Award of Merit — Government/Public Building: Wake County Public Health Building and Parking Deck

Wake County Public Health Building and Parking Deck

Raleigh, N.C.

Award of Merit

Sent by: Skanska USA Building

Owner: Wake County Government

Lead Design Firm: O’Brien Atkins Associates

General Contractor: Skanska USA Building

Interior Health Space: LS3P

Structural Engineers: Kimley-Horn (Parking Deck); Lynch Mykins IMEG

Structure 2 structures concurrently on a constrained, active website needed tight coordination with structural and concrete partners to line up structures, steel erection and precast setup. A $120-million effort provided a four-story, 155,000-sq-ft public health structure and a 514-car precast parking deck in the center of a hectic county school surrounded by WakeMed Hospital, Wake Technical Community College and other county office complex.

The structure is configured as a one-stop public health center with 88 examination spaces and a complete spectrum of services consisting of kids’s and ladies’s health, immunizations, labs and a drug store. The group anticipated to finish some rock excavation, the volume and solidity surpassed expectations and needed regulated blasting best next to an active medical facility school and important energies. Vibration tracking and collaborated blast windows safeguarded the surrounding centers, and accuracy drilling near a gas line avoided overbreak. Early constructibility work, consisting of transforming a prepared maintaining wall into a basement wall, cut excavation amounts and lowered expense and schedule threat.