirements. Likewise, the
square footage for certain functions on the structure takes the classic formula of 10 white roof and the mechanical system are
north side of the building,” said Blair. percent inspiration and 90 percent perspi- designed to boost energy efficiency. The
The average person may not notice the ration or sheer hard work. The construction mechanical system includes: a variable air
difference, but the trade contractors in the team grappled with the dual radius points of volume distribution system, an economizer
field certainly had to be aware of the angle the curved wall, while the architectural team cooling system, a high-efficiency air-cooled
shift during construction. It took almost a analyzed the optimal type of glass to block chiller, hot water heating reset controls able
week “to do the math” in preparation for heat gain and protect energy efficiency. to vary the temperature of supply water
erecting the steel frame with precision, said The devil was in the details, and the based on outside air temperature, and a
Washington. Working with two different details involved argon gas, low E coatings, direct digital building automation system to
radius points rippled through the detailing and a variety of shade strategies. “Protection control and monitor all building mechanical
of the curtain wall. For example, filler pieces from the sun was accomplished by a large components.
had to be installed to accommodate the overhanging roof and by cantilevered Together the project team created an
automated window shades – a straight horizontal louvers at the lower level,” said energy-efficient, “green” building
element on a curved wall. “The filler pieces Blair. “Further protection was afforded by overlooking the green space of Fuerst Park.
varied in width, becoming wider at the the usage of insulated green-tinted The site, itself, employs Earth-friendly

strategies, designed for both “green” and collection space, meeting rooms, and CHECKING OUT THE NEW LIBRARY
purely practical purposes. As part of computer stations are all doubled in size. The lobby contains several owner-driven
stormwater management, “a series of Meeting space includes a 20-person changes inserted at the 11th hour. The
bioswales on the west and south sides of the boardroom and a 10-person meeting room, Dailey Company’s nimble response to these
property were designed for parking lot and as well as five tutoring rooms on the first alterations kept the schedule on pace while
patio drainage,” said Blair. “Furthermore, an floor and four on the second level. “The improving the appearance and function of
irrigation system, using well water and city library now has its first official computer lab the new facility. “The Dailey Company was
water, if necessary, was installed with special with its own bank of 24 computers for very open and amenable to making any
filters due to the water’s high iron content. community computer classes,” said Farkas. changes," said Farkas. “This reflects Dailey’s
Both spray-type sprinklers and a water drip “We now have over 107 computers for flexibility, because they were open to
system are utilized to keep water stains off public use, whereas before we had 42.” changes even in the last few weeks of the
concrete walkways and the building.” The The interior reflects the considered job.” As one example, a wood-slotted ash
groundwater irrigation well with 40 percent placement of a long list of diverse spaces. ceiling added warmth to the lobby. In a
subsurface dripper lines are part of an “The first floor is the more active level with second change, a brown marble and glass
underground automated irrigation system the youth area, large community meeting wainscot tiling turned a sterile restroom wall
responsible for keeping both the library rooms, and the main checkout,” said Farkas. – the entrance is visible from the lobby –
grounds and Fuerst Park well-watered and “The second floor is the research and quiet into an attractive expanse.
green. study area containing the reference desk, Because of extra dollars, substantial space
computer lab, and the adult and teen was added over the community meeting
A LIBRARY FOR MIND AND BODY collections.” room in the middle of the project. Originally
The library interior is an open, light- slated to be a single-story space, the
filled space filled with the warmth of newly created second story now
specialty tile and light-colored wood houses more meeting rooms,
certified by the Forest Stewardship additional storage space and a newly
Council. Natural light pours into the relocated administrative area, said
interior through the glass curtain wall Danko.
and through a succession of skylights As to the main source of the extra
above the monumental stair leading funds, “one of the fortunate challenges
to the second level. The spacious that came out of the project was the
PHOTO COURTESY OF BEI ASSOCIATES

public reading and collection areas result of its very competitive bid
are punctuated on both levels with a pricing,” said Browne. “As the building
large circular enclosure clad in came in well below the anticipated
handcrafted tiles and wood. The first budget cost, the consultant team
level enclosure houses a newspaper worked with the building authority
and magazine reading room with a after the project was bid to provide a
dual-facing fireplace; the second-level The building’s “book jacket,” or exterior cladding, is series of additional program features,
a pleasing combination of glass, brick and randomly
wood-clad circle contains a quiet including additional second floor
placed sized and colored phenolic veneer panels.
study area. “We aimed to establish key public meeting space, special artwork,
gathering spaces within the library, furniture for outdoor library spaces,
such as the circular fireplace reading lounge, The library entrance and lobby is as and interior features for the children's area
which would support both quiet reading thoughtfully subdivided into sections as the and fireplace reading lounge." In total, “the
and special community events, while at the book genres on the library’s shelves. The library returned about $800,000 dollars to
same time creating a building that would be library’s main entrance has two sets of the community in the form of debt service
flexible and open to allow for the growth doors, the first leading to a vestibule lined on the bond,” said Farkas. “Then the city
and change that is bound to be required with wood-clad lockers. “People can reserve authorized some extra amenities for the
over the coming years,” said Browne. “The books and remove their selections from the library.” Dailey also saved the library over
layout offers generous sight lines for easy locker after-hours, gaining locker access via $100,000 in value engineering, added
wayfinding, security, and ready access for a special code,” said Farkas. The second set Danko.
patrons to staff service points.” of doors opens to reveal an expansive lobby As another alteration, The Dailey
Virtually every age group has a room in with the main checkout desk to the left and Company installed a metal canopy over the
the library’s new home with separate the Read a Latte Café in a highly visible library’s dual drive-through service
children, teen and adult collections. The location to the right. Sandwiches, salads, windows, one leading to an automated five-
Friends of the Library have their own baked goods and cappuccino fill this bin material handling system able to
bookstore, the library staff has more charming enclave clad in white and red tile efficiently process the more than 600,000
spacious and light-filled work areas, and and cleverly named in a community-wide materials checked out annually at this busy
even cell phone users can take a call to a contest. The lobby and community meeting information hub. The material handler scans
designated area furnished with seating and room, just north of the café, work as a unit. and automatically deposits the materials
acoustical panels. In a tale of two libraries, “The lobby is configured to allow use of the into bins slated for different areas of the
the former facility pales in comparison to large community meeting room during library, thereby reducing the processing
the new library’s amazing array of specialty evening and weekend hours, without time required to return a book to its shelf.
rooms, interior finishes, new services and requiring access to the main library spaces,” This system will become even more
cutting-edge technologies. Overall, said Browne. important as Farkas expects the number of

in the youth area. Once driven by Bobby
Unser, the Novi Special is a powerful engine
installed in a series of different racing cars
that competed at the Indianapolis 500.
Because Novi industrialist Lew Welch funded
this tiger of an engine with its trademark
roar, Novi’s Economic Development
Corporation purchased the car in 1983.
Farkas encouraged its release from storage
and its placement in the new library’s youth
area as a nod to the region’s rich automotive
history and as a spark to excite children’s
curiosity.
Dailey rolled in the Novi Special early to
avoid damaging other interior finishes;
Kehrig Steel then rigged the car into place
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on the newly built viewing platform. “The
platform simulates a finish line,” said Blair.
“Theme games for youth are fastened to the
sides of the platform.” Basically, “playing car”
prevents an excited child from damaging
the actual car.
With its colorful murals and a car called the Novi Special, a love of reading will come naturally The sizeable youth area also includes a
to children who visit the Novi Public Library’s youth area. colorful story-time room with access to the
outdoor terrace. "We hope to do a lot of
checked-out materials to reach the million through the geological periods of Earth programming on the patio in the summer,"
mark at the end of the library's first year in history, telling the story of life’s emergence said Farkas. For security purposes, the
operation. A manual book return is in place in clay. terrace or patio is gated on both ends to
in case of power outages. Each tile group focuses on a different protect young children and secure library
The second window permits people to theme and is mounted on the walls of materials. Completing this massive
pick up materials, ordered online or on the compatible sections of the library. “Tile department, the youth area also hosts a 36-
phone, without ever leaving their car. “I can groups in the Youth Service Department person activity room for Snack Tales, Lego
think of only two libraries in Michigan that feature everything from storybook Club and Kiddie Crafts.
have that service,” said Farkas. Self-checkout characters to different dinosaurs with one
stations within add to the library’s tile containing an actual dinosaur bone,” THE END OF THE CONSTRUCTION
unparalleled level of convenience and said Farkas. Culture tiles in the adult and CHRONICLES
service. In turn, The Dailey Company teen collections illustrate civilizations from As the final chapter in the library’s
provided the library with unprecedented Asia to Egypt. Over 400 tiles in the adminis- construction chronicle, The Dailey Company
service throughout the project, fielding trative area embody the American demolished the old library, developed a new
every alteration and keeping the schedule experience with individual tiles depicting parking lot in its place, and installed storm
on track. “Paul was right on target Mt. Rushmore, the polio vaccine, and even sewers for the new lot to prepare for the
throughout the job, and Vince was attentive Star Wars. Fittingly, Lunski's final piece is a grand June opening of this new facility, said
to every detail,” said Farkas. “They both were library tile dedicated to the new Novi Public Danko.
immensely dedicated to the project.” Library. More than a mere doubling of collection
Recreating the history of the cosmos in space, the new Novi Public Library is a
A JIGSAW PUZZLE IN CLAY clay was Lunski's self-appointed mission. wonderful place, linking park, patio and
Today every patron at the new Novi Assembling and mounting this jigsaw people into an inspired reading experience
Public Library can enjoy efficient service and puzzle of the known universe was the task of and civic destination. Over 800 people a day
the craftsmanship of a wonderful building. Dailey's subcontractor, B & B Tile. Each tile visited the former library, but even more are
Imported from Italy, the lobby flooring is a was placed in a precise sequence and in a expected to use the services of the new
striking gray porcelain ceramic tile with particular group as detailed on the artist’s facility, whether to check out the new blu-ray
random white streaks. Plus, over 1,600 own set of plans. "Each tile was numbered collection, read a magazine around the
handcrafted tiles throughout the building on the back,” said Washington. “We spent fireplace, or grab a mocha and read a good
interior add to a long list of amazing interior hours getting the right number in the right book. Together the City of Novi’s library
features. Connie Lunski, a former high spot before the actual mounting." Added board and building authority, The Dailey
school teacher and artist, created the Danko, “the slight difference in size between Company, BEI Associates, and Diamond and
handcrafted tiles over the course of six years each of the individually fired tiles added Schmitt have created a remarkable new town
and donated her work to the library. Aptly another element of challenge to the task.” square and gathering place created to inform
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chalkboard. Although the project team was interior partitions. In some locations,
Y
oung students can drift away from a
lesson while at their desks, but usually more likely to have shown their work on a individual spaces were cordoned off with
not while standing at a chalkboard in computer screen, they also benefited from temporary walls that stopped 12 inches
front of their peers. Through years of group input as they worked to deliver a from the ceiling. Light gauge wire mesh
training and experience, teachers learn structure uniquely fitted to the diverse connected the tops of these walls to the
when pupils should work on their own and programs that would be housed inside. The ceiling to allow for airflow, but this situation
when they should be nudged into focusing a success of this effort, led by architect SHW was obviously not ideal. The building also
little more thoroughly in front of the class. Group, Berkley, and general contractor, lacked sufficient space to meet program
When students are really thinking about Walsh Construction, Detroit, is evident in the requirements.
their work with helpful encouragement from completed building. “Program components were scattered
the rest of the class, they can make throughout the campus,” said Linda Slater,
significant breakthroughs. BUILDING FOR TEACHERS director of plant engineering and planning
The College of Education and Human For many years, the majority of programs for Central Michigan University. “This new
Services (EHS) Building at Central Michigan within the College of Education and Human building gave us a great opportunity to
University (CMU) celebrates this collabo- Services were housed in Ronan Hall on the bring everything together with technology
rative learning process with monumental northwest side of CMU’s campus. The to support teaching.”
slate exterior walls that resemble a massive building was originally a library with few In addition to incorporating technology,

the building needed to meet the complex Stevens, AIA, LEED AP, principle for SHW BUILDING FOR THE PRESENT
needs of many diverse university programs. group. “Certain groups needed to be near Buildings, like other works of art, are
Developing an understanding of these other groups. Children wanted to be outside usually appreciated shortly after they are
requirements emerged as an early project in the sun, so we purposely put those spaces created. Truly great expressions possess a
challenge. on the lower levels so the children could timeless quality that doesn’t diminish with
“We had visioning sessions with all the play.” age. Not all buildings have this rare quality,
users of the building,” said Nathanial Walsh, In addition to a list of needs for each and only time will tell if it can be found at
AIA, LEED AP, project architect for SHW department, there were global needs that EHS, but the project team went to great
Group. “We put together a list of guiding were addressed throughout the entire lengths to preserve their vision for years to
principles for the building. The building structure. come. Longevity and ease of maintenance
needed to fit into the campus fabric, so
entrances are on major traffic hubs from the
residential side of campus to the academic
side. We also wanted to have a signature
identity for the building because of the
signature programs inside.”
EHS maintains a strong presence on
CMU’s campus. Visibility of the slate used on
the exterior was maximized by selecting this
material for the tallest portion of the
building. The building’s terra cotta rain
screen provides a strong contrast, making
Mount Pleasant’s largest chalkboard even
more striking. Tinted glass panels between
classrooms and corridor spaces also
reinforce the structure’s educational mission
by acting as see-through chalkboards.
Visitors can experience the classroom
environment by seeing what is being
written while also enjoying the natural light
that is transmitted by the panels. Clear glass
also provides a tantalizing look inside many
educational laboratories throughout the
building; including reading laboratories
where clinics for elementary school students
are held, a computer laboratory, and a
specialized laboratory that was built to suit
the unique needs of science educators.
Natural light flows into all of these areas
from an outdoor patio that is set between
the reading and computer labs to provide an
outdoor learning space.
Large lectures can easily be
accommodated in the 200-seat French
Auditorium, which is outfitted with
attractive bamboo panels accented with rich
slate. The elliptical shape of the auditorium
complicated the acoustical design because
sound had a natural tendency to bounce
back and forth, but perforated bamboo
panels with acoustical backing were placed
in key positions to mitigate this effect. The
shape of the auditorium and the bamboo
panels overhead contribute to a warm and
cozy feel that makes any acoustical
difficulties well worth the effort.
Every space at EHS involved specific
challenges set by the departments that
would use them. Their needs influenced
every aspect of the design.
“We worked with every user group to Tinted glass panels between classrooms and corridor spaces reinforce the building’s educational
determine what their needs were,” said Tod mission by acting as see-through chalkboards.

