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The Poynor School of Innovation in Healthcare Historic Renovation
Florence, S.C.
QUALITY IN SAFETY and Award of Merit, Renovation/Restoration
Sent by: Thompson Turner Construction
Owner: Florence 1 Schools
Lead Design Firm: Collins & & Almers Architecture
General Contractor: Thompson Turner Construction
Landscape Architect: Healy Horticulture
A three-story Neoclassical Georgian Revival structure that has actually functioned as an education landmark over the last century now houses medical abilities laboratories with thorough facilities and security upgrades. This 58,600-sq-ft, three-story structure, built in 1908 and noted on the National Register of Historic Places, served generations as a grammar school, junior high and adult education.
This adaptive restoration included training areas, medical abilities laboratories, trainee partnership locations and a brought back 400-seat auditorium, together with detailed HVAC, pipes, electrical, smoke alarm and fire suppression systems. Teams likewise changed the roofing and brought back historical windows.
Security shows needed to represent a historical three-story structure with aging facilities, numerous active trades and scopes covering roofing work, masonry, concrete cutting, excavation, paving, MEP replacement and surrounding demolition. The group established a site-specific security strategy that all staff members and subcontractors examined before starting work, utilized along with the business security program, OSHA policies and subcontractor EHS requirements. Significant scopes were examined through task-specific danger analyses, each coupled with controls consisting of lockout/tagout, fall defense, silica direct exposure controls, hot work licenses, barriers and competent-person oversight. Thompson Turner likewise asked for a voluntary South Carolina OSHA full-service security assessment.
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In the auditorium, the group set up scaffolding, developing a steady platform for overhead lighting setup and window refinishing. The job completed with absolutely no recordable occurrences and no lost-time mishaps throughout 104,479 work hours.
Because the initial window heights contravened the ceiling height required for brand-new mechanical systems, the group developed an interior border soffit information that enabled the decreased ceiling to stop before reaching the windows.
The city’s water pressure ended up being too low to run the brand-new fire lawn sprinkler, so a booster pump was set up. Field examination discovered the hygienic line did not have the fall it required to reach the roadway, an issue solved with the addition of a pump station.
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