Nicole Hazy

General Project Data

• Building Name: Upper Campus Housing Phase II
• Location and Site: Stadium Drive, Pittsburgh, PA
• Building Occupants: Students
• Occupancy Type: Residential
• Size: 161,600gsf
• Number of Stories Above Grade: 9
• Total Height: 100ft
• Dates of Construction: May 2005 – July 2006
• Overall Project Costs: 33 Million
• Project Delivery Method: Design-Bid-Build
• Primary Project Team:
    Owner: University of Pittsburgh
        124 Cathedral of Learning
        Pittsburgh, PA 15260
        (412) 624-9518
    Construction Manager: P.J. Dick Incorporated
        P.O. Box 98100
        Pittsburgh, PA 15227
       (412) 462-9300
    Architect: Perking Eastman Architects PC
        1100 Liberty Ave.
        Pittsburgh, PA 15222
       (412) 456-0900
    Civil/Site/Landscape Engineer: The Gateway Engineers, Inc.
        1011 Alcon Street
        Pittsburgh, PA 15220
       (412) 921-4030
   Structural Engineer: Atlantic Engineering Services
        650 Smithfield street, Suite 1200
        Pittsburgh, PA 15222
       (412) 338-9000
   MEP Engineer: Elwood S. Tower Corporation
       115 Evergreen Heights Drive, Suite 400
       Pittsburgh, PA 15229
       (412) 931-8888

Building System Information

Architecture:

The Upper Campus Housing Project is located on Stadium Drive near the Peterson Events Center. The building takes an unusual angled shape following the curve of the street. The Housing Project will be used as a dormitory to house students attending the University of Pittsburgh. The building consists of 10 total floors (including the basement). The ground floor consists of both common and private spaces. The common spaces located on the ground floor include: Mechanical/Electrical areas, café, mailrooms, fitness rooms, and a loading area. Also located on the ground floor are seven private rooms. Floors one through nine consist mainly of private spaces, but also include laundry rooms and lounges. When the building reaches the ninth floor a setback occurs at each end of the building. Above the ninth floor a mechanical penthouse is located at the roof level.

Due to the grade on the north and south side of the building, large retaining walls were constructed. The walls have a 4” Ground Faced CMU Veneer with an architectural precast wall cap. The south retaining wall also includes an overlook area.

Building Envelope:

The building exterior walls consist of both 6” and 4” curtain wall systems. The ground and first floor have a ground faced CMU veneer. Floors two through nine are faced with brick, while the roof has a prefinished metal panel system. The exterior curtain walls also include a pattern of tempered insulated spandrel glass, tempered insulated vision glass, and insulated vision glass. The storefront assembly entrance consists of a pair of prefinished 1 ¾” thick aluminum doors with ¼” tempered glass. The storefront entrance assembly also includes both ¼” tempered glass and ¼” clear glass.

The low roof plank flat roof system consists of tapered insulation sloped at ¼” per foot. This system is topped with an EPDM roof system. The parapet wall extends up with a membrane roof system base and cap finishing. The cap for the parapet wall is a prefinished metal coping.

Construction:

The Upper Campus Housing Project was built with type IB construction. The site has a height restriction of 11 stories (160ft max height) and an unlimited floor area. The fire-resistance system construction type was reduced to Type IIA where most types of construction are rated 1-hr. Construction started in May of 2005 and is expected to be completed in July of 2006.

Zoning/Historical:

Residential Group R-2 (Dormitory); this site has no historical information that I have come across at this point.

Major National Codes:

IBC 2003
ICC A117.1 Accessible & Usable Building & Facilities, 1998
Americans with Disabilities Act 1996
US Fair Housing Act 1996
ICC Electrical code
International Fuel Gas Code
International Mechanical Code
International Plumbing Code
International Fire Code
International Energy Conservation Code

Lighting/Electrical:

There are many different types of lighting used in this building. The first floor lobby has indirect/direct, 120V, 160W pendant mounted lights. In other lounge and lobby areas of the building there are fluorescent downlights. In the dorm rooms there are ceiling mounted polycarbonate bowl fixtures. Other important areas to look at are the corridors. In the corridors there are recessed static fluorescent troffers with prismatic lenses.

This building’s electrical system is supplied by 57 208Y/120V, 3PH, 4W panelboards. These panelboards are located on floors ground-ninth. There are also 2 480Y/277V, 3PH, 4W panelboards (1 for the roof and 1 for the penthouse).

Mechanical:

Pitt Dormitory building is supplied by a CAV system. This system includes three types of units. The first unit (AHU-1) is a 5400cfm unit. This building also has rooftop units (RTU-1). These rooftop units are rated at 24,250cfm. In this building each resident director is supplied with his or her own electric furnace. Each of these furnaces (AHU-2) is 755cfm. AHU-2’s have DX cooling and an electric heating coil.

Structural:

The main structure of the building consists of reinforced masonry shear walls. Each floor system is 8” precast plank with a 2 ½“ topping. The roof system is framed with both 8” and 12” precast plank. The exterior walls consist of CIP concrete and masonry wall varying from 8”-18” thick. The foundation system consists of slab-on-grade, concrete grade beams, and drilled concrete caissons. On the second floor there is a canopy constructed of HSS steel shapes varying in size from 5x3x1/4 to 10x4x3/16.

Fire Protection:

This building is protected by a number of different sprinkler types. The hallways and common areas make use of the concealed pendent sprinklers. The corridor outside of the service areas has semi-recessed pendent sprinklers. Service areas are equipped with upright sprinklers. Dorm rooms have both concealed sidewall sprinklers and concealed pendent sprinklers. A 6” combined standpipe/sprinkler riser is located in the stairwells. The fire department connection and check valve with ball drip are located on the southeast side of the building (outside of the tenant locker room).

Plumbing:

The Upper Campus Housing Project’s domestic water supply is maintained by a domestic water booster system. 752gal domestic hot water tanks power this system. Located in the mechanical room is a 2” Diaphragm Compression Tank with a capacity of 211gal. There are also 2 140-degree water heaters located there. Each resident director room is supplied with a ¾” Diaphragm Compression Tank with a capacity of 2gal.

Telecommunications:

Each dormitory unit is equipped with basic voice/data modular jacks mounted 18” above the floor. Also located in each room and in common areas are fire alarm speaker boxes mounted 80” above the highest floor level or 6” below the ceiling. Television connections are also located in each room.

Transportation:

Transportation throughout the dormitory building consists of three passenger elevators located at the center of the building. These elevators travel from the ground floor to the ninth floor. The penthouse includes mechanical room to service these elevators. There are also three stairwells located in the building. The stairs located at the east and west sides of the building go from the ground to the ninth floors. The stairwell located in the center of the building only goes between the ground and first floors.

Special Systems:

The security system for the Upper Campus Housing Project consists of card reader, wall mounted, with recessed backboxes. This building is also equipped with wide-angle lens cameras, both surface and flush mounted (made by Panasonic) located in stairwell and lounge areas. There are also pan/tilt/zoom cameras located on the roof.