Terra cotta rain screens eliminate mortar to let water flow in and out freely.
were key project considerations. water in…In essence cutting a hole in the construction crews to work with and we
Terra cotta rain screen cladding used on a straw.” needed to find contractors who were
significant portion of the exterior was a major Stevens pointed out that masonry veneer qualified to work with the system,” said Paul
component in the overall strategy to create a buildings often display “supersaturation” on Yambor, project manager for Walsh
durable building. Most exterior systems are rainy days, where pressure differentials keep Construction. “Our biggest concern was that
designed to keep moisture out. Failure can the top corners of the walls wet long after the terra cotta was supported off the
occur anywhere in the system, but is most the rest of the walls are dry. This provides structural steel. Normally tolerances are
common along the joints that are needed to visual evidence that water is being drawn around an inch. On this job, they had 1/8”
allow for movement. When they are detected into the wall system. Even without having tolerance.”
early enough, leaks can be fixed before pressure differentials to contend with, the In addition to installing a system to keep
underlying building elements are damaged, EHS project team placed insulation and a building components dry, the project team
but this requires diligent checking vapor barrier behind the rain screen as part also took several steps to preserve the
throughout the life of the structure. of a “belt and suspenders” approach to appearance of the structure over time. Flat,
Unintended leaks are greatly reduced with a keeping water out. The track system that the horizontal surfaces were avoided to prevent
rain screen system, because the walls are rain screens are attached to also allowed for dust buildup on stair rails and other
designed to transmit moisture by eliminating a large cavity in which Stony Creek Services, architectural features. Gypsum board, which
mortar to let water flow in and out freely. Inc., Westland, installed a thick layer of spray can be damaged in high traffic areas, was
“The easiest way to explain this is to think foam insulation to meet thermal replaced with porcelain tile and bamboo
of drinking from a straw,” said Stevens. “You performance goals. Finding an area that are much more durable. The tile that
aren’t sucking the water in, you are creating contractor who could understand the was used in the corridors also fits in well
lower pressure inside the straw. Pressure nuances of the terra cotta system was critical with sustainability goals, being made from
pushes it into your mouth. By opening up the for success. scraps that were left over after the tiles were
joints, we created a wall that no longer pulls “Terra cotta was a new façade for the cut. Once these scraps were fingered

together, they created an attractive pattern Sunlight is the most colorful sustainable building. The team created a solar diagram,
that was made even more so by the amount feature found at EHS, as it floods in from charting out the sun’s position in the sky
of waste that was diverted from landfills. every direction and scatters to showcase throughout the year. This drawing was an
Building for the present also meant every color of the visible spectrum. The essential tool in positioning the building
meeting the current needs of the University. project team made a great effort to bring and in designing eyebrow-like protrusions
In other words, the EHS had to be finished on natural light into almost every corner of the above windows that block harsh summer
time. The terra cotta and slate used on the
exterior were both long lead-time items, but
the 2008 Summer Olympics and a massive The project team made a great effort to bring natural light into
earthquake severely impacted slate almost every corner of the building.
deliveries from China. Edgar Boettcher
Masonry, Bay City, compensated for the
uneven flow of materials by altering crew
sizes, working a skeleton crew when
materials were not available and “manning
up” when they arrived, but late deliveries
mandated significant changes to a carefully
developed project schedule. Boettcher
Masonry needed to work very closely with
Walsh Construction to prevent these
changes from altering the final completion
date.
“There had to be an element of trust
between the contractor and us,” said Ed
Boettcher, president of Boettcher Masonry.
“They needed to work with us and we
needed to work with them.”
Trust was a common theme throughout
the project. Perhaps the most sacred trust
was the commitment to build a sustainable
facility that would meet future needs.
BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE

In addition to attractive slate gray and
reddish terra cotta, there is also plenty of
green at EHS. Sustainable building elements
that contribute to the anticipated Gold-
Level Certification under the USGBC’s LEED
rating system for the EHS come in all colors,
but the first one that will be noticed by
many EHS visitors happens to be green. The
building’s green roof encompasses a total of
27,705 square feet on a total of four separate
roof surfaces, some of which are easily
visible from the upper floors of the
building’s tallest section.
The vegetated matt system placed atop
the roof was supplemented with a thin layer
of growth medium to make sure the sedum
took root, but the overall weight was still
only about 19 pounds per-square-inch, far
less than the four-inch tray systems that
typically weigh about 30 pounds per-
square-inch. The lighter weight matt system
greatly reduced structural costs, but one key
advantage of tray systems is the fact that
trays can be moved to check for roof leaks.
SHW compensated for this by putting a four-
ply built-up roof underneath the matt,
where a single ply would be more typical.
The anticipated life of this robust roof is 20
years.

space. Colorful objects are strategically
placed throughout the facility to let light
shine through. As children see vibrant
shapes moving and interacting with other
colors on the floors and walls, all in sync with
the daily rhythm of the sun, they begin to
understand this process. Every observed
activity is an opportunity for a child to learn;
so the inside movement area even includes
clear views into the kitchen, letting children
develop an appreciation of the work that is
done to prepare their food each day.
Of course, children are not the only ones
who learn by what they can see and hear at
EHS. Soundproofed observation rooms let
entire classes of CMU students watch as
children interact with teachers or each other
from behind mirrored glass. Observers can
The storytelling pavilion is designed to serve as a puppet theater, reading spot or stage, but even activate specific microphones to listen
imaginative children can probably discover thousands of other uses throughout the course in on conversations anywhere in the room.
of a day. Though they have no way of staying out
of sight, students would also do well to
rays during the summer to minimize thermal benefited from this thoughtful extra step observe children in the outdoor learning
gain while gaining the maximum warming taken by Walsh Construction. The project garden. This area also features a variety of
benefit of the sun during the winter. team worked even harder to meet the needs textures to keep developing brains busy, as
Windows also feature light shelves to of the youngest visitors to the EHS, who well as soft surfaces to cushion falls.
reflect natural light farther into the building. have had hardly any experience at all. Another outdoor highlight is the storytelling
Operable windows were installed in offices pavilion. Far from a prefabricated play
and other spaces where responsibility for BUILDING FOR KIDS structure, this custom-built space is
opening and closing them can be assigned Children who visit the EHS each day may designed to serve as a puppet theater,
to a single person, but classrooms windows not know as much as the adults who reading spot or stage, but imaginative
are fixed to keep them from being left open educate and care for them, but their eager children can probably discover thousands of
accidentally. Classrooms were grouped on young minds will catch up very quickly. The other uses during the course of a day.
the north side of the building to allow these Child Development Learning Lab was Building a facility that allows young minds
densely occupied areas to gain the best designed using the Reggio Emilia Approach, to develop is an investment in the future, but
benefit of the sun, while individual offices which stresses an ability to learn through the project team did not neglect the older
were placed on the south side of the touching, moving, listening, seeing and brains of students who come to EHS to learn
building. hearing that is unique to the young. The to shape the future as teachers.
Many other green design elements are physical environment is considered a Displacement ventilation used in the
found throughout the building. Plants for “teacher” under this approach, so the design structure enhances energy efficiency while
exterior landscaping include drought team was tasked with developing spaces improving indoor air quality by bringing low
resistant and indigenous varieties. Floor that would captivate the senses. velocity air in near floor level. Occupants act
finishes include carpet tile that is high in Children enter the building through their as “chimneys” by drawing cool air towards
recycled content and sheet linoleum. Low- own door, which facilitates easy access from their bodies, where it is warmed enough to
VOC paints and stains were used throughout a circular drive with short-term parking naturally rise up to exhaust vents near the
the project. spaces for parents and also minimizes top of the room, thereby creating a
The ultimate success of these sustain- contact with CMU’s general student comfortable learning environment. Stairs
ability efforts depended on how well population. Once inside, children quickly are also prominently featured to keep
contractors understood and complied with realize that the entrance is not the only students in good physical shape by
them. Subcontractors brought various feature built with them in mind. Flooring in discouraging elevator use and some
levels of green experience with them, but the entry features an intricate floor with computer workstations even include
Walsh Construction developed a mesquite wood that is filled in with grout, treadmills that can be used to maximize this
standardized spreadsheet format that combining the natural beauty of wood with effect.
helped veterans and novices alike as they the tactile sensation of walking on a The EHS site represents a very public
submitted documentation to USGBC as textured surface. Even the restroom walls in chalkboard at the heart of the CMU campus,
required by LEED. this section of the EHS are textured, turning upon which the project team was called on
“The subcontractors appreciated the the most basic functions into learning to build a quality facility that met diverse
spreadsheets because it was one less thing opportunities. A climbing wall and needs. With their combined expertise, they
for them to do,” said Yambor. “They didn’t numerous nooks and crannies to explore harbored little anxiety showing their work,
need to create their own documents.” add to the many educational opportunities even in front of Michigan’s talented design
No matter what their experience level at hand. and construction class.
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Eastern Market’s Shed 3 Renovation
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By Mary E. Kremposky, Photography by Curt Clayton,

Associate Editor Clayton Studio
building with 40-foot-high ceilings and the dedication of Detroit-based Kraemer
E
very Saturday, a part of Detroit
becomes the land of milk and honey. abundant windows once blocked by sheets Design Group, PLC, and a joint venture of
Jars filled with the sweet gold of of opaque, corrugated Plexiglas. Keo & Associates, Inc. and the Michigan
orange clover, loosestrife and wildflower The Eastern Market Corporation (EMC), in office of Turner Construction Company, Shed
honey line one of the many vendor stalls in cooperation with the City of Detroit 3 is now flooded with natural light and
Eastern Market’s newly renovated Shed 3. Recreation Department, forged a master primed for a geothermal system.
Originally constructed in 1922, Shed 3 is a plan, called Eastern Market 360, for the Letting in the sunshine and drawing on
grand hall of produce bursting with redevelopment of all five sheds in Eastern the good Earth are all part of “growing the
tomatoes, potted herbs, blueberries and Market and for the renewal of the Market as market.” An added bonus is the rental
broccoli crowns, all displayed in a historic a whole. Thanks to this visionary plan and revenue generated from the use of Shed 3 as

The flexible planning of EMC, a 501(3) (c) doors are custom made, because the slope
nonprofit organization operating under an of the floor is slightly different.”
agreement to manage and promote Eastern Given the amazing results, the entire
Market for the City of Detroit, steered the project team – and people throughout the
project and the newly revised master plan in region – can enjoy the bounty of this
the proper direction. Shed 3 was originally landmark enclave due east of downtown
slated to be a market hall complete with Detroit. “Eastern Market is such a historic
teaching kitchens and nutrition education – and vibrant part of the city,” said Bowen. “It
a slot now reserved for a future Shed 4. is great to be a part of bringing it back given
“Because any food preparation requires a what it means to the Market, the city, and the
washable ceiling, inserting lower roofs region to have a district like Eastern Market.”
would compromise the amazing
architecture of the building,” said Randall GROWING A CITY
Fogelman, EMC vice president of business At Eastern Market – the largest historic
development. Plus, the 30,000-square-foot public market district in the United States -
building was too large to make it as a viable it’s hard not to eat your vegetables. At peak,
market hall. “It would have been the largest the retail or public market attracts 40,000
market hall in the country,” added people every Saturday to this hub of fruits,
Fogelman. “Due to its size and architecture, vegetables, restaurants and unique specialty
we decided to renovate Shed 3 and return it shops adrift with the aroma of spices and
to its former glory.” stocked with cheeses. The incomparable
Shed 3 is a cruciform, or cross-shaped, Shed 3 serves not only as a special events
building with an octagon core rising to a venue, but also as part of the public
height of about 40 feet, said Brian Rebain, Saturday Market and as part of the
Kraemer project architect. The building wholesale market that operates midnight to
arms radiate from the octagon and step 6 a.m. every weekday from April through
down in two separate tiers – one an upper November. The wholesale market transfers
tier of clerestory windows and the lower one produce from growers to distributors and
a series of 20-foot-high roofs and overhead buyers in restaurants and independent
doors. Each of the four arms has an supermarket chains. “We are probably one of
imposing brick entrance graced by gabled the few that still has a retail and a wholesale
roofs, cornice dentils, decorative medallions market all in the same campus,” said
and massive arched windows. Fogelman.
Before renovation, all window openings The 44-acre district has a fascinating past,
were wrapped in a cocoon of opaque present and future. Once a ribbon farm and
Plexiglas, including the octagon. With the then a cemetery (the graves were removed
Plexiglas “shutters” removed, the play of light around 1890), the district once housed a
and the soaring, nave-like ceilings turn a prison at it northern end, said Fogelman.
simple “shed’ into a grand, light-washed The present Market is in the middle of a
space with an almost cathedral-like feel. welcome renovation, for Shed 3 is only one
Kraemer’s contemporary renovation even of many seeds of economic growth being
called for the installation of new entry and planted by EMC. Part of the Eastern Market
overhead doors with windows, drawing 360 master plan will turn the Market into a
even more natural light into the interior and living classroom and an agent for economic
showcasing the market activities within to growth. According to EMC’s website, the
the community outside. renovated Shed 2 already hosts live cooking
Renovation of this 88-year-old shed called demonstrations, the future Shed 4, expected
for juggling a busy construction site with a to be an L-shaped, two-story building, will
bustling market. Keo/Turner had to house a teaching kitchen as part of a Market
completely vacate the jobsite every Friday at Hall/Education Center, and a Shed 5
3 pm to clear the way for the popular expansion and renovation will serve as
Saturday Market. Keo/Turner also managed community kitchen, business incubator, and
a venue for special events. Unveiling its the meticulous work of replacing rusted another special events venue. Shed 6’s
architectural beauty and inserting new steel angles and repairing spalled concrete canopy will be expanded, as well. “The
building systems has created an exciting throughout the entire building. “In a Sheds are part of a strategic plan to develop
new venue in the Detroit metropolitan area. building of this age, nothing is square, the entire market to a national standard
The Market is already enjoying the fruits of plumb or level, so in addition to everything such as you would see in Philadelphia and
its labor. In January 2010, General Motors else, we would have to construct a lot of other cities,” said Vincent Anwunah, AICP,
unveiled its 2011 line of cars and trucks to little infills to make things fit and work,” said general manager, planning design and
the media at historic Shed 3 as a parallel Bob Bowen, Turner senior project manager. construction management of the City of
event with the North American International Added Kojo Dom, Keo vice president Detroit Recreation Department.
Auto Show. operations, “Every one of the overhead The goal is to have our Saturday Market, a

