The WCU Upper Campus Residence Hall is a five-story, 165,000 sf, 612-bed dormitory project at the central part of the main campus. Vannoy has worked along with the architect to help determine an efficient layout, finish and MEP.
New Queens University, Northwest Residence Hall. Demo of the existing building with a build back of new four-story residence hall approximately 30,000 SF.
Vannoy Construction provided preconstruction services and served as Construction Manager at Risk for the new Health Sciences Center at Davidson County Community College. The project consisted of a 2-story, 48,358 sf building with partial walk-out basement on the existing occupied campus; which houses the college’s nursing, pharmacy technology, medical lab technology, emergency medical science, massage therapy, and esthetic’s programs. The building was a steel-framed structure supported on spread footings, and the building envelope included brick, storefront windows, metal wall panels, TPO roofing, and standing seam metal roofing. The project also required a 25-foot high soil nail shoring system to facilitate remediation of approximately 10,000 cubic yards of unsuitable soils within the footprint of the future building. Vannoy Construction’s expertise in grading and site development work was instrumental in identifying and executing the most cost-effective strategy for completing the shoring and unsuitable soils work prior to construction.
The WCU Brown Hall Renovation and Addition was a NC State Construction Management at Risk project. Brown Hall was composed of over 38,000 sf of renovation and 26,000 sf of addition and also included revamping WCU’s central energy plant. As the CM at Risk, Vannoy delivered over eight months of preconstruction services, which included constructability review, design coordination, budgeting, bid scope development, bid advertisement, public bidding, and a comprehensive Value Engineering from Schematic Design through 100% Contract Documents. Brown Hall was bid in three phases to help mitigate schedule impacts due to design development, while assisting with contract procurement and allowing the project to accommodate non-concurrent activities and shorten the critical path.
Brown Hall provides the university a strategic pivot point between the original campus, student housing, and the College of Art and Sciences, while providing new campus dining options along with an integral Steak-n-Shake and outparcel Starbucks. Additionally, the 2nd Level provides new offices for Student Support Services.
The WCU Steam plant Renovation was funded as an emergency project and Vannoy was able to help ensure the project was a competitive bid, while capturing the economies of scale associated with the concurrent activities of Brown Hall by bidding the project as an alternate. The project required continuous coordination with university maintenance and facilities staff as the major demo and renovation were being completed while the facility remained 100% operational.
