Toll Brothers Apartment Living Selects Balfour Beatty for Atlanta Mixed-use Project Leveraging Off-site Modular Construction ...
October 15 2018 - 10:23AM
Business Wire
Toll Brothers Apartment Living has contracted Balfour Beatty as
construction manager for its mixed-use, multifamily Osprey project
located in West Midtown Atlanta. Designed to maximize project
density and accelerate schedule, Balfour Beatty is leveraging
Prescient’s modular construction technology and off-site
manufacturing platform to build the project’s entire tower
structure. The Osprey will be among the first projects using the
Prescient solution to go vertical in the Atlanta market.
The 325,000-square-foot Class A development will feature a
13-story Prescient tower, two five-story wood frame buildings and a
seven-story, 540-car parking garage. With a total of 319
residential units, the top two floors will feature luxury penthouse
units with private outdoor living areas. The Osprey will include
30,000 square feet of interior service and retail space, in
addition to amenities including an exterior pool, fitness-on-demand
studio, a sky lounge with a community bar, co-working space and a
dog park.
“We’re honored for the opportunity to be Toll Brothers Apartment
Livings’ construction partner in delivering this innovative project
leveraging Prescient technology and lean construction techniques to
meet their project density and scheduling goals,” said Patrick
Fleming, senior project manager, Balfour Beatty. “Prefabricating
the tower structure off-site for this project optimizes the
front-end design and preconstruction phases, which in turn
increases the speed of construction. Like Toll Brothers, we’re
always seeking more innovative ways to deliver projects, which
makes our work together on this project a great fit.”
Balfour Beatty evaluated multiple options to help Toll Brothers
Apartment Living meet project pro forma objectives. Ultimately, the
team honed in on Prescient as the best structural solution to
achieve its goals versus a typical post-tensioned concrete frame or
other load-bearing structural frame options. In addition to the
project’s wall panels with structural columns, Prescient will also
install precast balconies, stairs and infill-framing.
The Osprey project team quickly harnessed the value inherent in
incorporating off-site manufacturing into the construction process.
Off-site modular construction requires building panels to be
designed to precise specifications and manufactured much earlier
than with traditional construction, resulting in a far more
efficient process in terms of both time and material resources.
Leveraging the Prescient off-site solution also requires tight
integration with trade partners very early in the design and
preconstruction phases, which enables the project team to turn
units several months faster than on typical projects.
With construction underway, the project team will begin
installing the prefabricated tower structure by the end of the
first quarter 2019 with overall project completion scheduled for
first quarter 2020. In addition to Prescient, Balfour Beatty’s
design partners on the Osprey also include Brock Hudgins
Architects, S.A. Miro, M2 Structural, and Proficient
Engineering.
About Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty is an industry-leading provider of general
contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build
services for public and private sector clients across the United
States. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, the
company is part of Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY), a leading
international infrastructure group that provides innovative and
efficient infrastructure that underpins our daily lives, supports
communities and enables economic growth. Consistently ranked among
the nation’s largest contractors, Balfour Beatty is the No. 6
Domestic Building Contractor in the United States as ranked by
Engineering News-Record. To learn more, visit
www.balfourbeattyus.com.
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