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Shed 3 and the entire Eastern Market – the largest historic public market district in the United States – attracts about 40,000 people on prime
Saturdays. Keo/Turner had to vacate the jobsite every Friday at 3 p.m. to clear the way for the popular Saturday Market.
weekday market in the evening, and Detroit riverfront to just south of Gratiot. Dating back to 1996, groups have coalesced
ultimately to open Eastern Market to the “The next phase will take it all the way to around a series of task forces, action plans,
public seven days a week. “Eastern Market is Mack Avenue, and it will have specific exits and advisory panels, including the Eastern
an integral part of the overall economic to bring people right to the Market, and a Market Reinvestment Strategy that
development of the city, because the entire future loop will connect all the way to addressed each of the sheds and the overall
area will benefit from a busy market,” said Midtown,” said Fogelman. potential of the Market in 2003. As a further
Anwunah. “We want to link this area to effort, The University of Michigan conducted
activities going on downtown, at Comerica PREPARING THE SOIL a design charette in 2005.
Park and at Ford Field.” Another The revitalization of Shed 3 and the The City of Detroit forged the agreement
development is linking Eastern Market to Market as a whole have been years in the in August 2006 with EMC to manage the
the nearby Dequindre Cut, a pathway making, for tilling the troubled economy of Market for the city. EMC built on past efforts
following a former freight rail line from the Detroit is not work for the faint-hearted. to “prepare the soil” for the 2007 renovation

of Shed 2, an open-air structure built in 1891. packages, making allowances for a few items within the interior during the first phase. On
But in 2008, “we re-evaluated the entire we knew might have some gray areas to Jan. 2, the clock began counting down to the
Market plan, because the world had them.” The competitive bidding first major deadline: being ready for Flower
changed a great deal since the original re- environment in 2008 also aided the project’s Day 2009, a grand event turning the market
investment strategy was done,” said bottom line, helping Keo/Turner control into a sea of over a million geraniums,
Fogelman. costs and deliver a $6.2 million dollar petunias and other plants, and a tidal wave
EMC and the Recreation Department renovation. of over 150,000 people from across the
worked in cooperation on the Eastern Schedule-wise, vendors were moved into region. “A major milestone was to achieve
Market 360 master plan, including the Shed 5 from January through the end of temporary occupancy and to make the
renovation plan for Shed 3. “Part of the March, giving Keo/Turner free rein to work building functional for Flower Day always
money was also from the City, so we worked
out how best we can fuse private money and
City money together to achieve the
anticipated result for Shed 3,” said Anwunah.
After selection of Kraemer Design Group,
EMC bid the project in collaboration with
the City, ultimately selecting the Keo/Turner
joint venture. “We work very closely with the
Recreation Department, which is our official
liaison with the City,” said Fogelman.
Kraemer Design Group began translating
ideas into a design for the regeneration of
Shed 3. Kraemer used the magic of glass –
clear, insulated and low E – and the power of
the paintbrush to “create a more inviting
atmosphere on both the interior and
exterior of the building,” said Rebain.
Kraemer Design “warmed the color palette,”
transforming the sterile white interior into
richer hues of color. Warm orange coats the
concrete, dark brown covers the steel
columns, and a subtle grayish green
blankets the high ceilings.
The same color palette transforms the
exterior, once a sea of blue-painted
overhead doors. Shed 3 now complements
its next-door neighbor, Shed 2. “The colors
were chosen to tie the two buildings
together,” said Fogelman. “Shed 2 is red
brick with brown accents and Shed 3 is
brown brick with reddish-orange accents.”
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held a week after Mother’s Day in mid-May,” heat floor will soon be part of a geothermal annual Flower Day in May 2009.
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by April – the start of EMC’s lease year and Ultimately, the geothermal or geo-exchange every Saturday from May through
the wholesale market – was an interim system will heat both Shed 3 and its future November, creating another logistical hurdle
checkpoint on the way to Flower Day 2009, next-door neighbor, Shed 4. for the construction team. Keo/Turner
added Fogelman. Having successfully met the first turned the Shed over to EMC every Friday
The first step was to carefully peel away scheduling hurdle, the core difficulty in afternoon in preparation for Saturday’s
layers of old paint. “In January, we enclosed meeting the Flower Day deadline was instal- public market and then resumed control of
the building in a sealed work environment lation of new exterior concrete curbs and the space on Monday morning.
and our demolition and abatement sidewalks and a new asphalt parking lot. The Having the design 100 percent complete
contractor came in and removed all the culprit was the weather. In this case, April at time of bids was again pivotal in smoothly
lead-based paint,” said Bowen. showers did not easily bring the market’s accomplishing this schedule pressure point.
Demolishing the existing concrete floor May flowers. “It was a very wet spring,” said “EMC and the City put together the
was the next step in revitalizing the 88-year- Bowen. “It rained almost all of April, which requirements for that whole schedule
old building. At this juncture, Keo/Turner created some serious difficulties in trying to phasing, so we actually purchased it that
encountered the first of several unforeseen prepare the sub-base and accomplish way with the subcontractors,” said Bowen.
conditions. “When we took out the old floor asphalt paving.” “They understood that as of this date the
and dropped the elevations, we found that Whenever Mother Nature turned off the building is turned over to the Market every
the bottom of some of the columns had spigot, Keo/Turner’s subcontractors set to Friday at 3 p.m.”
rusted out a bit over the years,” said Bowen. work, sometimes laboring on weekends and An adjacent parking lot offered the
Kraemer designed a two-and-a-half-foot tall nights to deliver the job. “The sub-base, perfect staging area for equipment and
encasement at the base of the rusted where a couple of the parking lots were to material storage. “Every Friday you would
columns, reinforcing the columns in be poured, was inundated with water,” said see a small parade of lifts moving at two or
concrete and adding some new plates to Bowen. “Our subcontractor basically re- three miles an hour to the staging area 200
transfer the load downward. graded everything, pushing the stone from feet away,” said Bowen. “On Monday
Both revamped column bases and the one side to the other to bring air and morning, the same parade would move back
newly installed radiant heat floor offer the sunlight to help dry it out sufficiently to into the building.”
Market welcome amenities. All of the allow us to compact and pave it.” Thanks to
column bases have convenient electrical Keo/Turner and its cooperative subcon-
outlets and direct water service strategically tractors, Shed 3 opened for business, LET THE SUNSHINE IN
placed throughout the shed; the piping unrolling a carpet of colorful blooms in While pouring the floor, Keo/Turner began
installed within the newly poured radiant plenty of time for Eastern Market’s 43rd the “grand opening” of the building by
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paint, the details of the decorative precast
concrete medallions – one of the seal of the
City of Detroit and the other the seal of the
State of Michigan – stand out in sharper
relief, along with the central keystone arch
depicting a bundle of wheat.
Generations of Detroiters have passed
under the same portals on their way
through the Saturday Market, for the vast
majority of the brick and precast of the
entrance portals are original to the building,
minus a few pieces of replaced cornice, new
metal coping, and the large precast headers
over the expansive side windows.
Other concrete components in the
interior and exterior did not fare as well.
“During design and construction, the
biggest challenge was the concrete
cladding,” said Rebain. “The columns, beams,
and window headers are steel encased in
concrete, but the concrete itself had been
failing. With all that spalling, we had to chip
Converting Shed 3 into a more appealing away and basically figure out the extent of it,
marketplace and a venue for special and determine how much work we really
events meant removal of Plexiglass had to do to make it clean again.”
shutters and an introduction of new The overhead doors ringing the building
building systems.
offered another glimpse into the extent of
the failed concrete encasement. Each of the
columns between the doors had a metal
before new measurements could be taken banding or steel channel wrapped around
and materials ordered.” three sides of the column. “The idea was to
Hard work and the meticulous probing of leave those channels in place and use them
the layers of the masonry wall resolved each to mount the hardware and tracks for the
issue until all openings were glazed with new powered versus the old chain-operated
clear glass. Standing in the interior, the overhead doors,” said Bowen. As we were
octagon of clear glass becomes a canvas of examining some of the columns, we could
clouds, a living Weather Channel of sun, rain almost see all the way through the concrete
or snow. The new windows even behind the channel. It had just deteriorated,
complement the historical brick façade. “We fallen out, and turned to dust.”
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and a new standing seam metal roof on the of the Eastern Market District this summer, some, giving Old Farmer MacDonald a
upper tiers to blend with the roof system of said Fogelman. quality venue and Eastern Market a redevel-
Shed 2. Some of that produce will probably be opment boost. Like a tray of celosia plants,
sold in Shed 3 as the Market deepens it roots with blooms the shape of candle flames and
KEEPING IT COOL as part of the local food network. Thanks to colors ranging from deep maroon to a
Today, Shed 3 is the jewel of Eastern the concerted efforts of a broad network of startling gold, Eastern Market is a
Market with its clear glass and warm color committed people and design and regenerative force with roots poised to
palette. The years of planning and months construction professionals, the renovation of spread new shoots of growth into the
of design and construction have brought Shed 3 has returned this workhorse of surrounding city.
out the original character of this early 20th building to its original brightness and then
century building. Welcome amenities to this
old Shed include a new electrical system,
restrooms and other creature comforts such
as a series of massive circulation fans
installed in the high ceilings “to move air
down when the heat rises in the winter and
to draw air up and keep it moving in the
summer,” said Rebain. The immense fans
with bent yellow tips have the cool factor
both in function and in appearance. “I have
started seeing them in the last five years in
projects all over the country,” added Rebain.
“They are being used in large loft-type
spaces or industry-type spaces with high
ceilings. Architects love them because they
look so cool, and engineers like them
because the fans function so well.”
Low E windows block heat gain, keeping it
cool in the summer, as well as a series of
mechanically operable vents in some of the
clerestory windows. The vents alternate on
either side of each arm of the cruciform
building. “Air is not just moving between
opposite sides of the same arm, but the
placement of the vents circulates the air
better and helps to eliminate hot spots,” said
Rebain.
For winter’s chill, air curtains blow heat
over each entry to temper the rush of cold
air into the Shed. The geothermal system will
soon feed into the radiant heat tubing
already installed in the new concrete floor. In
the future, another geothermal field will
serve the anticipated renovation and
expansion of Shed 5 and Shed 6. “The plan
for Shed 5 – originally built in 1981 – will be
to bring it out to Russell Street by building a
front addition,” said Fogelman.
Something good is always growing at
Eastern Market. Virtually all the sheds are
aligned in a main avenue, turning the walk
between and through them into an
unfolding carpet of blooms and edibles.
Shed 2 and Shed 3 offer locally grown and
Michigan produce, some of it from vendors
who are part of the urban farms beginning
to sprout across Detroit. Lettuce, herbs and
greens are softening Detroit’s rough edges
on vacant plots of remediated land
throughout the city. EMC supports Greening
of Detroit, a group that will begin
establishing a 2.5-acre garden near the heart

The Doctor is in…Canton
By David R. Miller, Associate Editor Photos by Gene Meadows
foot addition adds sophisticated cancer care on this campus,” said Kathleen Kasperek,
O
ne-liners about never being able to
find a doctor when needed are and surgery into the equation, greatly director of oncology services and project
nearly as old as the medical increasing the likelihood that people can director for Saint Joseph Mercy Health
profession itself. They became familiar receive necessary treatment without System. “We realized that we created strong
clichés because there has always been a traveling over great distances. Construction access to primary care with the St. Joseph
grain of truth to them. Even those who can manager George W. Auch Company, Pontiac, Mercy Canton Health Center, but we
afford to employ their own personal and architect HKS Architects, PC, Northville, thought that we needed to move towards
physicians will not have immediate access to in partnership with the Saint Joseph Mercy specialty care.”
specialists or the sophisticated diagnostic Health System, led the project team that What followed this decision was a
and treatment equipment usually found made this a reality. detailed analysis of the community to
only in hospital settings, but this benefit can determine what specialties would best serve
be realized by anyone living near the Canton COMMUNITY NEEDS its expanding needs. People aged 55 or
Center for Advanced Medicine and Surgery. Canton is a growing community, and older were expected to account for the
The St. Joseph Mercy Canton Health medical needs have been growing right largest percentage of population growth, so
Center has provided primary care services along with it. planning for the new facility revolved
for the community since it opened in 1998, “The existing building opened in 1998 around their medical care. Oncology and
but a recently completed 60,000-square- and we always envisioned a second phase surgery were identified as the greatest

crossed or if the door is left open, a person
could safely stand inside this doorway, or
even move further inside, without being
exposed to hazardous levels of radiation.
The vault in which the linear accelerator is
housed is surrounded by up to 60 inches of
concrete along with up to eight inches of
steel.
Given the tremendous benefits of the
linear accelerator that was installed at the
facility, the selection of the model would
seem to have been an obvious choice. Still,
such a massive investment couldn’t be
rushed, even though the project team
needed to know every detail of not just the
linear accelerator, but also every other piece
of equipment that they would be building
around.
“One challenge was in getting the owner
to select the equipment as soon as
possible,” said William Filip, AIA, vice
president and director of construction
services for HKS Architects, PC. “Equipment
selection is required early in the design
process to establish the design criteria for
the space.”
Without having these design criteria,
there can be no design – and no direction
for the contractors involved.
“The construction documents’ completion
was in limbo until the medical equipment
manufacturer and type was confirmed,” said
David Williams, LEED AP, vice president and
project director for the George W. Auch
Company. “However, as a team, we were still
charged with completing the project on
schedule; so we needed to develop work-
arounds to make that happen.”
One such work-around involved releasing
bid packages before purchasing decisions
had been finalized. This let the team get the
information out early enough to get
competitive bids, but the approach could
backfire if extensive design bulletins were
needed after bidding was complete.
needs, but this type of advanced care often space while the equipment was operating. Fortunately, the project team was able to
entails specialized equipment. A strobe light activated by a beam sensor use the recently completed St. Joseph Mercy
The linear accelerator quickly emerged as positioned near the entry of the linear Woodlands Cancer Center in Brighton as a
the most challenging piece of equipment accelerator serves as a warning. The light guide. Equipment purchased for the Canton
from a facilities standpoint. Linear would deter most people from going in, but facility would likely be very similar to the
accelerators let physicians treat tumors they face no danger from radiation exposure Brighton facility, so the project team
inside the human body with a focused beam at this point, even though there is no heavy released the specifications and drawings
of energy. The facility’s Varian RapidArc® vault door in front of them. The number of from the Brighton linear accelerator and CT
linear accelerator, only the second to be people treated each day multiplied by the simulator on this project as a bid clarifi-
installed in Michigan, allows for a more time needed to open and close these cation. Contractors who were interested in
precisely shaped beam than earlier models, massive doors can translate into a significant bidding the work had enough information
which reduces treatment time while loss of treatment time, so the entry corridor, to provide quantity-based estimates, while
minimizing damage to healthy tissue. Of called the “Maze Entry” by the project team, the George W. Auch Company also had
course, none of this would be possible was designed to absorb and reflect sufficient time to sequence the work on
without radiation. Numerous safeguards radioactive energy to keep it contained schedule. This methodology assured that
were incorporated to contain this radiation within the space. Although a second beam prices would not be influenced by bulletins
and prevent unintended incursions into the detector deactivates the equipment if it is that were issued after bidding.

