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.
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