Charleston Bus annex facility in New York City
Posted
12/15/2011
This 81,000- square-foot, 11- acre Charleston Bus annex facility
in New York City, was completed on Staten Island in 2010 for the
Mass Transit Authority. The station provides elevated and grade
level parking for 188 city buses and more than 200 employees. The
facility also houses lockers, lunch rooms, conference rooms and a
two-story frontage subdivided into office space. The lower level
includes 16 bus maintenance bays and a dual-lane bus wash system
utilizing recycled rainwater.
The $115 million project was stepped into a hill that required
more than 50,000 cubic yards of excavation and extensive
underground infrastructure involving sanitary and stormwater
systems, below-grade runs for electric and gas and communications,
water and fire-protection, and underground storage for fuel,
antifreeze, transmission fluid, window washer fluid, stormwater
reclamation and oil/water separation. The site's eastward elevation
uses translucent panels to let daylight stream onto both levels of
the facility.
To belay costs, Butler Manufacturing, Kansas City, Mo., worked
with Lynbrook, N.Y.-based Stuart Berger Construction, a local
Butler Builder, and used an alternate bid provision allowing
pre-engineered multistory structural framing engineered to
accommodate mixed collateral loadings, and a combination of
pre-insulated Thermawall and Butlerib II metal wall panel
systems.
Tully Construction, Flushing, N.Y., served as the prime
contractor on the team comprised of New York City-based Parsons
Brinkerhoff Americas; Ben Thompson, an architect with extensive
expertise in transit facilities; and HAKS Engineers. New York City,
for construction management services.
Butler Manufacturing Co.,
www.butlermfg.com