abundant in the natural world. The project
team simply needed to find a way to bring
natural light into spaces that are often only
seen under the harsh glare of fluorescent
bulbs. Bringing the sun into any room
involves design challenges, but functional
requirements and privacy concerns
compound these issues in medical spaces.
Pre- and post-operative beds are placed
beneath a bank of windows that let
glimmering waves of light wash over
patients before gently falling on the nurse’s
station at the other side of the room, but the
windows are placed high enough on the
wall to prevent any direct views from the
outside. Operating rooms are similarly
outfitted with high windows, but electrically
operated shades are controlled by a wall
switch, letting doctors control the light
coming in to suit the procedures being done
as well as their own preferences.
Cancer care areas were also designed with
the patient experience in mind. Infusion
treatments can last several hours, so infusion
bays were designed to let patients do
whatever makes them the most
comfortable. They can watch flat screen
televisions that are equipped with pillow
speakers or gaze out into the healing
garden, all while seated in a comfortable
chair in a room that more resembles a
dwelling than a medical space. Wood
laminates outfitted with end and corner
guards combine institutional durability with
a homey feel. Other treatment areas
including the linear accelerator also feature
wood finishes and illuminated nature scenes
are placed on the ceiling above so patients
have something to look at as they are
undergoing procedures.
Cancer patients will likely spend the
majority of their visit in the infusion bays, so
the relaxed atmosphere that permeates all
Infusion treatments can last several hours, so infusion bays treatment areas is most pronounced in this
were designed for patient comfort. space. Patients may need daily treatments
over a period of months and the staff has
noticed a strong tendency for these patients
to form bonds with the staff and with each
other. Infusion bays are designed to
“Bulletin work is historically more was guided by literally thousands of accommodate groups who want to receive
expensive than work that is bid competi- separate decisions. All of these choices were treatments in groups, as well as those who
tively,” said Eric Shumaker, project manager made with a singular objective in mind. prefer privacy. Frosted art glass panels let
for the George W. Auch Company. “Our goal, with the design we created, nurses unobtrusively monitor patents in
Although many steps were taken to control each individual design element – the infusion bays and other areas. The infusion
costs at the Canton Center for Advanced finishes, the type of furniture and fabrics area also includes more private rooms that
Medicine and Surgery, the project team was that we chose – was for every patient to are completely walled in to accommodate
still able to create a soothing environment have a remarkable experience,” Kasperek. “It patients who may not feel well enough to
for patient care. doesn’t make the treatment any easier, but socialize with others.
the environment is very warm and No matter how they feel, the emphasis at
A HEALING ENVIRONMENT welcoming.” Canton Center for Advanced Medicine and
Like any major facility project, the Canton The element that plays the most dramatic Surgery is in creating a soothing
Center for Advanced Medicine and Surgery role in creating this environment is free and environment in which patients can heal. The

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The vault housing this linear accelerator is surrounded with
protective layers of concrete and steel, but no heavy vault door is
needed because of a maze entry that is designed to absorb and
reflect radioactive energy to keep it contained within the space.
building facilitates efficient delivery of procedures are performed. Those simplify future conversions. Custom
healthcare services towards this end. undergoing minor procedures without stainless steel furnishings, offering an
Efficient Delivery anesthetic will be brought to one of three optimal configuration for the environment
Some people bristle at the concept of procedure rooms. One of these rooms is and continuous hinges for durability,
considering efficiency in healthcare design, significantly larger and located within the enhance the functionality of each operating
fearing an assembly line where the focus is sterile corridor to facilitate conversion to a room.
simply to move on to the next patient as fully functional operating room in the Once their procedures are complete,
quickly as possible, but patients clearly future. All surgical equipment is also patients are routed back into the opposite
benefit from an orderly progression through sterilized within the sterile corridor, end of the room from which they started, via
a healthcare facility. The Canton Center for eliminating the inefficiencies that can occur a corridor that is parallel to the one leading
Advanced Medicine and Surgery was when this is done off site. into the surgical spaces. A privacy wall
designed with this concept in mind. Each of the three operating rooms inside separates individual beds in this space and
Surgery patients traverse a simple loop the sterile corridor measures 450 square feet all head walls are equipped for pre- and
pattern that starts in a pre-operative bed and is outfitted with ceiling mounted booms post-operative care. Individual beds can
where they are made comfortable while that hold lights, monitors and other easily be designated as the situation
they are evaluated and prepared for surgery. equipment safely out of the way. Structural warrants.
After this process is complete, they are supports for ceiling mounted booms were Offices, locker rooms and other support
brought into the rooms where surgical also included in the large procedure room to spaces are neatly tucked into a cross-

corridor that runs parallel to the sterile seconds. requiring a greater effort emerge. Such was
corridor, between the pre- and post- In addition to functioning well for the case when the brick needed to complete
operative corridors. Visitors in waiting areas patients, the facility also had to function well the Canton Center was not available.
can track patients on digital display boards with the attached health center. The health Unfortunately, this was not merely a case of
throughout the entire process. This efficient center is essentially an office space, while a lost shipment or an incorrect order.
design was clearly the product of a project the Canton Center for Advanced Medicine Instead, a reduction in demand linked to
team that was well versed in healthcare and Surgery is considered a hospital for economic conditions caused the
work, but the contributions from another code purposes. Combining two very manufacturer to delay production. No
highly experienced group cannot be different code requirements under the same amount of creative rescheduling could
overstated. roof required some creative thinking. For account for a material that simply did not
“The actual caregivers were brought to example, a newly created vestibule that was exist.
the table when we began design built to provide a two-hour fire rating “That was a very trying time because our
development,” said Kasperek. “It is always a between the two structures, thereby schedule was predicated on promised
good idea to incorporate lessons learned exceeding code requirements while delivery dates and the schedule was in
into new projects.” meeting egress needs for both. A team jeopardy,” admitted Williams.
One lesson learned involved storage effort was needed to develop creative The brick did eventually arrive and the
needs associated with the linear accelerator. solutions like this. project team was able to complete the
Patients undergoing these types of enclosure as scheduled, but the solution
procedures must remain motionless for A HEALTHY DOSE OF TEAMWORK required contributions from the entire team,
extended periods of time; so bulky immobi- Any time that a structure with the size and including the owner. HKS immediately
lization devices that are custom fitted for complexity of the Canton Center for released a new detail that allowed stone and
each patient are always required. Locating Advanced Medicine and Surgery is created, windows to be installed before the brick,
and retrieving these items takes time away there are bound to be at least a few things instead of after. Changing the detail mid-
from treatment, so radiation therapists that do not go exactly as planned. Project stream required a high degree of flexibility,
pushed hard to create numerous hanging teams can usually make adjustments to particularly from the masonry and steel
racks inside the treatment room. Finding the prevent these issues from having an adverse contractors.
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a demanding environment. Even with this
select group of pre-qualified contractors, a
few “stumbled” at the finish line according to
Williams.
“However, other contractors stepped up
to help us,” said Williams. “If they hadn’t
partnered with us, we wouldn’t have had the
successful project that we had. We hit the
schedule, we were under budget and we
had a satisfied customer with their help.”
In addition to having highly skilled
subcontractors, the project also benefited
from skilled leadership and direction at the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital
top, starting with the Saint Joseph Mercy Critical Care Tower
Health System Planning and Design and
Construction Departments, who made
significant contributions to the project’s
success. HKS draws on experience from
designing specialized healthcare facilities
across the globe, while Auch Construction’s Mercy Memorial Hospital
considerable healthcare expertise can best
be demonstrated locally. The firm’s St. Joseph Mercy
Healthcare Group serves only Southeast Hospital Chapel
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team was also able to expand the project
significantly with savings that were realized
during the bidding process. An extensive
lobby redesign, including the addition of a
new coffee bar, helps to blend the existing
St. Joseph Mercy Canton Health Center
seamlessly with the new structure, but this
improvement was not originally included in
the scope of work. Expanded imaging
capabilities were added to the existing
structure, including the relocation of an
existing MRI from the Ann Arbor Campus,
upgraded radiology equipment and a
docking station for a portable PET/CT
scanner that can serve a number of
locations.
With the addition of the St. Joseph Mercy
Canton Center for Advanced Medicine and
Surgery, there are few medical procedures
that cannot be performed in Canton. The
doctor has been in for nearby residents since
the St. Joseph Mercy Canton Health Center
opened, but now the doctor’s capabilities
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Building the Missing Link
PHOTO BY MARY E. KREMPOSKY
By Mary E. Kremposky, Associate Editor

the fresh start and fresh ideas that are managing Trail construction. Others
L
ife is returning to Detroit’s East
Riverfront in the form of an amazing transforming the City of Detroit. We are included Rebecca Humphries, MDNRE
network of urban recreational creating public spaces that will attract director, and Alicia Minter, acting director of
pathways that are transforming this historic visitors, residents and new investment.” the City of Detroit Department of
area. Along the RiverWalk, bubbling This ADA-accessible Trail actually enjoyed Recreation, the municipal department
fountains, blooming flowers, a handcrafted two ribbon-cutting events: the snipping of a holding title to the property that will be
carousel, and expanses of manicured green blue ribbon for the connection to the turned over for maintenance to the MDNRE.
have replaced cement silos and a rag-tag shimmering harbor and picnic areas of the The crowd was also filled with the people
assembly of parking lots. North of the river, 31-acre Milliken State Park, and the who put it all together, including Wendy C.
the weed-choked tangle of an old railroad ceremonial cutting of a green ribbon at the Fry, ASLA, CLARB, LEED AP, director of
line has been cleared and converted into the Woodbridge link to the Dequindre Cut sustainability and landscape architecture,
Dequindre Cut Greenway, a pedestrian-bike Greenway. More than a part of a recreational Mannik & Smith, and the WCI team of Brad
path from Woodbridge to Gratiot that will network, the Dequindre Trail Extension is the Gable, field superintendent, Thomas A.
ultimately reach Eastern Market, Midtown pivotal link connecting two once separate Maliszewski III, office superintendent, and
and beyond. pathways into miles of easy riding and Gary Novak, project foreman. WCI President
Only 800 feet - roughly two short blocks - walking. Matthew P. Cullen, chair, Detroit Thomas A. Maliszewski was also pivotal in
stood between the southern terminus of the RiverFront Conservancy, Board of Directors, producing a successful project. “Our design
Dequindre Cut Greenway at Woodbridge called the Trail “the key link in tying goal was to create something that is playful,
and the William G. Milliken State Park and greenways to waterways, and creating a unique, and a catalyst for economic
Harbor and the RiverWalk at Atwater. WCI great environment for all of us.” development,” said Fry. As general
Contractors, Inc., a Detroit-headquartered contractors, WCI turned design into reality

business for over 20 years, has constructed UNITY – BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS through the astute management of an
the missing link connecting these two On a warm June day, Mayor Bing and the obstacle course of underground
lifelines created for recreation and the reassembled crowd began walking the Trail, obstructions. “It wasn’t just scrape the site
creation of this 309-year-old city named passing the historic Globe Building on the and pave it over,” said Novak. “It doesn’t look
after the beautiful blue strait flowing by its west and walking by a parcel on the east like it, but the job required a great deal of
front door. slated to become part of the William G. earth work.”
Designed by The Mannik & Smith Group, Milliken State Park and Harbor under the At the project’s end, Mannik & Smith and
Inc., with offices in Detroit and Canton, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources WCI earned the praise of the DEGC for the
Dequindre Trail Extension re-invents and Environment (MDNRE). The inaugural design and skilled placement of this
another piece of Detroit. The actual trail is a stroll continued past a privately owned concrete mosaic. “I think the design and the
curving ribbon of pavement winding its way piece of property near Franklin Street and work is of a very high quality,” said Scott
from Woodbridge to Atwater through a two parcels awaiting development through Veldhuis, DEGC project manager.
mosaic of colored concrete. Charcoal gray the Economic Development Corporation “Placement of the colored concrete sections
banding slices through terra-cotta planters (EDC) of the City of Detroit. Even before was done very neatly and very carefully.”
and plaza areas at arbitrary, playful and reaching Woodbridge – the northern Albanelli Cement Contractors, Livonia, was
whimsical angles. Part concrete pathway, terminus of the Dequindre Trail Extension – the concrete subcontractor on the project.
part plaza, this non-motorized route the economic stimulus of the Trail and the As the finishing touch, students from the
through a slice of the Motor City is dotted RiverWalk have already given rise to a College for Creative Studies joined forces
with 24 park benches and bike racks, and is recently renovated brick warehouse called with children from Friends School and
filled with 36 planter beds, brimming with the Detroit Elevator Building, a historic several Detroit Public Schools – Chrysler
the blossoms of more than a thousand maroon-painted low-rise infusing color and Elementary, Detroit Edison Public School
perennials. activity into the East Riverfront. Academy, and the Detroit Academy of Arts
“Good things are happening in Detroit, The crowd was filled with the people and and Sciences – to create colorful art banners.
and this is one of them,” declared Detroit organizations that made it all happen, Funded by a grant from the Community
Mayor Dave Bing at the Dequindre Trail including George W. Jackson, Jr., president Foundation of Southeast Michigan, the
Extension’s ribbon-cutting ceremony in and CEO of the Detroit Economic Growth words Inspire, Grow, Play, Create and Unity
early June 2010. In an earlier press release, Corporation (DEGC), the nonprofit organi- are emblazoned in bold colors along this
Bing touted the Trail as “a great example of zation that worked with the EDC in exciting new Dequindre Trail Extension and

