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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 (1^st place in their category) and four projects received Merit Awards (2^nd 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.

Concord Medical Office

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.

On Thursday, December 10, 101NQ was recognized as the Project of the Year by ABC Keystone at the organization’s annual Excellence in Construction awards ceremony. Project of the Year candidates are selected for a project’s subjective ‘WOW’ factor in the following areas (in no particular order):

• Community impact
• Client satisfaction
• Design features
• Positive notoriety or high-profile of the project

“It is a true testament to each team members’ ongoing commitment to our Clients For Life mission and our core values that we are able to celebrate another successful milestone in what continues to be a challenging year,” said Vice President Brett Calabretta. “It is an honor to see our team and our trade partners recognized by so many in our community for their continued dedication and hard work.”

101NQ

This extensive, block-altering redevelopment breathes new life into a formerly vacant four-story, 198,000 square foot windowless structure in the heart of downtown Lancaster. The building was in desperate need of a makeover to complement the surrounding neighborhood’s vibrant climate.

With the transformation of the Bulova Building to 101NQ, this project has completely changed the face of downtown Lancaster. The revitalized space brings news jobs and businesses into the city, driving the economic growth of Lancaster. Luxury condos provide additional housing, attracting new residents to Lancaster city.

Additionally, Warfel received Excellence and Merit awards for several projects from both ABC Keystone and ABC Eastern PA.

Excellence Awards

Eurofins Lancaster Labs Building M

The 188,000 sf Building M consists of class-A laboratory and office space above a ground-lev­el parking garage. Spaces are designed to accommodate large biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical lab areas, with offices and conference rooms.

A large-scale, technically challenging, and ever-changing project, Lancaster Labs tested the Warfel team to scale for project success. With advanced lab spaces and complex mechanical systems, the building required extensive planning, detailed management, and committed teamwork. An in-house MEP coordinator was instrumental in ensuring that the building’s complex systems were installed correctly.

Masonic Village Whisk Café

Located on the edge of Masonic Village at Elizabethtown’s cam­pus, the Whisk Cafe is in a restored commercial unit which the Warfel team converted into a unique, farm-to-table restaurant. Serving the Masonic Village and greater Elizabeth­town Community, the renovated space features more natural light, new MEP systems, and commercial kitchen equipment. Ex­tensive planning was required to keep the project on a tight schedule, and special care was taken to ensure utilities were ap­propriately coordinated in conjunction with another contractor working on Masonic Village’s busy campus.

Menno Haven Life Center

Several years ago, Menno Haven embarked on a master plan project to rejuvenate their campus, including a centrally-located resident life center. Residents had very little space on campus to socialize, and desired a location to meet with their friends, enjoy a variety of entertainment, and access special services.
The new, two-story Life Center provides amenities that residents previously lacked, including a salt room, movie theatre, beauty salon, massage rooms, outdoor putting green, and more. Specialty finishes installed throughout the building required extensive coordination and consultation with vendors to ensure that materials were installed correctly. Our team worked in close virtual partnership with the architect, based in Nebraska, to ensure that design standards were met.

LA Fitness Parking Lot Restoration

A creative restoration of a quickly-deteriorating parking lot, the LA Fitness Parking Lot Restoration required extensive planning to ensure that the gym could remain open while significant portions of its parking lot were renovated. During a multi-phased process, team members carefully evaluated existing conditions, used new construction methods to maintain costs, extensive safety measures to protect workers and nearby pedestrians, and communicated effectively to ensure LA Fitness’ business continuity.

Chatham Financial Building Renovation

Originally planned as a new building on Chatham Financial’s Kennett Square campus, this project was reimagined to re-purpose an existing vacant office building nearby. Through creative planning and close communication with stakeholders, the team transformed an outdated, 80s-era office space into a fresh, modern home for the growing financial services company.
The extensive interior renovation includes slab cuts in a second floor, integration of a large, eye catching staircase with new skylights above, advanced telecommunications and access control systems, special focus and conference room, and multiple break rooms and cafeteria spaces.

Merit Awards

SpiriTrust Lutheran Village at Luther Ridge

A Chambersburg, PA-based Life Plan Community, SpiriTrust Lutheran’s Village at Luther Ridge community provides care for all stages of senior living. To serve a rapidly growing community, the Village at Luther Ridge project encompassed a large addition to serve two skilled care neighborhoods and a rehab facility.
Built adjacent to existing buildings, the Luther Ridge addition required multiple tie-ins to allow residents to travel throughout the community more easily. Extensive planning was required to minimize disturbance to the community members, including coordination with utility companies to relocate existing systems that ran through the footprint of the new building. Additionally, winter weather made schedule adherence particularly challenging, as cold temperatures required additional measures to maintain the aggressive timeline.

Franklin & Marshall Summer Dormitory Renovations

Encompassing a total of six buildings, the scope of each renovation varied over each of the past five summers. Work ranged from extensive interior demolition and renovations to inside-the-box refresh of dorm rooms, corridors, bathroom stacks, HVAC systems, etc. Scope also included large-scale exterior renovations, such as roofing and new additions inclusive of elevators and stair towers.
Extremely important to student satisfaction, a main focus each summer included complete bathroom redesigns from traditional ‘gang’ hall baths to gender neutral common sink areas with private bath and shower rooms. Additionally, room upgrades focused on more efficient use of space with removal of unsightly MEP elements such as pipes, heating elements etc.

Acts Retirement Life Cokesbury Façade Renovation

Cokes­bury Village features a large apartment building that im­mediately faces the entrance to the community. Built several decades ago, the apartment building previously presented a stark, con­crete-heavy exterior.

Through an extensive façade restoration that encompassed updated plumbing and the installation of dividing walls, Warfel Construction worked with the community to make balconies safer for residents. The new balcony separation walls provide additional privacy and security for each resident, enhancing their quality of life and provided much-needed secure access to fresh air during our current environment.

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 site work, 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 outdoor spaces, while two new commercial kitchens offer a variety of healthy meals for residents and staff.