Building Statistics

Building Name:  Point Pleasant Apartments, Building 1

Building Location:  Point Pleasant, NJ

Occupant:  Apartment Tenants

Occupancy Type:  Apartment Complex

Size:  64,000 square feet

Number of Stories:  4 stories over parking (Parking Garage partially above grade)

Dates of Construction:  August, 2006 - Present

Cost of Construction:  $6 Million per Buiding

Project Delivery Method:  Design-Bid-Build

Major National Codes Used: 
International Building Code (IBC) 2000
National Electric Code  (NEC)
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 13R 2002
ASCE 7- 02

Zoning:  Use Group R-2 / S2

Historical Restrictions:  Not Applicable

Architecture:  Point Pleasant is a 4-story, 16-unit luxury apartment complex located at the New Jersey Shore.  The building is symmetric about its’ centerline with a lobby on each side and 4 approximately 2,500 square foot apartments per floor, each with their own balconies.  The exterior of the building is a combination of stone, stucco, and hardshingle siding.  The roof is a simple hip with multiple dormers, a dome feature on one side, and steeple at the center. 

Building Envelope:  There are three different types of facades:  stucco, stone, and siding.  Behind each material is building wrap, 1” rigid foam insulation, 5/8” DENS Glass Gold Sheathing, metal studs @ 16” o.c., R-19 fiberglass insulation faced on the heated side, and 5/8” Type ‘X’ Firecode Gypsum Wallboard.  The roof system consists of architectural fiberglass roof shingles, 1/2” plywood on 9/16” metal roof deck, prefabricated light gauge steel roof trusses, insulation stop, R-30 fiberglass batt insulation, resilient channels @ 12” o.c., and 5/8” Type ‘X’ Gypsum Wallboard.

Structural System:  The typical floor for the top three floors is a is 16” deep Vescom Composite Joist  system with a 3.5” thick concrete on 22 GA. metal deck.  The joists are spaced at 48” o.c. and wide flange beams and joist girders divide the spans.  Typical span lengths are approximately 20-30 feet and HSS columns are used to carry the load down to the first floor and foundation level.  The first floor is a 12” thick reinforced concrete slab supported by 8 concrete columns of various sizes including 16”x24” and 18”x24”.  The foundation/ parking garage wall is 12” thick concrete and the floor for the garage is a 5” thick concrete slab on grade.  The foundation system consists of shallow spread footings. Exterior and load bearing walls are 6” steel studs and interior non load bearing walls are 4” steel studs.  The roof is made up of light gage steel trusses at 48” o.c.  Shearwalls with 4” flat bracing and HSS’s are utilized for lateral resistance. 

Mechanical System:  Each unit has its own 5-ton air-conditioner located on concrete pads outside the building.  There are also two additional 2-ton air-conditioners for the corridors of the building.  The building heat is gas powered and contains two, 1.5 ton, 710 cfm heat pumps which are located in the mechanical room at the garage level, and two, 800 cfm, 39,000 btu air-handling units and warm air furnices which are housed in the attic.  The building common areas are heated by two, 5kW, 250-500 cfm unit heaters.  Air throughout the building is distributed by ceiling diffusers.

Lighting/ Electrical System:  The building electrical system is a 120/208 V, 3-phase, 4-wire system and a 1600A main switchboard is located at the garage level.  A variety of lighting fixtures are used in the units including 60W and 100W surface mounted lights and 32W recessed lighting with dimming ballasts.  There are also two types of chandeliers.  One is a 12-bulb, 60W, pendant mounted fixture and the other is a 5-bulb, 150W, pendant mounted fixture.  The parking garage is lit by 2x4, 32W troffers.  Recessed fluorescents are also used to light the common areas.

Transportation:  The building has two elevators servicing the garage and all four residential levels.  There are also four main stairwells that extend the full height of the building and one stairwell at the rear of the building for direct egress from the garage.

Fireprotection:  The Point Pleasant apartment buildings are designed as fully sprinkled with the main supply located in the mechanical room of the garage level.  They piping extends from here straight up to the top floor.  Sprinklers branch off from the main line and run through the open web steel joists of floors 2, 3, and 4 and are protected by the insulation in the ceiling.  At the 4th floor, individual lines branch off and extend up through interior walls to supply the sprinklers for the units at that level.  In the garage, the piping is hung below the first floor slab.  For the dwelling units, 0.05 GPM per sq. ft. is supplied over 4 heads.  In the corridors and lobbies, 0.10 GPM per sq. ft. is supplied over 1500 sq. ft.  At the garage level, 0.15 GPM per sq. ft. is supplied over 1950 sq. ft. and in the mechanical rooms and storage areas, 0.20 GPM per sq. ft. is supplied over 1500 sq. ft.

Construction:  The construction process for the Point Pleasant community in which the owner is also the builder, is best described as a Design-Bid-Build.  The site will consist of five separate but almost identical buildings.  This project focuses on building one, which is currently nearing completion as it is in the finishes phase of construction. 

 

 

 

 

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