sometimes not been recorded,” said Fry.
“You plan as much as possible, but there are
always surprises. It is a matter of plotting the
most effective way to deal with them.”
Of the seven to ten massive footings,
some were pegged for removal and others
could be left in place, including a massive
slab almost reaching the edge of the new
planter foundations. This huge footing
extends for 75 to 80 feet along the length of
the Trail near Franklin Street and projects
almost 18 feet into the 60-foot-wide Trail,
said Gable. Maliszewski speculates that “the
footing might have been part of some type
of system for unloading product and
materials from the trains.”
Brian Geer, PE, senior vice president,
Mannik & Smith, explained the solution: “A
survey was done to determine the location
of the foundation. A series of decisions were

made to remove portions of the foundation
or adjust the grades to allow the old
foundation to remain in place. Where the
old foundation remained, a solution was
needed to counter the potential effects of
differential settlement around it. To
Mayor Dave Bing cuts one of two ceremonial ribbons at the grand opening of the
accomplish this, WCI placed geo-grid fabric
Dequindre Trail Extension, as a crowd peppered with local dignitaries and Detroit
children looks on. From left to right, ribbon cutters include: George W. Jackson, Jr.,
over the top of the footing and extended it 8
president and CEO of the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation; Alicia Minter, acting to 10 inches below the planter foundation.”
director of the City of Detroit Department of Recreation; and Rebecca Humphries, A thin sand cushion was then placed on
MDNRE director. top of the geo-grid and the old footing. In a
conventional scenario, the footing would
have to be removed to make room for
Dequindre Cut Greenway. irrigation systems, plus foundations for backfill and a sub-base of sufficient depth to
Unity is an apt banner, for project funding planters, light poles and security cameras protect the new concrete pavement from
and development called upon a lengthy list and call boxes, revealed an underground cracking and buckling. “Because the geo-
of organizations and both local and state obstacle course of footings from old grid provides structural integrity, the thin
government. Casino bonds funded a portion buildings, miscellaneous pits, and three sand cushion could perform the same job,”
of the project. “When the casinos didn’t different layers of railroad tracks on and said Gable. “By using the geo-grid, we could
locate on the East Riverfront, monies were below this former rail yard. “A variety of leave the footing in place even with a
made available for these types of different solutions were utilized by the team reduced amount of backfill.
improvements,” said Veldhuis. Other to address each obstruction,” said Fry. “In As a bonus, some of the light pole bases
funding sources for the $1 million dollar each case, the team selected the best are even connected to the massive footing.
project included the EDC, the MDNRE, and method based on two criteria: cost “The footing is right in the center of some of
the City of Detroit. effectiveness and the ability to meet the the pole bases, so we were able to dowel
At the grand opening, Rebecca finished needs of the project.” into it and utilize the footing, because it is so
Humphries, MDNRE director, praised the Said Maliszewski, “Foundations of all sorts fortified and substantial,” said Maliszewski.
partnerships that made this wonderful and sizes played havoc in trying to install
gathering place possible. “It truly is a great underground utilities and planter THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
example of how we can work together at the foundations. We had to break the old The site contained vestiges of this former
state level, the local level and with private concrete slabs if we found that they were railroad yard that once transferred goods
partners to make something truly special,” interfering with the new systems.” WCI only from rail to ship in the late 19th and early
said Humphries. removed the footing to the depth necessary 20th Centuries. Three sets of feeder tracks
for installation of new infrastructure. “We from the main line pulled in directly east of
CONCRETE FOSSILS didn’t even get to the bottom of many of the Globe Building, while the main line
The Dequindre Trail Extension took two- them,” added Novak. “We went as deep as curved across the property due north of this
and-a-half years to plan, design, and we had to go to install the drainage and former maritime and manufacturing hub,
construct, said Denise L. Colona, DEGC other systems, which was at least five to six said Maliszewski III.
project manager. The first step in carving feet.” The Globe’s set of feeder tracks extended
this unique pathway through the heart of Mannik & Smith researched existing three sets across and three layers deep, said
Detroit’s warehouse district proved the most documentation, but “no matter what level of Novak. “There were still existing rails on the
taxing. Installing new sewer, drainage and homework you do, what is underground has surface of the ground that had to be

removed, as well,” he added. WCI uncovered from ribbon farms and Detroit’s earliest Maliszewski III. The final pour was placing
rusty and deteriorated steel rails and ties, as industries, including an old wooden sea wall the rest of the terra cotta-colored sidewalk
well as hundreds of old railroad spikes, some and hundreds of cubic yards of buried and plaza areas. “Basically, pouring the color
over 100 years old. sawdust, possibly from an old mill on the site sequence involved four different
As another artifact of this “underground of Chene Park. “We also discovered a wood operations,” he added. “We were careful not
railroad,” the sidetracks to the Globe floor three feet in the ground during work to allow any color contamination between
Building ended in a turntable that once across from Chene Park,” recalled the different colored sections.”
served as a weigh station for cargo and a Maliszewski. The floor may have been part Overall, WCI and its subcontracting team
means of turning the trains back toward the of the house or barn of Chene, the son-in- placed “27,300 square feet of fiber-
north. “The turntable had a massive iron law of Joseph Campau, he added. reinforced colored concrete plazas and
frame that had to be removed,” said colored concrete pathways, utilizing three
Maliszewski. SAVVY STAGING separate colors and installing 2,085 linear
After a series of big digs on the Dequindre WCI launched construction in the feet of colored curb,” said Maliszewki III.
Trail Extension, WCI backfilled and beginning of August 2009. With the Beyond the playful appeal of this concrete
compacted the site to create a mosaic, the separate colors of the non-
solid sub-base for the new motorized pathway help to distinguish
concrete pavement. “We also Students from the the actual pathway from the plaza areas,
installed a great deal of stone in College for Creative added Veldhuis.
the upper layers to re-stabilize the Studies, Friends School, Form and function blend in other ways.
ground,” said Novak. and several Detroit “The curvilinear path is a traffic-calming
Public Schools, joined strategy to slow down bikers and roller
THE HISTORY DETECTIVES forces to create colorful bladers,” said Fry. “We also chose
Mannik & Smith’s and WCI’s art banners for this concrete for its durability and low
urban pathway. maintenance as compared to specialty
extensive experience in working
in urban post-industrial sites pavers.”
worked to the project’s
advantage. “I think our A LOVELY OASIS
background in Brownfields – I was With its colored concrete and a host of
the landscape architect in charge amenities, the Dequindre Trail Extension
PHOTO BY WENDY FRY, THE MANNIK & SMITH GROUP, INC.
of the entire project at the Ford is more of a streetscape and plaza than a
Rouge complex - gives us a good mere pathway. “It’s a pretty intense
idea of how to handle industrial project in terms of the amenities,” said
redevelopment areas,” said Fry. Veldhuis. “We basically have a million
“Every time you put a shovel in dollars worth of improvements in a 60-
the ground it’s a surprise. You foot-wide area.”
have to be creative and be able to The Trail has powder-coat finish steel
react and make decisions, benches and waste receptacles etched
sometimes on the fly. You also with abstract lines suggesting reeds,
have to balance maintaining the flowers and grasses. Overall, the Trail has
design with providing a 22 light poles, two security cameras and
reasonable, economical engineering minefield of underground obstacles and call boxes, and 42 traffic control bollards,
solution underground.” installation of underground utilities and plus new bike racks, said Maliszewski III. For
Mannik & Smith has performed a great sewers, “we weren’t able to start the final added safety, the Trail’s street intersections
deal of contract administration in the East sidewalk paving until the end of are marked by rows of bollards and LED
Riverfront. Currently, the firm is adminis- September,” said Gable. The site was divided flashing stop signs.
tering the construction of one-mile of city into a north and south block with the With its level of amenities, the Dequindre
streets in the East Riverfront neighborhood, southern portion further subdivided into Trail Extension is more in character with the
including Atwater, Riopelle, Orleans, Franklin two sections. First, WCI began removing 3.5-mile RiverWalk than the Dequindre Cut
and Woodbridge. Mannik & Smith is underground obstructions at the northern Greenway, a 20-foot-wide asphalt bike and
currently designing and engineering the end. “When we began surface work in the pedestrian trail that runs as a below-grade
rehabilitation of Michigan Avenue west of north block, we moved our demolition and corridor. In addition, compatible drip
Campus Martius, as well. underground crews to a portion of the south irrigation efficiently waters plant beds and
WCI has constructed the new Cadillac block,” said Gable. “Progress was always bright, energy-efficient LED lights illuminate
Square Park, and a string of riverfront parks being made, because we had deadlines to both the Dequindre Trail Extension and
from the Ambassador Bridge to the Belle Isle meet. In a sense, we treated the site like Milliken Park. Plus, a compatible security
Bridge, including Mt. Elliot Park, Chene Park three separate jobs.” system serves the entire network of East
(under Maliszewski’s previous partners at By October, WCI began the pouring of the Riverfront pathways and parks.
Warren Contractors), portions of Milliken colored concrete pieces, working The project team has created another
State Park, and a riverside park by the sequentially in each of the three sections. lovely oasis in the East Riverfront. Along the
Ambassador Bridge. “We first poured the terra cotta planter Trail, perennials “paint” the city with color,
Part contractor and part de facto curbs, followed by the charcoal gray accent beginning with the purple globes of
archeologist, WCI has unearthed artifacts bands and then the actual bike path, said ornamental onions in the Spring, followed

PHOTO BY WENDY FRY, THE MANNIK & SMITH GROUP, INC.
Bike riding and dog walking are only two of the many activities to be enjoyed along the Dequindre Trail Extension, the pivotal connection
linking several branches of Detroit’s amazing network of urban recreational pathways.
by day lilies and a native plant called uncertainties, WCI successfully linked sewer a photographer and filmmaker to this transi-
Rattlesnake Master. Once mature, Gingko, taps and new infrastructure to the existing tional landscape in the East Riverfront.
Red Maple, and Kentucky Coffee trees will utility and sewer grid. “Especially on Franklin Pointing to the Detroit Elevator Building, he
offer a leafy oasis for bikers, walkers, and Street, there is everything from gas, describes his plan to create a gallery and a
roller bladers or people who prefer just to electrical and water lines to a 14-foot studio with an editing bay, called Shared
have a seat and soak up the sunshine. diameter sewer interceptor,” said Works. “The only reason why I would want to
Mannik & Smith even inserted a turf area in Maliszewski. “But the records for the exact start my business in the Elevator Building is
the middle of this sliver of a plaza. “We location of these major underground rights because of the RiverWalk and what it could
thought it would be pleasant to have an area of ways were not always accurate.” be,” said McGee, a former Detroit Free Press
for people to have a picnic or watch the photographer and a contributing photog-
fireworks,” said Fry. A STROLL INTO THE FUTURE rapher to the New York Times and Wall Street
But the design of this inviting pathway Despite all obstacles below and at grade, Journal. Of the Trail and Cut, itself, McGee is
had to remain flexible, because, in a sense, this experienced project team has created a eager to use it to bike right into Eastern
Mannik & Smith had to design a sidewalk wonderful public venue that gives the city a Market once a connector route is built off
without a neighborhood. “One of the place to play and a space for economic the Dequindre Cut Greenway.
biggest challenges was to develop growth. The Trail moves through and near a Along the Trail, many are eager to witness
something that was complete without landscape of possibility and promise with the redevelopment of the historic Globe
knowing what was going to rise on the the natural beauty of the Detroit River Building, a complex of structures
perimeter,” said Fry. “We were designing to viewed as an asset for recreation and constructed from 1892 to the late 1910s. The
accommodate the Globe Building, but yet redevelopment. The nearby Milliken State complex housed the engine-building plant
the documents for the Globe Building aren’t Park will soon open the Lowlands, a new of the Dry Dock Engine Works, later
complete. The rest of the spaces are area that will be planted with “native absorbed by the Detroit Shipbuilding
undefined.” wetland and scrub species that were so Company. The complex played a significant
The Trail had to be stitched into the important to the Detroit Rivershed,” said role in the maritime history of the Great
existing fabric of streets, adjacent properties Humphries, MDNRE director. Lakes, plus is an example of the evolution of
and future developments, specifically in its The City of Detroit is linking the natural American construction methods of the late
approach to stormwater management. world and the built environment in an effort nineteenth and early twentieth century,
Mannik & Smith’s design had to collect and to transform the riverfront “from what was according to the Detroit Dry Dock Engine
control stormwater on site without any once an industrial zone to a human zone Works Recording Project. The project is part
impact on future developments. with residential, recreational, retail and light of the National Park Service’s Historic
The project’s new stormwater system commercial development,” said Jackson, American Engineering Record program.
straddled the uncertainties of the future and DEGC president. Fry shares her own vision of the Globe
the past. “We had to collect our own Even a casual visit to the Trail sparks an Building and the Trail. “My vision is to see
stormwater and tie into the city’s system,” encounter with an interested entrepreneur. the Globe Building redeveloped very
said Fry. “But the storm lines described on On an overcast day in the D, Stephen McGee, successfully with condominiums, shops and
historic drawings weren’t necessarily in the Detroit, pedals along the new Dequindre offices,” said Fry. “The hope is to spur other
same location in the field.” Despite Trail Extension, bringing his visionary eye as mixed-use developments of shops,

restaurants and condominiums or even row
houses. When bikers and walkers come out
of the Dequindre Cut Greenway, we want the
Trail to be a thriving place that is just fun to
discover.”
Mannik & Smith and the DEGC are already
hard at work planning a series of linear parks
in the East Riverfront, the next one in line
being along Riopelle. “We have developed a
series of linear parks that will be a front door
to future residential development,” said Fry.
Veldhuis expands on the DEGC’s overall
vision for the area. “We are looking at the
Jefferson Avenue corridor and trying to find
ways to connect to the waterfront,” said
Veldhuis. “Because we view the riverfront as
a great asset, we are trying to find ways of
making that connection for pedestrians,
bikers and others to use the waterfront.”
A series of road improvements is
underway to realize the vision of a City
Beautiful. “We are not just stopping with the
Trail,” said Jackson, speaking at the ribbon
cutting. “We are going to undertake
infrastructure improvements very soon with
some already underway, including Atwater.
The improvements will upgrade the
infrastructure of some of the surrounding
streets and add to the beautification of this
district.”
According to a media fact sheet,
improvements call for the reconstruction of
Riopelle, Orleans, Woodbridge and Franklin
Streets. Other improvements will provide
on-street parking to access Milliken State
Park and a dedicated bike lane to connect
the state park’s Lowland parcel to the
Dequindre Trail Extension and Dequindre
Cut Greenway.
After decades of planning, change is
beginning to take hold in the East
Riverfront. The talents of Detroit design and
construction veterans, such as Mannik &
Smith and WCI Contractors, Inc., are
rebuilding the Riverfront, making habitable
one of the first areas colonized by the French
habitants in the 1700s. In capitalizing on the
presence of the Detroit River, the web of
economic growth organizations and
government offices has found one of the
missing ingredients in revitalizing Detroit. In
building the Dequindre Trail Extension – the
missing link in a phenomenal network of
pathways – the city and the region are
beginning to put into action the words
emblazoned on the Trail’s banners: Unite,
Inspire, Grow, Create, and Play. In fact,
Minter, Detroit Recreation Department,
encourages everyone “to put on their
walking shoes and jump on their bikes and
enjoy” these wonderful new pathways east
of downtown Detroit.

