General Building Data

Name: Engineering and Applied Science Building

Location: Miami University campus in Oxford, OH; between Benton Hall and Pearson Hall at the north end of High St.

Occupant: School of Engineering and Applied Science

Function: Classrooms, offices, and laboratories

Size: 112,984 square feet above grade and 82,661 below grade parking garage

Stories above grade: Three (3) floors of occupied space, plus one (1) floor of mechanical equipment, totaling 61 feet above grade

Stories below grade: Three (3) floors of underground parking

Date of Construction: October 1, 2004 - June 1, 2006

Overall Project Cost: $23,651,159

Electrical System Cost: $2,500,000

HVAC System Cost: $2,194,000

Plumbing System Cost: $921,000

Fire Protection Cost: $417,000

Project Delivery Method: Design-Bid-Build

Project Team

Owner: Miami University

General Contractor: Monarch Construction

Electrical Contractor: Lake Erie Electric

HVAC Contractor: Triton Services, Inc.

Fire Protection Contractor: Dalmatian Fire, Inc.

Plumbing Contractor: The Nelson Stark Company

Project Manager: Miami University Planing and Construction Division

Architect: Burt Hill Kosar Rittleman Associates

Associate Architect: SFA

Site/Civil Engineer: Burt Hill Kosar Rittleman Associates

Structural Engineer: THP Limited

MEP Engineer: Burt Hill Kosar Rittleman Associates

Architecture

General Architectural Style: The style of the building was largely based upon the style of existing Benton Hall, built in 1969, to which the new School of Engineering and Applied Science building is attached by a skywalk at the second and third level. The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is generally a long, narrow building that has a skywalk in the center similar to the one that connects it to Benton Hall. The back of the building has an exterior patio at the main floor level over part of the garage with stairs leading down to bew engineering quad, where the campus ice rink was previously located.

Building Code: 2002 Ohio Building Code (OBC)

Zoning: Zoned as R-5, University District. Oxford, Ohio's Planning Department has zoned Miami's campus for their own use. The only ordinance that the Milton Township requires the university to adhere to are minimum building setbacks from the campus perimeter.

Historical Requirements: There are no historical requirements to the building.

Building Envelope: The building's exterior wall is wrapped in 4" face brick, which is based on 6" lightgage metal studs at 16" O.C. with fiberglass batting insulation. There are two sets of nonstructural concrete column-like extrusions from its face to help break the regularity of the repeating windows. The roof is sloped around the edges at a 12/12 pitch with asphalt shingles on 4" rigid insulation and supported on metal roof deck. Near Benton Hall, the roof has clay tiles to match the existing roof. When the roof pitch ends, there is a flat roof for the remainder of the building, which has gravel ballast on top of the rigid insulation.

Construction Methods
The delivery method could be best described as design-bid-build with multiple prime contracts, where contracts were selected on the basis of best value. 

Structural System
 The foundation of the garage, below the main building, rests on 24” deep spread footings below both the garage walls and columns.  Column footings range in size from 4’x4’ to 9’x9’.  The entrance plaza to the building is supported by drilled piers of varying depth, and range from 36” to 60” in diameter. 

The intermediate garage floors are a 2-way mild reinforced, 9” concrete slab with 10’x10’x8” drop panels at the columns.  Typical bays are 30’x30’.  The ground floor of the building also utilizes a similar 2-way slab, but the thickness is increased to 10”-12” due to the increased live load requirements. Upper floors of the building utilize a composite steel frame with a normal weight concrete slab.  The slab is 3½” thick on 3” deep composite metal deck, reinforced with WWF, and has a compressive strength of 4000 psi.  The most typical bay is 30’x30’ with W21x68 girders, which have 2 intermediate W16x26 cambered beams framing into them at third points. 

The lateral resisting system comprises of four concentrically braced frames in the North-South (short) direction, where braces are made of tube steel, ranging in size from HSS8x8x1/4 to HSS 10x10x1/2.  In the East-West (longitudinal) direction, the building uses an ordinary moment frame system with partially restrained moment connections at the columns.  The columns in these frames can be up to a W12x136, and beams can be up to W27x84, but are typically W21x68.

Lighting and Electrical System
One large exterior transformer supplies 480/277V, 3-phase, 4 wire power to the buildings individual electrical rooms at each floor.  In each electrical room, there are step down transformers to supply 208/120V service.  There is also an exterior natural gas powered emergency generator on site which supplies power to life safety equipment and the exhaust system. 

Lighting fixtures in the building vary depending on the space.  Direct fluorescent recessed troffers and indirect fluorescent pendants are found in classrooms, labs, and offices, while various decorative fixtures are used in public spaces such as lobbies and lounges. 

Fire Protection System
The entire building is fully sprinklered with automatic sprinklers for fire suppression, supplying 0.19 GPM of water to the business use areas and 0.15 GPM to the garage, with exposed flow control valves and inspectors remote test valves in each sprinkler zone.  A wet standpipe system is also supplied throughout both the garage and main building.

Transportation System
A stair tower at both the East and West ends of the building supply vertical access to each floor, while one elevator is located in the center of the building, but stops at the second floor, preventing access to mechanical penthouse. 

Telecommunications System
The main building is supplied with data and voice lines to all laboratories and offices.  Conference rooms are also equipped with overhead projectors and teleconferencing equipment.