Earlier this month, several Warfel projects received Excellence in Construction awards from local Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) chapters. Six of the projects submitted received Excellence Awards (1st place in their category) and four projects received Merit Awards (2nd place in their category).
Scroll down to learn more about this year’s award-winning projects.
Acadia Behavioral Health Hospital
A joint venture between Acadia Healthcare and Tower Health, this 91,000 sf, 144-bed facility provides a full spectrum of behavioral health services. The hospital includes inpatient adolescent, adult, and geriatric psychiatric care, including partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient program services, outpatient counseling, physician professional services and consultation, and chemical dependency treatment.
Numerous site conditions including rock, sink holes and unsuitable soils created numerous challenges early on, however Warfel worked closely with the project owners and design consultants to minimize impact to the overall schedule.
Barclay Friends Preston Residence
Built to replace part of the campus that tragically burnt in 2017, the Preston Residence brings new life to the Barclay Friends community. This West Chester campus addition is designed to look like a group of townhouses, complimenting the residential neighborhoods in the surrounding area.
Encompassing significant sitework, this campus addition included complicated building tie-ins, advanced MEP systems, and high-end finishes throughout the building, all while maintaining existing operations. Exterior gardens and seating areas provide residents with access to controlled and beautifully landscaped outdoor spaces.
Kendal Crosslands – Café Renovation
The Kendal Crossland Café Renovation consisted of the renovation of an existing dining room and café. Upgrades were installed in the dining room to the walls and flooring, unique trellis and chandelier lighting, an electric fireplace, and sound attenuation panels. The café was completely renovated with all new high end kitchen equipment, tile flooring and walls, new storefront entryway with pocket door, and a hearth pizza oven.
Masonic Village Grand Lodge Window Restoration
A center point of campus life, the Abraham C. Triechler Lodge on Masonic Village’s campus required a creative restoration process to remediate moisture infiltration, as well as provide aesthetic upgrade. Our client had originally priced the project through an engineering firm which quoted the price at more than $5 million, well over the client’s budget for this restoration process.
Through a lengthy and creative preconstruction process, Warfel and RLPS Architects team members with many years of experience on the Masonic Village campus collaborated to create a simpler and more cost-effective process for the restoration efforts. These efforts resulted in substantial savings for the client, allowing the landmark building to be restored for generations of residents to come.
Masonic Village Lafayette Hills Renovation
The Masonic Village Lafayette Hill Renovation was broken up into two phases of construction, with Warfel being substantially complete at the end of January 2020. Phase 1 began in August 2019 and consisted of renovating their existing breakroom and creating a pub for the residents. It also included renovations to their main Dining Room, Bistro and Private Dining, along with corridor renovations. Upgrades to the Dining Room included a new front-of-house serving kitchen, with a new buffet style salad bar and serving line.
Phase 2 construction included renovations to the existing bowling alley, wellness center, main lobby, and apartment building corridors. Upgrades to the wellness center incorporated new pneumatic fitness equipment for residents, requiring floor trenching to run compressed air lines underneath each piece of equipment, providing a clean and safe finished product.
Penn Medicine/LGH 1097 Commercial Ave Renovations
The need for additional administrative space drove Penn Medicine to secure two new locations to house more than 400 employees in Lancaster, PA. One of the two buildings procured, 1097 Commercial Ave, is very large but was vastly outdated for today’s class-A office space standards. Total renovated space between both buildings exceeded 200,000 sf. To create efficiencies in schedule and systems quality, Warfel initiated a design-assist approach on both projects for electrical and mechanical scopes of work.
Brackbill Boulevard Tenant Improvements
A massive warehouse renovation process, Warfel was contracted to prepare the existing facility for a new tenant. Initial drawings provided during the estimating phase were not accurate to the current warehouse condition, prompting Warfel’s team to work creatively to meet the agree-upon turnover date while replacing 37 overhead doors, deteriorating dock levelers, and coordinating a variety of site improvements.
With a contract awarded in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Warfel’s project management team coordinated the entire project remotely, relying on a single field-based team member for project documentation and trade partner coordination.
Centre Care Skilled Nursing Facility
This 240-bed facility consists of 66 private rooms and 87 semi-private rooms. The new, 2- and 3-story, 135,645 sf Centre Care facility consists of three main areas to serve patients: a high acuity area for patients with complex medical conditions, a memory care area, and another for short-term rehabilitation.
The new building includes enhanced food service areas in each separate area of the building. There is a chapel, multi-purpose room, large conference room, beauty/barber shop and spa area, as well as training and administrative areas. The new facility also includes a physical therapy area as well as a dialysis suite.
This two-story, 30,000 sf medical office building is owned by Concord Health and operated by Tower Health and features spaces for consult, exams, group rooms, conference space, and a shell space for future fit out. The 88-acre site also houses an adjacent joint-venture behavioral health hospital. Both buildings were constructed concurrently.
Numerous site conditions including rock, sink holes and unsuitable soils created numerous challenges early on, however Warfel worked closely with the project owners and design consultants to minimize impact to the overall schedule.
Penn Medicine/LGH Mill Renovations
The need for additional administrative space drove Penn Medicine to secure two new locations to house more than 400 employees in Lancaster, PA. One of the two buildings procured, the Mill Building, is very large but was vastly outdated for today’s class-A office space standards. Total renovated space between both buildings exceeded 200,000 square feet. To create efficiencies in schedule and systems quality, Warfel initiated a design-assist approach on both projects for electrical and mechanical scopes of work.