2010 SPECIAL ISSUE HONORABLE MENTIONS
Capital Building Program Guardian Building School of Medicine Education Commons,

Bloomfield Hills Detroit Wayne State University, Detroit
CM: George W. Auch Co. CM/GC: Tooles/Sachse, LLC CM/GC: Walbridge
Architect: CDPA Architects, Inc. Architect: SmithGroup Architect: SHW Group
Courtyards Housing Campus, U of M Hindu Temple of Canton 16th District Court

Ann Arbor Canton Livonia
CM/GC: T.H. Marsh Construction Co. CM/GC: Rand Construction Engineering, Inc. CM/GC: The Dailey Company
Architect: Neumann/Smith Associates Architect: Lindhout Associates Architect: Neumann/Smith Associates
Dortch & Dortch Corporate Offices Mercy Memorial Hospital University Preparatory Science &
Grand Blanc Master Facilities Plan Expansion Math Middle School
CM/GC: DCC Construction, Inc. Monroe Detroit
Architect: Creekwood Architecture CM/GC: Contracting Resources CM/GC: DeMaria Building Co.
Architect: Hobbs + Black Architect: GunnLevine Architects
2010 SPECIAL ISSUE SUBCONTRACTOR LIST

Subcontractors and professional consultants listed are identified by the general contractor, architect or owner.
Fire Protection – Interstate Fire Protection, Milford
Floor Covering and Wall Tile – Artistic Installation, Inc., Warren
Foundations – E.L.S. Construction, Inc., Orion Township
Glass, Glazing and Aluminum – Harmon, Inc., Livonia
Landscaping – KLM Landscape, Romeo
Masonry – Baro Contracting, Clinton Township
Mechanical (HVAC and Plumbing) – John E. Green Company,
Highland Park
Metal Wall Panels – Universal Wall Systems, Grand Rapids
Painting – Niles Construction Services, Flint
Painting, Striping and Exterior Signage – Nagle Paving
Company, Novi
Roofing – J.D. Candler Roofing, Livonia
Sitework and Underground Utilities – W.P.M., Inc., Grand Blanc
Soils Testing – Soil and Material Engineers, Inc., (SME), Plymouth
Structural Steel – Kirby Steel, Inc., Burton
MADONNA UNIVERSITY – FRANCISCAN CENTER FOR Waterproofing & Joint Sealants – Western Waterproofing Co., Jobsite Security – Prudential Protective Services, LLC,
SCIENCE AND MEDIA Livonia Southfield
Owner – Madonna University, Livonia Demolition – Adamo Demolition Company, Detroit
Construction Manager – Clark Construction Co., Lansing ALFRED TAUBMAN CENTER FOR DESIGN EDUCATION Site Work – Angelo Iafrate Construction Company, Warren
Architect and Engineer – SmithGroup Incorporated, Detroit Owner – Argonaut Campus Developer, LLC, Detroit Landscaping – WH Canon Company, Romulus
Owner’s Representative – Charles R. Basel, Focus Facility General Contractor – Walbridge, Detroit Tank Removal – Oscar W. Larson Company, Clarkston
Consulting Services, Inc., West Bloomfield Architect/Engineer – Albert Kahn Associates, Inc., Detroit Concrete – Amalio Corp., Sterling Heights
Access Flooring – Data Supplies Company, Plymouth Owner–Selected Interior Design Consultant: Luce Et Studio, Interior Building Restoration – RAM Construction Services,
Carpentry, Casework, Fumehoods Metal Studs, Drywall, EIFS and San Diego, CA Livonia
General Trades – Nelson Mill Company, Southfield Subcontractors Floor Polishing – Hoover Wells, Toledo, OH
Controlled Environmental Room – Detroit Technical Mechanical Demolition – Western Mechanical, Masonry – Dixon, Inc., Detroit
Equipment Co., Troy Clinton Township Exterior Building Restoration – Chezcore, Inc., Detroit
Concrete (Site and Building Flatwork) – Contek, Inc., Ann Arbor Existing Building HVAC Disconnect – Heights Mechanical, Steel (Core and Shell) – Casadei Steel, Inc., Sterling Heights
Electrical – LaBelle Electric, Macomb Township Auburn Hills Steel (Gym Structural Steel) – Service Iron Works, Inc.,
Elevators – Schindler Elevator Corp., Livonia Glycol Recovery – Inland Waters, Detroit South Lyon

Finish Carpentry – Kulbacki, Inc., Clinton Township Concrete Inserts – Unistrut Detroit Services Company, Wayne Porcelain Tile – Michielutti Bros., Inc., Eastpointe
Roofing – Christen Detroit, Detroit Curtain Wall, Glass and Glazing and Interior Glass – Precast – National Precast, Inc., Roseville
Metal Siding – C.L. Rieckhoff, Inc., Taylor Universal/American Glass and Metals, LLC, Plymouth Precast Bollards and Wheel Stops – American Eagle Precast,
Supply Doors and Hardware – Century Architectural Decorative Light Fixtures – Steven Frank Studios, Clinton Detroit
Hardware, Inc., Wixom Township Reprographics – Hernandez Blueprinting Services, LLC, Detroit
Overhead Doors – KVM Door System, Clinton Township Demolition (Casino) – Jenkins Construction, Inc., Detroit Resilient Base and Tile, Flooring, Carpet and Padding –
Window Replacement – Modern Mirror & Glass Company, Demolition (Parking) – Bierlein, Midland Precision Food Distribution, LLC, Detroit
Inkster Demolition and Restoration – Chezcore, Inc., Detroit Resilient Tile and Carpet – Contract Design Group, Inc., Royal
Interior Glass & Glazing – Peterson Glass Company, Ferndale Design Services – SDG Architects and Planners, Detroit Oak
Drywall & Rough Carpentry – Brinker Team Construction Co., Doors, Frames and Hardware – LaForce, Inc., Troy Roofing (Parking) – Christen Detroit Roofing & Sheet Metal,
Detroit Earthwork and Site Utilities – Blaze Contracting, Inc., Detroit Detroit
Painting – Madias Brothers, Inc., Detroit EIFS and Cold Formed Metal Framing – Pontiac Ceiling & Roofing (Hotel and Casino)– Royal Roofing Company, Inc.,
Flooring – Turner Brooks, Inc., Madison Heights Partition, LLC, Pontiac Orion
Hard Tile – Artisan Tile, Inc., Brighton Electrical (Casino) – Bayview Electric Company, LLC, Detroit Rough and Finish Carpentry – Denn–Co. Construction, Inc.,
Operable Partitions – Gardiner C. Vose, Inc., Bloomfield Hills Electrical (Casino, Hotel, St. Mary’s and Parking) – LaBelle Detroit
Toilet Partitions – Rayhaven Group, Southfield Electrical, Macomb Safety and Traffic Control Products – Carrier & Gable, Inc.,
Marker Boards – Architectural Building Components, Inc., Oak Electrical (Casino and Hotel) – Motor City Electric Co., Detroit Farmington Hills
Park Electrical Consultant – Lombard Associates, Inc., Grosse Ile Scaffolding – ThyssenKrupp Safway, Inc., Detroit
Window Coverings – The Sheer Shop, Shelby Township Elevators and Escalators – Otis Elevator, Farmington Hills Scaffolding and Temporary Stairs – Scaffolding, Inc., Detroit
Food Service Equipment – Great Lakes Hotel Supply Co., Engineering and Architectural Surveying – Metco, Warren Security Engineering – Security by Design, Detroit
Detroit Equipment Rental – United Rentals, Taylor Security Gate – American Fence & Supply Co., Warren
Gym Equipment – Dew–El Corporation, Holland Exterior Signage – Harmon Sign, Inc. d/b/a Planet Neon, Novi Selective Demolition and Lead Removal – Davis Iron Works,
Exterior Signage – Spectrum Neon Co., Detroit Fence and Barricade Maintenance – Reliable Fence, Clinton Walled Lake
Fume Hoods – Farnell Equipment Co., Troy Township Shades – Marygrove Awning Company, Livonia
Fire Suppression and Protection – Simplex Grinnell, Field Toilets – Jay’s Portable Toilets, Lapeer Sheet Metal – Partlan–Labadie Sheet Metal Co., Oak Park
Farmington Hills Fire Protection – Lawrence–Green Fire Protection, Inc., Detroit Signage – MLS Signs, Inc., Chesterfield
Elevators – Otis Elevator, Farmington Hills; Detroit Elevator Fire Suppression Sprinklers – Simplex–Grinnell, LP, Site Fence – Future Fence Company, Warren
Company, Ferndale Farmington Hills Spray on Fireproofing – W.E. Harnish Acoustical, Inc., Redford
Plumbing/HVAC/Integrated Automation – Limbach Company, Fireplace – American Fireplace & Barbeque Dist., Ferndale Stone Flooring – PMP Marble & Granite, Troy
Pontiac Folding Fire Doors – Won–Door Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT Street Sweeping – Armadillo Services, Inc., Birmingham
Electrical (Core & Shell and Tenant Work) – Motor City Electric, Food Service Design – FSA Design, Los Angeles, CA Structural Concrete and Foundations – Colasanti Specialty
Detroit Food Service Equipment – Great Lakes Hotel Supply Co., Services, Inc., Detroit
Electrical (Auditorium Buildout) – Edgewood Electric, Inc., Detroit Structural Steel – Ross Structural Steel, Inc., Detroit
Madison Heights Foundation – E.L.S. Construction, Inc., Orion Township Telecommunications – Con–Tech Consultants, Dublin, CA
Data/Voice Wiring – Wiltec Technologies, Ann Arbor Foundation and Grade Beams – J.J. Barney Construction, Inc., Temporary Heat – Mobile Air, Inc., Madison Heights
Rochester Hills Testing – NTH Consultants, Ltd, Northville
Garage Landscaping – B & L Landscaping, Inc., Oak Park Toilet Accessories and Partitions (Hotel and Parking) –
Geotechnical Survey – Soil and Material Engineers, Inc., (SME), International Building Products, Inc., Livonia
Plymouth Toilet Accessories and Partitions (Casino) – R.E. Leggette
Graphic Design – Lorenc Yoo Design, Roswell, GA Company, Dearborn
Hardware – Ingersoll Rand, Franklin, TN Traffic Consulting – Midwestern Consulting, Ann Arbor
Hollow Metal Doors, Frames and Hardware – Century Window Treatments – The Sheer Shop, Shelby Township
Architectural Hardware, Inc., Wixom Window Washing – DLS Services, Inc., Ypsilanti
Hotel Connector Finishes – J.O.A. Construction Co., Inc., Detroit Window Washing Support Equipment – Pro–Bel, Ajax,
Interior Garage Signage – Toledo Sign Company, Toledo, OH ON, Canada
Landscape Architect – Merz & Associates, Detroit
Lighting Design – John Levy Lighting Productions, Los
Angeles, CA
Linen Chute – Kasl Enterprises, Inc., Belleville
Loading Dock Equipment – American Material Handling, Inc.,
Pontiac
GREEKTOWN CASINO–HOTEL Low Voltage Wiring – Wiltec Technologies, Ann Arbor
Owner – Greektown Casino, LLC, Detroit Man and Material Hoists – Elevator Technology, Inc., Detroit
Construction Manager – Jenkins/Skanska Venture, Detroit Masonry (Casino) – Brazen & Greer, Inc., Livonia
Architect – Master Architect Hnedak Bobo Group, Memphis, TN Masonry (Hotel and Parking) – Leidal & Hart Mason
Local Architect – Rich and Associates, Southfield Contractor, Inc., Livonia
Hotel Architect of Record – Rossetti Architects, Southfield Mechanical (Casino and St. Mary’s) – Limbach Company, LLC,
Associate Local Architect – SDG Design, Detroit Pontiac
Civil Engineer – ABE Associates, Inc. Detroit Mechanical (Hotel and Casino) – John E. Green Company,
Electrical Engineer (Casino) – RHR, Las Vegas, NV Highland Park
Mechanical and Plumbing Engineer (Casino) – FEA, Las Mechanical (Parking) – Goyette Mechanical Co., Flint
Vegas, NV Message Boards – Michigan Barricading Equipment, Inc., GERALD R. FORD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
MEP Engineer (Hotel) – BEI Associates, Detroit, MI Farmington TERMINAL AREA AND PARKING IMPROVEMENT
Structural Engineer – Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers, Inc., Meeting Room Interiors – Rhonda A. Roman Interiors, Detroit, PROGRAM
West Bloomfield and Urbanwerks, Detroit Owner – Kent County Department of Aeronautics, Grand
Acoustics, Noise and Vibration Consultant – Kolano & Saha Metal Wall Panels – C.L. Rieckhoff Co., Inc., Taylor Rapids
Engineers, Inc., Waterford Metal Wall System Framing, Sheathing and Waterproofing – General Contractor – The Christman Company, Grand
ADA Consultant – Independence First, Milwaukee, WI Brinker Team Construction Co., Detroit Rapids
Asphalt Paving – Nagle Paving, Novi Millwork – Trend Millwork, Lincoln Park Architect – Gresham, Smith and Partners, Nashville, TN
AV/Media Engineering – Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon & Miscellaneous Steel – Titus Welding Company, Farmington Consultants – Testing Agency, Testing Services – Soils &
Williams, San Antonio, TX Operable Partitions – Gardiner C. Vose, Inc., Bloomfield Hills Materials Engineers, Grand Rapids
Barricades – State Barricades, Inc., Warren Ornamental and Miscellaneous Metals – Courturier Iron Craft, Testing Services – Patent Construction Systems, Taylor
Bathroom Finishes – Impex Development, Seattle, WA Inc., Comstock Park Surveyor – Prein & Newhoff, Grand Rapids
Beverage Storage Gates – Rayhaven Group, Southfield Overhead Doors – Detroit Door & Hardware Company, Irrigation Design – Graber & Associates, Washington
Caissons and Drilled Piers – Rohrscheib Sons Caissons, Inc., Madison Heights Landscape Architect – JJR, Ann Arbor
New Hudson Overhead Roll Up Doors – Crawford Door Sales, Inc., Detroit Design Consultant – Robert Darvis, Ann Arbor
Canopy Fabrication – J.C. Goss Company, Detroit Painting and Wall Covering (Hotel, Casino and Parking) – Coordination Drawings – Century A & E, Grand Rapids
Carpentry – Master Craft Carpet Service, Inc., Redford Eugenio Painting Company, Grosse Pointe Woods Trade Contractors –
Carpentry, Drywall and Ceilings – Turner–Brooks, Inc., Painting and Wall Covering (Hotel) – Midwest Pro Painting, CCI–Labor – Christman Constructors, Inc., Lansing
Madison Heights Inc., Livonia Labor/Carpentry – The Christman Company, Grand Rapids
Carpeting – Ulster Carpets, Tappan, NY Parking Control Equipment – Traffic & Safety Control Systems, Selective Demolition – X–Treme Demolition, Grand Rapids
Ceramic Tile (Casino) – Michigan Tile & Marble, Detroit Inc., Wixom Earthwork/Site Utilities – Velting Contractors, Inc., Grand
Ceramic Tile and Stone (Hotel) – Architectural Southwest Pavement Marking and Striping – Motor City Marking Rapids
Stone Co., Livonia Pavement, Detroit Solder Pile & Lagging – The King Company, Holland
Concrete Flatwork – Amalio Corporation, Sterling Heights Plumbing – Guideline Mechanical, Inc., Clinton Township Site Concrete, Curb & Paving – Martin J. Concrete Construction

