Ballou Senior High School
GC/CM: HESS Construction
Tonnage: 2269
Location: Washington, DC
Provided Services: Miscellaneous Metals, Structural Steel
Crystal Steel met bi-weekly with design team members on this "design assist" project to identify Value Engineering opportunities and strategies to streamline fabrication, improve constructability and accelerate schedule. The design features significant truss work and leans heavily of Crystal Steel’s technology team to support the fast-track BIM process.
Bennett Middle School
GC/CM: Whiting-Turner
Tonnage: 998
Location: Fruitland, MD
Provided Services: Miscellaneous Metals, Structural Steel
Architecturally interesting hips and valley roof, originally designed with 400-500 field welded moment connections. Crystal Steel proposed substituting bolted moment connections as a value engineering concept to help drive the project schedule.
Dunbar High School
GC/CM: Smoot/Gilbane
Location: Washington, DC
Provided Services: Miscellaneous Metals, Structural Steel
$122 million development of a new multi-story public school building with theater and sports facilities. Perimeter walls mostly made of glass panels to bring a light, airy feel to replace the previously dark, imposing structure. The old building was demolished to make way for the new state of the art stadium and athletic field.
Heights Middle School
GC/CM: Bovis Lend Lease
Tonnage: 850
Location: Jersey City, N.J
Provided Services: Miscellaneous Metals, Structural Steel
Extensive Middle School built by the NJ School Construction Corporation represented by URS. Provided structural steel, miscellaneous metals, value engineering design input and union erection.
Matapeake Middle School
GC/CM: CAM Construction
Tonnage: 923
Location: Kent Island, MD
Provided Services: Miscellaneous Metals, Structural Steel
Large Middle School on Kent Island, MD for Anne Arundel County Public Schools including soaring entryways with peaked ceilings.
Woodson High School
GC/CM:Hess Construction
Tonnage: 1356
Location: Washington, DC
Provided Services: Miscellaneous Metals, Structural Steel, Ornamental Metals
The 235,000-sq-ft replacement school in Washington, D.C. was designed to accommodate a curriculum based on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Facilities within the building include a proscenium theater, a natatorium, two gymnasiums and a media center with a television studio.
Designed to achieve LEED-Gold certification, its sustainable features include a 40,000 square foot green roof, rainwater harvesting system, high-performance glazing, super-insulated perimeter envelope, automated lighting controls, water-conserving plumbing fixtures and materials that emit low-volatile organic compounds.
