Executive Summary
A traditional suburban low-rise office building, the Signal Hill Professional Center provides 45,000 square feet of office space to be utilized by a bank on the ground floor and various tenants above, to be completed in 2006. Consisting of various companies throughout Northern Virginia and Maryland, the Project Team hopes for an efficient delivery.
Notable features include the Slender-Wall Precast Concrete wall panels with a traditional brick exterior that should increase thermal efficiency, an underground parking structure with a driveway above that employs sloped infill beams and unique connections to mimic the natural slope of the site, and MEP designs catering to future expansion and redefinition.
The fact that low-rise suburban office buildings are found virtually everywhere in America presents an interesting situation: how can a redesign of Signal hill in Virginia affect the efficiency and quality of the thousands of similar office buildings throughout the country?
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