Co., Coopersville Concrete Forms – Form Tech Concrete Forms, Inc., Flooring – Barton Malow Flooring, Oak Park
Caulking (work category 19a) –– Custom Caulking, Inc. Grand Rapids; Construction Specialties, Boston, MA Painting – Duross Painting Co., Warren
& Waterproofing, Marne Snowplow Service – DJ’s lawn Service, Inc., Grand Rapids Doors & Hardware – FBH Architectural Security, Inc.,
Bituminous Paving – Michigan Paving & Materials Company, Ground Frost Equipment – Dan Winter Poured Walls, Inc., Auburn Hills
Grand Rapids West Branch Mechanical – John E. Green, Highland Park
Pavement Striping – PK Striping, Kalamazoo Site Cleaning – United Commercial Services, Inc., Grand Rapids Roofing – Lutz Roofing, Shelby Township
Striping – Parking Lot Maintenance, Caledonia Architectural Wood Casework and Countertops – McClelland
Fencing – DeWitt Fence Company, Lansing Millwork, Vassar
Landscape – Preferred Landscape, Cedar Springs Electrical – Moote Electrical, Inc., Pontiac
Landscape Furniture – Landscapeforms, Kalamazoo Lockers & Toilet Partitions – Rayhaven Equipment Co.,
Precast Concrete – Stress–Con, Shelby Township Southfield
Precast Barriers – Kerkstra Pre–Cast, Jenison Masonry – RC Nowak & Co., Inc., Garden City
Structural Concrete – Christman Constructors, Inc., Lansing; Testing – Soil & Materials Engineers, Inc., Shelby Township
Grand River Construction, Hudsonville; Bee Steel, Tile – Southeastern Tile Co., Mt. Clemens
Grand Rapids Civil Engineering – Sujak Engineering PLC, Troy
Masonry – Burggrabe Masonry, Belding Steel – Vertex Steel, Inc., Milford
Structural Steel Canopy – Steel Con, Kalamazoo Landscaping – WH Canon Co., Romulus
Misc. Structural Steel Fab/Erect – Steel Supply & Engineering,
Grand Rapids
Waterproofing/Sealants – RAM Construction Services, Inc.,
Livonia
Roofing & Sheet Metal – J & L Roofing, Grand Rapids
Glass & Metal Panels – Architectural Glass & Metals, Inc., HEMLOCK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION –
Byron Center NEW CORPORATE CENTER
Terra Cotta Panels – Davenport Masonry, Holt Owner and Construction Manager – Hemlock
Canopy Skylights – Naturalite, Terrell, TX Semiconductor Corporation, Thomas Township
Caulking (work category 19) – Premier Caulking, Grand Rapids Architect – Wigen Tincknell Meyer & Associates, Saginaw
General Trades Carpentry – Proline Custom Construction, Inc. Architectural Trades Contractor – Granger Construction
Hudsonville Company, Lansing
Doors, Frames & Hardware, Architectural Specialties, Electrical Contractor – William F. Nelson Electric, Saginaw
Electric Strike – S.A. Morman, Grand Rapids Mechanical Contractor – John M. Jacobs Plumbing &
Overhead Doors – Bareman and Associates, Jenison Heating, Bay City
Millwork – Grand Valley Wood Products, Grand Rapids Acoustical Design – Simoni Systems, Saginaw
Temporary Canopy Work – Versa Tube Building Systems, Audio–Visual – Acoustics by Design, Grand Rapids
Collierville, TN Audio–Visual – SPL Integrated Solutions, Frankenmuth
Wood Material – West Michigan Forest Products, Byron Center Carpets – Standard Tile, Saginaw ROSA PARKS TRANSIT CENTER
Drywall – Ritsema Associates, Grandville Concrete – Pumford Construction, Saginaw Owner – Detroit Department of Transportation, Detroit
Hard Tile – The Bouma Corporation, Grand Rapids Curtainwall – Lansing Glass, Lansing Construction Manager – Economic Development
Terrazzo – Fabris Pearce, Flint Displacement Diffusers – J.E. Johnson, Midland Corporation of the City of Detroit, Detroit
Paint – Valley Painting, Inc., Flint; Niles Industrial, Fenton Doors and Frames – LaForce Manufacturing Co., Troy General Contractor (Building) – DeMaria Building
Signage – Poblocki Sign Company, West Allis, WI Floors – Standard Tile/Wolverine Stone Co., Saginaw Company, Detroit
Sign Installers, Outdoor LED Signs – City Sign Erectors, Geotechnical Engineer – Soil and Materials Engineers, Inc. Architect – Parsons Brinkerhoff, Detroit
Grand Rapids (SME), Plymouth General Contractor (Canopy) – USA Shade & Fabric
Lockers – Brainard Enterprises, Rockford Hardware Consultant – Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, Structures, Inc., Costa Mesa, CA
Parking Control Equipment – Light & Breuning, Inc., Fort Livonia Carpeting – Tri–State Industrial Floors, Toledo, OH
Wayne, IN I.T. and Security Systems – SSOE Incorporated, Midland Coiling Doors and Grills – Detroit Door & Hardware,
Prefabricated Booths – Traffic & Safety Control Systems, Inc., Landscape Architect – Wade–Trim, Bay City Chicago, IL
Wixom Mechanical and Electrical Engineer – Ambitech Engineering Concrete Flatwork – Broadcast Design, Mt. Clemens
Bird Control – Action Pest Control, Evansville, IN Corporation, Downers Grove, IL Detailed Canopy Design – FTL Design Studio, New York, NY
Fire Protection – Brigade Fire Protection, Belmont Mechanical and Electrical Engineer – KJWW, Chicago, IL Electrical – Alpha Electric, Sterling Heights
Mechanical Systems – Rite–Way Plumbing & Heating, Inc., Millwork/Casework – Three Rivers Casework, Midland Elevators – ThyssenKrupp Elevator Corp., Cincinnati, OH
Grand Rapids Painting – Valley Painting, Flint Environmental Assessment (Phase I) – Madison and Madison
Controls – Grand Valley Automation, Grandville Roofing – Brandle Roofing, Midland International of Michigan, Detroit
Electrical Systems – Windemuller Electric, Wayland Siding – Stephenson Corporation, Flint Environmental Assessment (Phase II) – Enviro Matrix, Detroit
Elevators/Escalators – Schindler Elevator, Kentwood Stone – Boettcher Masonry/Cold Stone Granite, Bay City Excavation – Blaze Contracting, Inc., Detroit
Photographic Documentation – Green Frog Photography, Structural Engineer – MacMillian Associates, Inc., Bay City Exterior Wall Assembly – C.L. Rieckhoff Co., Inc., Taylor
Grand Rapids Walls – TriCity Acoustical, Saginaw Footings, Foundations, Poured Walls – DSP Constructors,
Office Cleaning – J & D Commercial Cleaning, Allendale Window Coverings – Creative Windows, Ann Arbor Detroit
Site Surveying – Summit Surveying, Allendale Form Suppliers – USA Form, Inc., West Chicago, IL; Patent
Snow Removal – Wildwood Snowplowing, Alto Construction Systems, Detroit; and
Time and Material Items (Labor) – Grand River Construction, FormTech Concrete Forms, Inc., Wixom
Hudsonville Furniture and Accessories – Architectural Building
Road Clean–Up – SaniSweep, Grand Rapids Components, Oak Park
Safety – NES/RoadSafe Traffic Systems, Wyoming Geotechnical Engineers – SOMAT Engineering, Inc., Detroit
Gutters – Blake Seamless Aluminum Gutters, Grand Rapids Glazing – Chamberlain Glass & Metal, Detroit
Concrete Cutting – K & H Concrete Cutting, Moline Gypsum Board Assembly – Turner–Brooks, Inc.,
Scheduling – Administrative Controls Management, Inc., Madison Heights
Ann Arbor HVAC – Great Lakes Mechanical, Dearborn
Video Production – Visual Edj Productions, Grand Rapids Inspection and Administration Support – Community
Manpower for Temp. Curbside – The Bouma Corporation, Development Solutions, Detroit
Grand Rapids Landscape Architects and Construction Drawing Support –
Barricades – Kerkstra Precast, Grandville; VersaTube, Hamilton Anderson Associates, Inc., Detroit
Collierville, TN Louvers – Construction Specialties, Taylor
Television Services – Plummer’s Environmental Services, Mechanical Electrical and Plumbing Engineers – Scales and
Byron Center KARMANOS–CRITTENTON CANCER CENTER Assoc., Detroit
Traffic Control Equipment – Give ‘Em a Brake, Grandville Owner – Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center Membrane Roofing – Roofcon, Inc., Brighton
Lead Abatement – National Environmental, Detroit & Crittenton Hospital Medical Center Metal Doors & Frames – R.K. Hoppe Corporation, New Hudson
Trench Work – DeWitt Trenching, Grandville General Contractor – Barton Malow Company, Southfield Piles – Toledo Caisson Corporation, Ottawa Lake
Clean Up Services – Grand Rapids Building Services, Architect – Albert Kahn Associates, Detroit Plumbing – D & M Plumbing, Inc., Farmington Hills
Grand Rapids SUBCONTRACTORS Signage – ASI Sign Systems (ASI Modulex), Troy
Soil Testing – A & L Great Lakes Laboratories, Fort Wayne, IN Curtainwall, Aluminum Doors & Interior Glass – American Special Systems – Edwards Service/Carter Brother,
Crane Rental – Star Excavating, Holland Glass & Metals Corporation, Plymouth New Hudson
Structure Consulting – Comprehensive Structural Services, Building & Site Concrete – Barton Malow Concrete, Oak Park Structural Steel – Taft Steel, New Hudson
Keego Harbor Partitions, Ceilings & Carpentry – Barton Malow Interiors, Surveying & Layout – Kem–Tec & Associates, Eastpointe
Oak Park Surveyors (Construction Phase) – Metco Services, Detroit

Surveyors (Design Phase) – ABE Associates, Inc., Detroit Consulting Engineer, City of Novi – Stantec Consulting Terra Cotta and Composite Panel Installation – Universal Wall
Temporary Fencing – Keystone Fence & Supply Co., Redford Michigan, Inc., Ann Arbor Systems, Inc., Grand Rapids
Temporary Site Signage – State Barricades, Inc., Warren Terra Cotta Supplier – NBK Ceramic, Marblehead, MA
Testing and Quality Control – ATC Associated, Inc., Novi Testing Agency – Materials Testing Consultants, Inc.,
Trees, Plants and Ground Cover – Reliable Landscaping, Inc., Grand Rapids
Canton Toilet Partitions and Accessories – Contract Specialties, Inc.,
Unit Masonry – Dixon, Incorporated, Detroit Kentwood
Voice & Data Systems – Telecom Technicians, Inc., Window Shades – Creative Windows, Ann Arbor
Sterling Heights
Waterproofing – Michigan Restoration Group, Livonia
Wet/CO2 Fire Protection – Tri Star Fire Protection, Plymouth
THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES

