Warfel Construction Company is pleased to announce that Guy Kingree has transitioned to the role of Director of Business Development. In this role, Kingree will be responsible for providing leadership to the company’s business development team, coordinating pursuit of potential projects, and creating strategies to partner with Clients for Life.
“Guy’s high initiative, strong work ethic, and commitment to his clients and teammates have allowed him to successfully grow and take on new challenges at Warfel,” said Brett Calabretta, Vice President. “We are eager to have Guy’s experience managing complex projects infused into our business development approach.”
A graduate of Penn State University, Kingree joined Warfel in 2009 as a Project Engineer. He served as a member of Warfel’s project management team, and most recently was promoted to Project Executive in 2016.
Kingree lives in Denver, PA with his wife Jackie and son Crew.
East Petersburg, PA – On November 19, Warfel broke ground on a new senior care facility for Avenue Development. Located off Interstate 83 in York, PA, the 124,000 square-foot building, named The Residence at Fitz Farm, will offer a combined 130-units of independent living, assisted living, and memory care facilities. The facility will also offer a short-term respite care program, where guests of the community will have access to various types of care, such as medication management and occupational therapy.
The Residence at Fitz Farm will boast a number of innovative features, including decontaminating ionizers to reduce virus transmission and smart locks designed to increase access for those with mobility aids. Those in assisted living units will have access to in-house chefs and a 24-hour personal care team. With the inclusion of a wide variety of comfort and entertainment options for residents, including a bistro, theater, salon, and a fitness and therapy suite, the building will be an instrumental structure in providing a full-continuum campus to serve the seniors within York County and the surrounding area.
Warfel is partnering with Roseman and Associates and Site Design Concepts on this project, with construction scheduled to wrap up in early 2023.
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).
Pictured from left: Conlan Swope, Matt Hartzler, Aaron Moul, Sheila Snyder, Sean Cotter, Guy Kingree, Duane Troyer, Steve Davis, Rodney Severs, Rusty Hoffman, Jason Rineer, Tom Bortzfield, and Brett Calabretta.Pictured from left: Jose Lopez, Matt Hartzler, Nick Ciarrocchi, Brad Shulenberger, Aaron Moul, Guy Kingree
Scroll down to learn more about this year’s award-winning projects.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Warfel Construction Company is pleased to partner with Catalyst Commercial Development on their new warehouse project, located on 2.78 acres in Bristol, PA. This 62,550 square foot steel and precast concrete panel warehouse began as a shell space and has now progressed into a manufactured food distribution facility housing 24,000 square feet of freezer space, 33,000 square feet of dry storage space, and 8 loading docks to serve the warehouse.
The storage spaces are also paired with a two-story office fit-out and additional office, dispatch, and bathroom spaces within the warehouse. The office fit out consists of single offices, open office workstations, meeting rooms, a kitchen, and a small gym. The project is scheduled to be completed in October 2022.