AT CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
Owner – Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
Architect – SHW Group, Berkley
General Contractor – Walsh Construction, Detroit SHED 3 RENOVATION AND RESTORATION
Access Flooring – Data Supplies Co., Plymouth Owner – City of Detroit, Eastern Market Corporation
Architectural Handrail – HDI, Lancaster, PA Architect – Kraemer Design Group, PLC, Detroit
Asphalt Paving – Pyramid Paving & Contracting Company, Contractor – Joint Venture of the Michigan Office of Turner
Essexville Construction Company, Detroit, and Keo & Associates, Inc.,
NOVI PUBLIC LIBRARY, NOVI Auditorium Tables – American Seating, Grand Rapids Detroit
Owner – City of Novi Banner Drops – Britten Services, Traverse City Subcontractors
Architectural Team – Design Architect – Diamond and Carpet and VCT – Ideal Floor Covering, Rochester General Trades – JC Beal Construction, Inc., Ann Arbor
Schmitt Architects, Inc., Toronto; Architect–of–Record – BEI Caulking and Waterproofing – Helms Caulking & Mercury Demolition – Blue Star, Inc., Warren
Associates, Inc., Detroit Building Restorations, Inc., Jennison Steel Canopies – The Boomer Company, Detroit
Contractor – The Dailey Company, Lake Orion Ceilings and Drywall – William C. Reichenbach Co., Lansing Roofing and Metal Panels – CEI Group, LLC, Howell
Subcontractors Civil Engineering Consultant – Wilcox Civil, Farmington Hills Paint – Detroit Spectrum, Warren
Painting – Accurate Painting Company, Warren Curtainwalls and Glazing – Lansing Glass Company, Lansing Concrete – E.L.S., Orion Township
Tel/Com – Advanced Communications Cabling, Inc., Door and Hardware Supplier – A&C Builders Hardware, Inc., Electrical – Electrical Technology Systems, Detroit
Spring Arbor West Branch Overhead Doors – K.V.M., Clinton Township
Fireplace – American Fireplace & Barbeque Dist., Ferndale Ductwork – Dee Cramer, Inc., Holly Doors and Glazing – Modern Mirror & Glass Co., Inc., Roseville
Fire Extinguisher/Cabs – Architectural Building Components, Electrical – Circuit Electric, Inc., Byron Center Asphalt – Nagle Paving Company, Novi
Oak Park Elevator – KONE, Inc., Wayne Brick Restoration – RAM Construction Services of Michigan,
Hard Tile – B & B Tile & Marble Co., Inc., Fairhaven Exterior and Interior Masonry, Slate Façade – Boettcher Mason Livonia
Toilet Partitions – Building Accessories Corporation, Contractor, Inc., Bay City Earthwork – Simone Contracting Corp., Sterling Heights
West Bloomfield Exterior Timbers – Timber Systems, Lapeer Mechanical – Systemp Corp., Rochester Hills
Electrical – CEI Electric Co., Commerce Township Fencing – Riteway Fence Co., Sterling Heights Landscaping – WCI Contractor, Inc., Detroit
Roofing – CEI Roofing, Howell Fire Protection – Total Fire Protection, Inc., Grand Rapids
Rain Screen – Conquest, Inc., Livonia General Trades – Signature Sealants & Waterproofing, Berkley
Testing – CTI and Associates, Inc., Brighton Hard Tile – American Southwest Stone Company, LLC, Livonia
OH Doors – Detroit Door & Hardware Company, Irrigation – Marc Dutton Irrigation, Inc., Waterford
Madison Heights Insulation – Ticon, Inc., Midland
Millwork – Doors and Drawers, Inc., Dexter Laboratory Cabinets – Farnell Contracting, Inc., Linden
Window Treatments – Drapery Service by Ernest LLC, MBE, Landscaping – Landmark Landscaping Services, Inc., Milford
Inkster Library Storage – The Casper Corporation, Okemos
Fire Protection – Dynamic Fire Protection, Inc., Newport Marker Boards – Claridge Products, West Bloomfield
Fencing – Future Fence Company, Warren Metal Stairs – General Steel Erectors, Inc., Sterling Heights
Landscaping – Great Oaks Landscape, Novi Millwork – Horizon Millwork Manufacturing, Wayne
Signage – Harmon Sign/Planet Neon, Novi Miscellaneous Metals – Van Dam Iron Works, Inc., Grand Rapids
Concrete – Ideal Contracting, Detroit Overhead Doors and Fire Doors – Detroit Door & Hardware Co.,
Acoustic Ceilings – Innovative Ceilings and Walls, Inc., Redford Madison Heights
Operable Partitions/Acoustic Panels – Integrated Interior, Inc., Owners Representative – Kennedy Construction, Saginaw
Warren Painting – Niles Construction Services, Inc., Flint
Flagpoles – J.C. Goss Company, Detroit Playground Equipment Installation – Vela Construction, Detroit CANTON CENTER FOR ADVANCED MEDICINE
Steel – Kehrig Steel, Inc., Ira Township Playground Equipment Supplier – DP & Hoffman Play Works, AND SURGERY
Doors/Frames/Hardware – LaForce, Inc., Troy Inc., Brighton Owner – Saint Joseph Mercy Health System, Ann Arbor
Masonry – Leidal & Hart Mason Contractors, Inc., Livonia Playground Surface – NO FAULT Sport Group, LLC, Architect – HKS Architects, PC, Northville
HVAC – Long Mechanical, Northville Baton Rouge, LA Construction Manager – George W. Auch Company, Pontiac
Layout – Mason L. Brown & Associates, Inc., Auburn Hills Plumbing – Mid–State Plumbing & Heating, Inc., Access Flooring – Gardiner C. Vose, Inc., Bloomfield Hills
Floor Covering – Master Craft Carpet Services, Inc., Redford Mount Pleasant Asphalt Paving – Nagle Paving Co., Novi
Asphalt Paving – Nagle Paving, Novi Projection Screens – City Animation Co., Lansing Balancing – Barmatic Inspecting Corp., Lincoln Park
Book Returns – Progressive Plumbing Supply, Warren Re–Steel – Quality Re–Steel Inc., Brighton Carpet and Vinyl (Phase II) – Quality Floor Covering Co.,
Waterproofing – RAM Construction Services, Livonia Resinous Flooring – VanGuard Concrete Coating, Grand Rapids Oak Park
Toilet Accessories – R.E. Leggette Company, Dearborn Roofing and Green Roof – Schreiber Corporation, Detroit Carpet and Vinyl (Phases IV and V) – Master Craft Carpet
Glass and Glazing – Rochester Hills Contract Glazing, Sitework – Carrigan Development, Inc., Port Huron Service, Inc., Redford
Rochester Hills Slate Shingles – Stephenson Corporation, Flint Ceramic Tile – Artisan Tile, Inc., Brighton
Elevators – Schindler Elevator Corp., Livonia Slate Supplier – Booms Stone Co., Redford Concrete Flatwork (Phase I) – Albanelli Cement Contractors,
Lockers – Shelving, Inc., Auburn Hills Spray Foam Insulation – Stony Creek Services, Inc., Westland Livonia
Glass Railing – Sun Architectural Products, LLC, Cumming, GA Structural Concrete and Sitework – Fessler Bowman, Inc., Concrete Flatwork (Phase III) – B&B Concrete Placement, Inc.,
Earthwork/Utilities – Sunset Excavating, Livonia Concrete Construction, Flushing Romulus
Plumbing – USA Plumbing & Sewer Service, Inc., Structural Steel Erection – Wolverine Steel Erectors, Inc., Concrete Foundations (Phase II) – RRD Construction Co.,
Ray Township Dexter Rochester
Access Control/Video/Alarm – Vidcom Solutions Structural Steel and Miscellaneous Metals – Builder’s Iron, Inc., Concrete Foundations and Flatwork (Phase II) – Gemelli
Curtain Wall – Whitson Insulation Company, Royal Oak Sparta Concrete, LLC, Romeo
Foot Grilles/Construction Specialties – William H. Scarlet & Surveying – ROWE Incorporated, Mount Pleasant Controls – Johnson Controls, Inc., Ann Arbor
Associates, Southfield

Demolition – Blue Star, Inc., Warren Nurse Call – Sound Engineering – Livonia
Electrical (Phase I) – Mutual Electric Co., Brighton Overhead Coiling Doors – Applied Handling, Inc., Dearborn
Electrical (Phases II and V) – Gillis Electric, Inc., Livonia Painting (Phases I, II, III and IV) – Detroit Spectrum Painters,
Electrical (Phases III and IV) – Fitzgerald Electric, Livonia Inc., Warren
Elevator – Otis Elevator Co., Farmington Hills Painting (Phase IV) – Cavalier Painting Co., Sterling Heights
Exterior and Interior Glass – Madison Heights Glass Co., Inc., Partition Carpentry and Ceilings (Phases I and II) – ANM
Ferndale Construction Co., Inc., New Hudson
Finish Carpentry and Millwork (Phases II, III and V) – Nelson Partition Carpentry and Ceilings (Phases I and IV) – Denn–Co
Mill Co., Southfield Construction, Detroit
Finish Carpentry and Millwork (Phases III and IV) – Brunt Partition Carpentry and Ceilings (Phase III) – Great Lakes
Associates, Inc., Wixom Ceiling & Carpentry, Ann Arbor
Fire Suppression – Professional Sprinkler, Inc., Wixom Plumbing and HVAC (Phase I) – Boone & Darr, Inc., Ann Arbor
Frames, Doors and Hardware (Phase I) – Arch. Details, Inc., Plumbing (Phase IV) – DeCal, Inc., Warren
Warren Roofing (Phase I) – Bloom Roofing Systems, Inc., Brighton
Frames, Doors and Hardware (Phase II) – Gamalski Building Roofing (Phase II) – Port Huron Roofing and Sheet Metal,
Specialties, Auburn Hills Clyde Township
Frames, Doors and Hardware (Phase III) – Rayhaven Sheet Metal – Allied Vetnalation, Warren DEQUINDRE TRAIL EXTENSION
Equipment Co., Inc., Southfield Sitework – Service Construction, LLC, Southfield Owner – City of Detroit Recreation Department, Economic
Headwall Units – Modular Service Company, Steel (Phase I) – Davis Iron Works, Inc., Walled Lake Development Corporation of the City of Detroit
Oklahoma City, OK Steel (Phase II) – Rohmann Iron Works, Inc., Flint Landscape Architect/Engineer/Construction
HVAC and Plumbing (Phases II and V) – Macomb Mechanical, Tech Cabling – Wiltec Technologies, Inc., Ann Arbor Administration – The Mannik & Smith Group, Inc., Detroit,
Inc. Sterling Heights Tile and Terrazzo – Michielutti Brothers, Eastpointe Canton
HVAC (Phases III and IV) – Bumler Heating, Inc., Vinyl – Conventional Carpet, Inc., Sterling Heights General Contractor – WCI Contractors, Inc., Detroit
Sterling Heights Subcontractors
Interior Glass – Modern Mirror and Glass, Roseville Demolition, Earthwork, Site Utilities – Moss Construction, Inc.,
Landscaping – WH Canon Company, Romulus Detroit
Masonry (Phase I) – Robovitsky, Inc., Southfield Concrete – Albanelli Cement Contractors, Inc., Livonia
Masonry (Phase II) – Brend Contracting Co., Inc., Pavement Marking – PK Contracting, Inc., Troy
Shelby Township Irrigation – American Sprinkler, Livonia
Metal Roofing – Lutz Roofing, Inc., Shelby Township Electrical – Alpha Electric, Inc., Sterling Heights
Landscaping – WCI Contractor, Inc., Detroit
Site Amenities, Materials – Landscape Forms, Inc., Kalamazoo
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ADVERTISER INDEX
Ace Cutting Equipment ..................................................................61 DiHydro Services ................................................................................55 Next Generation Services Group ..............................................109
Allied Ventilation ................................................................................99 Doeren Mayhew ................................................................................49 Nicholson Construction Company ............................................103
Aluminum Supply Company/Marshall Sales............................10 Dunn Blue Reprographics ..............................................................56 North American Dismantling Corp. ............................................66
Amalio Corporation ..........................................................................39 Energy Shield, Inc. ..............................................................................27 Nowak & Co. Masonry ......................................................................65
Aoun & Company, P.C. ......................................................................67 Facca Richter & Pregler, P.C. ............................................................17 Oakland Companies..........................................................................39
ArchItectural Building Components ..........................................27 Fishbeck, Thompson, Carr & Huber, Inc. ....................................49 Oakland Metal Sales, Inc. ................................................................48
Artisan Tile, Inc. ................................................................................103 G2 Consulting Group ........................................................................66 Operating Engineers Local 324- JATF............................................7
Blue Star, Inc. ........................................................................................93 George W. Auch Company ..............................................................23 PMP Marble & Granite ......................................................................35
Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Union, Local #1 ............43 Glazing Contractors Association ....................................................4 Partlan Labadie Sheet Metal Company......................................35
CAM Administrative Services ..........................................................3 Granger Construction Co. ..............................................................55 Plante & Moran, PLLC ........................................................................30
CAM - Affinity ....................................................................................57 Hartland Insurance Group, Inc. ........................................................9 Plumbing Professors ........................................................................67
CAM ECPN ..........................................................................................IBC Hilti ..........................................................................................................45 Plunkett Cooney ................................................................................95
CAM Marketplace ..............................................................................81 Hoover Wells, Inc.................................................................................29 R.S. Dale ................................................................................................IFC
CAM Tradeshow ................................................................................31 IBEW Local 252..................................................................................101 Rick's Portables Sanitation, LLC ....................................................73
CAM Workers’ Comp. ........................................................................67 Ideal Floor Covering ..........................................................................87 SANI-VAC Services, Inc. ....................................................................65
C.A.S.S. Sheet Metal ..........................................................................47 Jeffers......................................................................................................61 SMRCA....................................................................................................67
CEI ..........................................................................................................93 KVM Door Systems, Inc.....................................................................94 Service Iron Works..............................................................................28
C.F.C.U.....................................................................................................11 Kem-Tec ................................................................................................73 Stony Creek Services, Inc. ................................................................87
Century Architectural Hardware, Inc...........................................27 Klochko Equipment Rental Company ........................................73 Sullivan, Ward, Asher & Patton, P.C. ..............................................37
Clark Construction Company ........................................................19 Kotz, Sangster, Wysocki and Berg, P.C. ........................................63 TEMP-AIR ..............................................................................................45
Connelly Crane Rental Corp. ..........................................................37 Kulbacki, Inc. ........................................................................................23 Trend Group ........................................................................................BC
Curran Crane, J J..................................................................................77 Lawrence Technological University ............................................28 Unified Technologies ........................................................................49
D & R Earthmoving ............................................................................49 MasonPro, Inc.......................................................................................91 Valenti Trobec Chandler, Inc. ............................................................5
Dailey Company, The ........................................................................77 McCoig Materials................................................................................19 Wade Trim ............................................................................................53
Detroit Carpentry JATC ....................................................................15 Michigan Concrete Association..................................................102 Wigen, Tincknell Meyer & Assoc. ..................................................55
Detroit Spectrum Painters............................................................101 Motor City Electric ............................................................................38 Woods Construction, Inc. ................................................................17
Detroit Terrazzo Contractors Association..................................45 Navigant Consulting ........................................................................87 Zervos Group ......................................................................................56

The Trend Towards LEED Rapidly Becoming The Leading
Standard For Measuring A Building’s Environmental
Performance Has Arrived In Michigan.
Wood Is A Carbon-Negative & By Using More
Custom Architectural Wood Products Your Project Can Acquire
Wood Credits To Be Used Towards LEED Certification.
GREEN GREEN
Cork Counter Flooring
S.T. Dana Building Renovation –
University of Michigan School of Natural Resources & Environment (2003)
1st LEED-Certified Project at the University of Michigan
1st LEED-Certified Project in Ann Arbor
4th Gold LEED-Certified & 10th LEED-Certified Project in Michigan
1 of 2 Gold LEED-Rated Major Renovation Projects at a University in the U.S.
Environmentally Responsible Construction Spells Cost Savings In The Long Run.

Benign Materials, Salvaged Materials, Recycled Materials, Certified Wood.
When Your Project Demands Green, Think Orange.
Trend Group - Nurturing The Relationship Between Affluence & Environmental Conscience.
Recent Trend Group USGBC LEED Gold Certified Projects Include:

Haworth Headquarters, Holland, MI (2009)
Rayconnect Inc., Rochester Hills, MI (2010)

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